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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.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/Dr/DC/B9UT7Z2T8LTT.PNGTableauTableau Server for Sharing and collaboration of Dasboards2019-05-13T18:49:43.624ZYes, we have adopted the Tableau Server in our environment. It has been used by higher authority people who want to get some insights out of their data. And also it has been maintained by the AWS team to manage and control the server. It mainly solves sharing and collaboration problems in Tableau.,Integrating with APIs, and also on webpages.
Version controlling of Workbooks.
Provides high-level security to the dashboards. It is completely isolated with other users who don't have access.,Adoption of AI [Artifical Intelligence].
More options for dashboard management in server.
Sharing an interactive dashboard with another environment is the missing factor.,8,Development cost is not very high, and also it provides an ROI within 2-3 months.
Adoption of Tableau server in your organization is a much easier process, but it takes time to configure some of the settings.
It has many options which are pre-built in it, for example, Version control of workbook. It doesn't require any additional application to integrate with it.,8,9,9,8,8Kanthesh MALLESHDeep dive into your data with your Global team using the Tableau Server2019-09-19T02:11:46.764ZTableau is used by a very limited people in our organization which are working in the data analytics domain. Not everyone here uses the software.
Data is the biggest asset these days and analyzing so much data in a human-friendly format is the challenge. Tableau helps us achieve a difficult goal and make our life's simpler with beautifully presented data. Tableau Server is an add-on which provides even more functionality right on your mobile devices. Tableau Server does not require a physical server as it sits on the cloud. You can directly access your Tableau dashboard from anywhere (even on your mobile phone or Tablets) and view the insights. It is super amazing and really helpful for people who travel a lot and cannot always keep their laptop with them.,Security: Organisations sometimes have confidential data, which is important. If there is a lack of security controls within this software, this would become a major setback for the organization. I feel this is the best feature Tableau provides.
Can be assessed from anywhere: Tableau Server can be accessed from anywhere in the world. You need not have to install specific software or applications on your phone. Simply view your stats from any device anytime and make the most use of this software.
No matter which cloud your organization sits on: Tableau can be configured with any of the cloud service providers and sit with your infrastructure providing a very smooth connection.,The tool does not lag in any major domains, but one thing that I feel sometimes this platform lags in is the processing speed of the data. Even with a bunch of data the tool sometimes takes huge time to process and develop the dashboards. For large data sets, this can be understood but with small data sets, the computing power shall be much higher. This can be fixed easily by boosting up the processors on which the tool has been deployed.,9,Tableau Server has brought a positive impact on our organisation and our business.,8,10,,SAP Access Control, Qualys Cloud Platform (formerly Qualysguard), Rapid7 NexposeVerified UserFailed to meet expectations2019-09-13T23:05:31.941ZTableau Server was purchased by the IT department in an effort to expand the institution's use of analytic data. Prior to buying Tableau Desktop, there was very minimal use of analytics data of any kind. Tableau Server was purchased with the intention of expanding the use of Tableau and storing data in a central repository for collaboration.,It's part of the Tableau ecosystem of products.
Easy connectivity to Tableau Desktop.
Easy installation.,Slow, even with a solid server running it.
Overly complicated.
Still not 100% sure why I need it in the first place.,1,The time investment to deploy the product that ultimately was shut down was a loss.
Frustration from end-users.
Connectivity was overly slow and unreliable.,1,1,Google Data Studio and Microsoft Power BIVerified UserReviewing Tableau Server2018-10-11T17:29:19.703ZTableau server is used across multiple departments, with the bulk users in our reporting and finance department.It allows end users to see more comprehensive/dynamic reports versus
what we used. Our clients are now asking for access so they can start looking at reports that we have created.,It provides easier reporting for end users
It allows for better comprehensive reporting
It allows us to connect to multiple sources with one product,Desktop should not allow updates unless server is updated first
Need a better management tool that doesn't take a long time to start-up
Better documentation online,8,Great ROI
Time saver for reporting dept
License counts are rigid,8,9,9,7Verified UserTableau Server Review2019-05-17T20:44:31.155ZTableau Server is used by our organization to create and use real-time dashboards and reports. It is used across the entire organization. Tableau Server makes it easy to gather data from multiple sources and easily create dashboards and reports for different users. The data can be updated instantly and allow users to view real-time data.,It can gather data from various sources and combine it in one place for users to view and use the data.
Visualizations created by Tableau can be easily modified and updated by users.
Tableau Servers can provide daily reports that are up to date, along with dashboards that can provide real-time data.,Tableau Server needs to provide more options to modify and update user-friendly dashboards.
Tableau Server can be expensive for a company.
Tableau Server sometimes takes a long time to load reports with a lot of data.,8,It has made it easier for users to view financial data.
It has made it easier for different departments to create reports.
It has increased IT maintenance cost.,8,7,9,9,7Verified UserGreat product but not Cheap2018-09-11T18:07:58.308ZWe use Tableau Server to distribute dashboards to our entire company, as well as to our contractor to keep everyone in the know.,Easy to install and to set up
Navigation is a breeze
Security settings are great,Better alert scheduling
Cheaper licences cost,10,Not sure about this,8,9,9,9,7Verified UserTableau Server is a great tool for small, medium, and large companies2019-03-06T16:24:50.544ZTableau Server is being used across our entire organization. Every employee at Qualtrics has a Tableau Server user, and we use Tableau Server authentication to display reports and dashboards in our company portal. Tableau Server is used heavily within each department, with dedicated analysts for each team creating and deploying dashboards for all employees to consume. Sales leaders view dashboards regularly to track the progress of their teams, and individual contributors view dashboards frequently to track their own progress.,Tableau Server is extremely well at providing a stabile system for us to host data sources and dashboards
Tableau Server is great at managing permissions for users, data sources, workbooks, and dashboards,Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with,10,Tableau Server has had a huge positive impact. It has allowed us to quickly distribute complex dashboards across the company
Tableau Server has allowed us to easily manage our entire employee base at the company and control the dashboards they view and interact with,5,10,6,9,8Jacob RasmussenGetting up and ready with a great data visualization platform in a few days with Tableau Server2019-01-24T20:00:09.948ZTableau is being used mostly by marketing to get a good view of their customer base. It covers the present footprint in terms of product ownership and the trend in usage of services.
Tableau is used by data scientists to present data to managers and executive. It has a storytelling approach that facilitates the understanding of data and eases the decision-making process.,Tableau server's portal and general look is really convenient and pretty. Users feel comfortable using it.
The learning curve of Tableau Server from an end-user perspective is really short. For the creator of content, it is a little more complex but easy to learn. Tableau has really succeeded in creating a user-friendly software.
From an administration point of view, Tableau is great. Installation and housekeeping are really easy and quick.
Visuals are really appealing and will help "sell" your presentations.
Tableau allows connectivity to a huge selection of data sources and data formats.
Online training for software is free and of very good quality.,Tableau doesn't (at least when I used it) have custom widgets or elements in the creation of dashboards. Its main competitor, Power BI, allows this. Because of that, some visualizations are challenging and need the use of advanced tricks that most users don't know about.
Tableau logs a lot of information, and sometimes, getting the right information from these logs when something goes wrong is challenging.
Tableau support is not the quickest. This sounds bad, but I have to specify that I very rarely had to contact them. However, when I did, the answer took a few more days than with other providers.,9,ROI wasn't really measured but the time to market was really quick. Within a few days, the Tableau server was installed and fully usable by analysts. The installation process of this software is really well documented and easy to perform.
An administrator should be appointed to manage the platform. In our case, we went with an existing administrator of a different platform as this was not a full-time job. A few hours a month is generally enough to manage the platform.
Tableau creates really dazzling reports and dashboards. I suggest establishing upfront the targeted audience for the consumption of data if you want to keep the license count under control. It is very tough to achieve that if you grant one to anyone who asks for a license.,10,9,10,10,10,100,1,Creating dynamic dashboards on customer buying trends
Follow evolution of customer base through time based on several criteria
Market share analysis with graphical representations (heat maps),Use of command lines functionalities to allow automated ETL process to prepare data, refresh datasources and Tableau object all without any intervention.
Use with mobile for executives,10Mathieu GaouetteTableau Server is perfect for real-time visualization and interactive dashboards, not for advanced analytics2019-01-09T18:12:01.750ZTableau Server is used by our organization to implement real-time data visualization and monitoring. The software is used only by certain departments. Tableau Server makes real-time data analytics easy for busy executives who want interactive visualizations and reporting without having to put too much work into what they are doing.,Tableau is perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing software to create beautiful visualizations that get updated in real-time. I wish this software had been around 20 years ago.
Tableau Server makes sharing visualizations across the organization seamless. I don't think I could do my job without it.
Tableau Server is used to create interactive daily reports, updated automatically and in an interactive style.,Tableau Server is sometimes referred to as simply Microsoft Excel with a power boost. I understand the reason analysts say this. It is because the software is almost exclusively a visualization software. If you're looking for truly advanced analytics combined with cutting-edge visualization, Tableau Server isn't it.
Tableau Server limits the type of graphs a user can create. There are numerous workarounds for different graph types, but they are not easy to implement.
Tableau Server can sometimes be slow to render graphics with lots of data and calculated fields.,10,Tableau Server has replaced Excel spreadsheets in much of what I do. The software really did save a ton of time and improved the overall work product. I think the ROI has been heavily in the positive.
For analysts trying to get others to improve their reporting processes, Tableau Server may at first represent a negative ROI because others are unwilling to change. If you're unable to get others to change their habits, Tableau Server may not be for you.
Tableau Server was easy to set up. The required headcount was as little as 1 for report creation. It's very easy to get up and going with Tableau Server.,10,8,10,10,9,The "Show Me" visualization is awesome.
The drag and drop is easy.
Customizing Tableau is about as easy as it gets.,Making calculations is Tableau Server is sometimes very difficult.
Customizing Tableau Server for a very specific graphical display can sometimes be very, very time-consuming.
Tableau Server sometimes takes a good deal of time to update.,Yes, but I don't use it,9Thomas YoungTableau is a gold mine, be the first or last, worth a dig!2018-11-02T16:01:08.553ZTableau is used by a department and it addresses key issues such as device availability, performance of devices deployed, and enterprise reporting for roadway data. Tableau Server has helped store information and visualize it in a great fashion. We have great leverage over other systems because Tableau Server is standalone. Our future goal is to use it across the whole organization.,Tableau Server is compatible and flexible in terms of data connection and usage.
Tableau Server has the option of configuring on-site or cloud, which is excellent.
Tableau Server is economical and easily adaptive in nature.,Tableau Server could be made more flexible in terms of data connection and ease of use in terms of documenting.
In Tableau Server, the workbook folder itself should be made available with share options to web embed.
Groups should be enhanced with more test case scenarios so organizations can easily follow the protocols.,9,It has helped improve reporting capabilities from traditional to modern ways to view data.
It has helped in terms of using new maps and charts for devices availability and which is unique and insightful.
Interactive features attracted our client to look up business intelligence and other areas.,9,8,9,9,9Sachin BasappaTableau fits our needs as a small company2018-10-31T16:17:19.665ZAt Vinyl we use Tableau to develop dashboards for insight into our business. It houses most of our day to day reporting and we are now developing our KPI system on it.,Access to our data sources such as MS SQL and MySQL
Ease of use and administration
Relatively small footprint for hardware
Reasonable pricing,Better exposure of the engine components for diagnostics and reporting
Having to uninstall the product and reinstall to upgrade is odd and cumbersome
Bring the command line options into a modern web admin interface with better information like backup processes and history
Admin reporting on use of data sources and ability to search out dependencies in the database,9,We recently reduced our licensing due to scaling down the company and Tableau had a reasonable process to accommodate us.
The most recent version we use (10.4) has been much more reliable - looking forward to the 2018 version that we will implement next month.
Many times changes in version cause our analysts headaches by changing small things we don't always catch at first and we don't have the means to run a test environment for all of them.,8,8,9,9,9Eli MasseyAmazing product for sharing actionable insights!2018-10-30T00:33:34.759ZTableau Server is being used at Ellie Mae as a platform for not only sharing enterprise level Tableau dashboards created by our BI developers, but also as a location to host business specific data sources for end users to create their own ad-hoc visualizations.,Allows for easy sharing of data and actionable insights with an extremely user-friendly visual interface
Acts as an environment to implement and enforce data governance with centralized and certified data sources
Easy to deploy, scale to our specific needs, and monitor,Enterprise level implementation is very pricey
Dashboard layout changes if the screen resolution of the Tableau developer is different from the end user's screen resolution
Embedding is limited and difficult,8,Quick implementation
Slow adoption
High deployment cost
Skilled developers necessary,7,10,8,10,10Shoaib YariUsable Analytics for the Right Price!2018-10-15T14:54:36.638ZTableau Server is the backbone for emergency preparedness analytics for the Louisiana State Department of Health. As the lead agency for public health and medical services during an emergency, we collect a large amount of near real-time information from over 1,500 healthcare facilities. This data includes operational statuses, power statuses, fuel usage and needs, and census/bed availability. Tableau takes this data stream and transforms it into user-friendly visualizations for staff both in the field and in the State Emergency Operations Center. On a day-to-day basis, Tableau provides tools and interactive maps to our state trauma network so that they can determine the most appropriate facility for high risk patient routing.,Summarize complex data in an easy to understand format.
Very fast idea/need to realization timelines.
Ability for end users to interact with data sets, giving them filters, groupings and other tools to get the data they need.,Tableau's mapping capabilities are "almost there". We would love to have Tableau able to function as our sole GIS product. Each version of Tableau brings us closer to that goal.
We would like to have the ability to schedule data transfers. The new Data Prep tool is step in that direction.
We still have need to produce lists of summarized data. Making this process a little more straightforward would be nice.,10,We believe that our deployment of Tableau Server has had a large positive ROI for emergency preparedness. While not formally calculated, we have done comparisons with other leading analytics vendors, and there is no competition - Tableau Server is clearly the value leader.
The major contributor to our positive ROI has primarily been the time to deployment and the time to adoption for critical visualizations and dashboards.,8,10,9,9,9,20,1,Easy access to critical resource dashboards in one environment. Tableau combines data from multiple applications into one dashboard to monitor resource utilization in user-defined areas and user-selected hospitals.
Dashboards that allow staff to interact with certain data sets, using the powerful visualization tools in Tableau.
Data-driven maps that allow trauma network managers to identify appropriate hospitals based on the trauma location and service status within user-defined areas.
Data maps include hospital status details in a pop-up when hovering over the map point.,We have been able to extend the functionality of the mapping capabilities of Tableau beyond what is normally available. Using data-based calculations, we have been able to provide end-user interactive capabilities to specify location areas and hospital resources.
We are able to use Tableau for data listings that enable us to manage compliance with other vendor usage limitations.
We are able to use Tableau to identify duplicates in databases. This allows staff to keep databases current and error-free.,We would like to expand the use of Tableau's mapping functionality.
We would like to extend the use of the Tableau mobile app by our regional coordinators.
We are working at automating and pushing visualization updates to other applications.,10,No,Price
Product Usability
Analyst Reports,We wouldn't change a thing. Now that we know more about the potential competitors, the more Tableau server stands out. As indicated earlier, it has consistently demonstrated high value to our developers and end-users.,Third-party professional services,No,Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled,User acceptance. This was really an issue of providing training and showing how regional coordinators managing hospital resources could use Tableau.
There were no other significant issues. The implementation went smoothly and timely.,10,No,10,No,We had an issue with a particular mapping capability. We wanted to be able to map hospitals state-wide, provide a pop-up of service status upon hovering over the map point, and allow the end-user to specify the location of a trauma and use a slider function to define hospitals located within a radius in miles of hospitals. Tableau support was able to provide a solution, and this dashboard is a key resource used by our state-wide trauma network to provide routing suggestions to EMS agencies.,Dragging and dropping data variables to quickly and easily create visualizations
Tableau's "Show Me" function that suggests visualization types based on the data source.
Easily mapping data that doesn't have latitude/longitude in the data set. Tableau can use county and/or zip code to quickly provide a map of the data.,The mapping function in Tableau continues to improve, but it can't accommodate the use of layers as data filters just yet.
Tableau is not really meant for the generation of lists from data. We've found ways to do it, but it takes someone with technical skills.,Yes,10Henry YennieIntuitive and easy BI2019-01-02T14:53:51.917ZI used Tableau as another BI tool, by the client where the Tableau server installation was used and most production reports were accessible here.
Tableau has proven to be a great tool for the collection of data from multiple data sources, with varying complexity -- we used spreadsheets, SQL tables as well as Google Analytics connection. The tool was a standard platform in a multinational organization and was used for years, so the data was already linked, including the local eDWH solution, providing support for regular as well as ad-hoc reports.,Many available plugins, incl. the one I have used for regional analysis (data enriched with addresses / GPS attributes)
Narratives (story building) is a great tool for creating and sharing your analysis with your audience
Data visualization is one of the best you can get today
Supports mobile usage,Connection to SQL database: by connecting it to a database, one has to employ an SQL specialist to write the script
No autosave function
No automatized notification feature (e.g. alert based on value out of range, in a report)
Very expensive solutions,9,Quick publishing of findings, the reports were easily shared with the target audience (analysts, managers) and any questions could be clarified in an efficient manner
Tableau mobile solution is impressive and still brings a WOW effect to the report consumer (especially if the user switches from Excel to mobile interactive Tableau)
Instead of sharing Powerpoint slides, one can share Tableau workbooks via its reader -- all the user has to do is to install this free application, then you can easily discuss anything online or on the phone,10,10,10,10,10Viktor MulacTableau Server: A No-Brainer2018-12-20T16:59:53.307ZTableau Server is a vital part of our data ecosystem. Without it, our data analytics and general reporting efforts would be greatly impeded if not completely derailed. It hosts a large majority of our internal facing reporting KPIs and metrics, and enables our business leaders to keep a watchful eye on the status of the company and its health.,It is able to extract data very efficiently, as compared to extracting data on one's personal machine
It is able to handle a large quantity of content and traffic to the reports hosted on the server
It is fairly self-sustaining and doesn't require too much maintenance, though it is hosted in our own environment.,Some of the metrics and data relevant to Tableau Server are difficult to get to, and it would be super insightful if it was more accessible and readily available to users trying to report on it,10,Without a doubt, the use of Tableau Server has saved millions in terms of dollars saved with automated and accessible reporting
Deployment level of effort is quite minimal from an analyst's perspective, and still relatively small on the Dev Ops and Infrastructural dependencies as well,9,9,8,10,8Cody KimballTableau Server - Connecting the visualization2018-11-29T22:49:29.696ZTableau Server is used by our department to visualize displays. The transportation department uses it to visualize different performance parameters like congestion, delay, and other measures across the state. It is also being used to work in collaboration by different research groups at Iowa State University. Tableau server is also used to visualize different accident hotspots in the state of Iowa.,Access from any device
Worksheets can be managed online
Can change and visualize new stuff
Easy to use
Public server gives first few lines free of charge,Free lines are limited to 10 million per single connection
Premium is expensive
New data sources cam be published from Tableau Desktop,8,We have to reduce datasize in most cases
Helps us to collaborate with one another
We need to have copies of data in our own machine, when we need to append some extra features in our data,7,9,6,10,Subhadipto PoddarTableau - A world of visualizations at your fingertips.2018-11-01T22:05:02.260ZIt is being used to help our clients visualize their usage data from different angles. It is being used by a handful of people across the organization. It helps expose our big data hosted on Cloudera clusters to display them in a unique way.,Very easy to create neat visualizations in a professional way.
Easy to publish workbooks to Tableau server for global access
Different ways to group and slice the data,Custom SQL are not intuitive when dealing with Cloudera connections
Simple data tables are harder to create than complex visualizations
Large extracts are not very performant
Cubes are not supported on Tableau,8,Easy to create reports on fast turnaround and deployment times
Tableau Server does not scale very cost-effectively
Does not require a huge development team for Tableau,8,8,6,8,7Michael TamTableau Server is the best of the best2018-10-30T14:37:53.900ZWe use it across the organization, but I only manage 1 or quite a few. It is the trusted platform for visualization across the organization.,User management; you have a plethora of options built in (LDAP, Domain, SAML, etc.) for SSO and user management.
Dashboard Hosting; you have the option to host your dashboard in a few different ways. You can embed it as part of a larger web page, have it emailed automatically, or view it directly on the server.
Web Editing; while not as robust as a full fledged desktop I can see that it is edging that way. The web editing is great for fast, small, on the fly edits during a working session with a customer.,Installation; the latest iteration was an absolute nightmare to install. It failed to install several times.
Web Editing; while it is okay at small edits it would be a very nice feature to have an integrated solution that is as robust as desktop.
User Management; in certain aspects user management could use a small boost. Have a setting that allows Active Directory / LDAP based users be removed/deleted from the server automatically instead of forcing a script be written and deployed. If the user no longer exists in the AD or LDAP group they should be removed vice set to inactive as an option.,9,Time to adoption has been a very big factor; it was easy to adopt.
Deployment cost has also been a big factor; outside of the initial purchase of an 8 core license, my organization has been unwilling to revisit getting a larger core license due to the large cost.
The headcount needed to setup and install Tableau Server can be pretty low. It depends upon your deployment preference, but as an example a single server option domain connected on a windows server install is likely to take only a couple of hours to setup and a couple of hours of maintenance a month. Even a more highly available setup is still not going to require more headcount per-say, merely a little bit more time on initial setup and maintenance.,8,9,10,10,7Justin PulleyTableau Server Serves Organizations Well!2018-10-30T00:20:18.038Z[It's] Used across the entire organization and for client-facing reporting. Solves the issue of centralized reporting and a-la-carte reporting using automation and predetermined data sources.,Centralized reporting
Role-based security
Data visualizations,Animated time series visualizations
Custom filtering
Easier D3 integration,10,Higher level of automation
Reduced resource needs through centralized reporting
Interactive visual reporting benefit vs. static reporting templates,7,5,7,4,8Yigael ChetritTableau Server Admin Review2018-11-02T17:00:01.879ZThe entire organization of internal users and external users use the Tableau dashboards hosted on Tableau Server. We use Tableau to address health care analytics data.,The installation, upgrading and migrating to new hardware is straightforward
The Tableau Server admin can adjust the server processes to make it tailor-fit for the organization, hence increasing the dashboard and query performances.
The core-based licensing and user-based licensing of Tableau Server is very useful based on the required scenario.,Support for Exasol Data Connections in Tableau Server for Linux.
Publish Document Covering Tableau Server Architecture on 2018.2 with HA environment.
Improve historical reporting for extract schedules on Tableau Server.,9,10,9,8,10,7Anand KKTableau Server is an absolute must for getting the most out of the Tableau Platform.2019-01-28T18:13:15.841ZTableau Server is used in my company as our primary method for sharing business insights. We build visualization dashboards in Tableau Desktop, then publish them to project folders in Tableau Server so that the appropriate teams can access their near real-time metrics.,It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server,I think the UI of how projects and folders within projects are managed could use some improvement. The organization is pretty straightforward, but it's designed for a large amount of content. Accessing a simple dashboard from one published workbook requires clicking into a Project then clicking into the dashboard to actually see the content. It's hard to describe without seeing it, but it always feels like there was an extra, unnecessary click. Seems minor, but this is an annoyance I and my colleagues face many times through the day.
There seems to be some formatting issues between what's built in Tableau Desktop (TD) and Tableau Server (TS), e.g., if I format some filters over a background in TD, they show up very legibly with the background as white against the color background. But when published the same filters could have the color of the background and no way to change it to white, and the font has less contrast for some reason. Seems minor, but it wastes a lot of time retrying then re-publishing just to get something to work as expected. The view in TD should be exactly the same as TS.
As far as I can tell, there's no way to put a clone of a certain dashboard into multiple projects/folders and have any updates propagate to those clones. Also as far as I can tell, there's no feature that tracks where the same dashboard has been published in multiple places. That means if I have a dashboard that I need to show in multiple places so those teams can access it in their native location with their other content contextual to them, I have to maintain a record of all the places I've published and re-publish to all whenever updates are made. And if it turns out the solution is there in the product, then the UI is clearly pretty dense because I haven't found it whereas this was an intuitive setting to find on a competitor BI tool I have used. I think this should be improved in the product since it's often necessary to manage the same content across multiple locations so various teams are accessing their single location relevant to them.,9,Positive impact is lower cost on our org. We had a previous tool that had very high cost for view-only users, so high that we couldn't provide broad enough access to our organization and had to restrict who could use the tool. We wanted to share all this information more broadly, so the much lower view-only user cost of using Tableau Server was a big benefit to us.
Negative impact for me as a designer of visualizations is that I have to have an installed software on my PC (Tableau Desktop) to do major editing of any content used for Tableau Server. Yes, you can do minor editing in Server, but Desktop is required for the heavy lifting.
Another negative impact is the responsiveness of the system. Tableau Server often takes much longer to load a view than our previous tool. Example is selecting a filter and having to wait more than what feels "typical" for a page with information, over and over while using the tool. It seems too dense to load promptly. I know there are design decisions that can reduce the load time, but even while using those practices the result still feels slow.,9,10,10,10,8Verified UserTableau: Powerful, Flexible, Agile2018-12-28T16:35:32.078ZTableau provides agile, easy to use, and effective ways to visualize data. We have used Tableau visualizations to inform decisions regarding our strategic goals. It took very little time for our data analysts to become familiar with the Tableau toolset. We had several data dashboards up on day one of our implementation.,It's extremely intuitive to use the visualizations. Users can manipulate and construct meaning and additional questions from the data quickly.
Tableau is very flexible -- it's completely data source agnostic. It will take data from any source.
Our development team learned it very quickly.,While it took little time for our data analysts to crank out visualizations, it did take some time(longer than I expected) for our technology operations team to configure the server to share the sizes.
The server update process is rather cumbersome -- requires a full uninstall/re-install.
Again, while it took our data analysts next to no time to start creating, I've been in other organizations that have struggled with the feature-rich interface and complexity of the Tableau client. So, it requires the right personnel, with dedicated time, to fully leverage the tool.,9,Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
There are some significant setup for the server product.
Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.,9,8,10,9,8Verified UserInsight into data from multiple systems in a single place2018-11-01T22:09:17.483ZWe use Tableau to aggregate data from a lot of different systems. It brings it all together to a single place where users can build and access reports and dashboards to gain insight into different areas of the business. The insight gained through Tableau across systems is essential to our business functions and would take much more time and effort to do manually.,Allows for aggregation across multiple systems
Allows reports and dashboards to be self serve for end users
Allows for ad-hoc reporting,Initial setup of data sources can be time consuming.
Some native connectors didn’t work as well for us like Salesforce. We had to build our own ETL process.
Setting up permissions originally was burdensome.,7,Has allowed for fast iteration of reports and dashboards to find what managers are really looking for.
Self serve nature has made it so we don’t need dedicated report writing resources.
There was a heavy time investment upfront setting the system and data sources up.,8,8,5,7,8Verified UserTableau as an embedded reporting solution2018-10-30T00:15:30.967ZIt is used in a single product using the in-line version in a web application. It is a huge selling point to the application suite as it allows the users to see the effectiveness of using the application. The visualizations are powerful.,Powerful visulizations that can be customized with the desktop suite.
Can be scheduled for emails or exported to PDF.
Supports many different charts graphs and has plenty of filtering options.,Default dates parameters do not work.
Not a lot of room for custom queries to the end user.
Desktop customization software is buggy.,4,It is a critical selling point to our tool as it shows the results from using our processes.
It is a little painful to maintain and customize.
It needs more flexibility in how you create data sets with stored procedures and temp tables.,7,10,7,7,7Verified UserTableau Server Rocks!2018-12-28T21:34:34.547ZThe medical department uses it to keep everything organized. It works very well.,Very well organized.
Menus are clear to understand.
The product works without issues.,Their technical support sometimes doesn't understand the issues.
One technician may know the product very well and another technician may not know the product well enough and has to engage a different team.
Their licensing is very strict, doesn't give me many options and if you run into any issues, you have to contact the licensing team via email and only email.,9,No negative impact to report at this time.,8,9,9,9,8Verified User
Windows, Linux
Tableau Server
664 Ratings
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