 Hello, a very warm welcome to a session on Introduction to Tableau, a Data Visualization Tool. This is Dr. Anitha Pooja, Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department from Wolchen Institute of Technology, SolarPore. These are some of the prerequisites required before going to this course. That is, learners should have a basic understanding of computer programming terminologies and data analysis. They should have knowledge of various types of graphs and charts. And familiarity with SQL will be an added advantage to them. At the end of this session, learners are able to identify the unique features of Tableau as a very good visualization tool of business intelligence. They will be able to demonstrate the installation of Tableau 10.3 on Windows operating system. Now, let's see what is Tableau. Tableau is a business intelligence tool for visualizing the data. It is used by businesses, academic researchers and many government organizations for visual data analysis. It has a very unique feature known as drag and drop interface, which allows to combine multiple databases, explore different views and visualize any data. Data analysis, the different views or reports can be shared with others by publishing them on Tableau server. These are called as dashboards. So, these dashboards provide actionable insights and drives the business forward. Tableau has been identified as a top interactive data visualization tool by Gartner Magic Quadrant. Now, what is Gartner Magic Quadrant? Gartner Magic Quadrant is a graphical tool that positions the competitive technologies into four types. That is leaders, visionaries, challengers and nick players. All these technology providers, they have ability to execute very well and they can serve the endpoint users today as well as tomorrow. Now let's see all these four types of technology providers. So let's start with leaders. All the technology providers who are being categorized as leaders can execute very well against their current vision and they are well positioned for tomorrow. They understand the market trends very well. Next visionaries, all the technology providers who are categorized as visionaries. They know the market trends very well. They know where the market is going but they do not execute very well. Nick players, all the technology providers categorized as Nick players, they are focused on very small segment and they execute also well but they cannot outperform the other people or other technology providers in leaders as well as visionaries. Then comes challengers. Challengers hear the technology providers, they execute very well and they dominate a last segment but they are unable to demonstrate that knowledge on market trends. They do not understand where the market is going. So if you observe here, Tabu has been highlighted here and it is shown in the leaders quadrant which means that Tabu technology providers are very well ahead in the market. They execute very well and they are achieving their current vision and goals and they are well performed or positioned for future also. Now let's see what are the unique features of Tabu. So unique features of Tabu are speed of analysis, self-reliant, visual discovery, blind diverse data sets, architecture agnostic, real-time collaboration and centralized location. So let's start with speed of analysis. Tabu does not require expertise of high-level programming language. Anybody can access the data and retrieve the value from it. Tabu is self-reliant which means users of Tabu do not need any complex software setup. Tabu desktop is a very self-reliant software which can be easily installed and has maximum features to start and complete the data analysis. Visual discovery, it provides visual tools such as colors, trends, graphs and charts to make the visual data analysis very attractive and interactive. Tabu is capable of blending diverse data sets that is it can connect to various data resources such as relational databases, semi-structured databases and raw data sources in real-time environment. It does not involve any expensive upfront integration cause for blending these diverse data sets. Architecture agnostic, Tabu is capable of working in all the devices where the data flows. Discuss of Tabu do not require the knowledge of any hardware or software requirement. Real-time collaboration, Tabu can sort the data, filter the data and discuss data on fly. It can embed live dashboards, interactive dashboards in the portals of important sites such as SharePoint and Salesforce.com. Tabu does not use any scripts, it works almost 90% using drag and drop interface. Tabu server provides a centralized location to manage all of the organization's published data sources. The administrator of Tabu server he can centrally define the schedules for the extracts on the server whether it is going to be an incremental refresh or full refresh. Now let's study the Tabu product family. We have five products in this family, Tabu desktop, Tabu reader, Tabu public, Tabu server and Tabu online. Now Tabu desktop as we have already discussed earlier it is a self-reliant software which can be easily installed and has enough features to start and complete data analysis. So it is a data visualization tool that can translate pictures of data into optimized queries. It can directly connect to data from your data warehouse for live up to date data analysis. It can perform queries without writing a single line of order. You can import all your data from multiple sources into Tabu's data engine and integrate all together by combining multiple views in an interactive dashboard. Tabu server, one can publish dashboards using Tabu desktop and share them throughout the organization with web-based Tabu server. Any colleague in the organization can subscribe to these live dashboards to watch the latest data or the important insights. Tabu server leverages fast databases through live connections. Tabu online, it is a hosted version of Tabu server which helps to make business intelligence faster and easier than before. It is an analytics platform which is fully hosted in cloud. It helps to publish Tabu dashboards and share them with colleagues so that they can view the latest data or explore hidden opportunities. Tabu reader, it is a free desktop application that enables you to open and view visualizations that are built in Tabu desktop. It allows to filter, drill down the data but one cannot edit or perform any kind of interactions. Tabu public, it is used to make visualizations public but for this you need to save your workbook or worksheets in the Tabu server which can be viewed by anyone. Now let's pause the video, think and write, which is a hosted version of Tabu server that helps to make business intelligence faster and easier than before. So is it Tabu desktop, Tabu online or Tabu reader? So the answer to this question is Tabu online. So we have already discussed about Tabu online that it is a hosted version of Tabu server and it is an analytics platform which is fully hosted in the cloud. So this analytics platform helps to make the data analysis very quickly that is it helps to make business intelligence faster and easier than before. Now let's see how Tabu desktop can be installed. So this Tabu desktop software is a free software which can be used for trial and has a period of 14 days. So let's see the steps for installing Tabu desktop. So use the link tabu.com slash products slash desktop slash download, choosing OS equal to Windows to install Tabu desktop. So installation wizard, window pops up, run .exe file in this window, view the license agreement, check the acceptance box and click the install button. Click start trial now. I have already told you, Tabu desktop has a trial version for 14 days. A registration window opens where you have to provide your name and organization details. When registration is completed, registration completion screen appears, click on continue. Look at the installation by going to windows, start menu and click the Tabu icon. The following screen appears. So this is the Tabu's starting window. These are some of the references that I use for preparing this video. Thank you.