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Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation…

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What is Tableau Prep?

Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data.

According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a spreadsheet, and access, combine and clean disparate data without writing code. Easy sharing reduces friction and helps users bridge the gap between data preparation and analytics, for better business results.

Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that is easy to start and scale, Tableau supports the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.

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What are Tableau Prep's top competitors?

Alteryx and Trifacta are common alternatives for Tableau Prep.

What is Tableau Prep's best feature?

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.6.

Who uses Tableau Prep?

The most common users of Tableau Prep are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.

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80%

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7.0

70%

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5.6

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6.0

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March 14, 2022

Powerful, convenient and easy!

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Prep is used for re-creating an ETL workflow to connect data sources, clean data and then combining it to perform joins, and in generating a final output to use operations like pivot, join, rename, union and the control flow plane. Tableau Prep also helps with exploring the data to figure out data quality issues and in creating calculated fields for analysis.

Pros and Cons

Data Cleansing
Automation
Joins

Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
More types of visuals

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Prep is a very powerful tool when it comes to creating workflows to monitor each stage for data analysis and quality issues. Also, it is convenient to explore the data with the wealth of operators and checking work at each stage of the process. Also, some areas that would help is if there are more types of automation provided.

August 26, 2021

Tableau Prep is great prep for your work!

Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 8 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

[Tableau Prep] is used by the commercial side of our organization to clean up data sets before we create dashboards or run analytics/data science projects. Some of the data sets can have missing or erroneous values and Tableau Prep helps to point out such situations so that we can address them before creating visualizations.

Pros and Cons

Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
Point out situations that might be erroneous
Show the distribution of raw data figures

Should allow you to connect to more databases and platforms
Allow clearer initial visualizations
Run through data quicker

Likelihood to Recommend

If your data sets are coming in without much stewardship then Tableau Prep can help to clean the data before you start trying to create visualizations for your end users. You will save a lot of time this way - rather than seeing problems once you are creating dashboards. If you don't have large data sets or your data is relatively simple, then Tableau Prep may not be needed.

October 07, 2020

Good basic ETL option

Verified User

Consultant in Professional Services

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to prepare data from multiple sources for report generation.

Pros and Cons

Clean data
Join data files
Create calculated values
Output to CSV

More output options
Allow SQL code to input data files for prep
Allow row level edits/deletes

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for pulling in multiple files to combine and clean for an output file for further analysis. Not good if you need to query your database for a data set to review and prep for analysis.

Support Rating

5

Do not talk to actual person. Just received email support only.

February 18, 2020

Tableau Prep your way to cleaner data!

Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

Score 7 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Tableau Prep to prepare simple data sets for analysis in Tableau. We do not use it for more complex data but it definitely helps with smaller, simpler data sets. we have most of our Tableau Desktop users utilizing Tableau Prep when needed, but when we do more complex data cleaning and prep we use Alteryx.

Pros and Cons

Easy to use
Integrates perfectly with Tableau

Can be sluggish when making a lot of changes
Not as robust as other software on the market

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Prep is a great software if all you need to do is prep some files and do some simple joins and other simple data prep steps in order to get your data in Tableau shape. However, if working with large sets of data and doing more complex calculations and other more complex data prep, there are better products on the market.

Support Rating

7

I have not really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus.

February 04, 2020

Great tool for data cleaning, manipulation and consolidation--and a huge time saver

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Public Safety Company, 51-200 employees

Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Prep in our finance department to connect to our live data (Microsoft GP) to consolidate with our budget files to produce an output that is clean and thoroughly categorized and ready to be used consistently across Tableau workbooks, allowing us to more easily produce reports to be published on our server. We also use Prep to pull in several invoices (for example, cellular, shipping, etc) to reformat the output such that it is organized and clean for accounts payable to enter into our system.

Pros and Cons

Data cleaning.
Data exploration/validation.

Automated flows.
Bug fixes with updates.

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Prep is a great tool for consolidating budget with actual data. When joining sources, it gives you all the insight and transparency you need when joining data sources and any cleaning/aggregation needs to be done. If financial data comes from multiple sources (ex. a budget platform and an accounting software), Prep allows your organization to build a flow to consolidate the two sources so that everyone can open a workbook and begin from the same point. Once flows are built (especially when connected live), refreshing reports can be done with a click of a button. The capabilities Prep has to manipulate, clean and join data goes far beyond what was possible in Workbook. The extracts that are created as a single output allow working with multiple data sources in a single workbook to be a lot smoother and quicker.

Support Rating

7

Because Tableau has such a great and active user-base, most real issues that we face with Prep can easily be solved by searching for your issue on Tableau's support site. There is likely someone else out there who has experienced your issue, and so many willing users out there willing to help share their workarounds. I have never had an issue arise to the point that I need urgent support with a live helper, so I cannot speak on that.

June 11, 2019

Great product for the right task!

Todd Coble

Financial Analyst

Scout Energy Partners (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees)

Score 5 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We did a pilot to use prep to sync data between our reservoir engineering software/database for forecasts -PHDWIN and actuals in SAP. The prep tool was used to sync the datasets and prepare them for visualization. This was used instead of using Tableau straight to sync the datasets. The outcome of the pilot was that the tool was more robust, but we chose not to do it in order to add more software/tools to the data chain.

Pros and Cons

Sync data
Match
Repeatable results

A stand alone product vs integrated
More training of a specialized tool

Likelihood to Recommend

I think that if the data sets are constantly changing then the value added would be more significant than in our case. If data and schema were constantly changing then the toolset would be much more suited for the case.