"Tableau Desktop is a powerful visual analytics tool that helps us understand our business."
Tableau Desktop is capable of quickly and easily visualizing
large amounts of data from various sources. It generates visualizations and
Tableau Desktop
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Tableau Desktop
Starting at $70 per month
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Popular Features
View all 28 featuresCustomizable dashboards (162)
8.5
85%
Drill-down analysis (155)
8.1
81%
Formatting capabilities (158)
8.1
81%
Mobile Application (178)
7.9
79%
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Tohidul Islam
Information Technology Team Lead
Extreme Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Mayur Garg
Business Development Executive
Techvanto (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)Video Reviews
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Pricing
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$70.00
On Premise
Per User / Per Month
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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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!
- Dashboard publishing
- Data Connectivity
- Creating extract to work with local data and avoid connecting live production database.
February 25, 2018
Tableau- The Data Visualizer
- Building basic charts from already available show me is one of the quickest and easiest thing in any BI tool
- connecting to data is quite simple we don't need to write long queries(unless we want to).
- arranging sheets in the dashboard and using filters are just clicks away, anyone can do it by first chance only.
February 22, 2018
Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI
- Links and queries to databases
- intuitive handling of data
- Connecting to a data source
- Using filters
- Creating parameters
- Easily able to create new visualizations using the "Show Me" tab
March 20, 2017
Warming up to Tableau Desktop
- Visualization
- Creating calculated fields
- Changing data types from the source
December 29, 2016
Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.
- Drag and drop of dimensions and measures
- Styling of visualizations of all different types is easy
- Assembling charts and graphs into composite dashboards
- Initial data exploration.
- Duplicating visualizations for variation.
- Creating a narrative storyline.
- Creating charts
- developing dashboards
May 24, 2016
Dashboard Experts, Scorecard Headaches
- Visualizations are easy to create.
- Easy to connect and refresh data sources
May 24, 2016
Your business NEEDS Tableau
- Charting is the easiest
- Most calculations are very similar to Excel
May 04, 2016
Tableau is awesome!
- Graphing is easy to do. It gets harder when you have a particular graph capability that you must mimic.
- Dashboards are super easy. Dashboard actions make the workbooks come alive.
- Filtering and parameters are a great tool in the workbooks to limit your data down to a subset that you can analyze fully.
March 17, 2016
Oj's Review of Tableau Desktop
- Visualizations using drag and drop
- Predictive Analysis, Regression, Trend, Correlation, Statistical calculations pre-built as functions
- Ability to integrate data across multiple data sources, varying in technology on the same dashboard and making them react to user choices using parameters and easy to create calculated fields
February 12, 2016
"Tableau Desktop - Driving Organization Analytic Efficiency Engine"
- Visualization
- Connecting and Importing data from different sources
- Publishing to Tableau Server
- drag and drop features- Minimal coding
February 11, 2016
Tableau - Tab-yes!
- Spreadsheet clean-up, auto-adjust.
- Geo-mapping data.
November 11, 2015
Need to visualize data? Look no further.
- Drag and Drop
- Switching between layouts
- Connecting to data