Tableau Desktop Reviews & Ratings 2023

Name: Top Business Intelligence Tools (Qlik Sense, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, IBM Cognos Analytics)
Uploaded: 2022-12-21T21:31:09.000Z
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Description: In this video, the TrustRadius team will be discussing the top business intelligence tools available: Qlik Sense, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, and IBM Cognos Analytics.

Tableau Desktop

Starting at $70 per month

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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...

Excellent tool for data visualization with simplicity

9 out of 10

January 02, 2023

Tableau provide platform where people can create dashboard and do data analysis in simpler way.The visual capabilities and features …

Tableau is a life saver for data analysis and visualization professionals,

10 out of 10

December 07, 2022

We use Tableau for data visualization of our premium healthcare stats. Tableau offers us the power to present large data sets in beautiful …

Tableau Desktop: Best in business

9 out of 10

December 02, 2022

With the ever-evolving data needs and usage of advanced analytics, it is of prime importance that we use the right tool for the …

Awesome BI/Reporting Tool

9 out of 10

September 12, 2022

One of the best in industry BI tools for visualizations and basic AI capabilities. We use it for company-wide analytical and …

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

8 out of 10

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

9 out of 10

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

10 out of 10

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."

9 out of 10

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

8 out of 10

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

7 out of 10

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

6 out of 10

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

9 out of 10

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 is an excellent tool for visualizations

9 out of 10

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

9 out of 10

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"

8 out of 10

November 16, 2021

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

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Popular Features

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Customizable dashboards (163)
8.4
84%
Drill-down analysis (156)
8.4
84%
Mobile Application (178)
8.1
81%
Formatting capabilities (159)
8.0
80%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Merging two or more than two tables
Need multi value parameters currently it is static and single value parameters

Shubham Tiwari

Data analyst

OnlineSales.ai (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Handles large data sets very well.
Drag and Drop functionality for some complex charting would be very helpful.

Rajesh Shenoy

Account Director

Cetas (Medical Device, 51-200 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

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

8.1Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.2Avg 8.0

8.4
Drill-down analysis
(156) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
8
Formatting capabilities
(159) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
7.8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(120) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
8.7
Report sharing and collaboration
(155) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.4Avg 8.3

8.7
Publish to Web
(146) Ratings
8.4
Publish to PDF
(146) Ratings
8.2
Report Versioning
(113) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
8.5
Report Delivery Scheduling
(120) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
8.2
Delivery to Remote Servers
(71) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for pattern and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.6Avg 8.1

8.6
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(151) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
8.6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(146) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of representation of geographical or spatial data.
8.4
Predictive Analytics
(123) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Access Control and Security

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

8.5Avg 8.5

8.4
Multi-User Support (named login)
(136) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.4
Role-Based Security Model
(116) Ratings
Role based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
8.5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(126) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8.7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(74) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.1Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

7.7Avg 7.9

7.6
REST API
(54) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
7.7
Javascript API
(49) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
7.5
iFrames
(47) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
7.4
Java API
(44) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
7.7
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(50) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
8.2
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(44) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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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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What is Tableau?

In this video, the TrustRadius team will be discussing the top business intelligence tools available: Qlik Sense, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, and IBM Cognos Analytics.

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Tableau Desktop Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Windows, Mac
Mobile Application	No

Frequently Asked Questions

Tableau Desktop starts at $70.

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

Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration and Publish to Web and Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 8.7.

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

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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

Performance

The performance of tableau heavily depends on size of data and sheet objects and visualizations used. So yes the performance of tableau degrades based on its complexity.

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

Vetted Review

Verified User

Performance

Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast.

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

Performance

I was able to maniupulate 10-30 million rows of data on a Macbook Pro with 4GB memory running in a Parallels Windows XP VM and achieve response times of between 1 and 3 seconds.

May 26, 2016

Tableau - the better BI tool

Paul Morgan

Senior Product Manager

Experian (5001-10,000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Performance

It performs as well as could be expected; the challenge is making sure the data is organized correctly to optimize performance.

March 08, 2016

Perfect analytics tool

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Performance

September 26, 2013

100 Reasons why Tableau can help you!

Brad Llewellyn

Associate Data Analytics Consultant

Mariner (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Performance

Tableau's connections to third-party sources can be somewhat slow due to the time required to speak to a source over a network. However, if you properly utilize Tableau's Data Source Extracts, then the speed is incredible. On the other hand, Tableau makes it very easy for the user to put too much data into one dashboard, which can impact performance. All in all, if you use the tool properly, speed should not be a concern.

August 27, 2013