# What does Tableau Desktop do?

What does Tableau Desktop do?

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- Posted at: about 4 years ago
- Author title: Pinned by G2 as a common question



## Comments
### Comment 1

Tableau Desktop delivers everything you need to access, visualize, and analyze your data. With an intuitive drag and drop interface, you can uncover the hidden insights you need to make impactful business decisions faster, even when you are offline. All while leveraging trusted and governed data in a secure self-service environment.

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- Posted at: almost 3 years ago
- Author title: Director



### Comment 2

Tableau Desktop help create interactive Dashboards offline and publish it to the wider audience through Tableau public. Tableau Desktop is one of the version of using the tableau features to create charts, analyze data, Connect to various data sources, extract insights etc. The Tableau file created through Tableau Desktop  contains the data in a compressed format which can be shared and used in any system which has a Tableau Desktop Software.

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- Posted at: about 4 years ago
- Author title: Associate Manager at FACTSPAN ANALYTICS PRIVATE LIMITED




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