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Tableau Cloud

Score7.9 out of 10

609 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Tableau Cloud has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 609 ratings of Tableau Cloud's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Report-Level Access Control

    Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

    Category average: 8

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Delivery to Remote Servers

    Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

    Category average: 8

  • Integration with R or other statistical packages

    Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

    Category average: 7.3

  • Java API

    A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)

    Category average: 7.8

Reviews

What users are saying about Tableau Cloud.
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With Tableau Cloud you can do almost everything

Javier CollazosView profile
Fraud Prevention , Chargeback Managment and Payments Performance at Hotelbeds (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I normally use to view and create dashboards viwing data from different sources like postgres, snowflake even excels stored in Teams....with prep builder I do the flow and ingest the data in Tableau Cloud and after that i can use this info that can be automatically updated to enrich the dashnoads that containsinfo from the databases

Pros

  • Its great visualizating data
  • calculated fields are great
  • the appreance is clean and simple

Cons

  • better ways to show the data, I mean I came from Excel and SQL and to change some details to do more similar could be great to do the things easier becuase all pepople first has been used Excel and then go an step furhter and use Tableau Cloud or Looker etc.

Return on Investment

  • I believe that 20%-25% becuase if you dont see porperly the data you can not appply propper decisions

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Snowflake, DBeaver, Microsoft Excel

Tableau Cloud for business insights

Incentivized
Hitesh GautamView profile
Cloud engineer in Information Technology at Insight (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Tableau Cloud to publish interactive dashboards that consolidate data from multiple sources, enabling teams to access real-time business insights.
Other than that it plays a pivotal role in decision making for our organization which in turn helps us organize our business ideas and assets such that our organization thrives in the market.

Pros

  • Detailed dashboards
  • Scorecards
  • Detailed KPIs

Cons

  • Mobile customization
  • Dealing with large datasets
  • Product Marketing

Return on Investment

  • Better business decisions
  • Less cash burn through insights
  • Individual employee growth through learning

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Visual Studio

Tableau Cloud - The Power House of BI

Incentivized
Kanchana Velaga
Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Tableau Cloud to build Revenue dashboards.It is very user friendly and effective to use with wide range of KPIs and charts.Its customization in color pallates and other aspects helps a lot in building many user interactive dashboards.its ability to embed into other applications stands as top notch

Pros

  • Handling Huge Datasets
  • Customized color Themes
  • Wide Range of Charts

Return on Investment

  • Improved Business Decision Making
  • Improved strong customer support with great insights
  • Saved Time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ThoughtSpot and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Sigma Computing, Microsoft Power BI

Excellent tool to publish and share your Tableau works and foster a self-service culture.

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is the "one-stop shop" for all analytical questions and reporting. The scope covers all departments like finance, people & culture, sales, marketing, customer success, customer support, and development. We are tracking financial performance, sales pipeline development, customer health metrics to reduce churn, etc. Tableau Cloud serves as the single entry point for everyone with data questions, as all the reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses are published there.

Pros

  • Self-Service.
  • Governance and differentiated permissions.
  • Easy and intuitive to use.

Cons

  • Performance of background jobs like extract refreshes.
  • Web edit functionality continuously improving, but not equal to desktop experience.
  • Limited logging and audit functionalities compared to Tableau Server.

Return on Investment

  • Enabled Product Management to make data-driven decisions on product roadmap.
  • Increased Annual Recurring Revenue.
  • Enabled data-driven churn motions.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt

Great tool to visualize data

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau allows my team and the entire company to visualize important KPIs that are key to reaching business goals.
I use Tableau every day to check performances and report them back to the different stakeholders in the company, as well as filling the forecast.
Tableau is great for visualizing time series and being able to compare YoY, QoQ, WoW or DoD, as well have having the chance to switch between rates and row numbers.

Pros

  • comparison
  • personalization
  • sync

Cons

  • heaviness of the the dashboards: when the number of data is great, the dashboard start to lag and it is getting difficult to update.

Return on Investment

  • ability to report performances in an accurate way: on a day-to-day report, Tableau allows the company to understand what my channel is brining, ROI, weak points and possible improvements
  • negative impact: granularity of data - if the dashboard needs to have a lot more data (like millions of rows) to be used to deep dive, the dash lag

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amplitude Analytics and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Amplitude Analytics, Iterable, Slack

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