Tableau Software makes premium Tableau Public free

Tableau Software has adopted a new business model with the opening up Tableau Public Premium features to all Tableau Public authors at no cost. 

The Tableau Public platform consists of a free downloadable authoring tool to explore and visualise data, cloud infrastructure to host, share and embed interactive visualisations and a learning programme that provides support and training. Tableau Public has over 100,000 users to date.

Current Tableau Public Premium users will continue to receive the same features and service, but at no cost, the company said. Formerly premium features include:

· Support for data sets of up to 10 million rows so that nearly all publicly available datasets can be easily analysed

· A storage limit of 10 GB

· The capability to limit the downloading of files from Tableau Public, enabling authors to keep their workbooks proprietary

“For people around the world, Tableau Public is the go-to place to create and share public data visualisations,” said Ben Jones, Director for Tableau Public. “Two years ago we expanded Tableau Public’s analytics capabilities from 100,000 rows to a million rows. We’re so excited to be expanding tenfold again, and we can’t wait to see the stories that people will tell and share.”

Tableau Public recently upgraded to version 9.0, providing a refreshed interface, faster performance, smarter maps, and new analytical functions. The software was demonstrated at Tableau Conference on Tour in Singapore in mid-April. 

Source: Tableau Software. Pook at the Singapore leg of Tableau Conference on Tour.

Interest in the region has been high, which encouraged the company to invest in bringing the conference to various cities in the Asia Pacific region. Said JY Pook, Vice President Asia Pacific, Tableau at the time: "Tableau Conference is a well-received event that has always been held on our home ground in Seattle, and as we see exponential growth in Asia Pacific, we have expanded the tour to cities within the region such as Melbourne, Singapore and Tokyo this year to allow the best and brightest from various industries to come together to share and learn about data in a fun way.”

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