Tableau product families include the following: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau Online, Tableau Server, Tableau Mobile, and Tableau Public.

There are different offerings from product family POINT of view for individuals, for organizations etc.

• For individuals: Typically Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau Server, Tableau Online are being leveraged based on pricing options.
• For organizations: Tableau offers deployment options such as on-premise or public cloud and fully hosted by tableau. In each of these segments, options vary such as Tableau CREATOR (Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau Online), Tableau Explorer (Tableau Online) and Tableau Viewer (Tableau Online) etc.
• Tableau Desktop – primarily used for VISUAL analytics is a self-service analytics and visualization product. We can connect to multiple data sources directly and perform live data analysis. Data can also be integrated from multiple data sources and dashboard can be created from those.
• Tableau Prep – it is used for data preparation, data analysis by helping people quickly, confidently combine data, transform them, and clean them.
• Tableau Online – this is fully hosted in the cloud. We can publish dashboards and share our discoveries with anyone. All easily accessible from a web browser or on the go with mobile applications.
• Tableau Server – this is primarily required at a large Enterprise level in an ORGANIZATION. We can create and publish dashboards using Desktop and share them across the organization using this Server. Web-based server is available for easy and quick access.
• Tableau Mobile – this is a very unique way of GETTING quick access to data on mobile devices. Based on access privilege, relevant details can be seen. Selecting, filtering, drill down features of data are available on this. It can be downloaded from Google playstore or Apple Appstore.
• Tableau Public – One can create and share interactive charts, graphs, maps, mobile-friendly dashboards using this and can publish anywhere on the web.