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Tableau Desktop

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…

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Recent Reviews

Analytics with Tableau

7 out of 10
February 27, 2024
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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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (157)
    9.3
    93%
  • Drill-down analysis (159)
    9.0
    90%
  • Formatting capabilities (162)
    9.0
    90%
  • Customizable dashboards (166)
    8.8
    88%

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Pricing

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Tableau Creator

$70.00

On Premise
Per User / Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.tableau.com/products/desktop

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $70 per month
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Product Demos

Tableau Desktop Tutorial | Tableau Desktop Training | Online Tableau Desktop Training - Youtube

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- Tableau Demo: Quick Tutorial to Getting Started with Tableau Desktop

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Tableau Desktop Naming Conventions Part 1

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Tableau Desktop Introduction Part 1

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.5
Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.9
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.6
Avg 8.3

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.

8.6
Avg 8.0

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.8
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.4
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.8
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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 TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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 highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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June 27, 2018

With Tableau Desktop I quickly analyze my data giving efficiency and speed to my work

Yusmelys Lopez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Yusmelys Lopez
Analista financiero
BANCA PUBLICA (Banking, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Because Tableau is an Intelligence tool that allows me to analyze, visualize and share large volumes of information in a fast, flexible and friendly way. Complement is very easy to use, generates tangible impacts in the short term. The Organization has been able to create innovative projects in the company, by saving a lot of time in the handling of information and making objective and faster decision
February 25, 2018

Tableau- The Data Visualizer

Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh
BI Developer
Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
1. As compared to SAP Business Objects, Tableau is very easy to use and quick in terms of implementation. Although SAP BO is reporting tool but both tool servers different purposes. SAP BO is a huge enterprises tool used mainly for creating large tabular reports while Tableau Desktop is a dash boarding tool used for visual representation of data.

2. When comparing QlikView with Tableau both are kind of similar tools, because the purpose of both tools are visual representation of data using dashboards. Although both tools are different at several points like QlikView has very good ETL and features compared to Tableau, while Tableau is very user-friendly and offers drag and drop features which makes it very easy for business users as well.
February 22, 2018

Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI

Arlex Guzman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arlex Guzman
Project Engineering
EYEMAR EXPRESS (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Alternatives Considered
  • I have tried and read about another product like Power Bi Desktop and it is similar to Tableau Desktop but with the advantage that the latter is free.
the option is that Tableau Public has the features of Tableau Desktop available for free, at least for a trial period.
November 14, 2017

Tableau Review

Verified User
Employee in Product Management
Retail Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
I think Tableau is easier to read and understand. The data gets refreshed a few times a week so it's more current. I don't remember BloomReach being able to break down an item number into all of the SKUs attached to it so I wasn't able to see which color or design was selling the best.
October 24, 2017

Tableau - Only BI Tool that you need

Verified User
Analyst in Corporate
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Tableau is next generation tool where other two are old traditional BI tools
Other tools are very slow and difficult to use, and required lot of technical expertise to use them.
Tableau's look and feel is much nicer than those two.
Sharing and collaboration are easy with Tableau.
Installation is easy.
August 09, 2017

What a Tool

Wallace Hu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Wallace Hu
Sr. Director, Principal Big Data Architect
Leadership for Data Analytics & Big Data (Hospitality, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
  • Power BI
Performance: Power BI does not stack up against Tableau if there are huge amounts of data needs to report or dashboarding. The visualization interface of Tableau is much more user-friendly than its competitors. Therefore, we are using the Tableau for our reporting, dashboarding, and many pattern recognitions. It is a great tool.
July 10, 2017

Best BI tool to do things really quickly and get insights from data very easily.

sanjeev pandey | TrustRadius Reviewer
sanjeev pandey
Software Engineer
GGK Tech (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
In tableau you can achieve things really quickly and it has the power to show you insight data very easily. Tableau is also economical in comparison to what these tools cost. It's a full value tool.
June 21, 2017

Tableau Desktop: Making an Impact in the World of Drug Safety

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Against the usual incumbents within the pharmaceutical industry, Tableau has much better and faster access to database data especially stored in the Oracle database, without needing any interim transformations or data universe needing to be created. Also it has comparatively good access to other data sources such as spreadsheets, which can be problematic for other analytic tools.
March 20, 2017

Warming up to Tableau Desktop

Charles Saulnier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Charles Saulnier
BI Consultant
Larochelle Groupe Conseil (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
At this moment, while both products have active communities and champions, Power BI has shorter release times and is actively trying to overtake Tableau's spot as the leading data visualization tool. For a company which has already started to deploy Tableau Online or Desktop, the obvious choice is to keep building with Tableau's tools as long as they suit your needs. It seamlessly integrates with a MS BI environment and a good number of other platforms, and publication to Tableau Server is easy.
March 06, 2017

Why do organisations or people keep using Tableau instead of Power BI

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
The reason I selected Tableau desktop was because it is so easy to use. You can easily download it, there are a large number of tutorials provided by Tableau that you can use to familiarise yourself with the tool. The learning curve for Tableau is less. I personally had a project due in morning and I was able to learn to use it in a span of 2 hours maximum. It has a variety of data visualisation techniques that make it very easy to represent large data and communicate its meaning.
February 20, 2017

Tableau Desktop - The Easy Button Analytics Tool

Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Tableau is a very, very powerful analytics tool that is very flexible with that said there are always some programs that will do specific tasks much better, I would highly suggest Tableau as I use it for marketing analysis, sales reporting and even for analysis on e-commerce and digital marketing purposes.
December 29, 2016

Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Alternatives Considered
We were interested in expedience at reasonable cost and so didn't do any sort of bakeoff, but tried Tableau first as a potential solution for moving beyond Excel for large scale data analytics. We picked it because it more than met our functional needs at a very reasonable price point. If I were looking again today I would compare Tableau to Qlikview, Birst, and a few other players. But I'm satisfied with the choice we made and results we've gotten from Tableau.
October 18, 2016

Tableau Desktop Review

Andy G Teasdale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andy G Teasdale
Analyst - Asset Managment
MoneySuperMarket.com (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Alternatives Considered
Tableau was already widely utilised at the point which I joined the organisation. Depending on how you have your site set up for tracking, Data Studio 360 (GA) is looking like a more effective solution for up to the minute results, and the beta interface has a similar look and feel.
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