Tableau Prep

Tableau Prep

29 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Tableau Prep	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a…	$15 per month billed annually per user

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Tableau Prep

Editions & Modules

Viewer: $15
per month billed annually per user
Explorer: $42
per month billed annually per user
Creator: $70
per month billed annually per user

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Pricing Offerings
Tableau Prep
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Tableau Prep
Considered Both Products	Tableau Prep Verified User Analyst Chose Tableau Prep Tableau Prep is covered in our license whereas Alteryx required additional fees and a separate license. Tableau Prep is similar to Tableau Desktop which a lot of our team is comfortable with so it wasn't difficult to get a feel for Tableau Prep. However, Alteryx would have been … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Tableau Prep Selected Tableau Prep because it came with out Tableau license. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Tableau Prep We use both Tableau Prep and Alteryx and, although Tableau Prep integrates better with Tableau Desktop, I find that more often then not I open up Alteryx to do most of my data prep prior to bringing my data into analysis as it is just so much more robust. Not that this makes Tab… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Tableau Prep Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were … Incentivized Helpful? Todd Coble Financial Analyst Chose Tableau Prep Tabluea prep was much better than Spotfire for syncing data. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Raw data Pro Integrates perfectly Pro Sync data
Top Cons	Minus Not as robust Minus Output options Minus Sql code

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User Ratings
	Tableau Prep
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	5.3 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Tableau Prep
Likelihood to Recommend	Tableau If your data sets are coming in without much stewardship then Tableau Prep can help to clean the data before you start trying to create visualizations for your end users. You will save a lot of time this way - rather than seeing problems once you are creating dashboards. If you don't have large data sets or your data is relatively simple, then Tableau Prep may not be needed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Tableau Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse Point out situations that might be erroneous Show the distribution of raw data figures Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Tableau Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation) Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query More types of visuals Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Tableau It is a valuable tool for generating and cleaning files for multiple purposes. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Tableau It works well and is user friendly for the basics but needs more options for bring in data (using SQL queries for example) and export format options. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Tableau I have not really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Tableau Live connections to cloud services (Google Sheets for example) and cloud hosted databases (cloud hosted SIS for example) for scheduled flows are not supported Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Tableau Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were working with the same data. The extracts produced by Prep allow several workbooks to be working from the same data set-up without any additional work, saving time and stress. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Tableau Quicker data sets for online reports More efficient data cleaning Ad Hoc reports Costly if using data management to schedule data pull and cleaning (priced per viewer accounts not creator accounts) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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