Item: Tableau Desktop
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Tableau to generate daily and weekly reports for our business module to generate our key performance indicators. These insights we use in our business review meetings to understand the business performance with our target baseline. Through this, we can able to identify the areas of improvement and contribute to decision-making.

Pros and Cons

Easy to import the data from various external sources and transform them as per the business requirements.
Through Quick analysis tool bar option, we could easily calculate certain metrics and boost productivity
We use set and parameters in Tableau to generate business insights required for our process.

It has poor performance while handling large data sets and takes a longer time to complete certain tasks.
Their customer service assistance is not good which should be improve for better experience.
They have limited options to export the data from Tableau that should be improved.

Return on Investment

It saves a lot of time in calculating certain metrics which increases productivity by 25%.
It helps in analyzing data and understanding the root cause of change in numbers which saves a margin of 1% monthly.
Easy to generate visualization which increases 4 hours of productivity time at a weekly level.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

It has a better user interface compared to Microsoft Power BI. The Tableau integration process is quite simple and clear with the third-party application whereas Power BI is not easily integrated with other tools and requires a complex process to follow for integration. DAX knowledge is required to use Power BI which is not a prerequisite in Tableau.

Key Insights

Do you think Tableau Desktop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Tableau Desktop's feature set?

Yes

Did Tableau Desktop live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Tableau Desktop go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Tableau Desktop again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Likelihood to Recommend

We have to import multiple data sets from different sources and Tableau has the option to connect with them which saves a lot of time.

It has limited features available via using Tableau on a mobile application which does not allow us to perform certain task and Tableau has performance issues while using it through the mobile.

Analytics with Tableau

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop