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.
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.
The ability to connect multiple data sources, build data extracts, and display said data in an automated, graphical, format is the key driving factor insuring I continue using Tableau. While there are plenty of other tools on the market, such as Report Builder or Crystal Reports, Tableau is the first I have used that allows for such wide spread data integration and presentation in a visibly pleasing format. Moreover, the data extract function of Tableau has hooked me into using their tool over any other. Specifically, the ease of extracting and automating report generation from these extracts.
Tableau has allowed us to build automated weekly dashboards that explain our organisation's pipeline. Moreover, these dashboards have resolved long standing time sinks which have freed up resources to focus on ever larger and more interesting BI projects. Additionally, we have used Tableau to increase the range and width of reports we are able to generate on a weekly basis.
Tableau development has an increasingly large learning curve. It is marketed as an upper management tool that anyone can dive into. However, trying to develop even simple tables within Tableau is an exercise in frustration and patience. The end results cannot be denied, but the path to getting there is not for the lighthearted.
I have used Tableau now for 2 years.
Tableau customer service has been incredible. Not only do they have an active community forum, but their account managers have been very pleasant to work with.
Technical Support:Out of five, I would rate technical support a solid 4.
I have used Report Builder and Crystal Reports. Switching wasn't really my decision, as the other tools used were at different organisations. Since then, I have tried to move back to other reporting tools, but found them lacking in functions I hadn't even realised I had come to rely on!
Setup of Tableau was the easiest of any reporting environment I have used.
We implemented Tableau through a vendor team who were helpful in getting us off the ground. That being said, any reporting tool is dependent upon the data set it connects to. As such, real value has only appeared from Tableau after long usage and learning of how to use its myriad of functions.
Stick with the development process, try a report over and over, and use Google to search out answers to those questions you think have no answer. Take it from me, if you can build it in Excel, then you can build it in Tableau. It just takes time and effort. Also, it may not look EXACTLY the same, but you can get it pretty close. In some cases even better.
It provides access to many kinds of data sources. For example: big data/SAP BW.
The second-most valuable feature is the wonderful usage experience. You cannot find this on any other vendor’s solution such as Microsoft or SAP. Even though Qlik’s QlikView is similar.
We use it for a very complex dashboard design showing our raw material trend analysis. Even though there is huge amount of data and information in these dashboards, Tableau easily provides high-quality UI presentations, along with quick response and design times.
Its server lacks traditional BI solution capabilities such as job scheduling, HA and etc. If you want to roll out it as an enterprise-wide application, you must consider many usage scenarios and operation-level items. Tableau has a robust design UI and presentation layer, but lacks many of the capabilities of an enterprise BI solution. We have been using the SAP BO BI solution for many years. We feel Tableau Server still has a long way to go.
I have used this solution for nearly one year.
I have had poor experiences using its mobile app when I demo some dashboards to high-level executives. Sometimes, it does not respond with results very quickly. But, the web UI is OK. I don’t know why there is a discrepancy.
Technical support has been good so far.
We have used SAP BO BI for many years. We liked the WebI /BO dashboard. We also evaluated Microsoft PowerBI and QlikView. Finally, our IT and project team chose Tableau because its UI/user experience is the best.
Its initial setup is simple, but server installation took some time to finish. We use Desktop and Server on our Windows platforms.
We have a local partner to support us. But, we also try each product by ourselves. A vendor partner provides some technical support or Q&A.
ROI has been good so far.
They must understand their real business goal and user’s needs or behavior for using the dashboard design. That impacts your tool’s usage and design approach. Try using Tableau Desktop anyway. Pay more attention to the Tableau community’s sharing or other experts’ design sharing on the website. It will give you many ideas or best design practices and reference.
It brought easy and comprehensive access to company data to managers, without needing the IT department.
It would be nice to be able to use the reports as a data source. Calculations in reports are still tricky.
I have been using it for a few months.
I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.
Customer service and technical support are very good; the free tutorials are especially great.
I used IBM Cognos for many years, I am now working with BO, and I have evaluated many others. I choose this product for a particular customer because he needed analytical access to data for managers without having an IT department in the company.
Initial setup was very straightforward, and configuration was easy. Both the client and the server solution have the same UI design. It is easy to begin with the desktop solution and then upgrade to the server.
I implemented just a pilot project and I did it myself.
I have not calculated ROI.
Pricing is very competitive.
The product is probably not very suitable for standard corporate reporting, but if your users need analytical insight to data, it is an excellent solution.
It's a powerful business intelligence tool and is recognised as the cream of the crop for its visual-based data discovery that helps achieve our goals by responding faster to changes and needs in the market. We have reduced analysis delivery from weeks to days. But it is important to note that was for a PoC.
Some features where the product can improve are:
I have been using it the past eight months.
Tableau has been "good enough" for us in deployment.
It is very stable and we have been trying it without any issues for PoC purposes.
Technical support has resolved thousands of issues and is still expecting to improve in some areas of support through peer-to-peer assistance. It cements customer retention and loyalty.
Initial setup is simple and straightforward.
We implemented the solution in-house.
We installed a number of modern BI tools in order to evaluate them for our purposes. It didn’t take me long to discover that Tableau was much easier to use than the other tools. Since ours is a small organization and most importantly we tried it for a PoC because this tool has an amazing look and feel.
Proceed in a step-by-step manner of engaging users to find the best solution for the business. Be prepared to explore for yourselves how to analyse needs according to market trends, with the highest level of security management. Each and every step should be recorded and performed based on cross-domain analysis, so that it will be easy to implement in any kind of scenario.
For both Tableau Public and Desktop, the ability to quickly pull together data sources into a meaningful (visual) display. Also, the intuitive design and ability to work with increasingly large and real-time data sets.
Mostly, I focus on the management and operational reporting aspects, enabling businesses to make better decisions at all levels through improved access to data.
It's hard to say right now but I can see challenges ahead as the market share and common standards become an issue - if the goal is to replace Excel, then it will be a winner-takes-all type of battle. For clients this may make them delay purchase and adoption.
I've used it for around eight months. My hands-on experience is mainly Tableau Public and Desktop trials. Project experience working with people who are expert in Tableau and Alteryx.
Tableau Public crashes on opening on my iMac. So far the web-based tools have worked very well.
Tableau Public crashes on opening on my iMac. So far the web-based tools have worked very well.
Not encountered any so far, but this appears to be one of their big selling points.
So far, very proactive. They have a lot of good training resources available online and very fast response from sales team.
Technical Support:It's been very good so far.
At my last company I tried to encourage the IT team to adopt these tools, but they were very focused on developing everything themselves. This turned out to be quite an expensive error and I would encourage companies - even those with their own in-house analyst teams - to consider using these tools as a way to quickly build models. They should only consider building models themselves if they know they have a product and solution that justifies it.
So far it's been very easy but I think a large enterprise would need to consider widespread adoption quite carefully so it aligns to the overall IT road-map.
We used a vendor team. What was useful about this in the examples I’ve seen is their ability to demonstrate "quick wins” to get support for wider deployment, and then to train key staff around the organisation to increase the pace of adoption.
I’d expect it to pay back within a year if the avoided costs of existing IT platform upgrades is included.
We are currently in the evaluation process.
Get some help to evaluate the options and identify the opportunities, find a test case to demonstrate the benefits, engage the IT team early.
As a consultant, the organizations I've been at like the ability to see a visual report. This is can be done fairly quick as opposed to numbers.
2-3 years.
No issues encountered.
No issues encountered.
No issues encountered.
Good as there are various methods of finding answers and fixes.
Technical Support:Good again as they have various methods to ascertain answers.
I have used many other solutions as a BI consultant including Discoverer, Brio Query, Impromptu, Bus Objects, etc. Tableau seems to be popular right now as, again, the presentation and data model are quite different than the others
It is a straightforward setup.
In-house and via myself.
As mentioned in previously, many clients choose Tableau due to its data model and presentation layer.
As a consultant, ALL BI tools use phrases like 'it empowers the end user', 'end users can create reports in minutes', etc. However, in the real world, end users can create SOME reports once middle layers are built, training is given, limitations and security is imposed, etc. For a complete system, IT departments and consultants must install, set up, create initial works and then have SOME power end users involved. NO tool bypasses this and gives all to end users - and if it did, security would be lax.
Tableau is charting, graphing and data analysis with go-faster stripes. It has obvious appeal, with prolific amounts of eye-candy and a relatively easy to use interface. As with other products of this nature its utility is firmly anchored in visual exploration of data using every format imaginable. It is not a data mining tool or a text analytics tool, but sits in the traditional business intelligence camp, albeit with a rich visual interface. It is positioned as one of a new breed of BI tools designed to deliver pervasive BI capability throughout the organization, or at least to those who need such tools.
The entry level product is Tableau Public, available as a throttled down free version, or in a Premium version with fewer restrictions. It is primarily targeted at the creation of graphics for web sites and offers a ‘paint-by-numbers’ approach to the creation and publishing of such graphics. A rich set of formats are supported including bar and line charts, heat maps, bubble charts, geo maps and many others (you are spoiled for choice really). Graphics are updated automatically when the underlying data is modified and links can be made to other content on a web site. The Premium version supports larger data sets and the optional suppression of access to the underlying data set. There are numerous web services of this nature (Jolicharts for example), but Tableau Public is certainly one of the best free offerings.
Tableau Desktop supports the visualization of data on the desktop and connects to a bewildering array of data sources, either individually or in concert. The Tableau Data Engine sits on a PC and calls upon the relevant data sources when needed. It executes queries in-memory for speed and switches data in and out of memory automatically, although clearly some wisdom is needed when accessing live data sources.VizQL is Tableau’s Visual Query Language and is claimed to bypass the usual extraction, format, graphing process to build a direct link between data sources and visual representations.
Tableau Server supports browser based tools for data visualization and as such opens BI up to a very wide audience. It provides the very wide range of visualizations and dashboards supported by Tableau, and also make them available on portable devices (iPad and Android).
Tableau places great emphasis on the ability to create visualizations without the need for any technical skills (scripting). Provided Tableau always offers what you need this is fine, the moment you want something different this could be problematical. For this reason I think it is wiser to have both options – scripting free visualizations for run-of-the mill tasks, but scripting capability for more unusual needs. Other offerings are stronger in this respect.
I have never used this product but it appears perfect for visualization of data. I got two questions: Is it user friendly? And, does it have a mobile version for use with portable devices? That might just be the motivation I need to study Tableau on my own.
Another good tool to look at is Yellowfin BI. Runs beautifully on an iMac