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$70.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- 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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BI Standard Reporting
Ad-hoc Reporting
Report Output and Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization
Access Control and Security
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Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Product Details
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 Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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Tableau for the win!
- Fixed calculations are difficult to learn.
- Containers are challenge to format.
- Predictive analytics aren't are difficult to understand.
Tableau- The Data Visualizer
- Using calculated fields for special functionalities
- Understanding and using LOD functions can be cumbersome for new users
- building advanced graphs require a deep understanding of several advanced tableau features, which comes from regular uses.
Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI
- Establish relationships between different database fields and display the corresponding visualizations
- Placement of items in a dashboard, particularly when exact coordinates are needed or attempting to duplicate a look and feel
Warming up to Tableau Desktop
- MDX queries
- Building tables where you need to align text
Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.
- There are a few things that should be simple that are cumbersome like data blending can be painful to get right and details like totals on top of stacked bars
- Formatting does not carry over from sheet to sheet and styles cannot be universally applied to a single visualization much less a dashboard -- lots of repetitive manual work to style things visually
- Getting the "look" right on the stories is a bit difficult, I tend to want something really specific and so you end up having to adjust every single element.
- building complicated joints in datasets when importing data
- exporting entire dashboard to pdf
- navigating the different filter types
Dashboard Experts, Scorecard Headaches
- Dashboard layout wasn't as easy as expected.
- Linking more then 2 - 3 datasets together gets messy
Your business NEEDS Tableau
- Table calculations require some reading-up
Tableau is awesome!
- The calculations are a bit tricky.
- Graphs that don't follow the popular path can be hard to create. It is not intuitive what to do "next".
Oj's Review of Tableau Desktop
- Running/Weighted Averages
- Dimensional Comparative using Window Calculations with data from a different dimension
"Tableau Desktop - Driving Organization Analytic Efficiency Engine"
- Customized Reports
- Maps
- Cell coloring
- working with OLAP cube
Need to visualize data? Look no further.
- Formatting data
- Occasionally, laying out data in a useful manner