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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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  • 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
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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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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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
It is suitable for people without coding background and still prefer to use interactive graphs to show the data insights. However, if you already know many packages in R or Python you can easily build the dashboard or the interactive graph yourself without paying quite a lot to use this tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
We just need to refresh our data once a day for our unique use case, which allows the complete online system to run on extracts. For us, this is critical because our daylight hours are spent focusing on new updates and implementations rather than worrying about excessive database traffic (which would be required with a direct connection to the online system). The process of importing extracts is straightforward and sturdy enough to handle massive amounts of data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Tableau [Online] is very strong for solid, standardized reporting among a variety of different dimensions. It's easy to understand and navigate for regular users. There is also a wide variety of charts and visualizations to chose from which makes it relatively easy to tell the story beyond the numbers. Tableau [Online] is less suited for ad-hoc reporting.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
This is the only available tool in our organization and best suited for our needs.
Raman Ahuja | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tableau Online is great boon for the people who keep on travelling and now they don't require to access their laptops in order to access the latest information or reports. Further, with Tableau Online, it's easy to distribute the reports and one can use different cuts within a report as per their requirements.
Also, in organizations where data is sensitive and one department's data should not be accessible to others, Tableau Online works wonders as now the report owner/administrator can manage the access to each individual report or workbooks within a report as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Literally anything involving data analytics, computational and statistical modeling and/or building algorithms this product is suited for it. It takes in highly complex formulas and the output can be an incredibly engaging visual model that's easy to understand across various stakeholders. Using it to track and measure against established KPIs has been a great benefit and Tableau makes it easy to do so.
Gavin Scott-Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
This is a great piece of software for organizations looking to gain insights on the great data they spend so much time and money gathering at the highest levels possible. This is not something for someone looking for something simple like what you might be able to achieve with a simple database. This truly shines when bringing in multiple databases and stores of information.
Ben Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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!
Tableau Online is well suited for taking a large amount of data sources and combining them into a single, understandable representation of the data, in the form of dashboards and graphical representation as long as these are regular. It is less suited to adjusting to ad hoc reporting or one offs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Overall I think Tableau Online does a good job for data visualization and dashboard creation for both internal and external use. We haven't had issues connecting to our data sources so this seems to be a good option if weekly/monthly reports or dashboards need to be made available to multiple stakeholders across departments. Probably better for cases where you already have infrastructural or organizational support for Tableau since ramping up might be time-consuming if the team is new to Tableau. Also probably only necessary if visualizations need to be shared across organizations or departments since for small teams, the desktop version would suffice especially at the beginning.
Marquis C. Brantley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
I would definitely recommend Tableau Online if asked by a colleague. It has so many great features. Of course it is not a perfect system, but no system is perfect, right? But if you need a database to house your data, this is one of, if not the best, I have ever used. The mobile version is great when using a larger mobile device, but it is not as convenient when on a smaller device like an iPhone.
February 13, 2021

Data? Think Tableau!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Tableau is a great tool for data analytics and data visualization. I have worked with multiple companies and all of them have used Tableau Online for their dashboard. One thing that particularly suited me is how user friendly it is, even for someone who does not have much interaction with Tableau on a day to day basis. I highly recommend Tableau.
May 11, 2020

Good Data Source

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Tableau Online is good for a broader view of company data and performance. It is not suited for digging into campaign specifics such as listening to phone calls or tracking phone numbers. Tableau Online is also good for viewing past data, but not day-of data.
April 28, 2020

Tableau Online

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tableau can handle large amounts of data very easily and efficiently. Different types of visualization can be created with a large amount of data without impacting the performance of the tool. Python and R can be used in Tableau for complex calculation. It can be easily implemented within a organization. Using Drag and Drop option you can create interactive visualization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tableau has been effective at aggregating data from Vivint's tech stack and synthesizing it in a way that is easy to digest. The speed of their interface is impressive, and the degree of customization has been conducive to building insightful reports. I've been pleased with the overall product they offer.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
In mostly onshore/offshore scenarios, it is more useful. If developers developed some graphs and management wanted to showcase it in front of a business, they can get access to Tableau Online and present it.
Tableau Online is well suited for sharing reporting and/or analytics across different departments. As an organization that has a number of employees who work remotely, this software allows for constant collaboration, regardless of location.
In cases of a complex dashboard, filtering can take a while, and refreshing of data is quite slow.
Editing the dashboards is quite complex; we have a dedicated team that needs to manage these, as most users are unable to do so. It's not easy to filter data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It used to be used in all departments, but now we limit the use to only certain teams.
  • Creating flexible dashboards.
  • Creating extracts of data.
  • It takes a long time to create extracts of data.
  • Requires very extensive training for new analysts.
Best suited for creating very customized visualizations.
Less suited for creating general dashboards fast and easy.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had a use case where we developed some visualization and onshore management wanted to see it. We were having Tableau Desktop licensed till that time and we were of the impression that Online is free or we will get a couple of licenses if we want. But Tableau Online has bundled licensed in order to get view from anywhere.

Management has decided to invest into it and now we are using Tableau Online situation in order to see and share reports online which will be definitely beneficial for a organization to take important decisions.

Tableau is the one of the best solution in industry now. We are fully utilizing its capabilities.
  • Can be accessed from anywhere with same set of reports shared between licensed users.
  • It's very useful when presenting something and wanted to share. As a developer perspective we can work and visualize things accordingly.
  • Without this online solution Tableau is nothing and hence they are charging more for online solution than desktop versions.
  • Licensing cost is the major concern and you have to take 100 at a time though you need 2 or 3 only.
In mostly onshore/offshore scenarios it is more useful. If developers developed some graph and management wanted to showcase it in front of a business they can get just access of Tableau Online and present it.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company used using Tableau to perform most, if not all of our in-house analytics, it not only speeds up the process of our in-house analytics, but it also gives us plenty of options to customize and filter our reports.
  • Easy to use
  • Customizable
  • Integration with other software
  • Requires training
  • Lacks the ability to clean data prior to being imported
  • Lags when trying to import large files
I would recommend to a large company with sufficient funds that are trying to import small data files and from one source that has a need for data visualization. I wouldn't recommend it to a small to mid-tier company with less $ as the ROI isn't there in my opinion.
Krisztina Orban | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tableau is our primary tool to organize our data, we have created hundreds of dashboards and views, and we rely on the tool daily. It is used by all of our Executive, Revenue and Marketing, and Product Teams. It provides us constant insight into our revenue, the number of bookings, marketing campaign performance, and we can look into any granular details we might need to know.
  • Ability to create very detailed, complex dashboards, giving a comprehensive overview of the selected data.
  • Ability to define numerous, complex filters that work together, allowing us to utilize a single report or dashboard for many different purposes.
  • Easy to organize the dashboards and views, the search is powerful.
  • Copying and exporting the data is difficult. Working online with the tool is great, but getting the data out of Tableau is inconvenient.
  • Editing the dashboards is quite complex, we have a dedicated team who needs to manage these as most users are unable to do so.
  • In cases of complex a dashboard, filtering can take a while, refreshing of data is quite slow.
It is a great tool to display data for the users in a clear, human-readable format. Dashboards created fulfilled all our requests, the tool is flexible and reliable. It is great for monitoring and understanding our performance. We use it daily to understand our booking volume and revenue, and marketing and loyalty program performance broken down to granular details. Tableau is 'raw' data focused, not suitable to understand in detail e.g. customer behavior (how our users interact with our platforms).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a software, amongst others, offered by some departments for data sharing, visualization and promoting collaborations.
  • Data visualization: a wide range of them available and pretty plots.
  • Drag and drop: no need for complex coding.
  • Real-time interaction with the data.
  • Pretty expensive
  • Inability for scripting could sometimes be a handicap
It is great for visualizing standalone data and quickly generating and sharing very impressive plots, but other software would be better if some complex calculations are needed. Its high cost is also a drawback.
October 12, 2018

Tableau review

Kruti Vaidya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tableau is being used by our organization in various departments. The main use of Tableau is to demonstrate Dashboards from different areas of the company to understand trends. The dashboards are used for GAP analysis and forecasting. Information is viewed very easily and gives a holistic view of the situation/historical data. Tableau plays a very important role in management meetings and conference meetings. Data is integrated from various data sources to create meaningful reports.
  • Very nice dashboards that have a great visual design.
  • Great integration capabilities with other programs and languages.
  • Helps perform GAP analysis for management meetings and a single page snapshot to give meaning to data.
  • Tableau is very expensive and the pricing is inflexible. It is catered more towards large organizations and cannot be flexibly used by mid-size firms.
  • After sales support is not up to the mark.
  • Versioning is not great when you upgrade the software. This is a very simple possible improvement. IT security is not up to the mark when we ran results by attacking the software. Sometimes IT support is required when you upgrade.
Tableau is very well suited for large organizations because of its cost. It has a great visual design. It is particularly useful when there is data integration with other software required. Dashboards come out very well in such cases and help make sense out of data. These dashboards are used on a frequent basis once a baseline or a parameter is defined. Trend analysis and forecasting are a key to using this software and this is where it comes in very handy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tableau Online is being leveraged by about 30% of the organizations across the company. It's primarily used today as a scalable and dynamic data visualization tool for complex data sets. By leveraging this software business analysts spend less time preparing graphs and charts and more time on thoughtful and impactful analysis. This can lead to better and more informed decision making across your company!
  • Software is compatible with numerous interfaces, making it quite scalable.
  • Robust visualization feature set -- perhaps even industry leading.
  • Graphs are dynamic and intuitive to use which helps organizations focus on what really matters -- making the right decision at the right time.
  • Intuitive user interface helps analysts quickly setup scalable reports.
  • More robust feature set -- its primarily a data visualization tool...hence you need other software to populate it.
  • More competitive pricing model -- the desktop / creator license can get expense fast so you need to be cautious of who has this user type.
  • Further ability to customize the application to fit your companies branding.
Tableau Online is appropriate for companies that want a scaleable and user friendly data visualization software and are willing to invest in this area given the price of the solution. It's not appropriate for scrappy companies who are looking to trim costs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tableau Online is extensively used by the analytics and reporting team at my organisation. The reports generated using Tableau are shared (in an automated manner) with teams spanning various verticals across the entire organisation. Tableau fulfills a critical use case for the analytics team - allowing us to monitor data and deliver quick insights.
  • For a business that executes frequent data-driven decisions, Tableau can be very helpful.
  • The visualisation options offered on Tableau are simply brilliant.
  • One can choose between Tableau Online and Tableau Desktop. Using Tableau Online waives users of the responsibility of maintenance at their end.
  • Sharing reports to users / business folk who do not use Tableau themselves can be challenging.
  • While the visualisation options are great, Tableau seems to let go of simple Excel-like features. Having a combination of both would be far more powerful.
  • Integration with other softwares could be better.
As a business, if you do not wish to invest money, effort, hours, and people into managing servers and maintenance at your end, Tableau Online is a great choice to use. It allows you to work on the things that really matter.
On the other hand, having Tableau manage and maintain your servers comes at a price that not all organisations can afford.
February 07, 2018

Tableau Usage Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used in the Analytics department. It helps to visualize the data much better.
  • Amazing visualization
  • Excellent support
  • Good integration with R & Hadoop
  • Should be as simple as Excel so that the person with no IT training can use
  • Not comfortable with the security
  • Costly
Well suited for quick visualization and data pull. Need functionality for scheduling.
December 29, 2017

Review of Tableau Online

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Tableau Online was used to share analytics about finance/banking products with customers. This was used by the selected group in the organization to increase the level of engagement for the sales department for selling the product. This was usually used to address the complex pricing grids and hidden charges for personal loans, mortgages etc., with the competitors to make the pricing model as easy to understand as possible for better marketing the products.
  • Tableau Online handle the security areas very well for Operational security, User security, Data security, Network security and Application security.
  • Tableau Online infrastructure performs regular maintenance to ensure system stability, security, and performance. The data centers are equipped with fire suppression and other monitoring systems designed to detect environmental issues and respond to them before they cause an outage.
  • Tableau Online backup media is encrypted and always maintained in a secured facility. Disk-based backups are stored in secured data center facilities. Backups made to external backup providers are encrypted in transit and in storage. Only approved system administrators have access to backups.
  • Data blending has some limitations regarding non-additive aggregates such as COUNTD, MEDIAN, and RAWSQLAGG. Non-additive aggregates are aggregate functions that produce results that cannot be aggregated along a dimension. Instead, the values have to be calculated individually.
  • Tableau only shows the values that are represented in your data. If your data does not contain the complete range of values, the missing values will not be shown. For example, Sales Data for January to July and November through December. If there was no data recorded for August to November and if a line chart is created in Tableau, the missing months will not be shown. An option is to show the missing months to make it clear that there was no data recorded during that time.
  • Null values can sometimes appear in place of the data you want in the view when you use data blending.
Tableau is Yearly charged per user. It is Saas and Multi-Tenancy, secure and no access to other companies and it is maintained by Tableau. It cannot connect to cubes.Tableau Online means you don't have to worry about the scaling - it is just there and works. For those who don't have IT infrastructure to handle it, Tableau Online is a great alternative.

Tableau Online eliminates the need for a server environment, which includes hardware, deployment, and maintenance. Tableau Online can communicate directly with other cloud-based analytics services, such as Google BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. It also has compatibility with Salesforce and Google Analytics. From a cost analysis point Tableau Server environment is less than the Tableau Online considering the starting cost, configuration cost so for small and medium scale industry can go for a Server environment.
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