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Tableau Expands Data Management Capabilities with New Tableau Catalog and Introduces New Server Management Add-On
SEATTLE, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

-- Tableau 2019.3 release gives customers even more power to manage and scale 
Tableau deployments across the enterprise 

Tableau Software ( 
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), the leading analytics platform, today announced the expansion of its Data 
Management offering with the launch of Tableau Catalog ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2579165-1&h=3034687104&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tableau.com%2Fproducts%2Fadd-ons%2Fdata-management&a=Tableau+Catalog 
), a new set of capabilities that provide a complete view of all the data used 
in Tableau and enable improved visibility and enhanced data discovery -- 
ensuring the right data is always used for analysis. Tableau also announced the 
general availability of the Tableau Server Management Add-On ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2579165-1&h=348014190&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tableau.com%2Fproducts%2Fadd-ons%2Fserver-management&a=Tableau+Server+Management+Add-On 
), a brand new offering designed to help customers more efficiently manage 
their enterprise-wide deployments of Tableau Server. Customers can add these 
offerings to their existing deployments by upgrading to Tableau 2019.3, which 
also includes Explain Data, Tableau's new AI-powered functionality for 
automatic data insights. For more information or to upgrade today, visit: 
https://www.tableau.com/products/new-features.  

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"As the amount of data increases and the pace of decision-making accelerates, 
the need for data management has never been more critical to foster a thriving 
data culture," said Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer at Tableau. "With 
Tableau 2019.3, we're integrating data management directly into the analytics 
experience, making it easier for customers to curate and prepare all the data 
needed for analysis and improving visibility and increasing trust in the data 
for everyone within an organization."

Tableau Catalog Now Included With Data Management Add-On
Tableau Catalog enables IT and data owners to curate the data being used in 
Tableau, track how it's being used across the organization, and alert people 
using or viewing the data of changes or data quality issues. Those performing 
analysis will be able to more easily find the data they're looking for, 
understand what the data represents, and ultimately feel more confident that 
the insights they are providing are based on the right data.

"Tableau is used across the company to analyze data for our business. With a 
significant number of workbooks sourcing data from our platform, it can be 
difficult to know which tables and fields are being used," said Blake Irvine, 
Analytic Products Manager in the Data Science & Engineering team at Netflix, 
Inc. "We look forward to Tableau Catalog improving the discovery of data and 
providing our team with visibility into data source, workbook, and field usage, 
especially as we work on integrating Tableau Catalog with our internal data 
lineage system." 

Tableau's Data Management Add-On, which now includes Tableau Catalog and Prep 
Conductor, will help customers better manage the data within their analytics 
environment, ensuring that up-to-date, trusted data is always used to drive 
decisions. It is available today for Tableau Server and Tableau Online 
customers to add to their deployments; to learn more visit: 
https://www.tableau.com/products/add-ons/data-management.   

Introducing the Tableau Server Management Add-On for Enhanced Manageability at 
Greater Scale
As organizations look to deploy analytics at unprecedented scale with Tableau, 
they are looking for tools to help streamline the management of large, 
mission-critical deployments. The Tableau Server Management Add-On is a new 
collection of features designed to address the unique security, manageability 
and scalability needs of enterprise customers. The new suite of capabilities 
include: 

    - Tableau Resource Monitoring Tool provides customers with insights around 
      key factors that impact the health of large-scale deployments, like 
      hardware utilization, VizQL sessions, data query performance, 
      backgrounder workloads and more, enabling administrators to easily 
      understand and precisely tune deployments to meet the unique needs 
      of their business. 

    - Tableau Content Migration Tool simplifies content management workflows, 
      making it easier to visually manage and schedule the movement of content 
      between projects, sites or Tableau Server environments without any 
      custom scripting. 

    - External Repository Hosting for Improved Scalability. To optimize the 
      performance of large Tableau Server deployments hosted on AWS, 
      customers can now choose to host their Tableau Server metadata 
      repository externally with Amazon RDS Postgres, for increased 
      scalability and availability. 

    - AWS Key Management Service Integration. For data extract encryption at 
      rest, the Server Management Add-On also integrates with AWS Key 
      Management Service (KMS) for a centralized key management program 
      with enhanced levels of security and compliance. 

The Tableau Server Management Add-On is available today for Tableau Server for 
$3.00 per user per month; it is not applicable to Tableau Online as Tableau 
already manages everything from scaling and performance to security as part of 
the Tableau Online SaaS offering. To learn more about Tableau Server Management 
Add-On visit: https://www.tableau.com/products/add-ons/server-management

QUOTE SHEET
To further enable customer flexibility, a new Metadata API launching with 
Tableau Catalog will allow strategic Tableau technology partners like Alation, 
Alteryx, Collibra, Google and Informatica to deeply integrate their data 
catalog offerings with Tableau for a seamless, robust catalog experience. 

"Tableau applications are the premier source in the industry to understand the 
behaviors of data consumers and Tableau's new data catalog gives analytics and 
data teams deep insight into Tableau usage. Since 2016, Alation has worked 
closely with Tableau and large-scale joint customers such as Pfizer, GoDaddy 
and MercadoLibre, to extend visibility beyond Tableau into every source of data 
and analysis in the enterprise with the Alation Data Catalog," said Stephanie 
McReynolds, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Alation. "The new Tableau 
metadata API enhances that tight integration between the Alation Data Catalog 
and Tableau Catalog to enable deeper visibility, more accurate information 
stewardship, and proactive data recommendations through unique Alation features 
like TrustCheck and SmartSuggest, enabling our joint customers with a software 
foundation for building a data culture."

"Data is at the core of digital transformation, recognized by companies across 
the globe as a critical business imperative to remain competitive in today's 
rapidly evolving technology landscape," said Ashley Kramer, Senior Vice 
President of Product Management at Alteryx. "Successful digital transformation 
strategies rely on governed data organizations can trust to make 
business-critical decisions. Tableau is a valued partner and the integration of 
the new Metadata API will better serve our joint customers, allowing users to 
populate high-quality metadata into the Alteryx Platform via Alteryx Connect."

“To successfully build a culture of analytics, organizations must ensure 
trusted, governed data is always used to power analytics,” said Jim Cushman, 
Chief Product Officer, Collibra. “Tableau Catalog will offer organizations a 
seamless way to integrate with Collibra’s best-in-class enterprise data 
catalog, providing enhanced visibility and governance of all the data available 
for analysis. We welcome the opportunity to strengthen our partnership with 
Tableau as we deeply integrate the new Metadata API and ultimately deliver more 
value to our customers.”   

"As organizations strive to foster data-driven cultures across all levels of 
their business, leaders are tasked with empowering people with governed data 
they can trust for decision-making,” said Sudhir Hasbe, Director, Product 
Management, Google Cloud. “The addition of Tableau Catalog to the Tableau 
platform will give customers more visibility and control of their entire data 
ecosystem. As long-standing partners, we look forward to working closely with 
Tableau to better serve our joint customers.”

“Empowering people to identify relevant data, understand its context, and 
ensure it can be trusted is critical for data-driven decision-making,” said 
Ronen Schwartz, SVP and GM Cloud, Big Data and Data Integration, Informatica. 
“With the addition of Tableau Catalog, enterprises will be able to easily 
integrate Informatica’s leading enterprise data catalog with the Tableau 
platform, enabling customers to easily discover and manage governed data assets 
across their organization. We look forward to continuing our close partnership 
with Tableau to empower our customers in their data-driven digital 
transformations.”


About Tableau
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SOURCE: Tableau Software

CONTACT: Daniel Jensen, djensen@tableau.com, +1 (206) 634-5490