Tableau Reviews

Tableau is easy to use. It provides us with faster development and deployment. It also produces impressive graphs and charts.

We make heavy use of supply chain analytics to analyze information on orders, bookings, landed costs freight analytics, partner scores, etc.

We would like to see more advanced data science capabilities like predictive analysis and advanced linear regression.

Tableau also lacks native financial functions. Also, we would like to see integration with native Hadoop and some standard reporting capabilities beyond the dashboard.

We have been using Tableau 9.3 for three years, and are currently beta testing 10.0.

We have not experienced any issues with deployment.

We have not experienced any issues with stability.

We have not experienced any issues with scalability.

I rate the technical support as excellent.

We previously used Enterprise standard.

The initial setup is simple and straightforward.

We built the implementation in house.

Pricing is costly when compared to products like Microsoft Power BI. Also, the licensing should be more general.

Go ahead and use Tableau.

I use Tableau Desktop and Server 10.4 for data visualization to measure business targets and performance, it helps the business identify strategies and solutions to meet objectives.

Our clients are so happy with the new visualisation tools. It has answered most of their questions on how to measure and improve their business performance. 

It gives us a new dimension to the way that we analyse our data.

• Parameters
• Calculations
• Dynamic filters
• LOD
• The ability to use multiple data sources. 

The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation.

If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help.    

One to three years.

We primarily use the solution for analytics purposes. 

The preparation of data is very easy.

The ease of presenting findings is very helpful.

Overall, the solution is very user-friendly.

It's very easy for end-users to navigate the solution.

There are a lot of very useful features within the product.

They've recently adjusted their pricing model and we find it to be much more reasonable. 

There are new AI functionalities on offer. However, I still need to fully test them and therefore haven't used them to their full potential just yet.

When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography.

The company that I am currently working with has been using the solution for about a decade - around ten years or so. They've had a lot of time to get to know it. 

The pricing is pretty good. Previously, we found the pricing to be higher than the competition, however, they've adjusted it recently and it's much more competitive. We now find it to be quite reasonable. 

I'm a consultant and I work with a direct reseller. 

I don't work on the tool myself, however, we propose the tool to be implemented in other departments.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been pretty satisfied with its overall capabilities.

As a consultant and solutions developer for an integrator company, I use Tableau for the construction of Control Dashboards and BI applications.  

• Enhanced application development
• Less time spent with end users
• Better interaction with end users
• Better application quality

• Easy of use
• Easy to learn
• Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations
• Wide integration with BI industry

Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc.

Three to five years.

• Geo charts
• Dashboards
• Data connections

Our decision-making process has been streamlined.

Real-time interactions need more attention. Predictive analytics capability should be increased.

I have been using it for 1.5 years.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

I rate the level of customer service and technical support on the high side.

Initial setup was straightforward.

We implemented it. I prefer in house, as it is the best.

It’s about each and every individual and organization.

Fantastic visualizations & dashboarding capability, ease of use for business users.

It is meant as a visualization tool agreed, but some basic ETL functionality will do a world of good. Also, enterprise collaboration and embedded analytics (like Spotfire) would be great

3 years

Yes, hierarchies and cube definitions are not retained while connecting to an OLAP DB.

Yes, certain features cause Tableau to hang repeatedly - for example, editing the data source to point to another extract. Certain issues with data blending exist as well.

Lots of care including design/caching required to ensure quick reports while handling large amounts of data.

Good, most times any technical queries I have are addressed by the community posts itself - but there a number of easy to implement and tremendously useful functionalities included in the Ideas page that are yet to be implemented.

Easy as pie.

QlikView/Microstrategy

Visualization and user friendly. Visualization: How you sell your ideas or your message, for example, integrate D3.js graphs.

Traditionally bars or line graphs are useful, but they make a difference when presenting your important ideas. The vision of Business Intelligence creates a rupture between old-school (like IBM, Oracle, etc) and new guys (Tableau, TIBCO, and SAP Lumira) and new forms to work with: structured and unstructured data.

Interaction between information/data and final user.

Preparation and consolidation of data. Many organizations needs prepare data, changes formats or consolidate sources. ETL jobs waste a lot time and sometimes is unproductive.

Two years in my company.

No.

No.

An eight out of 10.

Excel.

Straightforward, because of the quality and consistency of data.

It's transparent; no hidden costs.

Yes, IBM Cognos, BusinessObjects, SAS, TIBCO, and Qlik.

Make your decision based on your own culture, quality of data, and champion for the project.