Sometimes it's unclear which individuals in an organization require a Tableau Desktop license and which only need a Tableau Server user license. For example, a technologically-oriented executive with limited time to learn new software could go either way. On the one hand, they may want to delve into the details of the data, but on the other, they may not be able to invest the time necessary to learn enough about Tableau Desktop to warrant the price of an additional license. When the web-authoring environment was released in Tableau Server 8.0, the features were fairly rudimentary. The busy executive may have been best served with a Tableau Desktop license. Since that time, more and more capabilities have been introduced. Today, that same executive may be reasonably content with using the web-authoring environment.
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