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Tableau Desktop

Score8.5 out of 10

2,334 Reviews and Ratings

What is Tableau Desktop?

Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.

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Tableau Desktop Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Tableau Desktop has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

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

    Category average: 8.7

  • 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

  • Multi-User Support (named login)

    Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

    In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Themeable User Interface (UI)

    A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it

    Category average: 7.4

  • iFrames

    An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website

    Category average: 7.7

Who Buys & Uses Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop Reviews

What users are saying about Tableau Desktop.
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Pros

  • Robust connectivity to diverse data sources (relational, cloud, flat files)
  • Effective data visualization options for various reporting needs
  • Creation of interactive and manageable dashboards

Cons

  • Performance issues and slow loading times with large datasets
  • High cost and complex licensing structure
  • Difficulty understanding complex calculations and terminology

Tableau Desktop will tell the story your data has been screaming in a consumable manner

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Professional Services (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company does consulting work for various clients where we customize Tableau Desktop dashboards for them to provide data visualization and analytics (BI/AI) capability

Pros

  • Connect to multitude of data sources
  • Provide a wealth of visualization options
  • Very easy to use interface that’s easy to adapt to and learn
  • Data analytics provide real business knowledge and translate to value

Cons

  • Filters could be added at the data source level
  • Allowing extracts to be used instead of live connections in case live connections are unstable
  • Eliminate unused fields from showing in an easier manner

Return on Investment

  • The value we have been able to create for customers using Tableau Desktop has helped us establish our reputation, providing tons of value to our customers via the leverage of visualization and data analytics made possible by the tool
  • We use Tableau Desktop internally to measure all kinds of business areas, and are making business decisions based on what can easily be seen (and used to be hidden) on our Tableau Desktop dashboards

Usability

Alternatives Considered

QlikView and Alteryx Intelligence Suite

Other Software Used

Smartsheet, BigTime Software, Email to PDF for Outlook

Tableau the master data visualization tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in market intelligence and Tableau has solved our problem of data visualization. We use it to create diverse understanding of available data and generate clear view of our sales numbers. It helps us create dashboards to avoid rework on slides and allows us to connect different databases to prepare actionable view of data.

Pros

  • Data visualization
  • Dashboards
  • Forecasting
  • Combine mutiple data

Cons

  • User friendly interface
  • Leas loading time
  • Less license fee

Return on Investment

  • Very expensive license fee
  • Training requirements
  • Not so good after sales support

Usability

Tableau Desktop A Great Analytic Tool.

Incentivized
Manidipa KunduView profile
Data Analyst in Quality Assurance at Gfactors (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I Mainly use Tableau Desktop for my data analysis work. It can connect with various data sources like excel, text files, relational data bases, cloud based data sources like salesforce, google analytics etc. Tableau Desktop helps to create dashboards, predictive modelling, functional data analysis in my profession. I think it has high scope in near future since its continuously building and updating the software with modern days requirements.

Pros

  • It helps with data visualization with interactive dashboards really well.
  • It features help with time series analysis which is very fast to explore pattern.
  • Tableau Desktop can be adapt to various industry application like sales, finance, healthcare domain etc.

Cons

  • It has less features for advance statistical analysis.
  • Tableau Desktop is clunky when it connects with python or R via scripts.
  • Its not user friendly when comes to large data file loading, it can be slow with large data set.

Return on Investment

  • It has made our analytics work faster. our productivity has increased.
  • Tableau Desktop is not cheap.
  • non technical users has high learning curve

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

MySQL, Microsoft Teams, Class for Zoom

Tableau user review

Jannika RasiView profile
Senior Business Analyst in Product Management at Schibsted Marketplaces (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Tableau Desktop every day and daily basis. I built business and analytics dashboards and analysis with the tool. It visualises my analysis and allows users to help themself for access data. Scope is large, data needs are cross country and and to end. We use ready made sources but also process data straight in Tableau.

Pros

  • Dashboards
  • Simple connections to many sources
  • Visulaisations

Cons

  • When joining keys I would like to see how good is the join
  • labels could have more options in charts
  • sorting does not always work in table charts

Return on Investment

  • Leading with data
  • product development improvement
  • helping ppl avoid manual work

Usability

Alternatives Considered

QlikView and Looker Studio

Other Software Used

Amplitude Analytics, Snowflake, Slack

A Powerful Tool for Visualization and predictive analysis

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Tableau to analyze the asset data of our clients to manage the inventory lifecycles and monitor hardware and software usage. Tableau helps in generating reports with live data and has improved decision making. I mainly have to make sure that the assets are covered and user we assign permission has the right one which can be identified with its interactive dashboards.

Pros

  • It has drag and drop feature which makes it easy to create visuals
  • The dashboard is very interactive and can be managed with just a few clicks.
  • Tableau can handle large datasets with ease.

Cons

  • Well, I find the data refresh configurations a little complex.
  • License can become costly for small organizations
  • Integration capabilities are very limited

Return on Investment

  • Tableau has excellent predictive analytics, ensuring all the asset coverage is renewed.
  • its automation features help in reducing the time and effort for quicker decision making
  • Massive data sets may require third-party tools to do the ETL process.

Usability

Other Software Used

Qlik Sense, monday.com, Microsoft SQL Server

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