What is Tableau Server?

Tableau Server is the self-hosted platform organizations install on their own infrastructure to publish, share, and govern Tableau workbooks at scale, without giving every viewer a full Desktop license.

• Authors publish workbooks from Tableau Desktop directly to Server, where they live inside projects and sites for organization.
• Server handles authentication (often via Active Directory/SSO), permissions down to the individual workbook or row level, and scheduled extract refreshes.
• Viewers interact with published content through a web browser or the Tableau Mobile app — no Desktop installation required.

Because Server is self-managed, IT teams control the infrastructure, scaling, backups, and security configuration themselves, which is the main trade-off compared to Tableau Cloud, where Tableau operates the hosting on the organization's behalf.

Server is the backbone of most enterprise Tableau deployments: content is built once in Desktop, then centrally governed and distributed through Server rather than emailed around as individual files.

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