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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 (155)8.989%
- Drill-down analysis (156)8.787%
- Customizable dashboards (163)8.686%
- Formatting capabilities (159)8.383%
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$70.00
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
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- $70 per month
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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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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 Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Attribute Ratings
- 8.9Likelihood to Renew
- 8Availability
- 6.1Performance
- 8.6Usability
- 6.9Support Rating
- 8Online Training
- 9.4In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
- 8.1Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 10Ease of integration
- 10Vendor pre-sale
- 10Vendor post-sale
- 9.2Data Visualization
- 7.9Data Sources
- 8.4Data Sharing and Collaboration
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January 02, 2023
Excellent tool for data visualization with simplicity
- Data visualization
- Data analytics
- Merging two or more than two tables
- Exploring multiple tables
- Need multi value parameters currently it is static and single value parameters
- No custom visual report
- Custom formatting in Tableau
- Limited data preprocessing
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Handles large data sets very well.
- Powerful visualization tools.
- Customization and Collaboration.
- Drag and Drop functionality for some complex charting would be very helpful.
December 02, 2022
Tableau Desktop: Best in business
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Tableau Desktop allows people to make data-driven decisions
- Uncover new insights more frequently
- With a couple of clicks, Tableau Desktop connects directly to thousands of data sources, both on-premises or in the cloud, making it easier to start an analysis
- Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
- Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
- Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
September 12, 2022
Awesome BI/Reporting Tool
- AI Capabilities like ask data and time series forecasting are superb.
- Interactive visuals that are provided on the dashboard makes it so beautiful and playful.
- Very good set of charts along with the chart suggestion based on the data used.
- Pricing
- Support for data cleaning with Tableau Desktop.
May 04, 2022
"Tableau Desktop is a powerful visual analytics tool that helps us understand our business."
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- In the BI/analytics platform, it's a popular reporting tool.
- Includes graphs, maps, and plots that easily integrate with data.
- Intuitive data representation and handling of large amounts of data attracted it.
- Downloading large datasets can be time-consuming.
- To use it effectively, users must be knowledgeable about it.
April 26, 2022
Give your data a different form
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It helps to analyze big data and data can be in any form
- It helps 5 tools to analyze and create report
- It helps to create different type of charts
- As I user I dont find any missing feature because as a part of marketing team we are satisfied with the feature we are using
April 19, 2022
Visual reporting gone right
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Real Time Reporting
- Team Access
- All in one place
- filters
- accessibility
- customization
April 13, 2022
"Efficient, Aesthetic And AWESOME Visualization Tool."
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- It serves as a central repository for all of the company's data.
- Intuitive and uncomplicated data management is the norm here.
- With this tool, it is simple to discover and explore information.
- Tableau's impressive data visualization capabilities allow it to deal with large data sets.
- Data visualization of a million rows is possible without affecting the dashboard's performance.
- There are times when the visualization is a bit dull.
- The creator determines the user-friendliness of data boards.
- It would be greatly appreciated if the refresh timer could be increased.
- In terms of user experience and interface design, I'm not convinced.
March 29, 2022
A powerful Business Intelligence tool for enterprises
- Dashboard Creation.
- Fast connection to SQL, Oracle Databases.
- Automatic Data Refreshing.
- Report refresh rate needs to be improved.
- Support for more visual graphs.
- Cost of the license should be reduced.
- The user interface is easy to understand, so it doesn't take long to learn how to operate it.
- Even if you handle a huge amount of data, it will not slow down.
- It is easy to extract data from various points of view.
- Creating a diagonal reference line requires a lot of steps.
- In many cases, if you're used to working with Excel, you'll find that simple things can't be done easily with Tableau Desktop.
- Nearly pixel perfect graphs
- Easily switch from visualizing data to presenting just numbers
- So many data point connectors. If you have data, it'll connect to it.
- So many moving points to make a detailed graph.
- The visualizations are very rudimentary which leads to analysts creating multiple visualizations to overlay over each other in 1 dashboard.
- Data is a full truncate & reload, or you can use an API but it is an append only data flow.
February 28, 2022
The gold standard in data visualization
- Data visualization.
- Data sharing/collaboration.
- Report building.
- Analytics.
- Expensive pricing.
- Slow performance for large data files.
- Poor customer support.
January 20, 2022
Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for visualizations
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Simplicity and dashboard
- Low cost and scalability
- An easy-to-use interface
- Real-time dashboard options
- Numerous visualization options
- Integration of large amounts of data
- Downloading, accessing, and using it is simple
- Enhanced customization
- Offers limited product support
- Cost-effective for a small business
January 14, 2022
Tableau and experience working with it
- Creating various graphs using key data points.
- Geographical representation of data.
- Create Key performance indicators based on dates.
- Trend lines, heatmaps.
- More chart features/options outside of ShowMe.
- A better way to represent financial data.
- Data prep and data cleaning features.
- Custom formatting options, date functions.
- An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
- Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
- There is a significant learning curve involved in presenting data in a visually appealing manner.
- It can be challenging to incorporate many views, and daily data extracts can be slow depending on the data source.
- More advanced features can only be accessed through the desktop version, while Tableau Server can only offer a few options for editing.
November 01, 2021
Tableau Desktop for Data Analysts
- It can handle very large amount of data
- Drop-down options in dashboards allow users to analyze the impact of clusters within the dataset
- It integrates well with Python and R
- It is strictly a visualization tool, hence no data preprocessing is possible
- Non-coding Tableau users will find it difficult to preprocess data using Python/R and then push the preprocessed data to Tableau
- The reports generated has to be updated manually since Tableau does not allow automatic refreshes
October 06, 2021
Tableau for the win!
- Excellent data visualization tool.
- Easy to learn and great support from the community.
- Great ecosystem to manage data for organizations of any size.
- Expensive for small organization
- Product support from Tableau is limited
- Need more easy to use templates for users who are just starting out.
August 16, 2021
Tableau Desktop - A Powerful BI Tool
- Sorting reports
- Data visualizations
- Fast response
- High cost
- Poor sales support
- No real time updates
August 13, 2021
Tableau Desktop - The most robust analytical tool
- User friendly
- Easy to download, access, and use
- Has a lot of visualization options
- More customization
August 11, 2021
Data driven and governance with the right tool
- Connect to many data sources
- Plot any data into insightful visualizations
- Create charts and reports quickly
- Data story-telling with dashboards
- Chart animation for presentations and web
- Layout customization for panels and dashboards
- Improvements on mobile visualizations
- Live connect: direct query to data sources with seamless efforts
- Drag & Drop UI: build easy and faster great visualizations
- Big Data ready: simplest way to get data from data lakes
- Fastest to deploy simple data models, slowest to deploy complex data models
- Data Prep is not an out-of-the-box feature, but a separate tool
- Pricing compare to Power BI, still remains expensive
July 15, 2021
Tableau your life!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Has all the calculations and features required to build out complex data models
- Has good training programs to bring people up to speed with functionality
- Has great presentation features when socializing data visualization to stakeholders
- The visualizations can have more visually appealing formats
- Functionality takes a bit of a learning curve, needs to be a little more intuitive
- Diverse options for data visualization
- Intuitive user interface
- Robust built-in analytics
- Needs more sophisticated data governance options.
- Needs more smooth connection with other tools (such as Adobe Analytics).
- Displaying complex trending data in simplified format
- Creating stories to use as presentation materials with data highlights
- Customized statistical models with trending predictions
- Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
- Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
- The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features
- Storytelling.
- Data visualization.
- Data analysis.
- Pricing.
- Poor support.
- Lags sometimes.