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Confident decisions are built on trusted data. Connect, shape, and govern your data in an intuitive, no-code workspace powered with agentic AI.

Establish trusted data connections.

Securely connect to your cloud, on-prem, or local data with over 100 built-in connectors and reuse connections across your organization.

Prepare data confidently with full visibility and guidance.

Streamline data cleaning in Prep Builder with a visual prep flow and instant feedback, so you can track every step and trust the output.

Simplify complex data transformations with Tableau Agent.

Clean and shape data faster with agentic AI built into Prep Builder to automate advanced cleaning, aggregations, and calculations for sophisticated reporting and modeling.

Power your AI and analytics with governed, timely data.

Monitor connections and flows with Tableau metadata and lineage, automate data refreshes, and track flow status in Prep Conductor for a fully transparent, current data pipeline.

Charles Schwab

Before Tableau Prep, our team would spend hours and hours making sure that our data sources were clean and organized, just to make sure that our analysis was accurate and effective. We’ve been able to save hours of work with Tableau Prep.

Gessica Briggs-Sullivan
Tableau Administrator, Charles Schwab, Inc

With Tableau and Prep Conductor, we're putting the whole ETL process into the analysts' hands—where the analysts can manipulate and prepare the data in more agile ways that respond to business needs more quickly and effectively.

Jefferson McMillan-Wilhoit
Director, Health Informatics and Technology, Lake County Health

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Tableau Prep FAQs

Customers with Tableau Creator licenses will receive a Tableau Prep license at the time of launch via the Customer Portal. Users can also access Tableau Prep using Login-Based License Management, logging in to Tableau Cloud or Server first, then authenticating the Creator license key.

  1. Log into your Customer Portal and go to "All Keys Report"
  2. You will find a Tableau Prep key in each qualifying portal account
  3. Distribute to existing Creator license holders

Check out this video to learn how to find and distribute keys.

Only Customer Portal License Administrators have visibility to the Tableau Prep keys. Please contact your administrator and request the key. In the meantime, you have 14 days with Tableau Prep before you’ll need to enter a product key. Download Tableau Prep now.

Please see tech specs for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep here.

The following resources will help you start shaping your data with Tableau Prep.

No, Tableau Prep is included under Creator licenses. If you have already purchased a standalone key prior to 24 April 2018, that key may persist.