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Imagine using your voice to ask questions about your data, and then hearing spoken answers and insights back. What if you could ask, "Alexa, ask Tableau how many customers I have,” or “Alexa, ask Tableau how our sales are trending this quarter."

Proper deployment and scalability planning are essential to minimizing downtime and ensuring your analytics platform can meet the ever-growing needs of the business. There are many things to consider when setting up an enterprise environment that is built to scale as your business grows. Here are seven quick tips to help you set up your Tableau environment with a framework for scalability.

In the wake of the latest wave of updates from Google BigQuery, we are excited to share the latest version of the Tableau-Google BigQuery Best Practices whitepaper.

This culture leverages an organization’s two greatest assets, its people and its data. The organization provides an environment in which employees can find answers in their data, satisfying their curiosity and driving the business forward.

Learn about TabPy, which makes it possible to use Python scripts in Tableau calculated fields. When you pair Python’s machine-learning capabilities with the power of Tableau, you can rapidly develop advanced-analytics applications that can aid in various business tasks.

When we see great stories of customers leveraging powerful tools and best practices to drive adoption of analytics at scale, it’s something we like to highlight to our community and help share those learnings. GoDaddy is doing just that with Tableau and our data cataloguing partner, Alation.

We are excited to announce Tableau Online is now running on Amazon Web Services in the US-East (Virginia) region. Tableau Online is our fastest-growing product with more than 5,000 customer accounts in more than 100 countries. This latest expansion will enable us to scale faster and support our customers in more parts of the world. Our first available data center was on the West Coast, followed in January by the European data center in Dublin.

“We want to empower the business to be successful, and we don’t want IT to be a roadblock. As server admins, we can help end users be more successful and make that a seamless process,” said Michael Perillo of Charles Schwab.

You asked for API improvements, and we’ve heard you. In Tableau 10.1, we’ve made improvements to many of our APIs to let you do more, and do them more easily. We’ve also released a brand-new client library that drastically reduces the amount of code required to use the REST API.

See and understand your JSON data without data prep! In Tableau 10.1, you can connect to your local JSON files, reason about their structure, and start analyzing.

In Tableau 10, we’ve improved both the beauty and brains of Tableau. We’ve added dozens and dozens of new features to make your analysis faster, easier, and even more delightful. Here are ten features that are specifically designed to empower your entire enterprise.

Many of us have data in many places, waiting to be understood. That's why we're thrilled to announce we've added even more data-source options in Tableau 10. We want to help you gain value from your data, no matter where it lives.