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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 (156)
    9.4
    94%
  • Drill-down analysis (158)
    9.2
    92%
  • Customizable dashboards (165)
    9.0
    90%
  • Formatting capabilities (161)
    9.0
    90%

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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.

9
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.8
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.

8.7
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 9.4.

The most common users of Tableau Desktop are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 24, 2016

If you have even a little budget for software, and think at all visually, just get Tableau, ok?

Alexander Lubyansky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alexander Lubyansky
Technical Leader for Modeling and Simulation
MITRE (Management Consulting, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Once data for a given analytics study is CLEAN, this is the fastest way to profile the data and "feel" it out. With a few iterations of looking at Tableau worksheets and massaging the data further, you can get a very good idea of what the data says in a broad sense as well as good places to check for anomalies.
  • At the other end of the value chain, experts in Tableau can design very complex dashboards for clients. This part is harder, but allows the marriage of the data alongside its context. This lets clients who are subject matter experts rapidly understand what the data says without information overload or having to learn all kinds of technical stuff about the data.
  • For visual thinkers, you can play around with the data fairly rapidly (make sure to create an extract to optimize the data model first). Most analytics tools are essentially programming platforms with varying amounts of lipstick atop the pig. In Tableau, it's quite a bit more intuitive.
  • I here there's this thing out there called Microsoft Excel. I'm not sure if anyone has heard of it yet. This magical product has something like 90-95% of the functionality of Tableau at the marginal price of *free*.
  • Tableau costs a lot of money, albeit less than the big legacy guys. In fact, you guys paying for SAS, SAP, generic "enterprise" analytics software, what does it feel like to fuel a barrel fire entirely with your project budget?
May 24, 2016

Great product for Dashboarding and Data discovery

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Gambling & Casinos Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Data loading is really powerful.
  • A lot of data sources are available. For us the connection to SQL Server Analysis Services is really cool.
  • Powerful customization of graphics and dashboards.
  • Analysis functions, like forecast and so on.
  • It's not so easy to understand.
  • They should have a more intuitive data load editor.
May 24, 2016

Your business NEEDS Tableau

Matthew McLaughlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matthew McLaughlin
Systems Analyst
CPI Aerostructures (Aviation & Aerospace, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Very easy to set up, install, configure and use.
  • User community is extremely active - posting questions on their forums usually results in an answer in under an hour!
  • Tableau has hours of free training videos on demand and many more free live training sessions.
  • Cost is a little high for some businesses.
  • ODBC is not really supported. I understand why since there could be thousands of drivers 'in the wild'.
May 04, 2016

Tableau is awesome!

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Banking Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • The graphs are very easy to create!
  • Easy to design workbooks and graphs.
  • You can quickly see trends and anomalies in your data!
  • Add functionality to put a dashboard in a dashboard. Currently not available.
  • Add settings to help in the joining of tables. (IDs only, etc).
  • More work on extracts! They can still be slow and cumbersome.
April 13, 2016

Tableau helps you build your dashboard in no time on any source system

mahesh ray | TrustRadius Reviewer
mahesh ray
Data Engineer
Citrix (Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • We have used several data visualization tools, but like Tableau for its unique features like.
  • Ease of building, i.e the effort spent is minimal in comparisons to other tools as there is no bulky middle/symantec layer in between the front end and the source systems.
  • You can use all types of databases, text files, CRM applications, advance analytics tools and Hadoop like big data technologies.
  • The inbuilt map features available and the ease of building make it again unique.
  • Tableau works more like a dashboard tool and lags the reporting Tool's features.
  • Creating Financial Reports with complex formulae with horizontal or vertical table structure is not so comfortable like with SAP, Oracle and MicroStrategy tools.
  • Tableau's conditional formatting and limited 16 column table, disappoints the users who are comfortable with Excel.
  • Tableau has weak semantic modeling and Data modeling.
April 01, 2016

Best dashboard/reporting for mid to advanced final users (managers and top board)

Verified User
Manager in Sales
Consumer Goods Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Is simple to manage, and the learning curve is easy.
  • Deployment made easy and included.
  • Interaction with the data is the most powerful feature you can give to an user, and Tableu exceeds on this.
  • Multiple devices ready.
  • No need of advanced reporting skills.
  • Printed reports is not as good as other tools, but who needs this nowadays?
March 29, 2016

Data visualization made easy!

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Data visualization
  • Publishing data visualization
  • Interactive data visualization
  • Robust/Fact calculation
  • Although Tableu supports R, this support is still limited. It would be great if there was some interface where Tableau could connect to R directly.
  • Exporting/printing multiple view as file/output.
March 17, 2016

Oj's Review of Tableau Desktop

Ojoswi Basu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ojoswi Basu
Sr. Tableau Solution Consultant
PointClickCare (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Powerful visualization skills
  • Easy to implement Tableau Calculations to achieve complex BI level analysis and reporting
  • Integration with R
  • Fast report render speeds across multiple data sources, agnostic of the data source technology
  • Copy DS with Calculated Fields
  • Easier Edit of Custom Colors
  • Ability to Format Parameters and Filters individually
March 16, 2016

Tableau - Analytics Leader

Sandeep Reddy Tippana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sandeep Reddy Tippana
HANA Modeler
Schlumberger (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Biggest strength of Tableau desktop is its abundant availability of visualization charts. This makes it easy for users/analysts for decision making rather than going through Raw data.
  • Ease of Use: This helps in a homogenous user interface.
  • Support: This tool supports all kinds of users from basic to advanced. No coding required thus reducing the IT overhead.
  • Data Integration: Tableau works well in merging third party data sources with the existing. This gives users flexibility in analyzing multi sources of data in a single place.
  • Column limit: There is a limit in displaying the number of columns to no more than 16 in the layout.
  • Initial Data Preparation: Users need to have some technical knowledge in order to prepare/massage the data for the analysis.
  • HANA Connectivity: Though Tableau connects to HANA well, the integration provided is not flexible at an enterprise level.
  • OLAP Connectivity: Integration with SAP BW is poor.
March 16, 2016

Tableau Geek & Proud!

JW
James Wilson
Data Analyst
Bridgepoint Education (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau Desktop helps end users create data visualizations quickly and with little knowledge of the product. The simple user interface and the ability to “drag and drop” measures and dimensions isn’t found in any other analytics tool.
  • Multiple data types and sources can be connected to Tableau. From organizations using Excel to house data or large institutions using Vertica and Hadoop, anyone can use Tableau for analysis.
  • The ability to create dashboards and create a smooth end user experience is exceptional. Tableau allows an individual with no prior knowledge of the tool to navigate the dashboard and gain data insights.
  • Tableau should add navigational buttons. There should be an easier way to jump to multiple tabs within a dashboard.
  • Dynamic parameters. There should be a way to tie a parameter to a column and if new variables are placed in the column, the parameter should update as well.
  • The background shading (or coloring) of quick filters and parameters should be individualized. Currently if one parameter’s color is changed, all of the parameters on the dashboard change as well.
March 08, 2016

Perfect analytics tool

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau is being used to retrieve data from multidimensional relational databases, spreadsheets and from cloud databases and then to present the data in visual format to the users in Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance.
  • Tableau is being used for analyzing sales metrics, capturing web data from customers and used for marketing analytics, reporting financial analysis data to senior management to visualize the performance of the company within a few minutes, instead of tedious report generating processes from other third party applications.
  • We started using the latest version 8.0 and many of the features that we would be using were included in the latest release 8.0. Did not come across any areas that the product does less well, but we are somewhat new to Tableau and still trying out many features.
February 29, 2016

Good visual data discovery and self-serve dashboard development tool.

Jody Gitchel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jody Gitchel
Developer / Systems Engineer
Quantum Health (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Time-to-value. Allows you to quickly and easily gain insight into your data visually.
  • Ease of use. For novice users and experts alike to utilize. The interface is fairly straight forward and non-complicated.
  • Many data sources are available, and the ability to bring together disparate data sources is a plus.
  • Value. The price does not constitute the value.
  • Although it is marketed as a business intelligence tool, its function is niche as in it is a visual data discovery / self-serve dashboard tool.
  • Accessing data details. Users want to see and export the data behind the visualizations which is not a strong function of this product.
February 19, 2016

Sometimes it Tableaus you away

Jake Lanier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jake Lanier
Marketing Analyst
Craftworks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc. (Restaurants, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau creates visuals based on the data provided. It automatically chooses which visual works best and its often right.
  • Tableau allows for an easy pivot-like approach to analyzing data.
  • Tableau provides unique analysis, such as geo-mapping based on address data, which allows for a different perspective when looking at restaurant data.
  • Tableau can be difficult in the way it automatically designates certain fields. It may not recognize a certain field as a date field even though it is.
  • Tableau is still missing some of the Excel functions that are helpful or it just may not be intuitive in how to incorporate them if you're familiar with Excel.
  • While the Tableau map is a great visual option, it can be buggy and still needs some work.
February 19, 2016

Big Promises but Lousy Delivery

David Barrymore | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Barrymore
IMS Cloud CEO and Director of Business Intelligence Services
IMS Cloud, Inc. (Market Research, 1-10 employees)
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau Desktop has pretty colors but is not very well constructed for beginning users of the product.
  • Support is nowhere near where it should be for allowing a first time user to learn how to use the product.
  • Pricing was presented to me by Tableau sales with the understanding that Tableau provided excellent training. Not true.
  • Tableau Desktop needs to provide a comprehensive training program for first time users
  • Training that is currently provided does not allow for any user interaction so it becomes just a lecture without allowing the user to develop muscle memory with the product.
  • Tableau Desktop does not provide any phone support which means that once a user buys the product, he is on his own.
February 15, 2016

Tableau: a concise review from the trenches

AJ Sanchez | TrustRadius Reviewer
AJ Sanchez
Data Architect
Replay Creative (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Ease to connect to various types of data sources, hosted locally and in the cloud: almost "plug-and-play"
  • Support to quickly create compelling dashboards that can be used by various analysts across the organization: I meet with the stakeholders who pose the questions and we brainstorm together so they lead me through the construction of the right set of assets. At any step, I am able to show them the current stage of the visualizations being built, until we reach a point at which what is left to be done is the finessing of the final assets.
  • Ease to blend heterogeneous data sources: this "point-and- click" feature has been useful when we need to combine heterogeneous data sources in the creation of dashboards
  • Easy sharing of visualization assets among peers: we create versions of the visualization assets under construction using extracts, which makes the sharing of the resources particularly easy since stakeholders focus on analyzing the data and not on issues related to the underlying data infrastructure
  • Since I am a senior software engineer, I wish Tableau had a more robust underlying programming language with clearly defined semantics. To be fair, the ability to connect Tableau with R helps in this direction.
  • I believe the quality and quantity of the official documentation maintained by the company could improve. Fortunately, there is a thriving community on which I have relied heavily. However, given the current level of maturity of Tableau, this should naturally prompt the company to document well-known solution patterns for recurrent visualization questions/problems.
  • I would appreciate the ability to easily access data inherent to some "out-of-the-box" analyses available in Tableau. For instance, it would be nice to programmatically have access to parameters that are calculated in connection with linear trends such as the slope, the independent term, etc.
February 12, 2016

Ease of use and heterogeneous data sources

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Mapping widget
  • Charts and pies are well designed
  • Mutual dependence between components
  • Ease of use
  • Variety of data that can be integrated (xls, dbf, Oracle, SQL, cube .... and many other DB sources )
  • Clear and intuitive dashboard
  • In mapping extension - could add some basic geoprocessing tools
  • Adding charts and pies directely of the map
  • Using shapefile could be useful too
February 12, 2016

Tableau Desktop is the top visual reporting tool for end users to do data analysis

LC
Logan Chen
Senior infrastructure engineer
cibc (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Connecting to multiple data sources seamlessly
  • Easy to create visualization report / portal
  • Fast generation of reports
  • Easy to learn
  • The dashboard is more desktop based, and needs more enhancement on web-based
  • Sometime changing the format is very challenging
  • Need more geographical / map-based templates
February 12, 2016

"Tableau Desktop - Driving Organization Analytic Efficiency Engine"

Verified User
Analyst in Quality Assurance
Utilities Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Good analytic Platform
  • Versatile tool for visualization
  • Very easy to create diverse visualization
  • Flexible in terms of data source option from Excel to Microsoft cube
  • No predictive analytical capabilities
  • Statistically challenged and provides limited statistics functionality as compared to Microsoft Excel
  • No version control, governance and other commonly desired enterprise features
February 11, 2016

Tableau - Tab-yes!

Verified User
Administrator in Human Resources
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau Desktop is a very intuitive platform. Its smart tools help you clean and organize your data before you go and start dragging and dropping your data to build your visual dashboard.
  • Tableau Desktop is very user friendly, it has a nice user interface and is easier to learn/pick-up than most business intelligence tools out there.
  • Tableau Desktop has an open API so it's easy to connect to other systems, such as an HRIS system, so you can do real time reporting and information gets updated immediately.
  • Great analytic tool.
  • Pricing.
  • Predictive analytic tools.
  • Specific tools or suggestions for different business units. For example, I do people analytics, maybe a list of recommended analytics for my area (HR)?
November 11, 2015

Visual Intelligence and Analysis (VIA) that is the name of our company & what you can expect from Tableau

Larry Keller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Larry Keller
CEO
VIA - Visual Intelligence & Analysis (1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Tableau is as popular today as it was 5 years ago for use by the average and under-served business user. Richer analytic capabilities now open doors for the audience that requires "R". Smartly, Tableau is not wondering into the space that a SAS dominates.
  • TCO - total cost of ownership - Our firm created a 150 question survey for a client that wanted to contract with one of the top three data visualization and analysis vendors for an OEM contract. Written with total objectivity the three vendors were: Spotfire, Qlik-View and Tableau. All the questions were weighted - The outcome and contract went to Tableau - among a number of reasons for the award was the lowest cost of ownership which is often not considered.
  • Future Direction of the product - This is a challenge for this writer and contributor. Tableau does need a process that enables it to deal with data blending in a more complete and simple manner with emphasis on simplicity. I would eliminate the waste of space and thus clutter with repetitive instruction sets - example - there are five ways to create a new sheet. We also hear from clients and they ask for easier ways to connect to SAP
  • Support - Tableau support has now gone the extra mile. We now get telephone calls directly from support on the same day that a case is submitted. Further, case escalation is rapid if the first person cannot provide the fix.
  • There is no need to to have small features like "create new page" enabled in five ways. It results in clutter for the new user who seeks to grasp fundamental features in one or two places max.
  • Time series data - The options for rendering time series date are confusing for the new user. Once the time dimension is placed on the columns, the options for how time is rendered are confusing for the new user. Time options are shown in classic time options (Year - Qtr - Mth) but the user can see time in a more continuous for (green) with the options below a poorly marked line. Tableau should render the continuous options in green to provide a visual clue and some text to tell the user
  • Story Points is a nice feature - In this world of PowerPoint addiction, it is not a knock-off and I am sure it was not intended to be such. It does help the user who is faced with presenting content in a process to the inevitable Friday, 9AM senior staff meeting.
  • Presentation of the calculations backing up quick table calculations
  • An abbreviation list for states in the US and countries when using geo coded data
November 11, 2015

Need to visualize data? Look no further.

Tim McClelland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim McClelland
Innovation Research Manager
Wright Brothers Institute (Defense & Space, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of use. It is extremely easy to drag and drop fields and create a quick dashboard in minutes. After loading data, you can quickly adjust fields to figure out which formats offer the best insights into your data.
  • Powerful mapping and charting abilities. There are a wide variety of options available for displaying data, from geographic maps, heat maps, word bubbles, line graphs, bar charts, histogram, bubble chart, scatter plots, area chart, pie charts, etc.
  • Customization. With the simple click of a button, you can adjust the colors, sizes, text, and formats of your worksheets. This is especially useful when comparing information on multiple levels of detail, from geographic region, to company type, etc. Its also a great way to customize your reports for you customer, and utilize their specific color scheme.
  • There are a few things Tableau could do better, I would like to see even more mapping options, including web or spider maps. I have clients who would be very interested in that view of data, however tableau does not currently offer an easy way to represent the data accordingly.
  • It is very easy to add data into Tableau, and for the most part easy to manipulate data within the program, however some fields must be in the proper format to be read correctly. For example, date fields must be in the excel data format (ex:36892 is the value for 1/1/2001), and it will not just read a 4 digit year as a year. Its not the hardest thing to deal with, but can be frustrating needing to return to the original data source to modify date values.
April 08, 2015

Tableau for Business Intelligence

Rob Austin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rob Austin
Business Intelligence Consultant
InterWorks UK (11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros and Cons
  • Easy for a business user with little or no data knowledge to access and understand their data. Hence you can connect straight to your accounts or operational data and start gaining insights to aid good decision making.
  • A great combination of entry level BI all the way to expert. The user interface is so friendly and intuitive that you can see results almost immediately. I was able to pick it up and make new discoveries about my business within a couple of hours from first opening the software.
  • The software is very affordable and also scalable so you don't have to make a huge investment up front you simply add licenses as you need them. The setup is instant too.
  • The main downside for me is that it is currently not available for Mac so I have to run it on a VM.
March 18, 2015

Tableau Desktop Drives Analytic Efficiency

James Martin | TrustRadius Reviewer
James Martin
Measurement Solutions Designer
MRM McCann (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • Data Connectivity. Tableau Desktop supports an incredibly vast array of data sources, and does so very efficiently. Everything from Excel Data Sheets, to advanced databases to your online Google Analytics account.
  • Data Visualization. Tableau's built in data visualizations follow and even suggest best practices for all kinds of data types and cuts. It also has a superb dashboard capability which becomes more versatile with each release.
  • Data Filtering. With the simple use of consistent data points and parameters, Tableau allows for a report to be filtered based on any data dimension. This allows for efficient and easy report automation and duplication.
  • Dashboard Formatting - while the dashboard capability is robust and easy to use, it can be difficult at times to do some of the finer detailing, like formatting, coloring and highlighting. Once mastered, it is again very versatile, but is not as intuitive and there is a learning curve.
  • An Undo Button! Tableau current does not include an 'undo' button which can be extremely irritating if you make a mistake that is difficult to reverse.
  • Table Joining - the interface/wizard used when attempting to join tables and connect different data sources is not as intuitive as it could be, which makes it difficult to perform some of the incredible data connectivity that is available.
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