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What is Tableau Cloud?
Tableau 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.
Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted solution, meaning that users won't have to configure servers, manage software upgrades, or scale hardware capacity. According to the vendor, Tableau Cloud is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. The product can support the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted solution, meaning that users won't have to configure servers, manage software upgrades, or scale hardware capacity. According to the vendor, Tableau Cloud is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. The product can support the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
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Tableau 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.
Reviewers rate REST API and Javascript API and Themeable User Interface (UI) highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of Tableau Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Tableau Online has become an essential tool for organizations across various departments, providing valuable data analysis and visualization capabilities. Users from the Digital Marketing department rely on Tableau Online to accurately track lead and sale counts, as well as credit pass reports. By analyzing campaign performance and identifying areas for improvement, users are able to focus their time effectively and make data-driven decisions. The software also integrates seamlessly with web analysis tools, allowing for incident and defect analysis within the organization.
Tableau Online's strength lies in its ability to provide excellent KPI graphics and executive summaries, making it a valuable tool for data visualization and analysis. Users can easily customize reports to meet their specific needs, and the software also offers live data visualizations, ensuring that users always have access to up-to-date information. Vivint, for example, utilizes Tableau as a platform to centralize lead, sale, and install data, creating custom dashboards that display conversion rates and call center metrics.
Another key use case for Tableau Online is generating daily, monthly, and annual reports in the analytics department. The software provides powerful data insights that help drive business decisions. It is particularly useful for data integration with other software systems, serving as a bridge between data teams and business/product teams by presenting data in ways that stakeholders can understand and use effectively.
Sales representatives also benefit from Tableau Online as they can track their performance and commission through the software. It acts as the front-end to the in-house sales commission system. Additionally, Tableau Online promotes collaboration within organizations by facilitating data sharing and visualization.
The analytics and reporting team extensively uses Tableau Online for automated sharing of reports across various verticals. Similarly, partners of Tableau Software leverage this tool to advise customers on usage, implementation, and support.
Tableau Online has revolutionized product launches by providing dynamic online visualizations that were not possible with traditional presentation tools like PowerPoint. It enables different departments to present complex reporting in a visually pleasing and easy-to-understand manner.
In addition to marketing and sales, Tableau Online finds applications in HR, procurement, trade, security, and other business areas. It helps track the impact of projects, investigate whether design goals are being met, and provides valuable business intelligence through visualizations and exploration of key metrics.
Overall, Tableau Online is a versatile tool that addresses a wide range of business problems and enables organizations to make informed decisions based on data insights.
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July 16, 2023
Tableau Online - decent tool
We use Tableau Online to perform quarterly model performance monitoring reports. It is commonly used in my department and presumedly being wildly used across the entire organization. The business problem that the tool address is the visualization with large data set. It provides interactive graphs with various dashboards and visualization options to select.
- Quick
- Interactive
- Reliable
- Expensive
- Unique interface
May 14, 2021
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
Tableau [Online] is being used across a big part of our organization, especially on the revenue and marketing side. Tableau has been integrated with our data warehouse as well as a variety of other data sources. It allows us to visualize big and complex datasets in a way that makes the data easy to understand for all users. The power of Tableau is to have dashboards and charts that help users understand the story behind the numbers, even when they are less familiar with the original dataset.
- Visualize complex information in an easy way
- Allowing publishers/users to present data amongst multiple different dimensions
- Having integrations with underlying datasets that allows for scheduled refreshes of the data
- Reduce barrier of entry for new users i.e. make it more intuitive for new users to join Tableau as a publisher
- Mobile version is not as easy to navigate at the online/desktop version
- Ad-hoc reporting
April 29, 2021
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
Tableau [Online] is primarily used to create, publish and share the reports and dashboards across the organization. Tableau Online is used by the different functions in the organization to access the reports relevant to them. Tableau Online helps get rid to excel based dashboards and reports which at times were not portable and also now the reports and dashboards are updated as soon as the new information is available. Also, it is very convenient to manage who can view or edit each workbook which was not possible with excel based reports.
- 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.
- Mobile experience is not at par with the desktop experience. The functionality set is limited and the UX is not that great. So this needs to be improved in leaps and bounds.
- It's unintuitive to create dashboards for a new user. There is a long learning curve in order to figure out how to get different things done with Tableau. So the learning curve is long as of now.
- Tableau Online still doesn't get the entire gamut of Tableau Desktop features. With the world moving towards cloud, the entire feature set has to be present in Tableau online as well.
April 28, 2021
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
I work in HR and I use Tableau Online to gather data analytics across multiple different functions under the HR umbrella. I use it primarily to track KPI measures we've established as well as weekly/monthly reporting of data that's exported primarily from our HRIS platform, but also from other platforms which support the HR functions. What Tableau has done a great job at is being able to import this data across multiple systems and give us a fantastic user experience in terms of the reporting outputs and automation of reports.
- user interface with reporting outputs are easy to understand and navigate
- online dashboards are incredibly helpful to provide 'snapshot' data
- reporting automation for building custom reports in PPTX
- Data analytics and statistical modeling are fantastic
- 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
October 17, 2019
Great if the investment and know-how is there!
Tableau Online is the bridge between our data teams and the business and product teams. It is our primary visualization tool that sits on top of our data sources which we consider our sources of truth. The primary way it adds value is giving us a lot of tools to present different types of data in ways that various type of business stakeholders can best understand and use it. We also use it as the front-end to our in-house sales commission system. Sales reps log in to Tableau Online and can track their performance and commission.
- It has been very easy for us to connect various data sources to Tableau Online, such as data from Treasure Data, Google Sheets, Redshift, and custom CSVs.
- Tableau Online's interface is easy to use as a bridge between data teams and other stakeholders who primarily consume data insights and reporting. It is easy to publish dashboards that users can log on to and see and interact with.
- Tableau, generally speaking, has calculations and other types of data manipulations available which can scale with your own business questions' complexity. It has been great to learn more about Tableau's functionality and find out that we can answer more complex questions we weren't able to answer before by using things they have available such as level of detail functions, order of operation filtering, and data prep.
- I believe being a skilled creator and an adept user in Tableau Online is not straightforward. It takes time and there is a learning curve. I have personally been to three Tableau conferences and felt like I needed a year of owning our company's Tableau creator license to feel comfortable and deliver powerful insight for our company.
- The UI available to edit dashboards could improve to be more friendly and modern. It sometimes feels like you are operating in a very rigid environment when editing dashboards in Tableau Online.
- The options to organize a company's dashboards and assign permissions are also not straightforward and the solutions I am aware of leave me wishing there was more.
February 04, 2019
A positive review of Tableau Online
We have started to use this software to better report business analytical data that we need to make decisions in the business. It is being used by different departments in the company. It also helps with data visualization. We have better access to the data that we need to make the decisions we need to make.
- Data Visualization.
- Drill down into the data.
- Data exporting.
- You need to be decently technical to make reports.
- The average user can view reports but not create them.
- It would be nice if the user could look at different views without needing to publish so many different reports.
January 17, 2018
Get what you pay for
We are using Tableau to visualise trends in our time-series datasets to track the impact of our projects. The product is mostly being used by our Experience Design team to investigate whether or not various projects are reaching their design goals. In the past, we made assumptions about the effectiveness of our products and services; however with Tableu and more data-driven approaches we can drill down on our datasets to test these assumptions. The resulting visualisations can be used to demonstrate project status, impact goals, and campaign interventions to key stakeholders.
- Handles time-series data extremely well, so that correlations can be drawn from different events
- Well-suited for visualising queries from data warehouses such as AWS RedShift
- Attractive, slick visualisations
- Would be nice to see better support for cleaning and consolidating heterogeneous data sources
- It is possible to restrict access to a data table on a per-record (row) basis, but not possible to restrict access to data on a per-column basis
- Steep learning curve for people who aren't from a data science background
December 29, 2017
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Score 5 out of 10
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Tableau Online was used to share analytics about finance/banking products with customers. This was used by the selected group in the organization to increase the level of engagement for the sales department for selling the product. This was usually used to address the complex pricing grids and hidden charges for personal loans, mortgages etc., with the competitors to make the pricing model as easy to understand as possible for better marketing the products.
- Tableau Online handle the security areas very well for Operational security, User security, Data security, Network security and Application security.
- Tableau Online infrastructure performs regular maintenance to ensure system stability, security, and performance. The data centers are equipped with fire suppression and other monitoring systems designed to detect environmental issues and respond to them before they cause an outage.
- Tableau Online backup media is encrypted and always maintained in a secured facility. Disk-based backups are stored in secured data center facilities. Backups made to external backup providers are encrypted in transit and in storage. Only approved system administrators have access to backups.
- Data blending has some limitations regarding non-additive aggregates such as COUNTD, MEDIAN, and RAWSQLAGG. Non-additive aggregates are aggregate functions that produce results that cannot be aggregated along a dimension. Instead, the values have to be calculated individually.
- Tableau only shows the values that are represented in your data. If your data does not contain the complete range of values, the missing values will not be shown. For example, Sales Data for January to July and November through December. If there was no data recorded for August to November and if a line chart is created in Tableau, the missing months will not be shown. An option is to show the missing months to make it clear that there was no data recorded during that time.
- Null values can sometimes appear in place of the data you want in the view when you use data blending.
Tableau is used in many different departments throughout my organization. It is used in every department from Sales and Engineering to Accounting and Production. Tableau is used to analyze trends in large amounts of data and reveal the patterns locked into the data. It also excels at building dashboards that are able to provide management and other users with dynamic easy to understand visuals.
- Easy to use and set up
- Scales well within a growing organization
- Works well with mobile or cloud based platforms
- Easy to customize access for a variety of users
- Customizing a particular look can be challenging
- Has a bit of a learning curve