Tableau Reviews

I am a developer and I provide solutions to end-users using Tableau.

It's intuitive and highly mature.

I use OBIEE, which is in Tableau. It is much easier than in other tools and it is easier to bring up the data insights.

The customization in the front end is a bit difficult. If they provide any utility or UI feature, where a user can do their own customization it would be great.

I would like to see an option to customize your own reports. Not being able to customize is a pain point for the developers.

I have been using Tableau for six years.

Technical support is good, but they could use some improvement. I would rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

There can be some delays in resolving issues because of the difference in time zones. The need to come with a way to match the time zones.

I would recommend this solution to others but it would depend on their use cases.

I would rate Tableau a nine out of ten.

In particular, I believe in the ease that Tableau provides for generating statistics and content in real time. We no longer use the old system where we must load the data one by one, and with just one click, I can see all the information I need.

It has facilities that improve some aspects inside and outside of work. We use it basically to see statistics and locate focal studies to make decisions.

With Tableau, I can upload excel files and visualize the information with details.

Another aspect is that I can organize the information with the data I have as dates of income, expenses, and annuals.

To improve the next version, it is important to highlight the use of the tool in other languages. This includes internal handling and updates.

I have never used a similar solution. It is my first time using this tool, and from the time of usage, it facilitates the process of information analysis.

Mainly, there is a free download version but with limitations that allow the user to evaluate and then contact the service provider for their respective installation and deployment.

I have not reviewed other options. I think it does not exist; if it exists, I would know and leave a record to compare these tools.

This software must be managed on mobile devices in several languages.

The feature which I value the most about Tableau is its ability to plot nonstandard charts/graphs, such as coxcomb, streamgraph, chord, sankey, and hexbin charts, etc. The map feature is cool, too. For now, it can integrate with Mapbox and other WMS services. I wish in the future there were more choices.

Unlike most of products which have a limited period for trial use, Tableau Public is free, and because of that, our team is able to hold a regular workshop, in which each team member can have chances to share of what he/she learned from using the tool.

I think dashboard and story can still improve. For example, the placement of sheets on dashboard are quite tedious work, especially when the page is long. The automation of adjusting size of sheets has given us a hard time to place sheets neatly on the dashboard, even though the intention is good. As for story, just wish there could be more templates.

Two to three years.

I think Tableau is quite stable, but it is likely to be an effect from another service, such as Web Map Service. Whenever there’s problem with the WMS, Tableau hangs with it.

Not yet.

Fairly good, since there are lots of forums and tutorials on the web which you can find.

We used IBM Cognos back then, but it’s really not easy to use and since it’s an integration of variety of services, it’s quite confusing sometimes. Plus it required training lessons, which aren’t cheap at all.

The initial setup is straightforward and easy.

I think Tableau could try to have different types of pricing and licensing packages, since there are a variety of users with different needs. For example, some users prefer to buy a license for one time only and use the service without upgrade for a long period of time, but some prefer monthly subscriptions.

Besides Cognos, we also evaluated Power BI, SAP Lumira, Pentaho, OBIEE, BO, Spago, etc., but most of them are either too expensive, lack functionality, have limited usage of charts, are hard to use and unfriendly.

It’s really an A+ product. Other than being a customer, we also suggest to our clients this product.

Tableau's strength is visualization. If a report/dashboard is presented in visualization, the end user can easily connect with the data compared to a tabular format.

We created a dashboard that displays booking and shipping orders with month-to-date rolling. Executives get a better understanding of the organization as soon as they open this dashboard everyday.

There is lot of improvement needed on Tableau extracts. Right now, Tableau doesn't support updating extracts with only changed records. We are doing full extracts everyday, which is utilizing a lot of resources.

More than two years.

No.

We are limited with the Tableau extract functionality, which is causing an overburden on resources.

Technical support is very helpful and prompt on their service, a very knowledgeable support team.

No.

Follow the documentation provided. It is a very straightforward setup.

If the user base is huge, try getting enterprise level licenses. If not, you can get desktop licenses for power users.

Evaluated a few options: QlickView and OBIEE.

First try a proof of concept with one data set using Tableau. Present it to the user community. Try to work with an implementation partner. Training is essential for power users.

Desktop – primarily ease of use, TTM, for ad-hoc and reusable analyses and visualizations.

Primarily TTM. The product is used by a number of different groups throughout the company – marketing, services, product engineering...

Server scalability and pricing. Tableau was considered but rejected for a large scale in-house analysis and reporting solution. Even with a large-scale implementation (eight-plus cores), it was decided that Tableau probably wouldn’t scale to the level needed and at that level, was costly.

Desktop was brought into the company five or six years back. Server instances soon followed to support smaller groups.

Desktop installation is easy and straightforward. Out-of-the-box usable.

We have a central IT group that handled server deployments and now handles corporate-wide desktop license maintenance and support with the vendor.

The desktop is fairly intuitive and easy to get started with. Training (on the product, data viz/scientist) is needed for deeper analyses.

As with any solution, do your homework. Understand what it is you’re trying to solve. Tableau is just one of many tools/solutions implemented across the company.

We are a consultant, and it is our main product for consultancy.

It is deployed on the cloud as well as on-premises.

It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility.

I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables.

Its setup should be simple. It is complex to deploy if you work in a test environment.

I have been using this solution for four years.

It is stable.

It is easy to scale. It is suitable for small, medium, and large enterprise

Their technical support is great.

It is complex. If you work in a test environment, it is complex to deploy. It should be more simple. You need someone who can help you with deployment.

It is reasonable based on what it offers.

I would advise following Tableau Blueprint in your deployment. There are guidelines that will help you.

I would rate it a nine out of 10.

I primarily use the solution in order to utilize the graphs. It offers a good diversity of graphs and I can manage different data sets together with Excel. I can publish it for my manager, if, in the future, I'm going to use it at work. 

The solution offers good capabilities in terms of responding to my requirements. My dataset is so small and I don't need any complex graphs. It makes it very simple.

The solution is very stable.

The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up.

The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better. I know the capability is there, however, there needs to be better integration. There needs to be integration for machine learning and AI. That would help data analysts and data scientists quite a bit.

I've only been using the solution for a few weeks at this point. I'm working on gaining some experience and familiarity with the product.

I've found the solution to be quite stable and reliable so far. I haven't used it long, however, I can't recall it crashing or freezing. I haven't experienced bugs or glitches. Its performance is good.

There might be about 20 people in our organization that use the solution.

I'm not sure if we will continue to use the product. Currently, I've only used it for a few weeks, and I'm learning it. However, our organization seems to like to work with Oracle. I'm not sure if we will focus on that or not in the future.

I've never used Oracle's technical support in the past. I can't speak to how well they help users with issues or how fast they respond.

I've worked a bit more with Power BI.

Our organization also works with Oracle's Analytics.

The installation was very, very easy. I didn't have any issues at all. It wasn't complex.

The deployment took less than 15 minutes. It was very fast and seamless.

I handled the implementation myself. I only had to download it onto my own PC.

Our company hasn't yet made a decision on the product in terms of long-term usage. I'm not sure what the licensing status is at this point.

We're just potential customers and end-users of the product. We don't have a business relationship with Tableau. I'm very new to the product and still really just testing it out to see how I could potentially work with it in the future.

I'm working with the latest version of the solution.

Overall, in my short time using the product, I've been largely happy with the results. I'd rate the product at an eight out of ten.

• Analytics
• Dashboarding
• Presentation
• Reporting

• Transitioned from static to dynamic reporting
• Transitioned from restricted to flexible visualizations

• Scheduling the reports as email to multiple users on daily basis preferably in Excel without creating user accounts for each user
  Establishing an effective connection from SAP BO universe to Tableau

I have used it for 3+ years.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues. I recommend filtering data at the source itself instead of bringing data into the tool and then applying filters.

Technical support is excellent. I hope they continue doing the same.

We previously used another solution. We switched to Tableau because, in my opinion, it has some of the best features available. It will take five years for other tools to catch up to where Tableau is right now.

Initial setup complexity was due to the organization's data structure, but it had nothing to do with the tool.

Implementation was in-house; we read through the guide.

It is expensive but worth it. I would prefer a lower license cost or an increase in the allowed # of users per license.

Buy it, implement it and stick with it for a sure and quick ROI.