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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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- Report sharing and collaboration (156)9.393%
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- Customizable dashboards (165)9.090%
- Formatting capabilities (161)9.090%
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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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Tableau Desktop Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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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.
Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration and Publish to Web highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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We have used tableau desktop to find the key reasons for customer churn in one of the largest telecom companies in the word. We have integrated it with R programming to forecast potential customers that can be churned in next few months. This way the client customer support team can focus more on those customers [in order] to retain them.
Tableau is being used within the Commercial side of business and within the R&D side within the Drug Safety department of which I am a part of and which will be the focus of my review. It is being used primarily in support of operational analytics and workflow management within the Drug Safety organization, as well as for risk management within the Pharmacovigilance and Risk Management organization. Many if not all drug safety databases capture data well, and output data decently...but only for pre-defined outputs (native to the drug safety database out-of-the-box functionality), however getting data out of the database in flexible, easy to understand graphs and tabulations is much more difficult. That is where Tableau shines...first of all it allows the user to easily access data stored in an Oracle-based database and many other data formats, and it makes this easy connection without needing any interim transformation, catalog or universe to be created. This is a huge time savings, allowing the user to focus on getting information out of the data instead of just getting to the data. So the big business problem it solves is that it allows easy access to data...and allows the user to quickly turn the data into actionable information. To give our users easy access we create dashboards with visualization and filtering capabilities, and manage the users in Tableau Server in user groups with pre-defined access rights, so it is very easy to add new users and enable them to derive information from data.
March 20, 2017
Warming up to Tableau Desktop
We currently use Tableau Desktop to provide dashboards to managing departments in an investment company. We use two main types of data sources: an SSAS cube and views on an SQL Server database. Once dashboards are approved, we publish them on Tableau server for the company's internal clients.
At this time, Tableau is mostly used to automate reports analysts and managers used to fill periodically with Excel.
I have used Tableau Desktop for various projects related to data visualization and showing data analysis. It is very easy to develop various charts, using colour codes to distinguish various trends and has templates to complete the work.
February 27, 2017
Great product
We use it for complex data interpretation.
February 21, 2017
Tableau ease
Tableau Desktop is being used by one small department in our organization. We use it to track daily and monthly metrics for the organization and to visualize data coming from multiple different data sources. Our agency has been involved with a major data automation projection and depends on Tableau to test and use that data.
February 20, 2017
Tableau Desktop - The Easy Button Analytics Tool
Tableau was initially purchased with the goals of speeding up the creation process of reports based on a very large data set. Over time we have expanded the usage of tableau from everyday sales by zip reporting to even using tableau to analyze potential locations to open up new stores. It has been useful for practically anyone in the organization, it is also simple to understand and read as well from the visualizations.
Tableau desktop is being used in my entire organization. It is very easy to use with a whole lot of functionalities which are very useful to get business users what they really need.
February 09, 2017
Wonderful Tableau!
I used Tableau Desktop to visualize the global workforce metrics for the organization. The organization previously used PowerPoint for visualizations. Tableau helped overcome a lot of challenges. It is being used by the workforce planning department now. I am not sure about other departments. It's used to create dashboards and charts to present to business partners.
Currently Tableau is being used to share dashboard metrics with our Retail Development team. Tableau is currently connected to our database server where it allows me to create real-time visuals for market reports and attendance tracking. Before coming to DMC they did not have a Data Analyst or a person that understood what relevant marketing metrics meant to the business. With Tableau, I was able to give VPs and other Execs a look at the business from a high level view as well as dig into the weeds to come out with data relevant for decision making.
December 29, 2016
Worked superbly for analyzing web traffic data.
Score 10 out of 10
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We use Tableau Desktop mainly to analyze operational data for our consumer-facing website. This involves data from our own web application (sometimes via database connection, sometimes via flat file exports) as well as Google Analytics data (both traffic and events data). We have one user (me) who runs weekly reports that mash up the data from the operational systems and Google Analytics, and then syndicate the output via emailing PDFs of the standard reports around. I also do ad hoc analyses from time to time to try and spot patterns, trends, answer specific questions etc. and sometimes those make their way into the standard weekly visualizations shared with the team.
October 18, 2016
Tableau Desktop Review
This software is used by both analysts and stakeholders across the business. It solves the problem of having one platform that users of different skill sets can all use with effective results. In particular, the drag and drop functionality allowing you to create reports from dimensions and measures makes it an extremely accessible solution for nontechnical personnel.
October 07, 2016
My Tableau Review
Tableau is being used across the organization by various business units and departments. It helped discover all kinds of business problems using Tableau's intuitive interface as compared to other BI reporting tools.
October 07, 2016
Tableau - helping you to tell your story ....
Tableau is currently our standard tool for self-service reporting. We have a predominantly SAP and Microsoft environment, with many different SQL databases all over the place. A few years ago our users expressed the need that they wanted to explore data for themselves, without involving the IT department first, and that they would only come back to us if they needed more help. We evaluated the tools available and chose Tableau for this purpose.
September 16, 2016
Tableau Desktop - Leader of the pack
It is used across many departments across the whole organisation. The business problems addressed include being used as a visual analysis tool in conjunction with other traditional applications such as Excel, where it's geographical capabilities can easily visually aid and identify in any analysis work where locale is a useful metric, as well as creation of dashboards for numerous stakeholders to consume where traditional rigid reports are replaced with interactive and user security enabled dashboards.
September 09, 2016
Tableau is a good entry-level visualization tool, not great for multi-user, customizable solutions or big datasets
Tableau is used for a lot of analytics and dashboard by pricing, merchants (buyers), finance and other functions. The mapping capabilities are heavily used.
September 07, 2016
Tableau is my favorite data visualization tool
As a small company, we're only currently using Tableau Desktop for ad hoc analyses and occasional charts for projects and proposals.
August 29, 2016
Tableau is great for reports!! Wish it looked better and had better options for visualizing.
Right now we use Tableau to generate cost status reports. It's the hub that all of our accounting systems feed into. It provides a solution to be able to compare data from multiple sources in an easy side by side report.
All business users at the companies that I consulted with use Tableau Desktop as their data visualization tool.
August 22, 2016
Tableau Desktop - A Powerful, Insightful, Dynamic Tool
Tableau Desktop is being used throughout my organization. Every department from accounting and purchasing to engineering and sales and marketing has a at least a few people dedicated to using Tableau to enhance reporting. My company captures all sorts of data and Tableau is providing a way to turn that data into something meaningful.
August 19, 2016
Big Data Made Pretty
Tableau is used across the organization in two formats -- financial metrics for our digital line of business and as client services data for our automotive line of business.
August 10, 2016
Tableau Review
The BI group always got hampered by their turnaround time and when they were streamlining projects. Nowadays corporations are moving towards self-service.
Our Research Institute needed to access data, and their nature of work would not allow them to be specific about their request. So first we launched Tableau for our Research Institute customers which gave them ability for self service and discovery. Project specialists and process improvement were our next customers.
We used Tableau Desktop to build out visualizations for data related to public safety. This included data about crimes and code violations, which we received from the police department.
July 18, 2016
Best tool for visualisation
I was working on it last year and it was the right choice. It is a data visualization software that lets me see and understand data. I used it to show our sales and management team quick dashboards about performance and products. I also used it to analyze data.
Tableau is used as a teaching tool for visualization across several departments. It is also used by these departments and others to create visualizations for budgeting and other external communications for the public, government staff and elected officials. Ultimately, these visualizations have a wide circulation and are key to demonstrating our commitment to a wide variety of social initiatives.