Overview
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…
The gold standard in data visualization
A versatile platform that can make your daily work life easier!
Excellent tool for data visualization with simplicity
Tableau is a life saver for data analysis and visualization professionals,
Tableau Desktop: Best in business
Awesome BI/Reporting Tool
"Tableau Desktop is a powerful visual analytics tool that helps us understand our business."
Give your data a different form
Visual reporting gone right
"Efficient, Aesthetic And AWESOME Visualization Tool."
A powerful Business Intelligence tool for enterprises
A large amount of data analysis can be performed without stress
Tableau is widely used, but needs more support and functionality
Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for visualizations
Awards
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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)8.989%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Tableau Creator
$70.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $70 per month
Product Demos
Tableau Desktop Tutorial | Tableau Desktop Training | Online Tableau Desktop Training - Youtube
- Tableau Demo: Quick Tutorial to Getting Started with Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop Naming Conventions Part 1
Tableau Desktop Introduction Part 1
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.3Pixel Perfect reports(138) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 9Customizable dashboards(165) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 8.3Report Formatting Templates(144) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 9.2Drill-down analysis(158) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.9Formatting capabilities(161) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8.3Integration with R or other statistical packages(121) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 9.3Report sharing and collaboration(156) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 9.2Publish to Web(148) Ratings
- 8.4Publish to PDF(148) Ratings
- 8.6Report Versioning(115) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9.1Report Delivery Scheduling(122) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.5Delivery to Remote Servers(72) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 8.9Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(153) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8.8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(148) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8.7Predictive Analytics(125) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 8Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(2) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.8Multi-User Support (named login)(138) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8.4Role-Based Security Model(118) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 8.7Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(128) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 9Report-Level Access Control(2) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 8.9Single Sign-On (SSO)(76) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 8.6Responsive Design for Web Access(123) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 8.3Mobile Application(96) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.7Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(116) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 8.5REST API(55) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 8.3Javascript API(50) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 8.8iFrames(48) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 8.7Java API(45) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 8.4Themeable User Interface (UI)(52) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 8.8Customizable Platform (Open Source)(45) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
- About
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- Tech Details
- FAQs
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.
Tableau Desktop Video
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Tableau Desktop Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews and Ratings
(2270)Attribute Ratings
- 8.9Likelihood to Renew39 ratings
- 8Availability10 ratings
- 6.1Performance9 ratings
- 8.6Usability63 ratings
- 6.9Support Rating56 ratings
- 8Online Training4 ratings
- 9.4In-Person Training4 ratings
- 8Implementation Rating34 ratings
- 8.1Configurability2 ratings
- 7Product Scalability3 ratings
- 10Ease of integration1 rating
- 10Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 10Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 9.2Data Visualization10 ratings
- 7.9Data Sources115 ratings
- 8.4Data Sharing and Collaboration115 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 76)Analytics with Tableau
- Easy to import the data from various external sources and transform them as per the business requirements.
- Through Quick analysis tool bar option, we could easily calculate certain metrics and boost productivity
- We use set and parameters in Tableau to generate business insights required for our process.
- It has poor performance while handling large data sets and takes a longer time to complete certain tasks.
- Their customer service assistance is not good which should be improve for better experience.
- They have limited options to export the data from Tableau that should be improved.
It has limited features available via using Tableau on a mobile application which does not allow us to perform certain task and Tableau has performance issues while using it through the mobile.
The gold standard in data visualization
- Data visualization.
- Data sharing/collaboration.
- Report building.
- Analytics.
- Expensive pricing.
- Slow performance for large data files.
- Poor customer support.
Excellent tool for data visualization with simplicity
- Data visualization
- Data analytics
- Merging two or more than two tables
- Exploring multiple tables
- Need multi value parameters currently it is static and single value parameters
- No custom visual report
- Custom formatting in Tableau
- Limited data preprocessing
2-Sales forecast analysis dashboard
3-Marketing campaign dashboard
4-Product availability dashboard
5-Flight price analysis dashboard
6-Crime analysis dashboard
7- Air quality and pollution analysis dashboard
I would recommend industry to use tableau for below reason
1-Less time required to pull and prepare data
3-Share up-to-date dashboard
There is some disadvantage in using Tableau
1-Tableau focus primarily on visualization and can't work with uncleaned data.
2-Lack of data modeling and data dictionary capabilities for data analytics
- Handles large data sets very well.
- Powerful visualization tools.
- Customization and Collaboration.
- Drag and Drop functionality for some complex charting would be very helpful.
Tableau Desktop: Best in business
- Tableau Desktop allows people to make data-driven decisions
- Uncover new insights more frequently
- With a couple of clicks, Tableau Desktop connects directly to thousands of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, making it easier to start an analysis
- Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
- Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
- Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
"Tableau Desktop is a powerful visual analytics tool that helps us understand our business."
- In the BI/analytics platform, it's a popular reporting tool.
- Includes graphs, maps, and plots that easily integrate with data.
- Intuitive data representation and handling of large amounts of data attracted it.
- Downloading large datasets can be time-consuming.
- To use it effectively, users must be knowledgeable about it.
Give your data a different form
- It helps to analyze big data and data can be in any form
- It helps 5 tools to analyze and create report
- It helps to create different type of charts
- As I user I dont find any missing feature because as a part of marketing team we are satisfied with the feature we are using
Visual reporting gone right
- Real Time Reporting
- Team Access
- All in one place
- filters
- accessibility
- customization
"Efficient, Aesthetic And AWESOME Visualization Tool."
- It serves as a central repository for all of the company's data.
- Intuitive and uncomplicated data management is the norm here.
- With this tool, it is simple to discover and explore information.
- Tableau's impressive data visualization capabilities allow it to deal with large data sets.
- Data visualization of a million rows is possible without affecting the dashboard's performance.
- There are times when the visualization is a bit dull.
- The creator determines the user-friendliness of data boards.
- It would be greatly appreciated if the refresh timer could be increased.
- In terms of user experience and interface design, I'm not convinced.
A powerful Business Intelligence tool for enterprises
- Dashboard Creation.
- Fast connection to SQL, Oracle Databases.
- Automatic Data Refreshing.
- Report refresh rate needs to be improved.
- Support for more visual graphs.
- Cost of the license should be reduced.
- The user interface is easy to understand, so it doesn't take long to learn how to operate it.
- Even if you handle a huge amount of data, it will not slow down.
- It is easy to extract data from various points of view.
- Creating a diagonal reference line requires a lot of steps.
- In many cases, if you're used to working with Excel, you'll find that simple things can't be done easily with Tableau Desktop.
- Nearly pixel perfect graphs
- Easily switch from visualizing data to presenting just numbers
- So many data point connectors. If you have data, it'll connect to it.
- So many moving points to make a detailed graph.
- The visualizations are very rudimentary which leads to analysts creating multiple visualizations to overlay over each other in 1 dashboard.
- Data is a full truncate & reload, or you can use an API but it is an append only data flow.
Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for visualizations
- Simplicity and dashboard
- Low cost and scalability
- An easy-to-use interface
- Real-time dashboard options
- Numerous visualization options
- Integration of large amounts of data
- Downloading, accessing, and using it is simple
- Enhanced customization
- Offers limited product support
- Cost-effective for a small business
Tableau Desktop for Data Analysts
- It can handle very large amount of data
- Drop-down options in dashboards allow users to analyze the impact of clusters within the dataset
- It integrates well with Python and R
- It is strictly a visualization tool, hence no data preprocessing is possible
- Non-coding Tableau users will find it difficult to preprocess data using Python/R and then push the preprocessed data to Tableau
- The reports generated has to be updated manually since Tableau does not allow automatic refreshes
- Live connect: direct query to data sources with seamless efforts
- Drag & Drop UI: build easy and faster great visualizations
- Big Data ready: simplest way to get data from data lakes
- Fastest to deploy simple data models, slowest to deploy complex data models
- Data Prep is not an out-of-the-box feature, but a separate tool
- Pricing compare to Power BI, still remains expensive
When you want to deploy a guided analytics use case (dashboard or an analytics app), Power BI and Qlik Sense are better tools as long as they have ETL tools included.
- Displaying complex trending data in simplified format
- Creating stories to use as presentation materials with data highlights
- Customized statistical models with trending predictions
- Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
- Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
- The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features
- Storytelling.
- Data visualization.
- Data analysis.
- Pricing.
- Poor support.
- Lags sometimes.
Tableau - best tool for starting BI
- Nice UI for designers and users.
- Easy to create new dashboards.
- A wide range of connectivity.
- Handling large data sets.
Quick and easy solution
- Quick
- Easy
- No code
- Costly
- Non-transferrable knowledge
- Have to work locally
Good tool with high price
- Easy integration with multiple sources like MSExcel,Oracle etc
- Small learning curve.
- Many inbuilt chart options available.
- Executive view option
- Error messages are not self explanatory .I was doing integration with oracle data but seeing different errors with same query in two systems.
- Bit expensive .
- Sometimes is slow and behave weirdly with large datasets.
Tableau Desktop: one of the best BI tools
- Very rich set of features
- A large set of connection options
- Attractive UI
- Tableau UI is very attractive but at the same times looks a bit intimidating for the new user
- For settings where you may need to cater to a large set of subscribers, Tableau is cost-prohibitive
Get your data to talk
- Clear Presentation
- Easy to use and learn
- Good repository of learning materials online
- Connection to Microsoft apps
- Easier access for users who dont have a license
Tableau [Desktop] is not suitable if the data is very unorganized and needs human understanding and manipulation before it can be used. Though Tableau can be used to manipulate data, but if the data needs to be in a certain shape in order to be read by Tableau
Tableau - Still Good But No Longer the King
- Excellent visualizations.
- Initial entry to the tool is intuitive.
- Large number of sources supported.
- Once getting past the basics, creating more complex structures and calculations can be more challenging and less intuitive than other reporting tools.
- Maintaining version synchronization between server and desktop is annoying. Would be better if the server compatibility could be specified in the desktop.
- Support for 3rd party olap technologies could be better.
Tableau's relatively recent acquisition by Salesforce does potentially make it a good fit for organizations with an existing Salesforce presence. This may become more relevant as time passes and Salesforce integrates Tableau more with their platform.
- Dashboard and Tile creation
- Having various data sources connectivity
- Support for various way of displaying the data
- Good documentation support
- Dashboard display speed once user selects a filter can be super slow depending on how much data the dashboard is displaying
- Not all the data sources are supported natively, for some others we have to find work-arounds
- License is expensive
Tableau Desktop brings data visualizations to you
- 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