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Maximizing Tableau Server

By : Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker
Book Image

Maximizing Tableau Server

By: Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker

Overview of this book

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides a centralized location to store, edit, share, and collaborate on content, such as dashboards and curated data sources. This book gets you up and running with Tableau Server to help you increase end-user engagement for your published work as well as reduce or eliminate redundant tasks. You’ll explore Tableau Server's structure and how to get started by connecting, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. Next, you’ll learn when and how to update the settings of your content at various levels to best utilize Tableau Server’s features. You’ll understand how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to locate, sort, filter, manage and customize content. Later, the book shows you how to leverage other valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, and interact with content on Tableau Server. As you progress, you’ll cover principles to increase the performance of your published content. All along, the book shows you how to navigate, interact with, and use Tableau Server with the help of engaging examples and best practices shared by recognized Tableau professionals. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use Tableau Server to manage content, automate tasks, and increase end-user engagement.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau Server
4
Section 2: Navigating and Customizing the Tableau Server Interface
8
Section 3: Managing Content on Tableau Server
12
Section 4: Final Thoughts

What you have learned

We hope this book has helped reveal many of the major benefits of Tableau Server to regular everyday users. Understanding how to leverage this platform will help you communicate information through data and drive better analytical insights. If this book has helped you get up and running with Tableau Server, increased end user engagement with content, and reduced redundant tasks, then it has accomplished its goals.

In this book, you explored Tableau Server's structure and learned how to get started by getting connected, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. You also explored how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to efficiently locate, sort, filter, manage, and customize content. Later, you discovered how to leverage valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, edit, and interact with content on Tableau Server. You even learned how to automate repetitive tasks by utilizing features such as alerts...