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 Desktop. See Appendix B for a complete list.

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008, 2008R2, 2003 SP2 with platform update, Windows 8.1, 8, or 7 on x86 or x64 chipsets
• 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows
• Minimum of a Pentium 4 or AMD Opteron processor
• 32-bit color depth recommended
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), version 4 (IPv4)

Web Browsers

• Android Browser (Android 3.2 or later)
• Apple Safari 3.x or later, including Safari on the iPad (iOS 5.1.1 or later)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 3.x or later (not supported on mobile devices)
• Google Chrome, including on Android devices
• Tableau Mobile iPad (at the Apple App Store) and Android App (at the Google Play Store)

Hardware Guidelines

The minimum specifications are suggested only for prototyping and testing of Tableau Server. The installer checks for the minimum system requirements and will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums:

64-bit computers

• 4 cores
• 8GB system memory
• 15GB minimum free disk space

32-bit computers

• 2 cores
• 4GB system memory
• 15GB minimum free disk space

The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:

Single computer

• 64-bit processor
• 8 physical core, 2.0 GHz or higher CPU
• 32GB system memory
• 50GB minimum free disk space

Multi-Node and Enterprise Deployments

Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance or a certified Tableau Gold Partner. Search Tableau's website for scalability white papers and quick-start guides related to hardware configuration.

Tableau Server User Authentication and Security

Tableau Server supports Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0 and the built-in Tableau users system, for user authentication and group membership definitions. Tableau Server also provides Kerberos support for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Cloudera Impala.

Virtual Environments

All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements.

• Citrix environments
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Parallels
• VMware
• All of Tableau’s

Internationalization

All of Tableau's products (with the exception of the command-line tools tabcmd and tabadmin) are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation are in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.