Analytics with Tableau
We use Tableau to generate daily and weekly reports for our business module to generate our key performance indicators. These insights we …
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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…
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Popular Features
- Report sharing and collaboration (156)9.393%
- Drill-down analysis (158)9.292%
- Customizable dashboards (165)9.090%
- Formatting capabilities (161)9.090%
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$70.00
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Per User / Per Month
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $70 per month
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What is Tableau Desktop?
Tableau Desktop supports data-driven decisions by helping users to answer questions more quickly, solve harder problems more easily, and uncover new insights.
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 analyses. Interactive dashboards, drag and drop functionality, and natural language queries help users of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights, all from its visual interface. Users can ask deeper questions by quickly building calculations, adding trend lines and seeing statistical summaries, or clustering data to see relationships.
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Tableau Desktop Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Tableau Desktop starts at $70.
IBM Cognos Analytics, SAP Lumira Discovery, and Qlik Sense are common alternatives for Tableau Desktop.
Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration and Publish to Web highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- 8.9Likelihood to Renew
- 8Availability
- 6.1Performance
- 8.6Usability
- 6.9Support Rating
- 8Online Training
- 9.4In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
- 8.1Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 10Ease of integration
- 10Vendor pre-sale
- 10Vendor post-sale
- 9.2Data Visualization
- 7.9Data Sources
- 8.4Data Sharing and Collaboration
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December 02, 2022
Tableau Desktop: Best in business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yes
It replaced Alteryx and some other products. The decision was mainly driven by the ROI and the impact it had on the features it provides. Further, the clients have been widely using Tableau Desktop.
October 06, 2021
Tableau for the win!
Yes
Power BI and OBIEE
February 25, 2018
Tableau- The Data Visualizer
Yes
Tableau replaced SAP Business Objects is my project, this was because for interactive visualization purpose business objects was not good, so we have to go for some visualization tool and Tableau was best to be considered due to its easy to use, less training and quick setup features and obviously business requirement.
February 22, 2018
Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
December 29, 2016
Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yes
Greater ease of data manipulation, visualization, and the ability to handle large data sets with fast performance.
May 26, 2016
Tableau - the better BI tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Prior was Microstrategy.
May 24, 2016
Tableau Reporting
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
May 04, 2016
Tableau is awesome!
Yes
We have Microsoft SSRS in house and write a lot of ad hoc reports. Tableau will reduce the number of reports needed and the interface is so much nicer!
March 08, 2016
Perfect analytics tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yes
We had replaced Oracle's discoverer and some adhoc SQL reporting from SQL development tools.
Oracle discoverer had become outdated and did not have the functionality to publish dashboards. Users needed the ability to have dashboard capabilities to view, modify or update the worksheets on the dashboard instantly without the need for IT assistance.
Users now have the capability to view the published dashboards that were periodically synced with the latest data and had to just refresh the page to view the latest data rather than having to refresh the sheet in discoverer that usually took very long to view the data.
Oracle discoverer had become outdated and did not have the functionality to publish dashboards. Users needed the ability to have dashboard capabilities to view, modify or update the worksheets on the dashboard instantly without the need for IT assistance.
Users now have the capability to view the published dashboards that were periodically synced with the latest data and had to just refresh the page to view the latest data rather than having to refresh the sheet in discoverer that usually took very long to view the data.
February 12, 2016
"Tableau Desktop - Driving Organization Analytic Efficiency Engine"
November 11, 2015
Visual Intelligence and Analysis (VIA) that is the name of our company & what you can expect from Tableau
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yes
Qlik- Tech - Too IT centric and not truly business
April 08, 2015
Tableau Desktop 8.0.4
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Did not switch.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Yes
We were using a combination of other separate tools to try and get information from our existing data and no single tool so when we implemented Tableau everything became much easier
September 26, 2013
100 Reasons why Tableau can help you!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Excel
August 27, 2013
Tableau 8.0 Review - Be a Data Rockstar
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Used to use MS Excel for charts and graphs. MS Access for joining datasets and conducting analysis. Had the option of using QlikView but based on my past experience with Tableau and QlikView, Tableau was a more well rounded tool for analysis and visualization against multiple datasets / data types and it is a much more user friendly interface for people with varying levels of software and analysis experience. Tableau is click and drag whereas QlikView requires more knowledge of SQL.
June 21, 2013
Powerful but Easy Insight for All Skill Levels
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Excel