Skip to main content
TrustRadius
Tableau Cloud

Tableau Cloud
Formerly Tableau Online

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…

Read more
Recent Reviews

TrustRadius Insights

Tableau Online has become an essential tool for organizations across various departments, providing valuable data analysis and …
Continue reading
Read all reviews

Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

View all 28 features
  • Report sharing and collaboration (65)
    9.5
    95%
  • Formatting capabilities (64)
    8.6
    86%
  • Customizable dashboards (67)
    8.2
    82%
  • Drill-down analysis (67)
    8.1
    81%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

View all pros & cons
Return to navigation

Pricing

View all pricing
N/A
Unavailable

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…

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Would you like us to let the vendor know that you want pricing?

10 people also want pricing

Alternatives Pricing

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.

Return to navigation

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 8.0

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
Return to navigation

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.


Tableau Cloud Video

In this video, the TrustRadius team will be discussing the top business intelligence tools available: Qlik Sense, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, and IBM Cognos Analytics.

Tableau Cloud Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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

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

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

The most common users of Tableau Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Return to navigation

Comparisons

View all alternatives
Return to navigation

Reviews and Ratings

(510)

Community Insights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-20 of 20)
Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • To save money, we don't need to engage a staff of developers to produce our product.
  • Using it, we've been able to keep tabs on important corporate KPIs, identify problems and develop workarounds through effective data analysis.
  • Due to our client's ability to set it and forget it by working off data extracts, the system is nearly free to use during business hours.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • No need to hire a team of developers to deliver our product, a huge cost savings for a start up company.
  • The ability to work off data extracts allows us to "set in and forget it" so to speak, which allows our customers to use the system during business hours with almost no cost in terms of database usage.
  • It has been a great internal tool for dashboarding company metrics and helping us track goals and implement solutions to meet those goals through efficient data analysis.
Raman Ahuja | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Decision making has been prompt and more informed. People don't have to wait for someone to periodically update the information and also one can play around with the available information to see different views of the data.
  • We don't need to keep track of hundreds of data heavy excel dashboards and reports which were unreliable and always used to hang the entire system.
  • Data privacy is improved as now any unauthorized person can't get access to sensitive data.
Ben Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allowed for quicker understanding of data and decisions made quicker
  • Allowed for decision makers to have access to better cleaner data to make the right call
  • Freed up analysts time from building reports for different teams
  • Scheduling means less issues around when different teams get their data and therefore can adapt to issues quicker.
Tom Laughlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Based on the analytics that we provide to our clients using Tableau Online, they understand and realize the value that our product provides and thus helps us with renewals and cross-selling.
  • Instead of focusing on the analytics engine, we get more time to work on our core offerings and make them better. Making sense of the data that come out of the usage of our platform is a very necessary aspect of our whole offering.
  • We have saved a lot of time by not having to update data using offline tools like Excel. Our clients get the updated data automatically.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Extremely helpful for creating and sharing dashboards with key product performance metrics that enabled decisions to be made quickly and productively
  • Enabled weekly/monthly reports to key stakeholders to keep projects on track
  • Easy to add or remove users as associates move between projects which enabled faster onboarding to data
Marquis C. Brantley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tableau has had such a great impact on our business. Our business depends on having accurate data available each day.
  • We have very high performance expectations & goals, and we're able to track the success of these by using Tableau.
  • Our field employees having daily access to their performance metrics each day helps them stay on top of record keeping for the things they care about most. It really keeps them motivated.
February 13, 2021

Data? Think Tableau!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Tableau is super user friendly which enhances engagement among users.
  • Tableau helped my team tackle data-related issues and answer with complex statistical solutions.
  • The dashboard I created for the team helped even those with little to no background knowledge of Tableau.
Return to navigation