Tableau Software was founded in January 2003 by Chris Stolte, Christian Chabot and Pat Hanrahan. Since then, it has come up with various products. Tableau Software is one of the best data visualization and data reporting software. It is a globally trusted business intelligence software and has won many global awards.

Here are the reasons you should learn Tableau:

Easy learning in short amount of time:

Tableau provides thousands of video tutorials and huge knowledge-base. You can join various Tableau communities, forums, blogs, and social networks and learn built Tableau skills without spending any penny.

Free Tableau Public:

Tableau provides various products like Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online, Tableau Public etc. Among them, Tableau Public is free of cost. You can download it from its website and ace the software by practicing on your own.

Classifies and stores Big Data:

Tableau makes it easy to operate on Big Data. It gathers, classifies and stores large data sets like no other data visualization tool. You can easily scrutinize your data and modify it within minutes.

Connects to any Data Source:

You can connect Tableau to any database or data warehouse to gather data. You can also input web-based data or data from Microsoft Excel sheet to Tableau for visualization.

Works on any Data:

Tableau treats all types of data equal. So, thereâ??s no need to have different data visualization or data reporting tool for different types of data.

Easy to Use:

Tableauâ??s user interface is well designed and any newbie can make acceptable visual appearances just in few clicks by using charts, graphs, tables, maps etc.

Growth of an Individual:

Learning Tableau enhances the career growth of an individual. A professional having a complete knowledge of Tableau can appear for Tableau Certification. A professional having a Tableau Certificate can easily be hired by any firm as business analyst, data scientist, visual analyst, or project manager at higher paying salary than any other professional of the same level.

Learning Tableau is like playing with large amount of data, it will definitely enhance your data visualization skills too.

Tableau keeps updating its software to make it faster, easier, and more delightful with new, quick and interactive data visualization products. You can also be updated with that and enhance your skills.

Their latest version, Tableau 10 Beta will be available soon in the market.

Growth of the Organization:

Organizations has to deal with large amount of data and using Tableau makes easy to examine and structure all the data in an appropriate way, analyze it and turn it into useful information. Instead of digging the whole data, this final information makes it easy to find out the reasons for the drawback of the business of an organization.