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Tableau Desktop

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…

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Recent Reviews

Analytics with Tableau

7 out of 10
February 27, 2024
We use Tableau to generate daily and weekly reports for our business module to generate our key performance indicators. These insights we …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (157)
    9.3
    93%
  • Drill-down analysis (159)
    9.0
    90%
  • Formatting capabilities (162)
    9.0
    90%
  • Customizable dashboards (166)
    8.8
    88%

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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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Product Demos

Tableau Desktop Tutorial | Tableau Desktop Training | Online Tableau Desktop Training - Youtube

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- Tableau Demo: Quick Tutorial to Getting Started with Tableau Desktop

YouTube

Tableau Desktop Naming Conventions Part 1

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Tableau Desktop Introduction Part 1

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

8.5
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.8
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.6
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

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

8.6
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

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

8.8
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.4
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

8.7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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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Tableau Desktop Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration highest, with a score of 9.3.

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

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April 30, 2021

Highly Flexible Tool with Endless Possibilities

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
8
I give this rating because Tableau can create dynamic and visually appealing dashboards/reporting. It is intuitive enough that beginners can create a basic dashboard but flexible to the point that developers/scriptwriters can fully utilize everything the tool has to offer. I also believe that Tableau is innovative and always improving the product.
April 29, 2021

30,000 ft. view of our Tableau implementation

Emily Janowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Emily Janowski
Sr Integrated Producer
Laughlin Constable (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
8
It's a highly customizable tool, and I'm a visual learner. So in that sense, it's been great to help communicate, visualize trends, etc. The implementation (so I have heard from my team) was a little time intensive and there wasn't a ton of support offered, however the payoff was worth it in my opinion.
April 28, 2021

Tableau Desktop: one of the best BI tools

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
It is very well equipped with all the latest functionalities required for report generation, predictive analytics and the map-based reporting as well. There is a large set of options for connecting to different types of data sources. In terms of usability, it is very attractive but a little bit intimidating to a fresh user.
April 28, 2021

Tableau Desktop is a Highly Efficient Tool to See and Understand Your Data

Jason Guinn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jason Guinn
Chief Financial Officer
Clinical Management Concepts, Inc. (Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
With a relatively small, simple learning curve, users can quickly begin visualizing and understanding their data. More advanced calculations can be accomplished by engaging with the robust, helpful user community. Tableau also offers excellent one-on-one resources to customers at the annual Tableau Customer Conference to assist with more advanced functionality.
April 27, 2021

Tableau Desktop - intuitive dashboards and ease of use

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
Tableau Desktop was easy to learn how to use. It is an intuitive tool and I became proficient with it in a relatively short period of time. It has very good reporting capabilities, I was able to create nice dashboards and it has a lot of features you can choose from.
April 27, 2021

Good product that keeps up with the times

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
7
I'm giving Tableau a 7 as I think it's a great product but definitely has some room to grow to make it's mark in the market place. I'd definitely purchase it again because they've been great about keeping their product up to date with the times and I actually enjoy using it for sharing my information.
April 27, 2021

Get your data to talk

Karan Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Karan Gupta
Sr. Associate - Marketing Analytics
Macquarie Group (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
It is easy to learn and even beginners can create basic visualizations. There is a ton of learning material online if you get stuck. The [Tableau] user groups are also helpful where they even help you to solve a problem.
April 26, 2021

Tableau - Still Good But No Longer the King

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John Stuchly
Data developer
HKS, Inc. (Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
7
Tableau is easily approachable for even a novice data user to get started. Building out a simple dashboard from data pulled from a couple of spreadsheets or other data sources is relatively easy. However, it can get complicated in a hurry, even for BI developers. So initial use and relatively simple use-cases, easy. But the learning curve can get steep as you try to develop more complex calculations and models.
April 09, 2021

Tableau - a good tool for big companies with multiple data sources

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
Tableau Desktop is easy to learn and fairly easy to implement. We really like the visuals Tableau Desktop creates. It is an expensive tool, so smaller companies should see if it's cost-effective for them to purchase, especially if there aren't multiple data sources involved. If there are various data sources, Tableau Desktop is a good choice to use, since it has a lot of built in support for various data sources.
April 08, 2021

Tableau Desktop: A Solid Data Exploration Tool

Christopher Penn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Christopher Penn
Chief Data Scientist
Trust Insights (Research, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
10

Tableau [Desktop's] interface is clean, minimalistic, and does a good job of hiding more complicated features so that the average user can get to work quickly and easily. As users become more proficient with the software, more features and customization become available, but they don't have to interact with those Advanced features from the get-go. Some scripting is available as well; the one area where this is week is in variable assignment.


December 28, 2020

Must use. Great ROI. Easy to learn and comprehend.

Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
10
It's easy to use, learn, filter data, and share dashboards. The chart templates querying capabilities, and color palettes are great. It is a very good tool when it comes to SQL query writing, filtering data, and blending data from multiple sources.
February 25, 2018

Tableau- The Data Visualizer

Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh
BI Developer
Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
I am really a fan of tableau for its quick setup, data connection, dashboard creation time and very easy to use UI.
As i have used multiple Bi tools like QlikView and SAP BO, i can say all other tools take really long time in performing above functionalities except QlikView which is really fast in term of performing analysis.
February 22, 2018

Tableau Desktop a tool for BD and BI

Arlex Guzman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arlex Guzman
Project Engineering
EYEMAR EXPRESS (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Usability
8
To perform a visualization, the data is needed, they can be in different sites: servers, internet, different formats: SQL, excel, acces, in both cases Tableau Desktop is able to interoperate with them and make them available to the operator so that the work is very easy, the only thing that you should have is some basic knowledge of the database to start using it, if the objective is to use it for BI or BD or to make infographics or executive or alert reports because it is necessary to master them relevant concepts to those areas of knowledge.
June 21, 2017

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

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
Most of the user interface and usability is completely intuitive. It makes one look like they are a better analytics designer than they really are. The ability to connect easily to a wide variety of data sources without needing an interim extract, universe or catalog is a massive time and aggravation saver.
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
Usability
8
It is far better than Excel or other visualization tools, but some of the manipulations of data tables, visualizing underlying data, and more novel visualization methods (dragging dimensions to colors or shapes) behave a bit non-intuitively. The custom logic for field calculation could use a more robust script editor. The definition of multi-table SQL joins using the data import / query builder was pretty rudimentary at the time -- it was easier to create the desired extract or table subset as a set of temp tables or CSVs if the data required complex joins. But overall it is very usable.
June 30, 2016

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

David Fickes | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Fickes
Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
San Francisco State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Usability
9
There is a learning curve but they have dozens of videos to step you through projects which are a great start for anyone. They are nice and short but cover a specific area with linkages to the next video in the series. I've often fired up one similar to a new project of mine and simply stepped through it. This is where you get the boss to give you a large second (or even third) monitor to boost your productivity. If she doesn't then start looking for a better place to work!
May 26, 2016

Tableau - the better BI tool

Paul Morgan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Paul Morgan
Senior Product Manager
Experian (5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Usability
8
Simple, quick and easy to create simple outputs for the novice; very capable to scale up and get really complex for the expert (Desktop version).
Some quirks around how calculations work need research/training.
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