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Tableau Cloud
Formerly Tableau Online

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What is Tableau Cloud?

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser…

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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (65)
    9.5
    95%
  • Formatting capabilities (64)
    8.5
    85%
  • Customizable dashboards (67)
    8.2
    82%
  • Drill-down analysis (67)
    8.1
    81%

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What is Tableau Cloud?

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile…

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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.

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.

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.8
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.7
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.

8.8
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.5
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.7
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

9.1
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is Tableau Cloud?

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.

Tableau Cloud 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 Cloud is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. The product can support the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.


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Tableau Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.

Domo, IBM Cognos Analytics, and Looker are common alternatives for Tableau Cloud.

Reviewers rate REST API and Javascript API and Themeable User Interface (UI) highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Tableau Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Tableau Online has become an essential tool for organizations across various departments, providing valuable data analysis and visualization capabilities. Users from the Digital Marketing department rely on Tableau Online to accurately track lead and sale counts, as well as credit pass reports. By analyzing campaign performance and identifying areas for improvement, users are able to focus their time effectively and make data-driven decisions. The software also integrates seamlessly with web analysis tools, allowing for incident and defect analysis within the organization.

Tableau Online's strength lies in its ability to provide excellent KPI graphics and executive summaries, making it a valuable tool for data visualization and analysis. Users can easily customize reports to meet their specific needs, and the software also offers live data visualizations, ensuring that users always have access to up-to-date information. Vivint, for example, utilizes Tableau as a platform to centralize lead, sale, and install data, creating custom dashboards that display conversion rates and call center metrics.

Another key use case for Tableau Online is generating daily, monthly, and annual reports in the analytics department. The software provides powerful data insights that help drive business decisions. It is particularly useful for data integration with other software systems, serving as a bridge between data teams and business/product teams by presenting data in ways that stakeholders can understand and use effectively.

Sales representatives also benefit from Tableau Online as they can track their performance and commission through the software. It acts as the front-end to the in-house sales commission system. Additionally, Tableau Online promotes collaboration within organizations by facilitating data sharing and visualization.

The analytics and reporting team extensively uses Tableau Online for automated sharing of reports across various verticals. Similarly, partners of Tableau Software leverage this tool to advise customers on usage, implementation, and support.

Tableau Online has revolutionized product launches by providing dynamic online visualizations that were not possible with traditional presentation tools like PowerPoint. It enables different departments to present complex reporting in a visually pleasing and easy-to-understand manner.

In addition to marketing and sales, Tableau Online finds applications in HR, procurement, trade, security, and other business areas. It helps track the impact of projects, investigate whether design goals are being met, and provides valuable business intelligence through visualizations and exploration of key metrics.

Overall, Tableau Online is a versatile tool that addresses a wide range of business problems and enables organizations to make informed decisions based on data insights.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Raman Ahuja | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Ben Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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!
Tom Laughlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Tanner Walz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Marquis C. Brantley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
February 13, 2021

Data? Think Tableau!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Multiple data source connections.
  • High performance.
  • Excellent visualization capabilities.
  • Easy to use.
  • High cost.
  • Security issues.
  • Integration issues.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
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