What is data fabric?
A data fabric is a data management design that dynamically unifies disparate data sources intelligently and securely. Data fabrics use automation for end-to-end data management—including metadata automation—making real-time, self-service analytics a business reality that can scale.
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Empower everyone to analyze and explore data
Build a Data Culture by eliminating data silos with a federated environment.
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Deeply integrate with your enterprise architecture
Surface rich metadata when and where it counts for the fastest time to value.
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Manages all your analytics data without compromise
Increase access to data regardless of location—on-prem, cloud, or hybrid.
Read the Forrester Now Tech: Data Fabric 2022 report
The Tableau approach
Tableau supports data fabric designs by putting analytics first. Our suite of solutions—with Tableau Data Management at the heart—together create a unique data fabric purpose-built for data analytics.
Work smarter, faster—and happier
60%
Reduction in data preparation time
12x
Increase in adoption of
self-service analytics
34%
Increase in collaboration
across teams
56%
Faster processing power to support real-time data
30%
Faster time to insights
Discover, understand, connect, and secure
Tableau’s solutions provide a data management layer right inside our platform, helping you break down data silos and streamline support for the entire data and analytics lifecycle.
- Augmented analytics
- Orchestration
- Data catalog
- Metadata management
- Data quality and lineage
- Data preparation
- Data, security, and resource governance
- Data Integration
- Virtualization and discovery
Building a data fabric for analytics with Tableau
Hear from customers who are building their data fabric
around analytics
Lake County Department and Community Health Center
Enabled self-service analytics for 900+ employees.


