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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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| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
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The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 25, 2018
Tableau- The Data Visualizer
We are using Tableau Desktop for creating dashboards for MIS reporting. These dashboards are being used by stakeholders and managers for their decisions process. They can see the changes over time and graphs, top performing agents and several similar details which are shown geographically or by state. We usually get requirements to update the dashboards as per their need so that it is easily understandable and conveys more information.
- Graphs and charts are built very easily.
- Tableau is very good at showing data visually
- Easily help make a decision by looking at the pattern
- The ETL part is missing in Tableau.
- For huge and ambiguous data-sets, Tableau Desktop is not good.
- Before analysis data preparation is mandatory.
- QlikView and SAP Business Objects
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.
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.
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Most of they either prepare Tableau dashboards for their clients or they support tableau for their clients
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In my own project we have three people who are providing tableau support
- For their own Decision making process
- For business forecast
- For Reporting purpose
- To see dynamic dashboards for visual analysis
- For decision making process
- Earlier we were using SAP Business Objects for reporting purpose in which even a little change takes up a lot of time, but now after moving to Tableau it has become quite easy and time saving.
Yes
Tableau replaced SAP Business Objects is my project, this was because for interactive visualization purpose business objects was not good, so we have to go for some visualization tool and Tableau was best to be considered due to its easy to use, less training and quick setup features and obviously business requirement.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
The main factor in Purchasing tableau was its usability and quick setup, minimal training.
The evaluation and selection process would be kind of similar, although for big dataset I would like to choose some tool which uses in-memory technology for faster data retrieval.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Data Source and Data Preparation
Setting up 4 environments(Dev, Build, UAT and Prod)
Setting up connection and creating Tableau extracts
building dashboards
Publishing, Security and maintainance
Setting up 4 environments(Dev, Build, UAT and Prod)
Setting up connection and creating Tableau extracts
building dashboards
Publishing, Security and maintainance
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
This was very important part of the project, as it was an agile project the requirements for an update was frequent, so maintaining the projects change
requests were very important. So every request has to go through a change request and approval only after that the changes use to go live.
requests were very important. So every request has to go through a change request and approval only after that the changes use to go live.
- Several change requests were raised parallely so maintaing the que was getting difficult.
- We have to come up with a change window only when changes could be applied.
- We have to keep the timeline of changes so that it doesn't overlap with the previous request of the same dashboard.
- Online training
- Self-taught
Without training also Tableau can be mastered by you will have to give more time to practice the concepts and also need to go through online resources.
No
Basically, Tableau has very good and active user community and any question are answered very quickly. Multiple times i had situations where i had to post on tableau community about my issues and community users were so active that I got 2-3 answers within 2 hrs.
Yes
There was an issue publishing data online, in that case, contact support although that was not a bug.
During the time of setting up tableau online they were really helpful, I would say that was kind of exceptional support but it could have been faster.
- 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.
- 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.
Yes
The best thing is you can see your published content from a mobile client at your ease.
Apart from this tableau features mobile specific dashboard building, like based on mobile screen size and resolution you can create your dashboard.
Apart from this tableau features mobile specific dashboard building, like based on mobile screen size and resolution you can create your dashboard.
May 24, 2016
Dashboard Experts, Scorecard Headaches
We used Tableau Desktop to write reports that we would later publish to Tableau Server. It was used to create sales dashboards and scorecards for the sales operations and field management teams.
- Tableau Desktop has a great variety of visualizations. Once a dashboard is created refreshing the data is quick and easy.
- The calculations in Tableau Desktop are easy and logical. It suggests as you type, making it quick and easy.
- Parameters are very powerful ways to slice and filter the dashboards.
- It's weak with Tabular reporting. It also won't let you reference a specific cell in the same table, making scorecards difficult.
- It needs some more options on colors, shading, 3D, etc., to add variety to the visualizations.
- Dashboard creation isn't as easy as it could be. Lining different elements up, centering, etc., was sometimes difficult.
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Need SQL skills, overall db knowledge. Good understanding of formulas and logic. Excel skills help.
- Inventory Dashboards
- Training Dashboards
- Executive Dashboards, 5 minutes to know how the business is doing. (Toothbrush Report)
- Field Management: Drill downs help to discover drivers of variation.
- Inventory Management: What's selling where, what are the trends.
- We used it to help validate some other reports the organization was creating in Excel.
- Vendor implemented
- Professional services company
Tableau sent out Slalom to implement.
No
We had a consultant on-site for two weeks.
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
We had an organization that lives in Excel, getting them to trust a new tool as difficult.
- Not clear how much data Tableau Desktop could handle. Consultant led us to believe it could handle millions of lines, in practice it couldn't.
- Consultant wasn't up to speed with latest versions of Tableau Desktop.
- Consultant did not understand our business and a lot of time was lost helping him understand.
- Consultant was not an expert.
- Visualizations are easy to create.
- Easy to connect and refresh data sources
- Dashboard layout wasn't as easy as expected.
- Linking more then 2 - 3 datasets together gets messy
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March 08, 2016
Perfect analytics tool
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- Tableau is being used to retrieve data from multidimensional relational databases, spreadsheets and from cloud databases and then to present the data in visual format to the users in Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance.
- Tableau is being used for analyzing sales metrics, capturing web data from customers and used for marketing analytics, reporting financial analysis data to senior management to visualize the performance of the company within a few minutes, instead of tedious report generating processes from other third party applications.
- We started using the latest version 8.0 and many of the features that we would be using were included in the latest release 8.0. Did not come across any areas that the product does less well, but we are somewhat new to Tableau and still trying out many features.
Oracle OBIEE.
The primary factors for choosing Tableau were the licensing costs; ability to view data from multiple data sources; the ease of infrastructure to setup; and ability for users to create and maintain their own worksheets without the need for IT assistance.
With Tableau it allows us to mesh data from various data sources from Salesforce, Oracle, Web and Engineering servers.
The primary factors for choosing Tableau were the licensing costs; ability to view data from multiple data sources; the ease of infrastructure to setup; and ability for users to create and maintain their own worksheets without the need for IT assistance.
With Tableau it allows us to mesh data from various data sources from Salesforce, Oracle, Web and Engineering servers.
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Finance, Support, Operations, Sales and Marketing, and IT
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With some training many of the users can start using the desktop, but advanced training is recommended for users to take advantage of the various functionality that Tableau provides.
Analyst with technical background in data model and architecture proves to be an advantage when defining new data sources and how to establish connections to different data sources to pull the data into Tableau for analysis.
Analyst with technical background in data model and architecture proves to be an advantage when defining new data sources and how to establish connections to different data sources to pull the data into Tableau for analysis.
- We would be developing additional dashboards for supply chain to measure their metrics.
- Financial Analytics.
- Marketing and Sales Analytics.
- Operations Analytics.
- Engineering and Web Analytics.
- We had setup and developed database on Amazon RDS to store data from web analytics from the engineering servers, and meshed the data with CRM data in Salesforce to determine the potential customers for our cloud product.
- We had to create custom functions for the ones that Tableau did not have, and created views in Oracle database and used that as a source to publish analytics on Tableau.
Yes
We had replaced Oracle's discoverer and some adhoc SQL reporting from SQL development tools.
Oracle discoverer had become outdated and did not have the functionality to publish dashboards. Users needed the ability to have dashboard capabilities to view, modify or update the worksheets on the dashboard instantly without the need for IT assistance.
Users now have the capability to view the published dashboards that were periodically synced with the latest data and had to just refresh the page to view the latest data rather than having to refresh the sheet in discoverer that usually took very long to view the data.
Oracle discoverer had become outdated and did not have the functionality to publish dashboards. Users needed the ability to have dashboard capabilities to view, modify or update the worksheets on the dashboard instantly without the need for IT assistance.
Users now have the capability to view the published dashboards that were periodically synced with the latest data and had to just refresh the page to view the latest data rather than having to refresh the sheet in discoverer that usually took very long to view the data.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Third-party Reviews
Product usability was one of the biggest feature in selecting Tableau. Unlike Oracle's BI Solution that required IT help and days to create dashboards and publish those, with Tableau the users with minimal help had experience to publish their dashboards with their respective data sources within hours.
Users were able to create their own interactive sheets and publish those sheets for their teams to review the data. Along with the usability the price was also the factor in the decision.
Users were able to create their own interactive sheets and publish those sheets for their teams to review the data. Along with the usability the price was also the factor in the decision.
We would keep the similar process that we had used to evaluate, but probably would include some of the newer or other software that are out in the market.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
We took the new software implementation approach.
We evaluated the BI products to replace discoverer and adhoc reporting, and concentrated on financial reporting as the intial phase. We gathered the requirements for the financial reporting dashboard, and mapped the requirements with the Finance team. We had then designed the data model and views in Oracle, and had setup the data source on Tableau. Created the sheets and dashboard and published on the test instance of Tableau to review and refine the dashboard and finally had migrated the setups to the production instances.
We used the similar approach as above to publish dashboards for Sales and Marketing, Support cases and Engineering data.
We evaluated the BI products to replace discoverer and adhoc reporting, and concentrated on financial reporting as the intial phase. We gathered the requirements for the financial reporting dashboard, and mapped the requirements with the Finance team. We had then designed the data model and views in Oracle, and had setup the data source on Tableau. Created the sheets and dashboard and published on the test instance of Tableau to review and refine the dashboard and finally had migrated the setups to the production instances.
We used the similar approach as above to publish dashboards for Sales and Marketing, Support cases and Engineering data.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
With the experience with Change management we had been using within CRM and ERP implementations, we had rolled the change management for Tableau as well and was well-handled.
- There was nothing major during the implementation, except Tableau had launched the newer version of the desktop and server during the implementation that had us upgrade and re-setup some of the configurations.
- Online training
- Self-taught
It would be better to have some training before starting to work with the tool. There are many advanced features available and they are all explained in the training videos and online documentation.
I would recommend going through the basics and then, once installed, it would be beneficial to go through the advanced training sessions and try them out.
I would recommend going through the basics and then, once installed, it would be beneficial to go through the advanced training sessions and try them out.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
No
We ran into an issue with the Oracle driver for 64 Bit server when setting up the connection to our Oracle database, and when posted a question to the support they were able to provide the immediate reply with the correct driver to use.
Yes
- Salesforce
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Amazon RDS
- Internal MySQL Engineering databases
Tableau provides native connectors to integrate and are simple to setup but would need some technical help to setup the connections.
- NetSuite
- File import/export
- Single Signon
- ETL tools
ODBC connector for Oracle
Yes
The upgrade was seamless and was able to upgrade with minimal downtime. The only issue is that every user with the Tableau desktop license had to upgrade as well. It would be nice to have an auto upgrade feature for the desktop as well.
- We were able to use some of the additional functionality that came with the upgraded release that we saw limitations when developing sheets in the previous releases.
- We would like to see added functions within Tableau that would allow us to display the data without having to create custom objects in source database and pull the data into Tableau.
- We would like to see some temp table creation in Tableau to have perform calculations against the data and display the data without having to create the calculations in the source database.
Yes
We had used Trial version to evaluate the software and then upgraded to Enterprise when we decided to purchase. The change was seamless and did not impact any downtime nor any functionality changes.
No
February 12, 2016
"Tableau Desktop - Driving Organization Analytic Efficiency Engine"
Tableau Desktop is a versatile analytic industry wide tool used for various visualization and analytic project across clients' servers by my organization.
- Good analytic Platform
- Versatile tool for visualization
- Very easy to create diverse visualization
- Flexible in terms of data source option from Excel to Microsoft cube
- No predictive analytical capabilities
- Statistically challenged and provides limited statistics functionality as compared to Microsoft Excel
- No version control, governance and other commonly desired enterprise features
Tableau Desktop needs no to minimal coding experience. It easily integrates with various data sources. It is very easy to create usable smart reports.
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Consulting services
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Consultants, Business Analyst, Test Engineer
- Predictive analytics
- Integration with Google maps or maps better than Map View or a native Tableau map
- Reporting
- Distribution analytics
- Transmission analytics
- Utility industry data availability
- We use it for clients who have difficulty visualizing the data and make sense out of the terabytes of data they already have.
- Developed dashboards to showcase our company strenghts
- Mostly, we use it for client needs. When they have very big set of data and want to see summary and want to solve some of the business challenges
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Product features and ease of use is the most important factor. A novice user or a business analyst can make lot of sense of data with the help of powerful reports which come from Tableau Desktop.
We would have probably looked more at Tableau's policy on server upgrades and licensing.
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
We as an organization have capabilities to deliver Tableau dashboards. our company resources are tableau certified and have required knowledge and skill set required to implement Tableau desktop. our IT team provides an ongoing support in case of any issues and we always reach out to tableau support in case issues are not resolved internally.
Yes
Yes, there was planning, requirement gathering, data model creation, developing prototype of the actual implementation, followed by the actual development work and then testing before it was delivered.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Our Internal IT support team does the job well. they are trained professional to carry out change management process.
- A server upgrade is cumbesome and licenses are very stringent
- Custom Visulaization
- UI Rich features such as gauges
Yes
It is worth the premium support. Clients need quick turn around time and a reasonable charge for premium support is win-win to both.
Yes
Yes, it got resolved in a timely fashion.
We were having an issue with delivering functionality to a client. Tableau support helped us in time. they were quick to followup and provide resolution to the best of capabilities of the tool.
- Visualization
- Connecting and Importing data from different sources
- Publishing to Tableau Server
- drag and drop features- Minimal coding
- Customized Reports
- Maps
- Cell coloring
- working with OLAP cube
Yes
It works nicely. The dashboards auto sizes and fits to the mobile device. Easy to see dashboards while mobile.