About Tableau Enterprise
Tableau Enterprise is our advanced software package to help you explore and manage data faster with
Tableau Enterprise Licensing
As of March 2026, Tableau Enterprise is sold in two models:
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Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud Role-Based Edition
The role-based edition is sold on a per-User role-based licensing model, including Creators, Explorers, and Viewers. This model is structured around the specific roles within an organization, each requiring different levels of functionality. With Tableau Enterprise, each role-based license includes Data Management, Advanced Management, and eLearning for Creators and Explorers. Available for Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud.
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Tableau Server Core Edition
The core edition is capacity-based and sold in 8-core increments, and bundles Advanced Management and Data Management into the license. Available only for Tableau Server.
Tableau Enterprise Feature Table
The following table lists the features that are included with the Tableau Enterprise license edition. Feature availability below is noted for Creator. There are differences in available functionality between Creator, Explorer, and Viewer.
| Feature | Description |
| Tableau Authoring(Link opens in a new window) | Use Tableau Desktop or Tableau web authoring on |
| Tableau Prep(Link opens in a new window) | Tableau Prep is a data preparation tool for cleaning, shaping, and combining data for analysis. |
| eLearning(Link opens in a new window) | Role-based training Tableau Learning Paths provide a clear track to proficiency with the most up-to-date Tableau training content. Assessments help you evaluate where you are in your learning path and give you confidence in your new skills. Accelerate the onboarding process for new employees and help more experienced users get the most out of Tableau capabilities. |
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(Tableau Cloud only) |
Tableau Pulse provides insights about your data as a digest sent to subscribed members of an organization. These digests of Pulse insights can surface trends, outliers, and other changes, keeping you up to date on the data relevant to your work.
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| About Data Management(Link opens in a new window) |
Data Management is a collection of features and capabilities that helps customers manage Tableau content and data assets in their One Resource Block Node is included with Tableau Enterprise. |
| About Tableau Advanced Management on Tableau Cloud | Advanced Management is a collection of features and capabilities designed to provide enhanced security, manageability, and scalability for |
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Tableau Cloud Manager (TCM) provides administrators with a centralized management interface for overseeing their organization's Tableau Cloud sites. With TCM, cloud administrators can create and edit sites, manage users, and monitor license consumption across multiple sites in their tenant, all from a single location. Cloud administrators can manage up to 10 sites with an Enterprise license. |
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| About Data Connect |
Data Connect allows seamless access to data across on-premises and private cloud environments in Not included by default in Tableau Enterprise, but available for purchase separately. |
| Private Connect for AWS(Link opens in a new window) |
Private Connect for AWS (Amazon Web Services) allows cloud administrators to create secure, private, and dedicated connections between Tableau Cloud and AWS-hosted data providers. These private connections are provisioned on top of AWS PrivateLink, using private IP address space, meaning that data traffic doesn't traverse the public internet. The private and secure nature of private connections addresses a key requirement of restricting data traffic to private networks. Not included by default in Tableau Enterprise, but available for purchase separately. |
| External KMS for Extract Encryption(Link opens in a new window) |
External key management empowers organizations to encrypt their extracts using keys controlled in their own AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This enhances security, helps meet compliance requirements, and provides greater data sovereignty by allowing customers direct control over their encryption keys. |