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Spring is in the air. You know what else is in the air? The sweet smell of the Tableau 10 beta. We are excited to announce Tableau 10 beta is now available. Tableau 10 includes a brand new look and feel, and a host of new features to help you prep, analyze, and share your insights even faster.

If you are a Tableau champion, adoption throughout your organization is a wonderful image to behold, as your new users display child-like joy as they discover the secrets of their own data. But as with all things, growth comes with challenges, and the growth of Tableau in an organization is no different. Here's a guide to help you navigate some of the challenges you might face.

Tableau’s mission is to help everyone see and understand their data. Keeping that premise in mind I thought I’d share what I have done in the past to make a dashboard available to a wider audience that may not speak English. I know I’ve seen great-looking dashboards which I couldn’t understand because of the language barrier.

One of the most useful lessons I've learned from the Tableau community has been on visualizing dense data in a way that quickly drives insights. Thanks to Tableau Public and its great authors, I found two solutions: by cutting and superposing areas, and by using minimalist rank position. Let me tell you about the first approa

In December 2015, we announced support for Tableau Server on Microsoft Azure’s virtual machines. Since that time, we’ve seen a number of customers choose to deploy Tableau across their enterprise through Microsoft Azure.

Server admins, have we got an idea for you. To celebrate April Fools' Day, how about changing your logo on Tableau Server or your Tableau Online sites to something fun and quirky?

Tableau products connect to a wide variety of data sources using named connectors as seen below. These connectors are tuned for performance and Tableau capabilities. We continually evolve these connections and add new ones! And we need your help in testing these new connections.

Here at Tableau, seeing and understanding data costs nothing for students. But what about teaching material? Teachers, we’ve got you covered.

When we were building MyALPO, our internal portal to Tableau Server, we knew we wanted to include a search functionality. But it turns out search is a pretty complicated thing to build. When sat down to build the functionality, we had more questions than direction. We weren’t quite sure how to approach the problem, and we couldn’t find any resources on the web to help guide us.