Tableau Reviews

• It's easy to connect to, and supports, a variety of datasources
• It supports multiple languages well, which is very convenient for me. When I develop a dashboard in English or Japanese, it can display time differently based on the language you choose. For example, EN: 2010/01/01, JP: 2010年01月01日.
• Stunning graphs, easy to drag & drop dimensions into your dashboard.
• Compresses data well.

We use it to develop dashboards for our customers; they will use these to analyze their business using BI knowledge.

• Multiple choice for filter selection. This is a very big shortcoming.
• Dynamic parameters.
• Currently, it cannot aggregate further on a measure that has been aggregated already
• A button function for dashboards. Sometimes, we need a button to link to another dashboard.
• Display/hide an object based on a parameter as a real function, not using tricks. You can do it using tricks, but it looks so ugly.

I have used it for about two years.

As I mentioned above, sometimes we need to use tricks to develop dashboards, and it has stability issues.

I rate the level of customer service and technical support 8/10.

Initial setup was very easy; just "agree", "next" and "finish".

Our IT support team did it.

No complaints. Reasonable price for professional version.

• QlikView: not worth trying. Not good for support (Qlik Japan); ugly charts; limited functions. It’s one strength is that it's free.
• IBM Cognos: very scalable. You can do anything with your dashboard/report using HTML; good at all functions. However, it's only suitable for big companies, hard to maintain, and very expensive.
• Oracle PBCS/Essbase: good for medium-sized or big enterprises with big/multi-dimensional data; supports Excel. Difficult to set up, and browser-based PBCS is so bad, you may lose your work at any time because of its corrupt JavaScript.
• Tableau is good for small-sized companies; reasonable price. But you get what you pay for: limited functions. It's a data visualization tool, not a BI tool.

The product’s performance is better than other tools. The working speed is good. Creating visualization on Tableau is somewhat easier than other tools.

The product has some limitations. Creating empty extracts is not easy. We faced some issues in the initial phase. Creating extracts side by side with multiple lines is not possible in Tableau. This feature is available in Power BI.

If we want to make any changes to the server, we must have the Administrator role. The product should also allow users with Explorer roles to make these changes.

I have been using the solution for the past three and a half years.

The tool is stable.

The tool is scalable. Around 50 people are using the product in our organization. Everyone knows about the product. We have around seven administrators. The number of administrators varies based on the project and tasks.

The technical support is good. I raise a ticket in Tableau Community if I get stuck at any point. I can get the solution easily from the community.

Positive

I am also using QuickSight. When we create multiple visualizations and multiple sections using Tableau’s dashboard, the way of executing the visualization is quicker in Tableau compared to other tools. We can pull millions of data and create millions of tables. Apart from the performance issue, compared to other tools, the product provides the best and most advanced features.

The initial setup is easy. The time taken for deployment depends upon the data, the visualization, the types of reports, and the number of cards.

We are also learning to use other tools. It is beneficial to learn Tableau. It will help us in the future. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I use Tableau for the ability to use the sheets/histories, dashboards, and various charts (some with GPS locations). I am also able to publish reports to my own server.

Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose, making it very easy to use.

In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI.

I also think that the trial period should be extended. It is currently only twenty-one days which is a short amount of time to get acquainted with the solution.

We looked at Power BI and realized that would would need some experience to use this solution since it will not automatically pair a chart with the data that it is related to.

We use the solution for financial, sales, production, quality reports, or dashboards.

The solution provides our company with easy access to relevant information.

The ease of use is its most valuable aspect. 

The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting. They have access to the use of standard dashboards and so on.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

The stability has been good.

The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand. Users should be able to dive into the information in an easier way. Right now, it's a bit too difficult. 

We have been using Tableau for about five years.

The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

That said, initially we had some performance issues. That has been the biggest issue: performance. Especially in our case, as we are using it as a performance database. However, any initial issues have been solved now.

My understanding is that the solution is scalable. We are currently around 400 users and the roles are typically in finance, sales, marketing, and production.

It's the only tool for certain information, therefore, it's very widely used. We are really, really relying on it and that is growing. We are, during the next six months, closing old reports on the old business VPSH Virus environment. When that is done, this will be the only source of information when it comes to certain financial figures.

I'm not so much involved in the technical support side anymore, however, it has been good once you have gotten access to it.

We were using mainly SAP Business Warehouse and also the model solution, however, the biggest solution was based on SAP Business Warehouse and we are replacing that one due to the end of support for that tool.

The initial implementation process was rather straightforward. Yes.

The deployment has been ongoing. The first report to be published was done in about two months or something like that, however, it's an ongoing deployment as we are increasing the information all the time. The use of it is growing from, from month to month.

In terms of maintenance, currently, there are about four persons and their roles are weeding backend development to make sure that we get the data for IT management and the front end development.

We did have some help from a third party. We didn't need much help, however, there was some. Our experience was very good.

I'm not sure about our licensing costs at this time. We have changed license models during the journey.

We did evaluate other options. At the end of the day, it came down to the license cost and the ease of use. 

I'm a customer and an end-user.

I don't remember the version number. It could be the latest or the second latest.

I would advise potential new users to make a proper evaluation to make sure that it fits their needs. There might also be other solutions on the market today that they should comply with to make sure that they get the best solution. They should be cautious about how they have, what kind of availability they have to access data from other systems.

Also, it's important to make sure that you have educated the end-users in the proper way.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten overall. There's always room for improvement. Even if it was the most cost-efficient solution at that time, it's still costly, of course, to implement these kinds of tools. I'm also a little bit concerned about if they are a part of Salesforce, what that will mean for us in terms of impact.

We are using the solution to monitor data platforms. This helps us to make forecasts of the use, growth, and disk space. 

I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis.

I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email. For example, publishing Pixel Perfect reports.

Since I have been using the solution it has been stable.

The installation was simple and is easy to learn for the users.

The deployment took a couple of weeks. Once the information for the data is ready, it only takes a couple of hours.

I rate Tableau a nine out of ten.

I primarily use the solution for data visualizations. For example, for analysis in my job, you can use a cloud of words and data with zip codes that you can then use to pull up maps. It's very powerful. You can use also use it to create tables and data frames. You can cross-reference a lot of variables. 

I just used the product to review data and for data visualization. For example, I was studying the numbers surrounding COVID-19. We were cross-referencing zip codes and data of infection in Brazil, and we are creating an assessment of regions in Sao Paulo state as COVID-19 was growing, so that we could suggest political actions to mitigate the risk of contamination.

It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent.

It's extremely user-friendly. You can cross a lot of variables. It's much easier, for example, than Excel.

I'm not sure if the solution needs any improvements. It's the best solution we have here right now.

The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget.

If you're looking for other kinds of data, for example, non-structured data, they could make it much easier to use this kind of data. Tableau could create other features just for data visualization and non-structured data. It's a beautiful solution when you've got frames and tables. It's structured. However, if you don't have this kind of information on the data, it's quite difficult to use Tableau. I would say that if you have any feature that opens the opportunity to work with non-structured data, it would be excellent. For example, we do end up creating a lot of word clouds. With unstructured data it just doesn't translate quite right.

If you could use non-structured data to count the frequency of important words to find which word is more important, for example, that would be useful. I don't see Tableau doing this - counting the frequency of important words in a specific kind of text. 

It would also be great if there was statistical modeling for non-structured data.

I've been using the solution for more than six months. It's been less than a year.

I don't work with large amounts of data. I don't have millions of data points. In terms of how I use the product, I've never had issues with stability.

It the solution was better with non-structured data, its scalability might be very good.

I just have the student license for myself. There aren't a large number of people in our company that use it.

I've never had a reason to contact technical support. Having never dealt with them, I can't speak to their level of knowledge or responsiveness. It's so simple to create my own account and use it, I've never had a reason to reach out.

The initial setup isn't too complex. The entire solution is pretty user friendly from beginning to end.

The deployment, in total, took less than three weeks.

The solution is quite expensive.

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with Tableau.

I currently have a student license. I'm not sure which version I currently have. I mostly leverage the solution for personal use.

I would warn those considering the solution to take a look at the price and make sure it is within their company's budget.

Overall, I would rate the product nine out of ten. I've been quite happy with it.

Our primary use case of Tableau is for reporting purposes for our clients. We provide analytics for clients, giving them the ability to build reports. We also have our own product which provides the data analytics platform. I'm a product manager and we are a customer of Tableau. 

I like the data flow and the ability to easily manage the data. The solution also has good building capabilities. When we apply filters, we tend to order different reports and it becomes easier for us.

The solution requires a lot of user training before reports can be created. That can make things difficult and require us to have Tableau specialists. It's difficult for a newbie to start developing reports. 

Tableau queries and analytics, as well as development could be improved. The solution could also include an option to incorporate more open source libraries. I know Tableau has this closed loop so they might not want to provide that but if they did have integration capabilities with open-source libraries, I think that would be great. 

I've been using this solution for three and a half years. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. 

We don't generally need technical support although the clients do but I'm not sure if they provide good service. There are Tableau videos we can use if necessary. Whenever we need some solution we go to Tableau training and go through the videos.

People who have always used Tableau want to stick with it but those just getting into the field will look at options that can provide almost a similar functionality with the main difference being the cost. It's a trade-off between the different features offered on the solutions in this market and the cost. 

The initial setup is straightforward and can probably be completed in two or three hours. The client is responsible for maintaining their own solution, we only implement. If they want to upgrade the platform, that's their responsibility. 

Licensing is charged per user, I believe. Even if they're just providing you a minimum specification there will be added costs if you need more processing power. If you want to connect to the data sources, then that needs to be included in the complete solution. It's an adaptive cost. 

I would recommend anyone looking at this solution to check the validity of the business case. If you don't have a very expensive business case and you're going to be on the data processing side, I wouldn't necessarily recommend the product. But if you have standard templates and can just put in the data, export the defaults and send it, then it's a good solution because there's no complexity.

I would rate this solution a seven out of 10.