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March 18, 2020
Tableau - Good Viz, Poor Admin
Tableau is being used as one of several reporting tools. Its primary use was for creating dashboards that could be leveraged by a large segment of the company. The web enablement allowed for broader user adoption than other tools adopted at the time of implementation. Navigation of the workbooks was also more palatable to users vs running individual reports.
- Visualizations.
- Simple deployment method.
- Easy to navigate interface.
- Server administration is cumbersome.
- Recent changes (after 10.x) have required rewriting of admin scripts.
- Cumbersome licensing management.
Yes, 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.
September 18, 2019
Deep dive into your data with your Global team using the Tableau Server
Tableau 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.
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.
September 13, 2019
Failed to meet expectations
Tableau 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.
Tableau 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
Tableau 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.
We 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
Tableau 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
January 24, 2019
Getting up and ready with a great data visualization platform in a few days with Tableau Server
Tableau 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 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.
January 09, 2019
Tableau Server is perfect for real-time visualization and interactive dashboards, not for advanced analytics
Tableau 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.
November 02, 2018
Tableau is a gold mine, be the first or last, worth a dig!
Tableau 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.
October 31, 2018
Tableau fits our needs as a small company
At 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
October 29, 2018
Amazing product for sharing actionable insights!
Tableau 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
October 19, 2018
Usable Analytics for the Right Price!
Tableau 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.
October 12, 2018
Tableau - One Stop Shop for Visual Analytics
Tableau Server is being used across multiple business platforms at Wells Enterprise. We have used it as our primary analytics tool and as our primary catalyst to provide self-service analytics to all business platforms. Our most active departments currently include Revenue Managment, Finance, Sales, Quality Assurance.
- Tableau Server is a must-have if you want to easily foster an environment of collaboration of dashboards and analytics built by your end users.
- Tableau Server has a strong and very flexible security model.
- Upgrades and maintenance of Tableau Server are fairly painless.
- Tableau Server provides a one-stop-shop for Tableau Desktop users to find data to work with.
- Content Discovery can be challenging. Unless users have security to data sources or dashboards, they often don't know they are there.
- Tableau Server doesn't natively support the ability to send PDF versions of dashboards to users that aren't Tableau Server users. An open source project was developed called VizAlerts that provides a workaround for this, but it should really just be built into the product.
- There are no phone numbers to call if you need support. The only way to contact Tableau Support is via email. If we have an urgent problem we typically need to reach out to our account executive to get appropriate attention.
I 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.
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
December 20, 2018
Tableau Server: A No-Brainer
Tableau 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
November 29, 2018
Tableau Server - Connecting the visualization
Tableau 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
November 01, 2018
Tableau - A world of visualizations at your fingertips.
It 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
October 30, 2018
Tableau Server is the best of the best
We 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.
October 29, 2018
Tableau Server Serves Organizations Well!
[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
We are using Tableau as the primary BI tool for Accurate organization. We used Tableau for creating dashboards, and we integrate those into our Clients portal using JS API. We also use the tool internally across all departments for data analysis and to build self-service reports/dashboards.
- Tableau is an easy to use yet powerful analytics tool. We have created 100+ dashboards for our clients in a short time.
- Tableau supports multiple data connectors to pull data from almost any database, and CRM tools. We are able to pull data into Tableau from multiple databases.
- If your business is looking at a tool to put data in the user's hands and avoid IT requests overhead around reporting, Tableau is the tool.
- It is not easy to subscribe to dashboards or send e-mails outside of Tableau users. We have to use open source solutions like VizAlerts to make this happen. I believe for a tool like Tableau this should be an out of box solution.
- Even though Tableau is an easy to use tool, there is still a solid learning curve to get familiar with the use of Tableau. One should invest a good amount of time to get an organization to adapt to Tableau, especially if the organization hasn't already used similar tools already.
- Tableau Desktop is powerful. Tableau Web Portal provides a lot of the same functionality as Tableau Desktop, yet there are lots of gaps.
- Data blending is one of the more powerful features. However, this only works with limited data. If you are blending a million rows of a data source, we found it very difficult to blend.
November 02, 2018
Tableau Server Admin Review
The 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.
January 28, 2019
Tableau Server is an absolute must for getting the most out of the Tableau Platform.
Tableau 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.
December 28, 2018
Tableau: Powerful, Flexible, Agile
Tableau 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.
Tableau Server Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About Tableau Server
Tableau Server is an enterprise analytics platform that aims to be easy to deploy and scale and help enable data-driven decision making throughout the user's organization.
Customers can deploy the way that makes the most sense for their organization - on-premises or in the cloud, on Windows or Linux, while integrating with their existing security and authentication protocols. Customers can provide governed data access while promoting sharing and collaboration with data, dashboards and insights. Customers can automate processes and workflows, manage content, define access for individual users and groups, and ensure accurate insights. Tableau Server gives customers visibility, security and controls that aim to help them empower their people with data.
Tableau's goal is to help people and organizations become more data-driven. With an integrated platform that strives to be easy to start and scale, Tableau aims to support the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
Tableau Server Screenshots
Tableau Server Integrations
Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Google Analytics, Azure SQL Database, Google Compute Engine, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Tableau Server Competitors
Domo, IBM Cognos, Looker, MicroStrategy Analytics, QlikView, Qlik Sense, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform
Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
Tableau Server Support Options
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Tableau Server Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries: | Worldwide |
| Supported Languages: | English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese |