#1 most frequent
United States of America
71.1%1,806 installations of 2,540
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Multi-User Support (named login)
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
Category average: 8.3
Role-Based Security Model
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
Category average: 8.2
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
Category average: 8.1
Areas for Improvement
Java API
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
Category average: 7.8
Delivery to Remote Servers
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Category average: 7.9
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Category average: 8
Who Buys & Uses Tableau Server
#2 most frequent
India
5.1%129 installations of 2,540
#3 most frequent
Canada
4.8%121 installations of 2,540
Tableau is great for full funnel marketing analytics.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau has allowed my team and cross-functional teams to build full-funnel marketing channel dashboards to monitor performance and daily trends. Before using Tableau, using in-house data sources was a siloed and long process. Tableau has enabled us to create robust dashboards, such as multiple-touch attribution and campaign-specific dashboards. The ease of use and automation have enabled my team and stakeholders to access data and make important optimizations across marketing channels easily.
Pros
- Automation
- Cross channel performance.
- Integrations with marketing platforms.
Cons
- Learning curve for some teams unfamiliar with UI.
- Loads time for various larger data set/dashboards.
- Real time data enablement.
Return on Investment
- Lower funnel KPI enablement.
- Full funnel revenue optimization.
- Lead to demo rate optimization.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Looker Studio
Other Software Used
Looker Studio, Google Analytics, Snowplow Insights
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Tableau Server as a data visualization tool for our customers. Our proprietary data are delivered to our customers via Tableau Server. Tableau Server is installed on our servers and we provide our customers with an URL for them to engage with our data and analyze them. Seriously TrustRadius, I don't know what to write anymore.
Pros
- Data Visualization
- Data Interaction
- Flexibility to find the best visualization
Cons
- Handling of Licenses
- The "Activation Key" business is a thing of the past millennium, in 2022 it is ridiculous
- Customer Service is HORRIBLE
- Just don't ever buy it, it will make your life miserable.
Return on Investment
- Their horrible Customer Service jeopardize our business. They NEVER solve problems
- The risk of something going wrong in their whole backend mess is very high
- It requires hiring expert Tableau people who knows all the problems
Alternatives Considered
Domo and Microsoft Power BI
Usability
Laddy's Tableau Server Review
Pros
- It always available and allows us to make it easy for users outside of the building get their BI info.
- It's easy to manage and takes very little daily or monthly maintenance.
- The subscription service really helps users stay on top of things with their alerts.
Cons
- Doesn't send out PDF versions of the dashboards.
- Tabcmd is old and needs to be updated to a visual client.
- It is sometimes slow opening dashboards and the new data methodology hasn't proven the improvement as promised.
Alternatives Considered
IBM Cognos and QlikView
Other Software Used
Epicor ERP, Microsoft Office 2016, ADP Workforce Now
Tableau Server is a great tool for small, medium, and large companies
Pros
- 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
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- 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
An experienced general review for Tableau Server
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tableau Server is generally used when we done with all our visual presentations making, data analysis, making dashboards and now some other persons wants to edit in this by giving access or to present or share online with some other persons. It is very easy to share your work like all the charts, tables, that you worked on and need some suggestions or edits or present to clients you can do anything with this. I have done some projects also in Tableau Desktop, Public and Tableau Server and it is great to share that on Tableau Server with easy links and access without any data loss .
Pros
- To convert raw datasets into powerful reports, dashboards, presentable form .
- To easy share your work with anyone with easy access without any data loss .
- A database that stores all your works without any space in your devices and keep safe your data, dashboards etc up-to when you in need to use .
Cons
- Auto- scheduling for backups data in large data sets.
- More technical updates in coming versions .
- Speed to upload and opening files
Return on Investment
- Positively more affected as it provides easiness to present your raw datasets into presentable well designed dashboards for easy understanding .
- No negative impact just need to purchase key for implemented but its worth to use.
- Increases one to one interactions with clients, managements, stakeholders by presenting data in well report or table format .
- Well server database to store and share your work even in large datasets/size etc without any loss .
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel
Other Software Used
Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel
