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8.3
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7.6
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Tableau Online is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud, making it easily accessible. Tableau Online enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any…
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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 storytelling.
What is Tableau Server?
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
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BI Standard Reporting
8.2
82%
Ad-hoc Reporting
7.9
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Report Output and Scheduling
8.3
83%
Data Discovery and Visualization
8.4
84%
Access Control and Security
8.8
88%
Mobile Capabilities
7.4
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Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
7.8
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What is Tableau Online?
Tableau Online is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud, making it easily accessible.
Tableau Online enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device. Add users with a few clicks and scale your site to fit your business. Tableau Online is a fully hosted solution, meaning that users won't have to configure servers, manage software upgrades, or scale hardware capacity. According to the vendor, Tableau Online is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. Customers can use Tableau Online to quickly begin creating and sharing insights with everyone.
Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is easy to start and scale, Tableau supports the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
Tableau Online enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device. Add users with a few clicks and scale your site to fit your business. Tableau Online is a fully hosted solution, meaning that users won't have to configure servers, manage software upgrades, or scale hardware capacity. According to the vendor, Tableau Online is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. Customers can use Tableau Online to quickly begin creating and sharing insights with everyone.
Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is easy to start and scale, Tableau supports the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
Tableau Online Competitors
- Domo
- IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
- Looker
- MicroStrategy Analytics
- QlikView
- Qlik Sense
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
Tableau Online Technical Details
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Who uses Tableau Online?
The most common users of Tableau Online are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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Tableau Online is our major method of delivering our product to our clients, integrating our data and analytics. For example, we utilize it to assist us in analyzing our quarterly, yearly, and long-term objectives and metrics. Because it doesn't require a team of engineers to construct a custom solution, it's the most important business problem it solves for our company.
- A wide range of databases may be seamlessly integrated.
- Regardless of the device you use to access it, the look and feel are first-rate.
- Displaying complicated data visualizations with a wide range of possibilities for interactivity for the end-user.
- Only a few features are available for export.
- License fees and the intricacy of the structure.
- The processing time required to perform filtering on huge datasets might be prohibitive.
November 25, 2021
Tableau Online makes data sharing easy
Tableau Online is used in my organization to help share and present data in meaningful ways, particularly with dashboards that offer dynamic visuals, slicing and dicing of metrics, and of course exporting filtered data into Microsoft Excel. It is addressing the business problem of having lots of data, and a need to summarize, visualize, and share this data across the entire organization.
- Great visuals
- Excellent customization
- Easy data exports
- Building dashboards and reports can get complex and sometimes difficult, depending on the source of the data
May 14, 2021
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
Tableau [Online] is being used across a big part of our organization, especially on the revenue and marketing side. Tableau has been integrated with our data warehouse as well as a variety of other data sources. It allows us to visualize big and complex datasets in a way that makes the data easy to understand for all users. The power of Tableau is to have dashboards and charts that help users understand the story behind the numbers, even when they are less familiar with the original dataset.
- Visualize complex information in an easy way
- Allowing publishers/users to present data amongst multiple different dimensions
- Having integrations with underlying datasets that allows for scheduled refreshes of the data
- Reduce barrier of entry for new users i.e. make it more intuitive for new users to join Tableau as a publisher
- Mobile version is not as easy to navigate at the online/desktop version
- Ad-hoc reporting
May 06, 2021
Startups take notice: Avoid high developer costs and deliver your product(s) with Tableau Online
We integrate our data and analytics through a Tableau Online interface, making it our primary delivery device of our product to our customers. We also use it internally for help in analyzing our scorecard metrics and to help us meet our quarterly, annual, and long-term goals. The biggest business problem it addresses for us is it allows us to deliver our product without having to hire a team of developers to build a custom solution to visualize our data and analytics.
- Robust data integration with a variety of databases
- Ability to display complex data visualizations with many options for user interactivity
- Look and feel is impressive no matter what device you use to access it
- Exporting functionality is limited
- Cost and complexity of license structure
- Filtering on large datasets can at times be slow
April 29, 2021
Sharing is easy but editing is not great
Tableau [Online] is used in [a] few departments in my organization. Mainly using Tableau Online for report/chart sharing with clients and executive team ,and this also helps to do some quick changes in charts.
- Easy sharing with clients and executive team.
- Can quickly fix some report issue in browser.
- Can easily create different views .
- Online editor is not that great.
- Mobile view can be better.
- Filters are not working properly with large datasets.
April 29, 2021
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
Tableau [Online] is primarily used to create, publish and share the reports and dashboards across the organization. Tableau Online is used by the different functions in the organization to access the reports relevant to them. Tableau Online helps get rid to excel based dashboards and reports which at times were not portable and also now the reports and dashboards are updated as soon as the new information is available. Also, it is very convenient to manage who can view or edit each workbook which was not possible with excel based reports.
- Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
- The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
- The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
- Mobile experience is not at par with the desktop experience. The functionality set is limited and the UX is not that great. So this needs to be improved in leaps and bounds.
- It's unintuitive to create dashboards for a new user. There is a long learning curve in order to figure out how to get different things done with Tableau. So the learning curve is long as of now.
- Tableau Online still doesn't get the entire gamut of Tableau Desktop features. With the world moving towards cloud, the entire feature set has to be present in Tableau online as well.
April 28, 2021
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
I work in HR and I use Tableau Online to gather data analytics across multiple different functions under the HR umbrella. I use it primarily to track KPI measures we've established as well as weekly/monthly reporting of data that's exported primarily from our HRIS platform, but also from other platforms which support the HR functions. What Tableau has done a great job at is being able to import this data across multiple systems and give us a fantastic user experience in terms of the reporting outputs and automation of reports.
- user interface with reporting outputs are easy to understand and navigate
- online dashboards are incredibly helpful to provide 'snapshot' data
- reporting automation for building custom reports in PPTX
- Data analytics and statistical modeling are fantastic
- Can be a steep learning curve for new users
- Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
- Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
April 28, 2021
User friendly dashboard king
Data from all parts of the organization. Everyone collects it. Everyone creates it. But what does it do for you? Without getting meaningful information from that data. It’s just numbers on a spreadsheet. Dashboards are a really big buzzword in all industries, but being able to take data and turn it into actionable information. This turns all that collecting into something valuable for your company.
- Data analysis
- Actionable information
- Helpful insights
- Customization
- Customization and integration know how.
- Organizational structure.
- Data entry.
As a department it has allowed us to take reports that were previously in spreadsheet format and create combined dashboards that are easy to understand. The department sends these out to a variety of teams across the business and it allows for people who are less technical to see and understand in-depth data in an easy to read format.
- Easy to [use] UI
- Generates intuitive charts maps and graphs
- Takes a wide variety of data sources
- Hard to build up adhoc reports.
- One off joins of reports are unnecessarily difficult.
- Cost for license prohibits us from getting as many users as we’d like!
Our organization uses Tableau [Online] to effectively share data across many different business units. We have so many different data points and were previously using excel and other tools to share it with less than stellar results. We find that using Tableau [Online] makes reporting cleaner and easier to understand. We also built an integration with our software so that our customers can use our API to pull data from our tools to build their own reports in Tableau.
- Dashboards
- Compiling data and making a variety visual charts
- Connects easily to most databases
- Can easily blend data
- Usable on many different device types
- Their paid version can be pricier than some competitors
- Report distribution can a challenge
- You need technical resources to get things up and running
We use Tableau for both internal company-proprietary and external customer-related visualization and interactive exploration of our key business metrics. Tableau helps us find the needles in the haystacks that we didn't even know we were looking for. Fantastic integrations with all of our 3rd party tooling, and seamless data ingestion means that no matter where the data originates, we can count on being able derive business intelligence from it quickly and easily.
- Fine-grained permissions and user access tokens allow sensitive data to stay in the right place.
- Scheduled reports save time by delivering data when we need it.
- Online search makes it easy to find what you're looking for.
- Mobile integration is not quite up-to-par with desktop in terms of performance.
- Data filters can be clunky to use.
- Sorting can be quirky when dealing with multiple character encodings.
Tableau is currently used by our analytics and marketing team. I currently use it for merchandising purchases, it is a great tool to see what items are selling and what the inventory status is all in one. I have filters in the tool that are flexible to what I need and I'm able to merchandise our products online more efficiently.
- What I love about Tableau is that I can filter items by SKU performance. We have tons of items that feature different colors and designs and I am able to see which option is selling the best and provide that information to our buying team.
- Being able to see the currently available units, excess and inventory projections has saved me the time when it comes to picking which item I should feature when I am merchandising.
- There are many filtering options within the tool so it is easy to personalize data and export results that you need.
- I'm not sure if this is standard for everyone but our Tableau is updated twice a week so the information may not be the most up-to-date possible.
- There's no search function in the tool which would help me a lot if I am seeking information about a specific item.
- There are frequent software updates which require you to completely reinstall everything.
April 22, 2021
Tableau is a must for freemium products
Tableau is used to track all user data metrics. This helps in being able to find power users, find new opportunities for the sales team, understand use-cases within our client base, and overall understand any given account. Tableau is bringing insights to the sales team daily. We can attribute a huge percentage of our growth to Tableau data.
- It handles large amounts of information.
- It is customizable enough to bubble up powerful insights.
- It plugs into enough data sources to be meaningful.
- Tableau Online can be really clunky.
- It's not easy to filter data.
- We see awkward UX while trying to perform specific actions on the platform.
April 15, 2021
Salesforce didn't buy Tableau for no reason!
We majorly use Tableau Online to share live interactive dashboards with our clients containing insights of our SaaS service usage that they have signed up for. Using Tableau Desktop first, data is imported from our SaaS platform and dashboards are created according to what the client wants to be updated on in real-time without constantly nagging us to create manual data and share with them. Instead of creating our own analytics platform from the ground up, we leverage Tableau Online to share custom analytics dashboard with our clients.
- Features like Workbook-specific permissions help us control who in our client's team can do what with the Tableau Online resources that we share with them. We mostly assign to them the user role of a viewer or interactor based on the scenario.
- The Ask Data function really comes in handy as instead of wasting time using multiple filters, one can just write their query in simple English and get the results. Of course, it won't fulfill your every request, but it works ninety percent of the time.
- Overall, Tableau Online provides many robust account-based administrative functions. One of them is the ability to check each user's history and activity to prevent or diagnose data leaks.
- I feel that the interface is not as beautiful as other BI vendors out there. When one clicks on an interactive area to view the underlying data, the resultant data tables look very archaic and unappealing. Even the resultant dashboards are very uninspiring and lackluster in terms of aesthetic beauty. Like every other product and website nowadays, I think Tableau should adopt the philosophy of material design with bold colors.
- The interface can sometimes feel clunky and not the most responsive. Pop-ups or underlying data take time to display. Loading times can be improved a little as data and sources get more complicated.
- I understand that Tableau Desktop is the central hub to create reports and dashboards, and the online variant predominantly to share them with others. Still, some last-minute editing capabilities should be provided to Tableau Online.
April 14, 2021
Would Recommend
Our entire organization uses tableau to pull data from our Google Analytics account as well as internal reports. We have created data spreads, graphs and charts to help us better visualize our sales, website engagement and customer service data. Tableau has become our source of truth for data across all platforms and departments so that we can more easily measure everything from campaigns to coupon usage and spend to sales of both individual items and product categories.
- Pulling in accurate data from multiple sources
- Opportunities to visualize data
- Multiple users with ease
- More options to customize views of data
- better mobile experience
- more plug ins for different tools
For the projects that involve business intelligence and data analytics. The usage is project specific.
- Good data visualisation and insights
- Easy deployment
- Strong community
- Expensive
It's being used across a department mostly as a way to produce dashboards and weekly and monthly reports from our reagent data both internally and for some of our customers. It provides a clean way to both visualize data and key metrics from our data sources so that they can be accessed by any key stakeholders on the project. Data integration was also fairly straightforward which was also a plus for our department.
- Data integration and importing is well supported
- Great data visualization and dashboarding capabilities
- Enterprise level security and can easily restrict/grant access across users and user groups
- Takes time to train new associates and for new associates to become proficient using Tableau
- UI can sometimes feel a little bit overcomplicated (e.g. editing dashboards)
- Tableau Online can be slow/experience data refresh lags
April 08, 2021
Tableau Online is a manager's DREAM!!!!!
My organization uses Tableau Online to track employee performance statistics, trends, competitions, etc. It is used across the whole organization. It addresses the problem of having accurate data to coach our employees. We use this platform on a daily basis. It is a necessary part of being a manager with our company, but we have also given access to our field employees as well. This way they can track their own performance daily.
- Tableau Online has a really good search system to help users find data.
- Tableau Online has a system to send regular reports of workbooks that users choose to subscribe to.
- Tableau Online has a very user friendly app that can be used by anyone with no formal training.
- Tableau Online refreshes on an hourly and daily basis to make sure its users always has up to date data.
- Tableau Online could be better when pulling up data on a phone. Some data is cut off and is not able to be expanded for mobile viewing.
- Tableau Online mobile requires a manual refresh each time you log on. It does not default to the latest data.
- Sometimes I am not allowed to log on unless I clear the cache or cookies. I rarely have this issue with any other sites.
April 07, 2021
Tableau Online - decent tool
We use Tableau Online to perform quarterly model performance monitoring reports. It is commonly used in my department and presumedly being wildly used across the entire organization. The business problem that the tool address is the visualization with large data set. It provides interactive graphs with various dashboards and visualization options to select.
- Quick
- Interactive
- Reliable
- Expensive
- Unique interface
February 13, 2021
Data? Think Tableau!
Tableau was being used as a front-end dashboard within my team. It was connected with the database which showed daily sales figures. I built several dashboards for the team, which helped the team answer complex business questions such as daily sales, YoY trends, etc. As of now, it was being used only in my team but was planning to execute and deliver across the organization.
- Tableau has a clean layout and is super friendly in creating custom dashboards.
- The option to create custom formulas using calculated fields is really helpful.
- It is super easy to connect Tableau with a data source.
- Sometimes it becomes a little difficult to handle null values, but that may be just user case scenario.
- More options to represent data should be provided.
- Tableau Online does not provide me with an option to sort out with top function. Again, that maybe just user case scenario.
May 11, 2020
Good Data Source
We currently use Tableau Online within our Digital Marketing department. It is mainly utilized to give us the most accurate lead and sale counts. We have also used it quite a bit for credit pass reports. Tableau Online allows us to track sale data and to analyze which campaigns need improvement and where we should focus our time. It allows us to forecast numbers.
- Gives accurate reports
- Reports in real time
- Has multiple metrics to review
- Lag time is often bothersome
- When filtering by date, the dates get mixed up easily
- Filtering in general can be annoying
April 28, 2020
Tableau Online
Tableau Online is integrated in our web analysis tool for analysis of incidents, defects within the organization. It provides excellent KPI graphics executive summary. It used across all organization. The data visualization and analysis is awesome. Customization of report is very easy for end user. It can also give the summary of data visualization of live data.
- Multiple data source connections.
- High performance.
- Excellent visualization capabilities.
- Easy to use.
- High cost.
- Security issues.
- Integration issues.
April 23, 2020
Premium Data Aggregation and Synthesis
Tableau is being utilized as a platform to centralize Vivint's lead, sale and install data. Custom dashboards are built to display conversion rates and other call center metrics that are critical for key stakeholders to be aware of. We often leverage their automation-related features to send out daily e-mails with reports for specific marketing campaigns.
- Their dashboards are easy to navigate and customize.
- The drill-down capabilities are intuitive.
- Their integrations with other mainstream solutions are quite good.
- I'd love to see Tableau continue building out their knowledge base.
- I wish Tableau didn't automatically refresh reports because it causes the default date range to be reinstated.
- I'd like to see Tableau continue building out its integrations with other prominent third party solutions.
December 23, 2019
From my limited use, Tableau is a great way to share reports across an organization
The whole organization utilizes Tableau for sales and marketing analytics that is set up by the Group Marketing team. It is used to view competitor and industry analysis, quarterly sales and budgetary tracking, etc.
- Large degree of control over data and how it can be used
- Better UI to help navigate through folders and subfolders.
November 27, 2019
The Best Data Visualization tool to date
The analytics department in my company uses Tableau for its daily/monthly/Annual reports. It is a terrific data visualization tool that helps our users visualize data as and when required, without many complications. Trend analysis and forecasting is a key to using this software, and this is where it comes in very handy. All the data metrics are accurately tracked. It provides powerful data insights. All the heads of different teams use Tableau daily. It is particularly useful when there is data integration with other software required. It also offers a layer of visualization that is superior to traditional Microsoft products.
- Tableau offers a layer of visualization that is superior to traditional Microsoft products.
- It provides out of the box data visualization tools, and the opportunity to customize these views for business use.
- Extensive data source support/seamless data import.
- Easy implementation of enterprise-level security and access with integration with AD Groups.
- Tableau Online could improve its mobile interface, which requires training, and lags when trying to import large files.
- Tableau could have a feature such that workbooks that are connected to live data sources could refresh automatically instead of having to publish from the desktop every time you want updated figures.
- Limitations can be frustrating if you are used to using the Desktop version.