Tableau Reviews

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 use the solution mainly to monitor the main KPIs and to basically show aggregated numbers of very important metrics and certain business environments. Basically, that's what I use Tableau for.

You can basically do anything with it. There's a lot of customizations you can try to explore when using Tableau. You can do a lot of things in Tableau. Even though some things are maybe not as straightforward, there are lots of solutions you can find online. There's a very good community where you can specifically find the answers to any kind of problems that you might have with Tableau. That's what I like about it.

It is easy to use. That said, it makes it possible so that you don't only make, for example, a very simple bar chart. There are lots of different charts that you can make in Tableau. Even though it requires customization and sometimes a lot of googling to find out how to do certain things, that's what makes it powerful. You can basically do everything with Tableau.

In my experience, it is stable enough.

There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of.

The installation is very straightforward, very simple.

In the last year, I haven't really used Tableau much. Therefore, I don't really know what new features there are currently or if there are fixes or improvements that have occurred in the last year.

Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that. Specifically for learning purposes, it could be cheaper. I know there is a student license, however, there could be a cheaper option for people who are maybe just starting to explore data and to use data visualization tools. 

I've used the solution for three and a half years. I don't use it in my current work at the moment.

The stability is fantastic. There are no bugs or glitches. Its performance is reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

While my understanding is that the solution can scale, since my work basically was project-based, we didn't have a lot of occasions where we had to really scale up in our work. I can't exactly say how good or not good the scalability is. That said, in my personal experience, I didn't have any problems with it.

The users on the solution varied from project to project. Usually, it was in the dozens or so.

I've never contacted technical support in the past. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they are. 

The very first data visualization tool I used was Tableau. Tableau was how I was introduced to the field of data. Before Tableau, I hadn't actually explored any other data visualization tool.

The installation is very straightforward and simple.

The implementation process took at most five minutes. It probably takes longer to download the installer than it is to actually install the file depending on the internet connection.

Typically five to six people were needed for deployment and maintenance tasks. That would depend on the scale of the project, however. 

I was able to handle the implementation myself. I didn't need any assistance from any implementors or consultants.

You do need to pay a licensing fee, however, there aren't any additional costs. 

I was previously a customer and an end-user.

I would recommend the solution to other users and organizations. It's a very powerful data visualization tool.

I would rate the solution at least a nine out of ten. There's always room for improvement, however, in my personal experience, Tableau is up top.

On-premises

Very nice visualization product. Easy to learn and use; powerful quick change of data sets and visualization output.

Price is not cheap...not awful though. (That's why it gets 5 stars.)

Great visualization tool!!! Connectivity to many different types of data sources. Great flexibility with function/features used to produce the visualizations and make them interactive for end-users.

The Tableau server piece isn't as mature but it getting better with time. I think they are missing a Power User setting in the administration/monitoring tools that will allow people to see what's going on with the server, extract refreshes, etc...without having full admin access.It's expensive to use at an enterprise level. Performance can be tricky on large datasets (>10 or 20M records). Tableau can handle the large volume, but what/how you use the features in the viz can have significant impact on how snappy the viz is for end-users.

We primarily use the solution in order to get to know the data. Companies get to really explore and feel like the creators of their own destiny. Tableau is very different from and the other BI technologies I have used. They say that the main goal is not a dashboard; you're altering your exploration of the data.

Tableau in French is translated roughly to a blank page. You can do whatever you want on it. In that sense, Tableau is so amazing. It really helps us manipulate and understand data in interesting ways.

They have advanced statistics features that you can easily apply to your data. For example, I can do very quick calculations. In other software, I would have to code a bit to really work on that logic. In Tableau, it is drag and drop. You can drag and drop to calculate the annual growth year over year. It's so simple. Boom, there you have it. 

They have advanced forecasting features. You can just select your dataset and select which model that you want to apply. You can use a stack, linear, exponential, or logarithmic algorithm. Tableau actually lets you drag and drop in order to see what a build is going to be like. Forecasting is rather new. It was introduced last year. 

The maps and colors and interface are all fantastic. 

The attention we receive from the partner manager would be an issue for us. The use case to have them is a bit niche. Not everyone wants a cookie-cutter analysis and it ends up being plain and not very specific. It's nice sometimes to do that. The expert analysts work on the solution once or twice or three times, and they get to a final dashboard. However, if you use a Tableau final dashboard, you can feel that it was not designed to just be used as a dashboard. Playing with that dashboard is not the end-game. It is not the final objective. 

There are two types of users. There are those that are smart and proactive and constantly discovering new cases. Those are the ones that will benefit from Tableau. The others tend to just want to use dashboards, and they won't get as much out of the experience.

The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly.

The support for vendors could be a bit better. There isn't much helpful communication happening.

My company has been working with the solution for about five years. In terms of myself, I have only worked with it for two and a half years.

We do have salespeople from Tableau that look to us and they do give information. However, I asked a month now today if they could give us a heads-up on Tableau's new features and Tableau's new pricing scheme for the new commercial people that have been entering the company. Our partner portal is not working anymore. We haven't been given much attention from the partner manager. We're not mad, don't think about that. However, it is something we need access to.

I stated that point with them. The salesperson from Tableau was sending emails to the partner manager to set up a one-hour chat with them to go over new features and in regards to the onboarding to new people. She hasn't answered. It's very volatile on their end, as they do change their personnel very often, and it's very difficult to keep track of that. They do not say, "Hey, Adrian, I am leaving the company. This person is the one that's going to be taking care of you guys. Let me schedule a meeting." That has been an issue. 

We are using the latest version of the solution at this time. 

We're partners and we're currently working with Tableau.

Those considering the solution must be aware that Tableau is not an end-to-end platform. Tableau is a data analytics platform that works perfectly well, however, it has to be given an input that is clean, that is perfect. The information has to be very structured, very clean, very perfect. Once you have that, Tableau works very, very well. However, if you think that Tableau is going to solve your data problems as a whole, you are confused because you need a middle manager to help you with that.

Some people have used the Azure components to do the data clean, and preparation and finally put it into a data warehouse or a database in an imperfect fashion. After that process is done, then you can connect Tableau. Not before. That will be a mistake. A lot of companies have suffered that due to the fact that they weren't aware they needed clean data.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten due to the weakness on the data preparation side. It is not a weakness as they do not brand themselves to be clear the data needs to be clean, however, so no one should be shocked. I love it for the most part and find it a very interesting solution.

Visualization and storytelling.

• Integrity of KPIs and business data with connection to more than one database.
• Clarity in business opportunities (through proper graphics, parameters, filters, etc.).

Sometimes, when the KPIs or metrics are kind of complex, Tableau could slowdown in the timing of the process and respond (clicks).

Six months.

No.

if you don't have specific/professional skills in database architecture, you may face trouble regarding this.

Medium. Some space for improvement.

Yes, QlikView.

Kind of complex, because the amount of data we currently manage in our company is very big. We also work with a DWH that was not properly designed to serve as source of data to a BI platform, so we have to do a lot of arrangements in our DB, tables structure, and connections.

To be careful about the specific functions and capabilities between the different license options (Server, Online, etc.). The price could be very different, so will the functional options, too.

Yes, OBIE.

To be very clear about the expectations of the BI Project, to work in a very deep and detailed way regarding the PMO, and to clearly identify the key users and sponsors.

1. Ability to do self-service
2. Drill down
3. Publishing capabilities
4. Security features of Tableau Server

1. It changed the way in which the data was consumed internally by enabling the business leaders to reduce the time for data discovery.
2. Increased the dependence on data.
3. Brought transparency for clients: They were able to look into our processes independently.
4. Improved data discovery for other data science projects.

Number of out-of-box visualizations can be increased.

Five years.

None.

Yes, but I was able to quickly deal with the issue.

Amazing. Anytime I needed help with Tableau Server and evaluation. I got sufficient support from the sales team and the support team.

I have tried multiple solutions so far, and this is by far the best and fastest.

Setting Tableau server was easy, and I was able to do the setup myself for the organisation. Tableau Desktop is super-easy to deal with.

It is definitely worth it.

I had evaluated Qlik, and for our purposes, Tableau was better suited both technically and commercially.

Just go for it, and you will not regret it.

The most valuable feature of this product is its visualizations.

It helped us deliver highly dynamic visualizations and dashboards to our clients.

It is not scalable at the enterprise level. Performance degraded massively when we scaled up backend data.

They have not developed a feature to re-use components.

We have used Tableau for over one year.

Performance degraded while scaling up the database.

Customer service is average.

SAP BusinessObjects does not offer similar visualization. Tableau’s visualizations are definitely a plus.

Initial setup was straightforward.

In-house and client site implementation. Product manuals helped achieve it.

The per-user licensing model needs to be improved, based on the type of user. Currently, all users have to pay the same price, irrespective of user type.

It is very good for local standalone databases. Enterprise-level implementation degrades performance.