Tableau Reviews

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.

The dashboard with graphs is this product’s most valuable feature.

Previously, we were maintaining an Excel file for graphs and tables. With Tableau, dashboards are released and we have requested employees to access the data directly from the dashboard. Also, now the process is automated, so there are no manual errors.

I feel Tableau didn't cater to each and every requirement within the team. For example, we have an SSAS cube and I don't remember that I could connect that in Tableau. Maybe in the latest version this has been taken care of.

I used it for 18 months.

I did not encounter any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Technical support was very good. 7/10.

I had been using SSRS, but the company where I worked had started using Tableau before I joined it.

It is a nice product and quick to get started, as compared to other products and technologies.

You can publish dashboards with Tableau Desktop and share them throughout the organization.

Mapping really is a very beautiful feature.

Now all managers can interact with the dashboards in real time. This will help them become aware of each KPI in the dashboards.

I would like to see them add new charts, especially gauges, which are unfortunately not currently available in Tableau.

I have been using it for more than two years.

I have not really encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues. It’s a great product.

Customer service and technical support are very good.

I also evaluated MS Power BI, but Tableau is more user-friendly, not as complicated and not buggy like MS Power BI.

Initial setup is straightforward. Just two or three clicks, and the product will be available. :)

Implementation was done in-house.

Really, it’s a great product, and very interesting. You will love the data you see when you use the product.

• Ease of creating dashboard objects
• Variety of dashboard objects
• Visual appeal
• Storyboarding
• Scalability
• Responsive design

It needs to allow for more complexity in data joins and creation. It needs to allow for designers to create objects together on one page instead of each object having its own page before then bringing them all together. They need to offer a personal (i.e., free) edition.

I have been using Tableau for six months.

Customer service and technical support are very good.

Initial setup simplicity or complexity depends on the project and the systems already in place. As for the tool itself, initial setup is straightforward.

I have implemented it in-house and with a vendor team. Business needs need to be fully understood and documented. Most of the issues have always been data related. The development team and the business HAVE to get a full understanding of what the data is, where it is stored, and how it is stored. BUSINESS RULES and a DATA DICTIONARY are a must.

Among Tableau, QlikView, and Qlik Sense, I prefer QlikView, due to its higher customization capabilities, its associative nature, and its ETL features.

Standardization in design/development is crucial. FULL communication and documentation with EVERYONE is needed. I don’t know how much time has been lost or efforts duplicated because of a lack of all this.

Ease of use, In-Memory data storage, native connectors for different DB’s and many more

We're a service based company and we most of the times get adhoc requests for implementing reporting. Since Tableau helps us create rich and meaningful visualizations in a short time frame, it’s helping us improve our business.

ETL functionality to be incorporated and Server to be improved in terms of including more features in Web Authoring, Quick steps in replacing data source connection credentials etc.

I’ve been using Tableau for 2.5 years.

• Tableau Desktop: No
• Tableau Server: Not meeting the hardware requirements
• Otherwise, deployment is smooth.

No. Just that hardware requirements need to be met.

Excellent

Excellent

I’ve used OBIEE. When compared to Tableau, visualizations are not visually appealing and I also had performance issues.

Straight Forward in both Tableau Desktop and Server.

In-house team

I cannot say a specific number, but lots of projects are using Tableau for their reporting solutions.

We’d bought 10 licenses initially and cost was discounted by $100 per license. No day-to-day cost but, we’ll need to pay maintenance of $500 per year.

Qlikview, Pentaho.

People should use Tableau because it is fast and visualizations will be rich.They can reduce the resource cost as reports can be done by a small team and does not require too much technical expertise.

• Easier to use

• Consultant engagement
• Margin analysis 
• Project break-even point (analysis of the project)
• SLE of projects

Tableau's very stable.

So far, so good.

There are two faces of Tableau. One face is Tableau partners. They are very few, and Tableau was only a subsidiary with no support and no representative in Brazil. Now they are represented. 

Really, there aren't many problems with Tableau.

ClickView. ClickView seemed easy to use, very simple, but it could not support the whole company. It couldn't be scaled.

We looked at Oracle BI. It seems that it's very easy to use, very competitive against Tableau, and it's a little bit cheaper. It seems that we have a competitive advantage going with Oracle. 

Oracle in the past had OBIEE that was hard to use, very expensive, and modeling was hard. Changing the modeling was difficult. We decided not to go with Oracle at that time. Now it's cloud-based, the TCO is very cheap. But we had already gone with Tableau.

We only it for the financial side of the company. We don't use it on other projects, for example, the production side, the IT of the company. Only for financial. I would say that the result is we have a lack of users, it's only part of company; we don't have a whole view of the business.

We use this solution as well as provide it to our clients. It's generally used for visualization and reporting. 

This solution has a very good sound analysis quotient attached to it, it's very diligent in that way. It's also simple to implement, very intuitive and provides good performance. It's easy to use.

The solution is integrated reasonably well but I'd like to see some custom connectors and more integration with different platforms. 

The solution is definitely scalable. 

Tableau provides pretty good technical support. I have been interacting with them for a long time and never faced any issues

The initial setup is very straightforward, there's nothing complex about it. 

Tableau has variable licensing models, the cost is usually based around the number of developers and users. 

I recommend this solution. We are constantly promoting Tableau. 

I rate this solution an eight out of 10.