Tableau Your Data!, 2nd Edition

Appendix D Recommended Hardware Configurations

Tableau provides minimum system specifications on its website, and those specifications are presented in the material that follows. Analysts who build reports should have better equipment. More internal memory will have a significant positive effect on speed.

Install 4MB to 8MB of internal memory for the best performance. Tableau's rendering engine will take advantage of modern graphics cards as well. Solid-state disk drives outperform physical hard disks. But don't outfit your report-building analysts with state-of-the-art equipment if the majority of your user base is using four-year-old junk. What performs well on a well-appointed computer may not be as enjoyable an experience on a dated system.

Tableau Desktop for Windows: Professional and Personal Editions

• Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 or newer (32- and 64-bit)
• Microsoft Server 2008 R2 or newer (32- and 64-bit)
• Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Opteron processor or newer (SSE2 or newer)
• 2GB internal memory
• 750MB minimum free disk space
• Internet Explorer 8 or newer

Tableau Desktop for Mac OS X: Professional and Personal Editions

• IMac/MacBook computers 2009 or newer
• OX X 10.9 or newer

Virtual Environments

• Citrix environments, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware.
• All of Tableau's products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements.

Tableau Server

The data sources are the same as Tableau ...