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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 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.
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 (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.
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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November 27, 2019
The Best Data Visualization tool to date
Score 8 out of 10
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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.
November 12, 2019
Tableau has made reporting super easy for our team
Our entire organization is using Tableau and it's helping us all unify our goals, benchmarks, and direct our daily and monthly focus based on what our numbers are. It helps everyone to see clearly where we are succeeding and where we are falling short so that we can improve our processes and product.
- Easy to use
- Easy to understand
- Easy to share
- Sometimes the charts don't refresh themselves and we have to manually refresh them.
October 25, 2019
Tableau makes sharing data visualizations easy
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.
October 24, 2019
Reporting Made Easy (& Pretty)!
When looking for a way to display reporting and analytics in a graphically pleasing and easy to understand way, we came across the Tableau software. We have implemented it in a few different departments across our organization to be used for various tasks. So far, it has solved the problem of presenting confusing, intensive reporting, and providing an outlet to present it in a way that's easy to digest.
- Tableau Online offers companies a way to display data in a visually-appealing way.
- Visualizations created by Tableau in the form of dashboards and worksheets make presenting complex data easy.
- Tableau makes reporting analytics fun (which is hard to say)!
- The ability Tableau has to share and collaborate with team members via the cloud, makes it easy to collaborate across our organization - as well as with our clients.
- The mobile app makes it easy to take analytics with you on the go.
- Tableau Online could add some variations of template options for reporting displays.
- Export functions could be made easier & have various export options.
October 18, 2019
Great Reporting Visualization Tool
Tableau is used to provide visualization reporting for different departments in the organization.
- Presents data visually
- Helps to analyze data faster
- Enables you to work with multiple data sources (like database, Excel spreadsheets, online data, etc.)
- It would be nice to have more and easily available free training on how to use it.
- Not everything is user-friendly and requires a lot of technical knowledge.
October 17, 2019
Great if the investment and know-how is there!
Tableau Online is the bridge between our data teams and the business and product teams. It is our primary visualization tool that sits on top of our data sources which we consider our sources of truth. The primary way it adds value is giving us a lot of tools to present different types of data in ways that various type of business stakeholders can best understand and use it. We also use it as the front-end to our in-house sales commission system. Sales reps log in to Tableau Online and can track their performance and commission.
- It has been very easy for us to connect various data sources to Tableau Online, such as data from Treasure Data, Google Sheets, Redshift, and custom CSVs.
- Tableau Online's interface is easy to use as a bridge between data teams and other stakeholders who primarily consume data insights and reporting. It is easy to publish dashboards that users can log on to and see and interact with.
- Tableau, generally speaking, has calculations and other types of data manipulations available which can scale with your own business questions' complexity. It has been great to learn more about Tableau's functionality and find out that we can answer more complex questions we weren't able to answer before by using things they have available such as level of detail functions, order of operation filtering, and data prep.
- I believe being a skilled creator and an adept user in Tableau Online is not straightforward. It takes time and there is a learning curve. I have personally been to three Tableau conferences and felt like I needed a year of owning our company's Tableau creator license to feel comfortable and deliver powerful insight for our company.
- The UI available to edit dashboards could improve to be more friendly and modern. It sometimes feels like you are operating in a very rigid environment when editing dashboards in Tableau Online.
- The options to organize a company's dashboards and assign permissions are also not straightforward and the solutions I am aware of leave me wishing there was more.
October 15, 2019
Tableau one Place for All your DataVisualization Need!
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.
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.
October 01, 2019
Great Option!
Originally, my company purchased Tableau Desktop which I believe became Tableau Creator or something similar. This new version included Online as well as the old Desktop features. Our intention was to use Online to display non-sensitive dashboards with the clients. We moved away from Online to Datorama for easier sharing with the client.
- Work distribution.
- Browser editing capabilities.
- Collaboration.
- It can be slow.
- Not ideal for sensitive data.
- Initial set-up with Desktop not super intuitive.
September 27, 2019
Best Data Visualization platform
I use Tableau to review and analyze our reports for new insight and for sharing program performance with our staff across various organizations.
- Visualizing data and making it more accessible to everyone
- Easy to get new insight
- Improve communication throughout the organization especially when it comes to performance
- Software price is certainly has been one of the main reasons we couldn't expand usage widely
- More communication and training for people un-engage with data otherwise
- More customization on visuals
September 25, 2019
I prefer Tableau Desktop to Tableau Online
Tableau dashboards are built by the Analytics department and used by the entire company and clients for data visualization.
- Visualizes data for standardized dashboards.
- An aesthetically pleasing way to aggregate multiple data sources in one place.
- Great for data storytelling.
- It can be laggy compared to Desktop version.
- Limitations can be frustrating if you are used to using the Desktop version.
- Limited editing/formatting capabilities.
September 20, 2019
It's a fine software
It's being used primarily to review daily sales statistics, and email capture performance. It's used primarily within the marketing department although the entire organization has access and uses it occasionally.
- The data is accurate.
- The interface is clean and easy to read.
- Lots of customization for the end-user.
- Statistics don't update in real-time.
- Significant lag whenever a variable is updated.
- Dollar figures are rounded.
September 17, 2019
Tableau Online: Enterprise Scale BI on Cloud
Tableau Online is used in my small startup company to consult clients on Tableau's use case. The power of hosting it on the cloud and the security and control it provides is at an enterprise level. As for my business need, I looked to roll up KPIs across various departments across our cybersecurity functions.
- Quick startup and configuration. Get it, set it, GO! Configuration is easy and done in a matter of a few clicks
- Easy implementation of enterprise-level security and access with integration with AD Groups.
- Maintenance and housekeeping of the server instance is easy and can come with support.
- Tableau Online could improve its mobile interface
September 14, 2019
One stop shop for reports
It started as a tool for Finance and Accounting to use to build and publish reports and dashboards to help track our budget. Now that we are up and running, we have been pushing out the use of it to other departments, encouraging users to be more proactive in monitoring their financials.
- Great resource for consolidating and organizing reports across the organization.
- Can be accessed without having knowledge about how to use Tableau Desktop.
- Great complement to Desktop to allow for visuals to be accessed anywhere, anytime.
- Could have a feature that workbooks that are connected to live data sources could refresh automatically instead of having to publish from desktop everytime you want updated figures.
September 12, 2019
The best for data visualizations
Tableau Online is being used as a data tool in our organization. It is used by sales, operations, and marketing. It provides great insights into where we can improve business opportunities. It also integrates well with Salesforce to easily report out across objects in Salesforce. Overall it is a great tool we use to get data insights.
- Visuals.
- Integration.
- Insights.
- Time to publish.
- Sharing reports through other methods.
- Roundabout ways to do things.
September 12, 2019
Tableau is king for data visualization
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
September 12, 2019
A great, reliable tool to create complex dashboards that help you understand all aspects of your data
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.
August 27, 2019
Tableau Online is a Data Visualization Dream!
Our analytics consulting team uses Tableau Online for many of our client projects. We are a boutique data analytics consulting firm who specializes in advising clients on how to achieve their analytics goals as well as creating and implementing customized data visualization tools, and BI best practices. Tableau is usually an application that we will have clients consider, as it is considered a leader in the marketplace.
Tableau Online is one of my favorite applications in our toolbox and I thoroughly enjoy showing our clients how powerful it can be to get them started. It is very easy to use, and even the most intimidated, least tech-savvy customers tend to grow excited when using Tableau. It is powerful, easy to load data into, it is compatible with many sources, feature-rich, and packaged up behind a super-slick UI.
Tableau Online is one of my favorite applications in our toolbox and I thoroughly enjoy showing our clients how powerful it can be to get them started. It is very easy to use, and even the most intimidated, least tech-savvy customers tend to grow excited when using Tableau. It is powerful, easy to load data into, it is compatible with many sources, feature-rich, and packaged up behind a super-slick UI.
- Compatible with many data sources.
- Easy to use, easy to learn - with a slick UI.
- Feature-rich, especially in the geo-analytic area. Lots of charts with customizable options.
- Tech-support widgets or web-agents would be helpful. Because the tool is so feature-rich, it is not always easy to identify where the seemingly-endless list of features exists.
- The price of Tableau over-all can be high depending on the needs of your organization and the purchase model.
- The out-of-box color schemes and options could be more dynamic, but this is my personal preference.
June 11, 2019
Tableau: intuitive and flexible
Tableau Online is used across our whole business. It has become our one source of the truth and always tells a consistent, near-live story of exactly how our business is behaving.
- Gives a consistent, single version of truth across the company.
- Is managed to give the picture as-of midnight each day.
- Is intuitive and dynamic, relieving the pressure on the BI team (me!)
- Occasionally there are in-depth analytical problems that it can't stretch to.
- Graph types are limited to be correct, but occasionally you'll want to hack them or make them more involved, which is limited.
June 09, 2019
Share and Collaborate with Tableau Online
Tableau Online is used to share and collaborate on workbooks created or generated by Tableau Desktop. In Tableau Online, you do not have to worry about hardware specifications, you simply buy the license and use it in a browser. All of the background hardware is maintained by Tableau. It is completely adapted to our organization. We have 3 sites in Tableau online for each department so that our data is not shared between the departments.
- Scalability- If you want to increase the number of users, it can be done without any hardware replacement or update.
- Flexibility- Since is maintained by Tableau, it can be adapted to any environment.
- In Tableau Online, the risk is less compared to Tableau Server.
- Data source: It doesn't support many databases to run a direct query in it.
- Downtime will be very frequent [twice or three times per month] based on the region you deploy.
- Some of the configurations cannot be done as per your choice.
March 02, 2019
Tableau: more than just pretty tables
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
February 23, 2019
Tableau Online Review
At our agency, Tableau is used by our analytics team to analyze client data, evaluate their account performance, derive key insights for optimization, and tailor reports.
- Powerful and user-friendly data visualization
- Extensive data source support/Seamless data import
- Interactive reports
- Expensive for small businesses and individuals
- Custom formatting is a feature currently missing and would be great to add
- Lacks report scheduling/emailing feature
February 04, 2019
A positive review of Tableau Online
We have started to use this software to better report business analytical data that we need to make decisions in the business. It is being used by different departments in the company. It also helps with data visualization. We have better access to the data that we need to make the decisions we need to make.
- Data Visualization.
- Drill down into the data.
- Data exporting.
- You need to be decently technical to make reports.
- The average user can view reports but not create them.
- It would be nice if the user could look at different views without needing to publish so many different reports.
November 30, 2018
Digital Agency Experience with Tableau
We use Tableau Online within our analytics team. It helps us take large data sets and parse out trends and insights. It also offers a layer of visualization that is superior to traditional Microsoft products.
- Easily connects to sources of data, whether they be stored in databases, excel files or even web analytics tools like Google Analytics.
- Provides out of the box data visualization tools and the opportunity to customize these views for business use.
- Makes data filtering and segmentation easy to conduct.
- Takes some time to onboard.
- User interface is not straight forward.
- Could expand data connections to other web analytics APIs beyond Google Analytics.
November 01, 2018
Tableau Online is a strong tool for data analysis
Tableau Online is being used by the organization to have a better grasp of our customers' interests, behaviors, spending trends and reading consumption habits. This addresses multiple business needs, across several business lines, to understand how customers interact with our information and content, especially defining the specific distribution channels and outlets that are most used, as well as the cross-collaboration between print, digital, events, GIS and research.
- Tableau Online makes it easy to visualize raw data into easy-to-understand charts and graphs.
- Tableau Online allows me to connect to and access our data from anywhere, not having to rely on the application only running on a local machine.
- Tableau Online allows us to provide meaningful material, regarding data, internally and externally, where necessary, at a moment's notice.
- One downside of being online is that you're required to be connected to update data. This connectivity isn't always applicable - airplanes, subway, etc.
- An automatic connection between Tableau Online and Tableau Desktop, with bi-directional sync, would be a great addition to the platform.
- Having training material, that's more aligned with our business goals, would be ideal.
October 12, 2018
Tableau review
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.