Overview
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…
Tableau Online - decent tool
Horrible customer service
Tableau is a powerful data integration tool for many databases.
Tableau Online makes data sharing easy
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
Startups take notice: Avoid high developer costs and deliver your product(s) with Tableau Online
Sharing is easy but editing is not great
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
User friendly dashboard king
Outstanding Data Analytics and Data Visualisation that’s worth the cost!
Tableau- an intuitive solution to report complex data across your organization
The leader in data visualization for big data and beyond!
Great merchandising and analytics tool for retail companies
Tableau is a must for freemium products
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Popular Features
- Report sharing and collaboration (65)9.595%
- Formatting capabilities (64)8.585%
- Customizable dashboards (67)8.282%
- Drill-down analysis (67)8.181%
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Pricing
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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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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.
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.6Pixel Perfect reports(50) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.2Customizable dashboards(67) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 9.6Report Formatting Templates(56) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.1Drill-down analysis(67) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.5Formatting capabilities(64) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8.7Integration with R or other statistical packages(42) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 9.5Report sharing and collaboration(65) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.7Publish to Web(61) Ratings
- 8.7Publish to PDF(60) Ratings
- 7.8Report Versioning(49) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9.6Report Delivery Scheduling(53) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.9Delivery to Remote Servers(32) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
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.
- 8.7Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(60) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(59) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 9.5Predictive Analytics(51) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.4Multi-User Support (named login)(56) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 9Role-Based Security Model(49) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 7.6Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(52) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 9.1Single Sign-On (SSO)(47) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(50) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7Mobile Application(38) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.7Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(45) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 9.7REST API(29) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 9.7Javascript API(27) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 8iFrames(27) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 8.8Java API(24) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 9.7Themeable User Interface (UI)(28) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 8.8Customizable Platform (Open Source)(27) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is Tableau Cloud?
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 Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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- Business Problems Solved
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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(1-25 of 28)Tableau Online - decent tool
- Quick
- Interactive
- Reliable
- Expensive
- Unique interface
- 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.
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
- 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
Sharing is easy but editing is not great
- 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.
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
- 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.
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.
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
- 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
User friendly dashboard king
- Data analysis
- Actionable information
- Helpful insights
- Customization
- Customization and integration know how.
- Organizational structure.
- Data entry.
- 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!
- 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
Tableau Online is a manager's DREAM!!!!!
- 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.
Data? Think Tableau!
- 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.
Good Data Source
- 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
- Multiple data source connections.
- High performance.
- Excellent visualization capabilities.
- Easy to use.
- High cost.
- Security issues.
- Integration issues.
Premium Data Aggregation and Synthesis
- 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.
The Best Data Visualization tool to date
- 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.
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.
Tableau makes sharing data visualizations easy
- Creating flexible dashboards.
- Creating extracts of data.
- It takes a long time to create extracts of data.
- Requires very extensive training for new analysts.
Less suited for creating general dashboards fast and easy.
Tableau one Place for All your DataVisualization Need!
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.
Tableau is king for data visualization
- 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
A great, reliable tool to create complex dashboards that help you understand all aspects of your data
- 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.
Tableau: more than just pretty tables
- 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
Tableau review
- 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 Online Helps Growing Tech Company Make Better Decisions!
- 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.
- 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.
On the other hand, having Tableau manage and maintain your servers comes at a price that not all organisations can afford.
Tableau Usage Review
- 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
Review of Tableau Online
- 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 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.