Tableau Reviews

As a BI system integrator. we design performance solutions for different industries. We do use different tools in our solutions, and Tableau software is one of the our partners. One of the solutions we developed for a telecom client was a performance management tool. The solution used reporting dashboards based on network performance KPIs.

Using Tableau, it has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part.

The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity. 

• Needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need. 
• The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible.

• The ability to connect to different sources of data like SQL, Excel, etc. makes Tableau a very smart tool for data visualization.
• The way it incorporates user-level data with geographic mapping really helps in building strategy at the top-most level.
• Sharing dashboards among the team is extremely hassle free and also the data being up to date makes management extremely happy.

All-important, high-level metrics are at the fingertips of top management, which makes decision making less painful and more data oriented.

All employees have access to real-time data, which makes customer management a nuanced affair, because of which there is stark reduction in errors.

• Better dashboard creation
• Ease of making reports

I have used it for two years.

Once the reports are created, there are no issues at all. The only problem is the speed of loading data. For huge data sets, it takes a lot of time to load data. With Google' Data Studio coming out, they might want to improve this aspect of the tool.

Service is excellent and their support staff are very quick to answer any queries.

We did not evaluate any other solutions. We only worked with Tableau, as it was industry ready.

It is a pretty straightforward setup, as described on their website. If you follow those instructions correctly, there wouldn't be any problem.

• We did it in-house, as it helped us streamline things and rolling out required dashboards faster and more accurately.
• A team of two with basic tech background is more than enough to start off with.
• The learning curve is very flat, so within a month, resources can be ready to roll out reports.

Their price is as per industry standard and any company in analytics business will be comfortable with the pricing plans.

Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard.

When you create new fields in Tableau and you enter the formulas, there is a new small window that is there in the interface. You can enter the calculated fields, it could be more user-friendly. At this time it is limited and hard to understand at the beginning. The fields should be easier to use, such as in Microsoft Excel. You can have a difficult time understanding what to do in the fields, you end up doing trial and error to figure it out.

I have been using Tableau for approximately seven years.

Tableau has a good online community that I used for support hat is very good.

The initial setup of Tableau is relatively simple. For new users of the solution, it is easy for them to grasp. You need to understand how to connect to the Oracle or SQL Server, having knowledge of databases will make the process easier.

The licensing model of Tableau has changed since we initially purchased it three years ago and it is more complicated, and I have found it to be more expensive. They have lost market shares to Microsoft BI. My company will probably change solutions this year because of the increased pricing model.

I have evaluated Microsoft BI.

My advice to others that are wanting to implement this solution is for them to use use the online community. There are many good resources, and examples for implementing solutions. There is plenty of support.

I rate Tableau a nine out of ten.

Tableau can be helpful for BI reports and data dashboards. For example, say you are getting data from a few systems, and you want to see a consolidated report, like a management report or a transactional report. We use Tableau to build a dashboard using the data that we get.

I'm in a pre-sales role, so I don't have a lot of practical hands-on experience with Tableau, but there are experts in my company, and we've been using the solution for more than five years.  
We're consultants. If a customer wants to build a dashboard or run some custom reports using Tableau, we do the engineering part.

Performance-wise, Tableau is good but it could always be better. 

Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability. Since I'm not an engineer, I don't know if that scalability comes from the cloud infrastructure or Tableau itself. I can't rate it properly on that front.

The complexity of deploying Tableau generally depends on the size of the project. As far as I know, it takes two or three Tableau engineers for the bigger projects where we're using utilizing them to build a database. 

To clarify, I'm talking about the engineers building the custom solutions for our clients, not consuming them. To construct the Tableau reports or the database we use to generate the reports, we need two or three Tableau engineers and around the same number of database engineers to generate the data or write the scripts required for generating the reports.

I would rate Tableau seven out of 10. Other tools are more competitively priced, but I wouldn't give it a low rating because Tableau still provides the functionality our clients need. I would recommend it.

We were using Tableau for some simple data visualization statistics. Last year because of the pandemic, we collected locations of people who were positive and then tried to put the information on a map and see if we can find any patterns.

Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel.

There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities.

I currently have to use another Tableau solution that allows me to combine different data sources and do the data cleaning. I think they should combine these solutions together.

I have been using Tableau for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

Tableau has been scalable for what we have used it for. However, we have not used a lot of large data sets at this point.

I am from a Oracle database background and I have used Oracle Reports.

I downloaded the solution online for free.

I would recommend others to have a look at Tableau for data visualization.

I rate Tableau an eight out of ten.

Tableau is a data visualization tool similar to Microsoft Power BI.

The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns.

I have been using this solution for a year and a half.

Tableau is stable.

The solution could improve the scalability, it is difficult to make changes.

We have more than 50 people using this solution in my organization.

I have evaluated Microsoft Power BI.

I rate Tableau a seven out of ten.

It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn.

It's a new technology, so it's easy to get somebody up and running.

Scalability for large amounts of data needs improvement, as well as its performance.

From a scheduling perspective, if there is a sync up of the desktop dashboard into the server that we can publish as a web version, in an accessible way, that publishing scales and keeps on executing for hours. This can go on for eight to nine hours, but you have no indicator, you don't even see that it is processing. For example, there is no spinning wheel and all I see is a black screen.

The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing. I would like to have some kind of indication that there is something processing on the interface.

Technical support could be faster or if they have any limitations of the product, they should openly communicate it. They could also just tell you that this product is intended for small volumes of data and may even suggest another solution.

We have been using the latest version of Tableau for several years.

As far as using low volumes of data, it is stable. If the data is too large then it becomes a problem.

From a data perspective, the problem with scalability is after a point in time, the data becomes very large. For example, there is a way to sync the data and bring it to the desktop, and if the data is going to be seven GB or more, that is a huge amount of data and creates a problem with Tableau.

Based on our customers, we have different licenses. We have approximately 15 different customers.

Technical support is fine, but it could be better. When we reached out with the large amounts of data, we were not provided with the correct solution.

We started with Tableau.

The initial setup was straightforward. There were no issues.

It's a very simple installation, it doesn't take a lot of time to deploy.

We did not use a consultant, we implemented ourselves.

We have a single person team for installation and maintenance.

We plan to continue using this solution and I can recommend it.

It's a good product but large volume data is an issue. Maybe people will have to work around it to make it smaller. It requires splitting up the data into smaller data files or we need to find another way from Tableau itself. They may have another scalable product, that can be used for large amounts of data.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.