Tableau Product Licensing

Last updated: November 15, 2022

UW-IT’s Tableau Licensing service enables faculty, staff, and students to purchase Tableau Creator licenses to build and publish amazing data visualizations.

There are many different options available depending on your characteristics. Please choose your role below to see the best option for your scenario.

To request a UW Tableau License, visit our Service Catalog entry: Tableau Software Licensing

Roles:

Choose your role to see the options and costs:

Availability:

Everyone (No Cost*)

*UW data restrictions apply

  • Build/Develop visualizations

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Publish to Tableau’s Public Server from within Tableau Public Desktop

Staff:

  • Interact with existing visualizations

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Browse the catalog of all UW Tableau Server visualizations
      (Note: Users must have access to the EDW and to the UW Tableau Server) Visualizations published on the UW Tableau Public Server are shared by embedding them within a webpage. No special permissions are required to access the visualization.

  • Build/Develop visualizations

    • Product: Tableau Creator – Desktop and Prep
    • Cost: License Cost: $60 per month

      • Includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, Tableau support, software upgrades, online publishing to UW’s Tableau Server and UW’s Tableau Public Server.
    • Obtain: Request a License

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Included with Tableau Creator License
    • Obtain: Included with purchase of Tableau Desktop and annual renewal fee
      • Publish to UW Tableau Server from within Tableau Desktop
      • Publish to UW’s Tableau Public Server

Faculty (teaching with Tableau):

  • Interact with existing visualizations

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Browse the catalog of all UW Tableau Server visualizations
      (Note: Users must have access to the EDW and to the UW Tableau Server) Visualizations published on the UW Tableau Public Server are shared by embedding them within a webpage. No special permissions are required to access the visualization.

  • Build/Develop visualizations

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: Tableau’s Public Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Included with purchase of Tableau Desktop and annual renewal fee
      • Publish to Tableau’s Public Server from within Tableau Desktop
      • Publish to UW’s Tableau Public Server

Faculty (not teaching with Tableau):

  • Interact with existing visualizations

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Browse the catalog of all UW Tableau Server visualizations
      (Note: Users must have access to the EDW and to the UW Tableau Server).  Visualizations published on the UW Tableau Public Server are shared by embedding them within a webpage. No special permissions are required to access the visualization.

  • Build/Develop visualizations

    • Product: Tableau Creator – Desktop and Prep
    • Cost: License Cost: $60 per month

      • Includes Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep, support, software upgrades, online publishing to UW’s Tableau Server and UW’s Tableau Public Server.
    • Obtain: Request a License

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Included with Tableau Desktop License
    • Obtain: Included with purchase of Tableau Creator license and annual renewal fee
      • Publish to UW Tableau Server from within Tableau Desktop
      • Publish to UW’s Tableau Public Server

Researcher (commercial research):

  • Interact with existing visualizations

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Browse the catalog of all UW Tableau Server visualizations
      (Note: Users must have access to the EDW and to the UW Tableau Server.)Visualizations published on the UW Tableau Public Server are shared by embedding them within a webpage. No special permissions are required to access the visualization.

  • Build/Develop visualizations

    • Product: Tableau Creator – Desktop and Prep
    • Cost: License Cost: $60 per month

      • Includes Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep, Tableau support, software upgrades, online publishing to UW’s Tableau Server and UW’s Tableau Public Server.
    • Obtain: Request a License

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Included with Tableau Creator License
    • Obtain: Included with purchase of Tableau Desktop and annual renewal fee
      • Publish to UW Tableau Server from within Tableau Desktop
      • Publish to UW’s Tableau Public Server

Researcher (non-commercial research):

  • Interact with existing visualizations

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Browse the catalog of all UW Tableau Server visualizations
      (Note: Users must have access to the EDW and to the UW Tableau Server) Visualizations published on the UW Tableau Public Server are shared by embedding them within a webpage. No special permissions are required to access the visualization.

  • Build/Develop visualizations

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: UW Tableau Server and UW Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Included with purchase of Tableau Desktop and annual renewal fee
      • Publish to UW Tableau Server from within Tableau Desktop
      • Publish to UW’s Tableau Public Server

Student (Non-full time*):

*UW data restrictions apply

  • Build/Develop visualizations

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Publish to Tableau’s Public Server from within Tableau Public Desktop

Student (Full time*):

*UW data restrictions apply

  • Build/Develop visualizations

  • Publish visualizations for sharing

    • Product: Tableau Public Server
    • Cost: Free
    • Obtain: Publish to Tableau’s Public Server from within Tableau Desktop

Note: Tableau workbooks saved on the Tableau Public Server are open to the world. UW institutional data may not be published to Tableau Public Server.