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December 04, 2020
Tableau Desktop is being used by our entire department across multiple agencies. It is our standard enterprise data analytics solution. We have so many silo solutions within our department for data analytics and business intelligence. Based on the department OCIO's evaluation, Tableau Desktop dashboards became the standard for the department and all agencies will migrate their dashboards to Tableau Desktop progressively.
- Ease of use
- Nice visualizations
- Strong in geospatial capabilities
- Flexible to deploy
- Performance in large datasets
- Needs more advanced analytics capability
- Needs adaptors for migration from other BI platforms
December 28, 2020
Tableau Desktop is being used across the organization, and it's specifically being used to give the insights to the sales representatives so they can target customers effectively and create revenue for the organization. Our team made dashboards on the renewal opportunities and the sales team focused on specific customers by following the dashboard and making it their tool for daily usage.
- Extremely easy to use
- Great options for charts
- Great color palette and filtering capabilities
- Easy to use on mobile
- Handling big data
- Less expensive
- Tableau University for teaching new users
Tableau desktop is widely used in my organization for daily reports visualization and forecasting. It has helped in better understanding of data with graphics and charts. It enables better understanding of data.
- Excellent Graphical representation of data.
- Easy and simple to use.
- Variety of charts types.
- Desktop version should have option to save file in local disk.
- More variety of charts.
- Support.
The whole organization is using Tableau as a front end. We are trying to have updated insights to accelerate decisions. It is no longer enough nor it is feasible in the long term to have people working constantly on excel graphics and PowerPoint presentations. Tableau is a good way to have reliable insights and set the work efforts where they should be.
- Consolidate data
- Gives a variety of graphs to choose from
- Provide executive views
- Connectivity with SharePoint documents and other enterprise software
- Increase drag and drop functionality
Tableau Desktop is being used across the organization for data analytics and visualization. In my area, we use Tableau Desktop to track program and project progress, resource utilization, demand and supply, estimation, and forecasting. I've been using Tableau Desktop for four years, and it helps me a lot in improving the efficiency of the team and productivity and to keep an eye on resource demand. What I like about Tableau Desktop are its frequent updates based on user feedback and great community support for query resolution and learning. You can connect almost every data source with it, be it .csv, flat file, SQL, cloud platform, or another source. Tableau Desktop provides great flexibility of joins and blending of data and easy-to-create visualization.
- Data connection
- Dataset joining and blending
- Visualization
- Storytelling
- Dashboarding
- Calculation feature
- Filters
- Formating
We used Tableau to analyze billing and pushed through several million dollars that were stuck because it wasn't visible to management until I created the Viz. We also analyzed quality and security.
- Instantly changes views of data to slice and dice depending on need.
- Map feature is fantastic.
- Tableau is very customizable, which means that a lot of simple analytics tools have to be built from scratch.
- Importing data is not always intuitive to a lay person like me.
January 24, 2020
I use Tableau Desktop to organize data from student feedback surveys. We have recently implemented a lot of student feedback and need a centralized system to analyze it. Tableau Desktop helps a lot, and I have led the charge in getting it up and running and teaching other teachers to use it.
- Visual charts are very clear
- Easy to use
- It has worked great I have nothing negative to say about Tableau Desktop.
December 09, 2019
We are transitioning all of the data from my department into Tableau so that it can be stored all in one place and visualized. I work for a university IT department that runs a helpline. Our organization collects data on the individuals that call for help. I am able to use Tableau to analyze the caller demographic data. In doing this I am able to get data-driven answers to questions like "what areas are most in need?", "are there certain populations that seem to be disproportionately impacted by our IT rollouts?", and "are there any trends in this caller data that would suggest we focus our resources on specific issues?".
- Love the interface. It's very smooth and easy to connect multiple numbers of data points
- Provided a lot of self-learning tutorials which are easy to follow
- You can display info in different ways (categorical versus numerical)
- User friendly and has clean display
- Sometimes takes a while to refresh
- A bit expensive
- Pullind data, particularly if you are not familiar with SQL or other query languages, can be a bit challenging
December 09, 2019
Substantiated training is required to use Tableau Desktop, so most of the incoming associates working with our company have already a well-versed background or at least some certification recognized by the Tableau Desktop enterprise. Tableau Desktop is second only to Windows and consists of enormity in the amount of data connections and visualizations. We use this platform to pose as a processing engine to work with mega data bits to produce displays using queries of non-coded language.
- Pull-down menus and/or split commands for sorting and data manipulation.
- Great pricing for the desktop version, online is still less preferable though.
- Automatically connects .csv files instead of a browser.
- Four-phase implementation training in order to understand all the processes to ensure literacy of the software could facilitate a better process.
- To match queries it takes a lot of effort in data manipulation.
- Courses and annual fees leave a strenuous bill burden on those who are beginning to implement the quota into their startup.
October 07, 2019
Seventy-five percent of our department uses Tableau Desktop, for a range of use cases, including the joining of related data sets for specialized reporting purposes, and also for the analysis of assessments data. Tableau allows us to easily merge and process large datasets without needing to be SQL experts, and to produce compelling and fluent data visualizations.
- Tableau's suite of powerful data visualization tools allows users to create static and interactive dashboards with the ease of a drag-and-drop interface. It can help users avoid common data visualization pitfalls.
- Tableau handily deals with millions of rows of data, from various data sources, including spreadsheets and SQL databases. This allows users to integrate disparate data sources that may have been difficult to connect otherwise.
- Tableau's interface allows data analysts of all experience levels to quickly begin producing compelling and useful analysis and visualizations. As a user gains experience, Tableau's feature set continues to keep pace.
- Pricing at scale is inordinately expensive. One must pay for the best, it seems, but better large-volume pricing would be appreciated!
- When assembling a worksheet, there is only limited room for columns, and when that capacity is exceeded, columns are auto-collapsed into merged placeholders, which cannot be easily inspected.
- Tableau is so feature-rich that it can feel impossible to master. While the vendor does provide training outreach, an emphasis on interactive tool-tips and other forms of "hands-on" training would be a welcome addition to the application.
September 13, 2019
Tableau Desktop is one of the primary business Intelligence tools we use at my organization. We have an enterprise license of Tableau server (8 core) that runs in the AWS Cloud. We have over 100 licenses of Tableau desktop and use it to help visualize and make data easier to consume. While it is used for some ad-hoc analysis, I would say it is used to deliver dashboards to employees, faculty, administrators who don't have a lot of reporting or SQL experience. Meanwhile, we also use tableau public to showcase our official data. These dashboards are built with Tableau Desktop as well.
- Visualization of data.
- Easily connects to local or a variety of data sources or APIs.
- Short learning curve to come up to speed.
- The pricing model has been tricky at times.
- Tableau corporation doesn't do a great job with the inventory of those who own licenses.
- Performance has been an issue at times.
August 09, 2019
Tableau has increased our business and productivity exponentially. Tableau helps to make data-driven decisions with confidence, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights more frequently. It is the backbone of our analytics department and it is used by us throughout the analytical life-cycle from data preparation to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward. Because of it, we are able to call out patterns and anomalies and it has helped us enormously in fraud detection as we will be recognizing the trends in the data which we use to feed the tool.
- Tableau offers incredible data visualization tools and the ability to parse massive data-sets in a very limited time. Its plethora of different chart formats and tools allow you to show data almost any way, making it easy to adapt visualizations to differing needs and tastes.
- Tableau is great for creating a combined dashboard with multiple databases as the source. This is one of the main features that the Tableau can connect to almost any data source and import the data easily and quickly.
- The support for natural language query is invaluable. It helps people of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights because they don't have to learn any particular language to get on-board with it.
- The charts and graphics that tableau makes are easy for even nonanalytical people to understand, ideal for end-users of information as well.
- When we are importing data from multiple sources and the data is huge, it sometimes tends to lag and have also crashed sometimes.
- Tableau Desktop lacks the basic functionality of cleaning and prepping the data to be imported in Tableau Desktop. This is one of the major features which it lacks, you need additional support from Tableau to get these things added.
- It has the annoying habit that saved database connections must be re-authenticated every time you open the program, which is a complete waste of time and effort to do it, again and again, each time.
October 03, 2019
We are a boutique consulting firm with the ability to choose what BI platform we consult with. Tableau remains the industry standard BI/Data Visualization Tool for business. It remains as our tool of choice for our customers and our internal reporting.
We have used it to solve all kinds of problems across the data value chain, from data exploration, automation of reports and providing insights.
We have used it to solve all kinds of problems across the data value chain, from data exploration, automation of reports and providing insights.
- Lots of Data Connections
- Easy Visualizations
- Well supported in the community
- Flexible tool - many ways to do things.
- Error messaging is ambiguous
- Confusing interface - many ways to do the same thing
- Limited Crosstabs
- Dashboard layouts don't allow cutting and pasting of objects
- Despite what they try to demonstrate, big datasets still don't perform as quickly as you might expect them to
August 02, 2019
Tableau Desktop is being used by our team for social media and raw data visualization. It addresses the problem of being able to visualize raw data from social channels to which we don't have the API access to integrate with our existing social media tools. It addresses the problems of being able to house and visualize data from all platforms in one place.
- Dynamic visualization.
- Easy data entry.
- Easy data correction/cleaning/modification.
- Steep learning curve.
- Not very user friendly to navigate.
October 23, 2019
Tableau Desktop is used at our organization by most of our analysts, who then publish the reports to Tableau Server for distribution to everyone else in the organization to consume the information. This enables our analysts, myself included, to use Tableau Desktop to create helpful insights which can then be used by anyone at any technical level.
- Allows for complex dashboards to be made and then presented to less-technical audiences
- Stories help highlight important information in the information, allowing a presentation to stand on its own without having to be explained in person
- Recommends different visualizations based on the type of data inputted
- Very steep learning curve for those who haven't used it previously.
- Because it's a powerful tool, getting it to do simple things can be extremely difficult.
- A jack-of-all-trades solution, sometimes it's hard to find or create industry-specific visualizations, such as NPS gauges.
September 19, 2019
I work for a Data Sciences organization which provides consulting and corporate training in data science and visualization, and since Tableau is my bread and butter for visualization, either to understand my data or train people on the nuances of data. It is generally used across the organization although some people prefer using R and Python libraries in pockets.
- Easy to import data from multiple sources
- Easy to drag and drop and create various dimension
- Easy to build a storyboard
- A simple knowledgebank to get people started is essential.
- The pricing could be slightly lower for individual users
- The calculated fields could be made simpler
September 18, 2019
It is being used to create analytics for distribution and use throughout the supply chain organization.
We have creators that publish to the server which other users leverage. That solves the business problem of sharing spreadsheets and everyone having a consistent view of the information.
We have creators that publish to the server which other users leverage. That solves the business problem of sharing spreadsheets and everyone having a consistent view of the information.
- Easy to use
- Consistent analytics
- Presentation ready
- CTE for custom SQL
- Comments for users to add enhancement requests
- JIRA style project management of a workbook
September 13, 2019
Tableau was purchased on the recommendation of a SaaS provider to get analytic data from their product. The IT Dept currently is the only user of Tableau and processes all the data. Over two years our organization has used Tableau to go from zero analytic data to a significant amount for our size. Its use has grown far beyond the initial single SaaS tool we bought it to use with.
- Easy to learn.
- Analyzes your data and recommends potential reports.
- User-friendly interface.
- Expensive compared to other tools.
- Hooking into data beyond CSV can get complicated.
- Entire Tableau ecosystem (Desktop, Server, etc) is overly complicated.
October 23, 2019
[It's] Used across entire organization to create dashboards to reflect clinical trials' statistical data and progress.
- Create dashboards
- Live link to data sources
- Flexibility
- Row level security
- Calculated fields
September 16, 2019
We use Tableau Desktop mainly for creating dashboards that are live and easy to refresh when required. It helps in monitoring KPIs of our business that may go up or down on a daily bases. We also use Tableau Desktop for ad hoc analysis where we want to look at any trends & patterns that may be helpful to provide insights for the broader audience.
- Very user friendly, even a beginner would not have problem in understanding how to use it.
- Various types of charts are available.
- Sharing the dashboards is easy.
- Creating a dashboard is pretty easy and only Tableau has storytelling options which have helped me in my presentations.
- Raw data downloading behind the dashboard - The format of the data that we download would be in a very confusing format.
- Format matching is pretty much manual for various charts that we create.
- Data cleaning, wrangling & formatting has a lot of room for improvement.
- Alerting system from the dashboard is not available yet.
June 20, 2019
Currently my organization is using Tableau Desktop to perform most if not all of our in-house analytics, it not only speeds up the process of our in house analytics but it also gives us plenty of options to customize and filter our reports. We also use Tableau as a consulting tool with our clients to help answer questions they have about their own business key performance indicators.
- Easy to use
- Plenty of Customization options
- Can be quick to pick up for average users
- Supports some complex analytics
- Integrates well with other software
- expensive
- does require some workarounds to solve sometimes simple analytics
- training for product is also very expensive
July 17, 2019
In our company, we use this department-wide. The teams that work on data visualization use this product. The work on this tool is client specific, some teams use this to understand the data, some teams use it for making the good charts for presenting the data. The teams that are mainly using this tool are more into analytics.
- It creates good dashboards.
- Selecting the fields and metrics is quite easy. We can create the formulas for presenting any variable.
- We can use this tool with R studio and SQL, which I think is the major power of this tool.
- We can process huge data in a very limited time.
- Output delivery of charts is also very efficient. For example, we can take the PDF of the charts, which is good, from other tools.
- More statistical functions need to be introduced in it.
- We can not clean the data through this tool.
- While taking the data from multiple sources, it hangs sometimes which sometimes crashes the whole system.
It was used by our department. And we mainly use it to build web-based reports, which can be used interactively by the senior management team.
- User-friendly interface.
- Good IT support and lots of resources.
- Can publish reports to a server.
- Quite expensive.
- Limited functions in calculations.
- Not support embedded SQL.
- Not compatible well with Microsoft’s products.
May 28, 2019
We use Tableau as a tool to visualize analytics in many industries and search for insights. Data sources usually include SQL and CSV. We also use the ability to build white label solutions based on Tableau.
- After basic training users can operate with Tableau by themselves.
- Tableau is good for evaluating base data analytics and data science tasks.
- In comparison to Ms PowerBL: fewer visuals in Tableau.
- Fewer free versions and support documentation/examples in Tableau rather than in PowerBI.
Tableau Desktop is being used to actively track sales achievement to the number of leads created per week to optimization reporting and everything in between! While the sales team here at Sojern are the main users, it can serve a purpose and be a resource for almost every department within the company.
- User-friendly, and made for visual learners.
- The best tool for presentation purposes and actionable examples.
- Good for using our data in a way that can be understood by everyone in the business.
- It can be slow, as in loading slow and taking a while to switch from dashboard to dashboard.
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What is Tableau Desktop?
Tableau Desktop aims to allow people to make data-driven decisions with confidence, by helping them answer questions more quickly, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights more frequently.
The vendor says that with a couple of clicks, Tableau Desktop connects directly to hundreds of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, with the goal of making it easier to start analysis. Interactive dashboards, drag and drop functionality, and natural language queries help users of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights, all from an intuitive and visual interface. Users can ask deeper questions by quickly building powerful calculations, adding trend lines and seeing statistical summaries, or clustering data to see relationships.
Tableau's goal is to help people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is strives to be easy to start and scale, Tableau aims to 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 Desktop Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Tableau Viewer | $12 | Per User / Per Month |
| Tableau Explorer | $35 | Per User / Per Month |
| Tableau Creator | $70 | Per User / Per Month |
Tableau Desktop Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | No |