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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

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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 24, 2024

Tableau Desktop - All in one business intelligence tool

Verified User
Analyst in Corporate
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Can create best eye catching report with interaction.
  • Easily calculate and visualise business KPI , that will help your business for making good decisions
  • Can easily collaborate report
  • Nit budget friendly
  • Some formatting options and chart options is still missing
February 27, 2024

Analytics with Tableau

Verified User
Consultant in Product Management
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to import the data from various external sources and transform them as per the business requirements.
  • Through Quick analysis tool bar option, we could easily calculate certain metrics and boost productivity
  • We use set and parameters in Tableau to generate business insights required for our process.
  • It has poor performance while handling large data sets and takes a longer time to complete certain tasks.
  • Their customer service assistance is not good which should be improve for better experience.
  • They have limited options to export the data from Tableau that should be improved.
December 29, 2023

A versatile platform that can make your daily work life easier!

KV
Kevin Villaluz
Project Manager
Fabfitfun (Retail, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • User friendly platform
  • User can easily navigate and access the dashboard we're looking for
  • We're confident that our data/files are secured
  • Not really a negative one but just an opportunity to improve its user interface or its UI
  • Laggish view sometimes
  • Autologs out every idle time
January 02, 2023

Excellent tool for data visualization with simplicity

Shubham Tiwari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Shubham Tiwari
Data analyst
OnlineSales.ai (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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
December 02, 2022

Tableau Desktop: Best in business

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Staffing & Recruiting Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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."

Tohidul Islam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tohidul Islam
Information Technology Team Lead
Extreme Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Mayur Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mayur Garg
Business Development Executive
Techvanto (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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 13, 2022

"Efficient, Aesthetic And AWESOME Visualization Tool."

Orin Mamun | TrustRadius Reviewer
Orin Mamun
Junior Frontend Developer
Merge Creation (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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 28, 2022

A large amount of data analysis can be performed without stress

NS
Nobuyuki Suzuki
CAA (Chief Applications Architect)
F-TECH INC. (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
March 06, 2022

Tableau is widely used, but needs more support and functionality

Jeremy Pierce, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeremy Pierce, MBA
Data Warehouse Engineer
Vivint (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
January 20, 2022

Tableau Desktop is an excellent tool for visualizations

Al Mubassir Muin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Al Mubassir Muin
Software Engineer
Prime Tech Solutions Ltd. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Team Lead in Manufacturing
Chemicals Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
November 16, 2021

"Powerful BI Tool, Flexible Analytics Solution And Easy Dashboarding Software"

Afia Tamanna | TrustRadius Reviewer
Afia Tamanna
Information Technology Business Consultant
Alfa NET+ (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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

Verified User
Analyst in Customer Service
Consumer Goods Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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!

Aquinov Mathappan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aquinov Mathappan
Systems Administrator II (Business Intelligence)
Florida International University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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 11, 2021

Data driven and governance with the right tool

Rafael Grandizoli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rafael Grandizoli
Gerente de Operações
MUV (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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
August 04, 2021

Tableau Desktop the fastest way for business users to get value from big data

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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!

Verified User
Engineer in Manufacturing
Consumer Electronics Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • 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
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