Tableau updates Tableau Online to version 9.0

Source: Tableau website.

Tableau has announced an update of its cloud analytics solution, Tableau Online, to version 9.0. The update will offer users faster performance, additional live database connection support, and single sign-on support among other benefits.

According to the company, cloud analytics enables businesses which store their data in the cloud to keep analyses up-to-date. 

“More and more organisations are moving to the cloud and bringing their data with them,” said Dan Jewett, Vice President, Product Management at Tableau. “Tableau Online 9.0 not only is faster than ever, but it makes it easier for customers to keep their dashboards in the cloud up-to-date, and supports even simpler embedding in popular cloud platforms like Salesforce.”

Key features of the updated Tableau Online include:

· A completely redesigned platform for speed, scalability, and resilience. The new Tableau Online is as much as ten times faster. 

· A new way for people to keep on-premises data fresh in the cloud, called Tableau Online Sync. 

· More data connections with popular databases like MySQL, Postgres, and SQL Server on cloud-hosted platforms including Amazon RDS and Windows Azure. Tableau Online already supported Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Google Analytics, and Salesforce.com.

· Increased security with single sign-on support via SAML2.0, allowing embedding and Active Directory synchronisation through corporate identity providers.

· More ways to see visualise data, for example with the embedding of Tableau dashboards in Salesforce via Force.com Canvas.

Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting and analytics provider with offices in Sydney and Bangalore, offers transportation market research to more than 140 organisations worldwide. The company maintains data on more than US$25 billion worth of transportation costs as well as millions of transactions. Tableau Online has changed how Chainalytics shares this data with its customers, giving them a more rapid path to developing procurement strategies and helping find cost-savings opportunities.

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