Tableau Prep
Is your data ready for AI?
Self-service, agentic data preparation
Tableau Prep provides a visual and direct path to data preparation, making it simpler and faster to combine, shape, and clean data for analysis. In just a few clicks, you can manage data prep chaos with scale.
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Tableau Agent for Prep and Catalog is now available via Tableau+. Experience trusted AI simplifying data prep today.
Key Features
Flexible connectivity
We meet you where you are. With hundreds of inbound and outbound connectors, access on-premises, cloud, spreadsheet, warehouse data from anywhere - without writing code. Tableau Prep intelligently pushes operations down to the database when possible, leveraging existing database investments for fast flow execution.
Agentic capabilities
Speed up data prep with Tableau Agent. Just describe a calculation and it generates the formula for you. No deep technical knowledge needed. Natural language input makes creating calculated fields faster and more accessible.
Immediate results
Tableau Prep empowers you to close the gap between clean data and trusted analytics with keyboard shortcuts, even on millions of rows. Tableau Prep gives you the freedom to reorder steps and experiment without consequence.
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-SullivanTableau Administrator, Charles Schwab, Inc
Enhance data governance, security, and prep features.
Data management capabilities activate a set of premium data functions for Tableau. This includes an analytics data catalog, flow management, and other data governance and security controls. Data management helps drive trust across Tableau deployments by surfacing critical metadata such as certifications, warnings, and definitions directly in the analytics experience. Available with Enterprise and Tableau+.
Training videos
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Get Tableau Prep FAQ
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.
- Log into your Customer Portal and go to "All Keys Report"
- You will find a Tableau Prep key in each qualifying portal account
- 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 learning resources will help you start prepping 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.