Organizations today recognize that modern analytics at scale need a self-service approach that empowers business users of all analytical skill levels. Tableau is uniquely positioned to deliver this experience, as we consistently raise the bar on what you can expect from your BI investment—from a seamless user experience, deep analytical capabilities, end-to-end data governance, and flexible integrations and extensibility.
The Tableau platform is simple to deploy and scale and as intuitive to learn as it is powerful—helping individuals and organizations get insights and value fast. Everything we do is driven by our mission to help people see and understand data, which is demonstrated by our commitment to business intelligence and analytics, relentless customer-focused innovations, and our global community—unrivalled in creativity, diversity, and passion.
Benefits
Share insight in seconds
Author dashboards in Tableau Desktop, then share them securely with Tableau Server. Let people communicate with data in a whole new way. Enable your business to find answers in minutes, not months.
Empower everyone to use data
With Tableau Server, your whole team can securely use interactive data dashboards. When people across the organization can see and understand their own data, they solve problems and discover opportunities.
Ask new questions from anywhere
When you publish a dashboard to Tableau Server, your team can access it securely from any browser or mobile device. They can drill down and ask new questions by editing a view on the Web or on a tablet. Get answers fast in meetings, in the field and on the go.
Enable strong governance
Publish shared data models to the Data Server so your whole team can use them. Define data sources, add metadata, and author new calculations and data fields for everyone to use. Give the business a single source of truth—securely.
Plan of Action
Step 1: Set up an Azure VM
Step 2: Connect to your Azure VM
Step 3: Add a second disk to your Azure VM
Step 4: Install Tableau Server on your Azure VM
Step 5: Access your Azure VM from a remote browser
Step 6: Publish data to Tableau Server on your Azure VM
Step 7: Manage Tableau Server licenses when shutting down or deleting your Microsoft Azure VM
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