Self-Service Analytics with Tableau Enterprise
Self-Service Data Analytics empowers departments to analyze and discover patterns on shared Institute data in support of their own custom needs.
What is Tableau?
Tableau can help anyone see and understand their data. It connects to almost any data source, lets you drag and drop to create visualizations and share with a click.
LITE: Leading Insight Through Empowerment
To access existing reports curated by Georgia Tech, you can leverage the LITE platform without needing advanced analytics tools.
LITE is a platform providing trusted, consistent, and accurate data and reports for decision making at Georgia Tech. Through LITE, data and reports are accessed from a single Enterprise Data Warehouse where accuracy and consistency are assured.
Tableau Academic Programs
Tableau for Students
Students can get a free one-year Tableau license and access to their entire eLearning suite through the Tableau for Students program.
Tableau for Teaching
Instructors can request a free one-year Tableau license for classroom and/or non-commercial research use through the Tableau for Teaching program.
Georgia Tech Tableau Enterprise Server
The GT Enterprise Tableau Server offers a centralized and secure platform for Staff and Faculty Administrators to create and share interactive Tableau visualizations for administrative tasks. To utilize this service, departments need to go through a tenant onboarding process and receive a dedicated Project space on the GT Enterprise Tableau Server.
Becoming a tenant department in the GT Tableau Enterprise Server provides you with numerous benefits, such as:
- The ability to connect to a variety of types of external data sources
- Access to centrally modeled enterprise data from the Institute's Data Warehouse*
- Access to a number of curated Tableau self-help resources
- Opportunities for engagement and collaboration with a growing community of campus BI professionals
*Requires appropriate Data Stewardship approvals.
What's the cost?
A Tableau Creator license is required for data source creation using Tableau Desktop or Prep. However, non-licensed users can still use Tableau Server's web interface to consume, create, and share workbooks using previously published data sources.
Tableau Creator - Desktop & Prep |
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Where to Purchase / Renew |
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Students |
FREE |
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Instructors (for classroom and/or non-commercial research use) |
FREE |
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Staff, Faculty Administrators (for administrative use) |
$577.50/Annual |
*Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep are NOT required to build and share visualizations using the GT Tableau Enterprise Server!
Tableau Server Standard Maintenance Window
Fridays from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tableau Server may be offline during this maintenance window. Please be sure to save any changes to content before 6:00 PM on Fridays to avoid losing your work.