Pros and Cons
- Consolidate data
- Gives a variety of graphs to choose from
- Provide executive views
- Connectivity with SharePoint documents and other enterprise software
- Increase drag and drop functionality
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Pros and Cons
- Data connection
- Dataset joining and blending
- Visualization
- Storytelling
- Dashboarding
- Calculation feature
- Filters
- Formating
Pros and Cons
- Instantly changes views of data to slice and dice depending on need.
- Map feature is fantastic.
- Tableau is very customizable, which means that a lot of simple analytics tools have to be built from scratch.
- Importing data is not always intuitive to a lay person like me.
December 09, 2019
Tableau Desktop - The nuts and bolts of it.
Pros and Cons
- Love the interface. It's very smooth and easy to connect multiple numbers of data points
- Provided a lot of self-learning tutorials which are easy to follow
- You can display info in different ways (categorical versus numerical)
- User friendly and has clean display
- Sometimes takes a while to refresh
- A bit expensive
- Pullind data, particularly if you are not familiar with SQL or other query languages, can be a bit challenging
December 09, 2019
Data management and visual precedence!
Pros and Cons
- Pull-down menus and/or split commands for sorting and data manipulation.
- Great pricing for the desktop version, online is still less preferable though.
- Automatically connects .csv files instead of a browser.
- Four-phase implementation training in order to understand all the processes to ensure literacy of the software could facilitate a better process.
- To match queries it takes a lot of effort in data manipulation.
- Courses and annual fees leave a strenuous bill burden on those who are beginning to implement the quota into their startup.
October 07, 2019
Turn Tables Into Vistas of Visualization with Tableau Desktop
Pros and Cons
- Tableau's suite of powerful data visualization tools allows users to create static and interactive dashboards with the ease of a drag-and-drop interface. It can help users avoid common data visualization pitfalls.
- Tableau handily deals with millions of rows of data, from various data sources, including spreadsheets and SQL databases. This allows users to integrate disparate data sources that may have been difficult to connect otherwise.
- Tableau's interface allows data analysts of all experience levels to quickly begin producing compelling and useful analysis and visualizations. As a user gains experience, Tableau's feature set continues to keep pace.
- Pricing at scale is inordinately expensive. One must pay for the best, it seems, but better large-volume pricing would be appreciated!
- When assembling a worksheet, there is only limited room for columns, and when that capacity is exceeded, columns are auto-collapsed into merged placeholders, which cannot be easily inspected.
- Tableau is so feature-rich that it can feel impossible to master. While the vendor does provide training outreach, an emphasis on interactive tool-tips and other forms of "hands-on" training would be a welcome addition to the application.
September 13, 2019
Tableau Desktop still is my go-to product in a crowded BI tool market
Pros and Cons
- Visualization of data.
- Easily connects to local or a variety of data sources or APIs.
- Short learning curve to come up to speed.
- The pricing model has been tricky at times.
- Tableau corporation doesn't do a great job with the inventory of those who own licenses.
- Performance has been an issue at times.
August 09, 2019
Tableau is the market leader when it comes to Interactive Data Analysis and Visualization
Pros and Cons
- Tableau offers incredible data visualization tools and the ability to parse massive data-sets in a very limited time. Its plethora of different chart formats and tools allow you to show data almost any way, making it easy to adapt visualizations to differing needs and tastes.
- Tableau is great for creating a combined dashboard with multiple databases as the source. This is one of the main features that the Tableau can connect to almost any data source and import the data easily and quickly.
- The support for natural language query is invaluable. It helps people of all skill levels quickly discover actionable insights because they don't have to learn any particular language to get on-board with it.
- The charts and graphics that tableau makes are easy for even nonanalytical people to understand, ideal for end-users of information as well.
- When we are importing data from multiple sources and the data is huge, it sometimes tends to lag and have also crashed sometimes.
- Tableau Desktop lacks the basic functionality of cleaning and prepping the data to be imported in Tableau Desktop. This is one of the major features which it lacks, you need additional support from Tableau to get these things added.
- It has the annoying habit that saved database connections must be re-authenticated every time you open the program, which is a complete waste of time and effort to do it, again and again, each time.
October 03, 2019
Still the Industry Standard for BI
Pros and Cons
- Lots of Data Connections
- Easy Visualizations
- Well supported in the community
- Flexible tool - many ways to do things.
- Error messaging is ambiguous
- Confusing interface - many ways to do the same thing
- Limited Crosstabs
- Dashboard layouts don't allow cutting and pasting of objects
- Despite what they try to demonstrate, big datasets still don't perform as quickly as you might expect them to
October 23, 2019
Great for Data-Viz-Wizzes, Painful for Others
Pros and Cons
- Allows for complex dashboards to be made and then presented to less-technical audiences
- Stories help highlight important information in the information, allowing a presentation to stand on its own without having to be explained in person
- Recommends different visualizations based on the type of data inputted
- Very steep learning curve for those who haven't used it previously.
- Because it's a powerful tool, getting it to do simple things can be extremely difficult.
- A jack-of-all-trades solution, sometimes it's hard to find or create industry-specific visualizations, such as NPS gauges.
January 24, 2020
Tableau Desktop in education
Pros and Cons
- Visual charts are very clear
- Easy to use
- It has worked great I have nothing negative to say about Tableau Desktop.
September 19, 2019
The best tool for visualization and storytelling
Pros and Cons
- Easy to import data from multiple sources
- Easy to drag and drop and create various dimension
- Easy to build a storyboard
- A simple knowledgebank to get people started is essential.
- The pricing could be slightly lower for individual users
- The calculated fields could be made simpler
September 18, 2019
Tableau is a sophisticated BI platform that's constantly improving
Pros and Cons
- Easy to use
- Consistent analytics
- Presentation ready
- CTE for custom SQL
- Comments for users to add enhancement requests
- JIRA style project management of a workbook
September 13, 2019
The Dominant Tool, But Will It Stay That Way?
Pros and Cons
- Easy to learn.
- Analyzes your data and recommends potential reports.
- User-friendly interface.
- Expensive compared to other tools.
- Hooking into data beyond CSV can get complicated.
- Entire Tableau ecosystem (Desktop, Server, etc) is overly complicated.
October 23, 2019
Tableau Desktop - Intuitive and Easy to Use
Pros and Cons
- Create dashboards
- Live link to data sources
- Flexibility
- Row level security
- Calculated fields
September 16, 2019
Tableau Desktop - iReviewed
Pros and Cons
- Very user friendly, even a beginner would not have problem in understanding how to use it.
- Various types of charts are available.
- Sharing the dashboards is easy.
- Creating a dashboard is pretty easy and only Tableau has storytelling options which have helped me in my presentations.
- Raw data downloading behind the dashboard - The format of the data that we download would be in a very confusing format.
- Format matching is pretty much manual for various charts that we create.
- Data cleaning, wrangling & formatting has a lot of room for improvement.
- Alerting system from the dashboard is not available yet.
June 20, 2019
Visualization made simple, and complex!
Pros and Cons
- Easy to use
- Plenty of Customization options
- Can be quick to pick up for average users
- Supports some complex analytics
- Integrates well with other software
- expensive
- does require some workarounds to solve sometimes simple analytics
- training for product is also very expensive
Pros and Cons
- It creates good dashboards.
- Selecting the fields and metrics is quite easy. We can create the formulas for presenting any variable.
- We can use this tool with R studio and SQL, which I think is the major power of this tool.
- We can process huge data in a very limited time.
- Output delivery of charts is also very efficient. For example, we can take the PDF of the charts, which is good, from other tools.
- More statistical functions need to be introduced in it.
- We can not clean the data through this tool.
- While taking the data from multiple sources, it hangs sometimes which sometimes crashes the whole system.
Pros and Cons
- User-friendly interface.
- Good IT support and lots of resources.
- Can publish reports to a server.
- Quite expensive.
- Limited functions in calculations.
- Not support embedded SQL.
- Not compatible well with Microsoft’s products.
Pros and Cons
- After basic training users can operate with Tableau by themselves.
- Tableau is good for evaluating base data analytics and data science tasks.
- In comparison to Ms PowerBL: fewer visuals in Tableau.
- Fewer free versions and support documentation/examples in Tableau rather than in PowerBI.
Pros and Cons
- User-friendly, and made for visual learners.
- The best tool for presentation purposes and actionable examples.
- Good for using our data in a way that can be understood by everyone in the business.
- It can be slow, as in loading slow and taking a while to switch from dashboard to dashboard.
Pros and Cons
- Very easy UI for all level of users.
- Easy to save/favorite different dashboards.
- Granting access to different levels of users is easy.
- You still need to have a fair amount of technical skills to set up some dashboards.
- Drag and drop functionality could work a little easier.
- Keep working on the UI.
August 02, 2019
Tableau is a great data tool!
Pros and Cons
- Dynamic visualization.
- Easy data entry.
- Easy data correction/cleaning/modification.
- Steep learning curve.
- Not very user friendly to navigate.
Pros and Cons
- Can process large amounts of data.
- Has lots of data connections to feed data.
- Easy to set up basic reports and dashboards.
- The Online and Server products make Tableau easy to use and share work with large groups (or small groups).
- Now has the backing of Saleforce and that admired company culture.
- The cost for Desktop and Server is extremely cost prohibitive.
- Tableau is quick to blame the users when performance and processing speeds are poor, but in reality, Tableau needs to work on making the application lighter and more powerful. There is a tool to evaluate performance on each workbook.
- Needs more data connectors.
- It takes advanced training/knowledge to create advanced reports and dashboards. If you use it every day you can become advanced in a few months.
- Training documentation and access to trading materials are lacking. Maybe they want youtube to be the main source of training?
June 07, 2019
A Great BI Tool for those that love customization
Pros and Cons
- Data Visualization
- Data Importing
- Data Blending
- Providing login-free dashboards for client/stakeholder visibility
- Definitions for tooltips
- Custom color schemes
Tableau Desktop Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About 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.
Tableau Desktop Competitors
IBM Cognos, SAP Lumira Discovery, Qlik Sense, Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy Analytics, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
Free trials are available for both editions.
Tableau Desktop Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | No |