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    Tableau Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.

    $15

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Tableau Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Tableau Viewer
    $15
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Viewer
    $35
    per month billed annually per user
    Tableau Explorer
    $42
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Explorer
    $70
    per month billed annually per user
    Tableau Creator
    $75
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Creator
    $115
    per month billed annually per user
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    Tableau Cloud
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    We formally used Microsoft Power BI as our reporting software throughout our organization. I believe Tableau Cloud is a step above Power BI and is our preferred program. The end reports are look cleaner and are easier to work with than Power BI. There are more options and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau CLoud is much more user friendly and easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau Cloud offers easier ways to make the content browsable by users. It also offers more flexible ways to set up self-service governance. Standard filtering functionalities are easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    It seems more robust then the other platforms. There is a lot you can do from merging many different data sets together by joining them at like points, to creating visualizations of the data, or by showcasing some important data to any number of people within your organization. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau has a way easier Intuitive UI compare to Power BI or Amplitude. AMplitude is great since anyone could create their own dashboard, but building it it's a different thing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    To unite all the projects
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    In my opinion, while Microsoft Power BI is a bit easier to build reports and dashboards with in part to its shared traits and connectivity with other Microsoft products, Tableau Online allows for a greater depth of customization, data sourcing, and most of all the sharing of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Google Analytics is better for ad-hoc reporting but it's easier to create a uniform, standardized portfolio of reports in Tableau Online. We still use Google Analytics from time to time for quicker data requests.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Compared to SPSS, the report visualization and output far exceeds what SPSS offers, as well as R. We typically find that while there is a bit of a steep learning curve to get the formulas and modelling correct, once done, it's easy to maintain and adjust as needed to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Googles dashboard suite is very user-friendly and anyone can edit and make changes with very little knowledge or practice. But nothing I’ve worked with compares to the customization and multi streams of data in a user-friendly package like tableau does. It’s a really cool piece …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Prior to Tableau [Online], we were using complicated excel formulas and reports that were prone to break or were not easy to format. We used a few free tools before moving forward with Tableau. The free tools also had limitations but we found that the reports, ease of use …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    We selected Tableau Online as it was more easy to integrate it with our SaaS platform and get going in no time. It is much more intuitive, easy, and quick to create dashboards using Tableau than other competitors. Also the pricing provided by Tableau to us was very competitive …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    I do like to still use Google Analytics for certain things, because its faster to do it in Google Analytics rather than build the report I need in Tableau. While it's helpful, we just don't have the bandwidth as an organization to be able to create every report we would need on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    • Breadth of services offered is good with Tableau Online
    • Tableau Online offers advanced analytics and visualisations with easy implementation
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau Online provides better data visualizations (especially when comparing out of the box visualizations that are available) than MS Power BI and historically we have connected more of our data sources to Tableau vs. other platforms like Google Analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Microsoft Dynamics is the only other product I have interacted with that is similar to Tableau Online. I receive reports from Microsoft Dynamics on a weekly basis. I receive really valuable statistics that help me realize how I am interacting through email. Dynamics send me …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    [My selection was more determined] by the legacy files from the previous data scientists who build the dashboard with Tableau rather than I decided to choose Tableau from all other options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau provides more robust system to perform data analytics as compared to the alternatives like Power BI and Qlik. Moreover, Tableaus is super simple to use and is very reliable in terms of its connection with databases. The ability to manipulate data is another big reason …
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    We used to use an internal tracking platform, and it wasn't nearly as reliable or accurate as Tableau Online. Tableau Online has way more functionality and is able to report on so many more metrics that our old platform was unable to.
    Incentivized
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    There are lots of excellent products are available in market for data analysis like SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, etc. I found other products are specific to their tools like SAP BusinessObjects suits great with SAP Products …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Tableau Cloud
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.656 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.774 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.663 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.574 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.371 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.147 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.672 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.668 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.567 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.655 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.559 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers6.738 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.267 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.366 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.857 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.26 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.659 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.87 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.754 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.457 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.744 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.851 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    REST API8.036 Ratings
    Javascript API7.534 Ratings
    iFrames6.833 Ratings
    Java API5.729 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.735 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.232 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Tableau Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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    Pros
    Tableau
    • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
    • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
    • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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    Cons
    Tableau
    • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
    • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
    • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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    Usability
    Tableau
    Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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    Support Rating
    Tableau
    I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    Tableau
    • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
    • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
    • Data can be shared across many different device types
    • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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