Tableau Desktop Reviews & Ratings 2022

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Tableau Desktop

Starting at $70 per month

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"Tableau Desktop is a powerful visual analytics tool that helps us understand our business."

May 04, 2022

Tableau Desktop is capable of quickly and easily visualizing large amounts of data from various sources. It generates visualizations and

Give your data a different form

April 26, 2022

Tableau Desktop helps my organization in different ways as mentioned below.<br>1) It helps my organization to analyze company data which …

Visual reporting gone right

April 19, 2022

This has got to be one of the coolest ways of displaying and viewing reports! I really love how everything integrates with the systems …

"Efficient, Aesthetic And AWESOME Visualization Tool."

April 13, 2022

Tableau Desktop has proven to be an invaluable resource for us. It can collect data like no other system. We use it almost every day to …

A powerful Business Intelligence tool for enterprises

March 29, 2022

Tableau is used for data reporting and dashboard creations. Since we have a huge amount of data stored in SQL servers it is really hard to …

A large amount of data analysis can be performed without stress

March 28, 2022

We have used Tableau Desktop to analyze development efforts. Until now, the work man-hours of each person in charge were collected in …

Tableau is widely used, but needs more support and functionality

March 06, 2022

We use Tableau Desktop to prepare data sources and dashboards in our organization. We are able to solve simple business problems & use …

The gold standard in data visualization

February 28, 2022

I use Tableau to create interactive dashboards from individual charts and graphs. It helps visualize complex data and share reports cross …

Tableau Desktop - Way to visualize your reports

February 25, 2022

Tableau Desktop is being used by a department in my organization. It simplifies the need to create a report with multiple data residing at …

Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for visualizations

January 20, 2022

Tableau Desktop enables us to connect to our various data streams within the company. Its best feature is its ability to link data from …

Tableau and experience working with it

January 14, 2022

We use Tableau for analytics and analysis of various manufacturing units data. We build reports to analyze incidents and injuries that …

"Powerful BI Tool, Flexible Analytics Solution And Easy Dashboarding Software"

November 16, 2021

We have implemented tableau Desktop throughout our whole organization. Data visualization is essential for analyzing business performance …

Tableau Desktop for Data Analysts

November 01, 2021

Tableau Desktop is currently being used in my project. The most common implementation of Tableau is to create complex data visualizations …

Tableau for the win!

October 06, 2021

We heavily use Tableau to analyze student performance, student retention, and to identify students at risk.

Tableau Desktop - A Powerful BI Tool

August 16, 2021

We use Tableau Desktop to connect directly to our different data streams within our organization. It is mostly cloud base for easy …

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Popular Features

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Customizable dashboards (162)

8.5

85%

Drill-down analysis (155)

8.1

81%

Formatting capabilities (158)

8.1

81%

Mobile Application (178)

7.9

79%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Intuitive data representation and handling of large amounts of data attracted it.
To use it effectively, users must be knowledgeable about it.

Tohidul Islam

Information Technology Team Lead

Extreme Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

It helps to analyze big data and data can be in any form
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

Mayur Garg

Business Development Executive

Techvanto (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)

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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

Features Scorecard

BI Standard Reporting

8.1

81%

Ad-hoc Reporting

8.1

81%

Report Output and Scheduling

8.2

82%

Data Discovery and Visualization

8.5

85%

Access Control and Security

8.5

85%

Mobile Capabilities

7.9

79%

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

7.8

78%

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
Operating Systems	Windows, Mac
Mobile Application	No

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Frequently Asked Questions

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 storytelling.

How much does Tableau Desktop cost?

Tableau Desktop starts at $70.

What are Tableau Desktop's top competitors?

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, SAP Lumira Discovery, and Qlik Sense are common alternatives for Tableau Desktop.

What is Tableau Desktop's best feature?

Reviewers rate Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization highest, with a score of 8.8.

Who uses Tableau Desktop?

The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.

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October 06, 2021

Tableau for the win!

Aquinov Mathappan

Systems Administrator II (Business Intelligence)

Florida International University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 6 out of 10

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Difficult Tasks

Fixed calculations are difficult to learn.
Containers are challenge to format.
Predictive analytics aren't are difficult to understand.

February 25, 2018

Tableau- The Data Visualizer

Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Verified User

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Difficult Tasks

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.

February 22, 2018

Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI

Arlex Guzman

Project Engineering

EYEMAR EXPRESS (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Verified User

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Difficult Tasks

Establish relationships between different database fields and display the corresponding visualizations

June 21, 2017

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

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Professional in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Verified User

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Difficult Tasks

Placement of items in a dashboard, particularly when exact coordinates are needed or attempting to duplicate a look and feel

March 20, 2017

Warming up to Tableau Desktop

Charles Saulnier

BI Consultant

Larochelle Groupe Conseil (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

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Difficult Tasks

MDX queries
Building tables where you need to align text

December 29, 2016

Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

Score 10 out of 10

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Difficult Tasks

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

June 30, 2016

Tableau: If you don't use it... I don't want to work for you ...

David Fickes

Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

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Difficult Tasks

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.

May 31, 2016