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# Use Tableau Cloud Manager

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, all from a single location. Any changes made within TCM are applied at the top level, or tenant, and then shared across all associated sites, ensuring streamlined administration and governance.

For information about Tableau Cloud Manager REST API capabilities, see [Tableau Cloud Manager REST API](https://help.tableau.com/current/api/cloud-manager/en-us/index.html).

Cloud administrators are the only users with access to Tableau Cloud Manager, a role assigned explicitly within TCM. While most cloud administrators typically access a single TCM tenant, your organization's structure may permit access to multiple tenants.

Now that we've discussed the capabilities of TCM, let's explore the concepts it manages within Tableau Cloud.

## Understanding tenant and site administration in Tableau Cloud

Before you jump into Tableau Cloud Manager (TCM), it's important to learn the concepts of tenant and site to understand the administrative structure of Tableau Cloud.

**Tenant:** A tenant in Tableau Cloud is the top-level administrative layer that encompasses your organization's Tableau Cloud deployment. Think of a tenant as the container that holds all your sites, users, and licenses. Cloud administrators operate at this level through TCM, ensuring centralized control over Tableau Cloud. Within this structure, TCM acts as a centralized location to configure changes for multiple sites, such as adding or deleting users and license management.

**Site:** A site, by comparison, is under the tenant and can be thought of as a workspace or a dedicated environment for a specific team, department, or project. Each site has its own set of content, users, and permissions, which site administrators manage. While site administrators have control over their individual sites, including managing workbooks, data sources, and user access, they operate within the constraints set at the tenant level. Sites provide a focused area for collaboration and analytics without exposing the administrative functions of the tenant.

![](/tableau/next/en-us/online/en-us/Img/tcm_tenant_sites.png)

In summary, the tenant is the administrative layer that holds all the sites, and a site is a contained environment where teams can work independently. This structure allows for centralized control at the tenant level and flexible management at the site level, enabling organizations to scale their use of Tableau Cloud efficiently and securely.

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