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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,…
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- Customizable dashboards (94)9.494%
- Drill-down analysis (95)8.787%
- Formatting capabilities (93)8.585%
- Multi-User Support (named login) (93)7.575%
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$12.00
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$35.00
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$70.00
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What is Tableau Server?
Tableau Server is an enterprise self-service analytics platform that supports 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. It includes automated processes and workflows, and users can define access for individual users and groups.
Tableau Server Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
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Tableau Server Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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.
Reviewers rate Publish to Web highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Tableau Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Tableau Server has become an essential tool for organizations across various industries, offering a wide range of use cases that have proven valuable to users. Its ability to transform complex data into user-friendly visualizations has been particularly beneficial in emergency preparedness analytics within the healthcare sector. Additionally, dedicated analysts have utilized Tableau Server to create and deploy dashboards that are accessible to all employees, serving as the main repository for reporting needs. This versatility extends beyond healthcare, with organizations from IT to Human Resources leveraging the platform to address key issues such as device availability, performance tracking, and enterprise reporting.
Marketing teams have also found value in Tableau Server, using it to gain a better understanding of their customer base and track product ownership and usage trends. The platform's storytelling approach has been especially valuable for data scientists who use Tableau Server to present data to managers and executives, facilitating understanding and supporting decision-making processes. Furthermore, Tableau Server has been integrated into third-party applications and platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for reporting needs.
Tableau Server's ease of maintenance from an administrator level and seamless integration with Active Directory for user permission management have made it a preferred choice for many organizations. It fosters secure and controlled sharing of work done by Tableau Desktop analysts and developers, enabling real-time data visualization and monitoring across the organization. This has led to increased adoption and expansion of its usage in various departments such as Finance, Supply Chain, and HR.
Overall, Tableau Server's ability to store, visualize, and share information effectively has provided organizations with leverage over other systems. Its versatility and ease of use have made it a trusted platform for reporting and analytics needs across different industries, enabling self-service analytics, cost savings through improved tracking capabilities, enhanced customer experience operations, and centralization of reporting.
Tableau users commonly recommend seeking advice from Tableau representatives to determine the best licenses for their needs. They also suggest optimizing data flows and extract refreshes from the beginning. Additionally, users emphasize the importance of being specific when setting up reports to avoid incorrect data. For example, providing clear filters and selecting the appropriate dimensions and measures ensures accurate results. Another tip is to utilize Tableau's training resources and attend user groups and conferences for additional tips and tricks on using Tableau effectively.
Attribute Ratings
- 10Likelihood to Renew
- 9Availability
- 8.1Performance
- 5.4Usability
- 3.3Support Rating
- 9Online Training
- 8In-Person Training
- 9.1Implementation Rating
- 8Configurability
- 9.5Data Visualization
- 6.7Data Sources
- 5.1Data Sharing and Collaboration
- 8.2Tableau Server Integration
- 8.6Tableau Server Governance
- 8.1Tableau Server Supporting Resources
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April 21, 2017
Tableau is Awesome
We use Tableau Server to deliver out of the box dashboard on our hosting software. It's used both in a production scenario and in our SaaS offering. We also use it to showcase custom dashboards for those who already have a site or server license. Our sales teams like it to turn medium sized deals into larger deals.
April 21, 2017
Tabeau the BI-Giant
Tableau server is the backbone of all BI reporting in my current company and also in my previous company. We have users across the globe using tableau every day to view their KPIs and make effective business decisions. Tableau's ease of use and powerful visualization makes it an obvious choice for our business users to use it as the front end BI application for all major data-driven decisions.
April 10, 2017
Tableau Server will Serve you Well
The University of Kentucky has implemented Tableau server at the enterprise level to deliver operational and analytical reports and visualizations. This includes both public-facing summary reports and secure project folders used by individual colleges, business units and other work teams. There are currently over 1,400 registered users across the university supported by a central IT and analytics team, as well as designated "Superusers" across the institution who manage Tableau project folders and publish their own workbooks.
December 27, 2016
Our experience by using Tableau Server
[It is being used] by our purchase department for analyzing major material price. The visualization capability performs well for big data and BI areas. We also use other enterprise BI solutions, but only Tableau Desktop and Server can support our visualization needs. We use Tableau Server to show highly complex and large analyzed data for several purchase staff [members] and executives.
December 02, 2016
Tableau Server experience
Tableau server is being used across the whole company to produce financial statements, marketing reports and to control productivity.
October 13, 2016
Data at a Glance
Tableau Server is currently used internally by our organization and externally to select clients. It allows us to answer high-level business KPIs related to client data we manage. It has helped reduce many manual efforts to collect data by allowing us to centralize and make it accessible on a recurring/automated schedule.
September 12, 2016
Tableau - a great reporting solution!
We are using Tableau as an enterprise reporting tool. We are using Tableau for reporting against our new DW. It will provide one source of truth of our data.
The graphs are easy to create and very attractive. The dashboards help tell a story about our data.
May 25, 2016
Tableau Server - A new way to Visualize data
Tableau server is being used by data visualization team to create highly visual dashboards and then accessing the dashboards from any location and any device. One need not share heavy Excel based dashboards which take ages to open and access can not even be controlled. With Tableau server one does not need to go back to the development team if they want to see a different view or need more drilled down information. Views can be edited and modified from any location and any device after the dashboard has been published to Tableau server.
May 03, 2016
Probably the best interactive data visualization and business intelligence tool exits in the market
At first we started using in a pilot project then usage spread across different projects.
April 27, 2016
Tableau is Highly Recommended
This is being used by the entire organization. We used to use IBM Cognos for our BI but it doesn't provide good visualizations. Tableau organizes information more efficiently and visualize it very effectively through tabular reports, charts, dashboards, etc. It provides each user with insights they need in order to improve business processes. It enables users to make better decisions at all levels of the organization on a regular basis. It makes us gain a complete view and real-time actionable insight into customer shopping behavior across all channels.
Tableau Server is being rolled out as a platform to publish corporate (IT-developed) dashboards. It is also used for publishing data sources available for power users to feed into their visualizations. Tableau Server fulfills the need to communicate performance dynamically, as well as fostering the concept of "a single truth" based on information tailored for analyst consumption.
April 01, 2016
Fast to deploy, easy to love!
March 29, 2016
Visualise BIG data - Be Realistic Be A Tableauite!!
Tableau Server is used for the data visualisation in my [current] project. I used to work on data visualisation projects, and so I came across Tableau Server and found it very simple and easy to use, and very user friendly. I was impressed by the tool. It took me less time to get acquainted to the tool and I could do my work without any hurdles. There were chunks of data that I had to represent and work on, on a daily basis. I used Tableau to generate reports and user-readable charts and graphs. It was so easy to visualize BIG data in no time!
March 16, 2016
Tableau - Solution for the BIG data Analytics !!
Tableau server is used by my team, vRealization Operations Management. It is used to analyze the metric data collected from different entities of a data center. Tableau made our life easy in showing the respective entity data in the UI. Tableau is being accepted by my team and department. Sooner it will be accepted across the departments.
March 01, 2016
Tableau Server - Enterprise Data Visualization Software
Tableau Server is used in conjunction with Tableau Desktop to provide visualization for a clients' CRM system. It sits on top of a data warehouse consisting of SQL Server, Splunk, and Hadoop data stores. The client uses Tableau to provide reports on KPIs such as churn rates, acquisition / bounty, and marketing effectiveness. While Tableau Server is used directly by performance assurance and marketing departments, its data and reports are disseminated throughout the company as the de-facto source of CRM reporting. The biggest challenge that Tableau Server addresses is the need for a robust hub for data visualization and ad hoc analysis.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We utilize Tableau to serve a variety of data purposes. The beauty of Tableau is it's ability to be adapted for purposes across the entire organization. For us, Tableau solves unique business problems for every department. Whether you need a high level business update on how the entire company is doing or something related to a specific account -- Tableau usually has the answer.
February 16, 2016
Tableau - A Report in multiple dimensions
Our organization uses Tableau as a reporting platform for our customer. We chose Tableau because of its versatility and its amazing ease of use. The later probably the main driver, because it is so easy to create different visual graphs, we use it in ways that we might not otherwise. The result is that we are able to exceed our customers' expectations in terms of reporting with very little maintenance.
February 16, 2016
Tableau - the Gold Standard
Currently Tableau Server is used to rapidly develop and distribute ad-hoc reporting to limited to senior level stakeholders, as such it's currently mainly used by finance department users.
It addresses the problem of slow development process of traditional SSRS based reports and lack of flexibility and self-discovery.
February 12, 2016
My Tableau Review
We used it across the organization: dashboards for company-wide financial and department-specfic reporting.
February 12, 2016
Tableau - The Big Boss of Visualization tools.
Tableau is an excellent visualization tool we use here. I believe for the fourth year, Tableau is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Report by Gartner. We use Tableau in several departments for reporting. The charts, maps and web-interface of Tableau are very user friendly.
September 30, 2015
To Server or Not to Server, that is the question!
We currently use Tableau to support numerous departments across the entire organization. We have plans to deploy the server to other departments over the next few quarters. We use Tableau mainly as a information tool for our teams. We have built several dashboards to display critical information to stakeholders in that particular area. The ease of setup and the ease of maintaining the server allows us to concentrate on our users rather than on the server.
July 07, 2015
Tableau from a BI consultant view.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As a consultant, I work with many organizations, all using Tableau Sever differently. Some implementations are department oriented, and, some are total enterprise installations.
Tableau Server facilitates the secure, controlled, sharing of work done my Tableau Desktop analysts and developers.
Tableau Server facilitates the secure, controlled, sharing of work done my Tableau Desktop analysts and developers.
April 17, 2015
Tableau 8 Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Tableau server provides central access to interactive business intelligence. Specifically, Tableau server delivers interactive insight into company performance using web browsers, tablets and mobile devices. Tableau server is the preferred Data Visualization engine.
Tableau is being used as user friendly ad-hoc reporting tool for end users who may or may not have a technical background. The vendor provided on demand training is very well done and someone who has never heard of Tableau can become a functional Tableau user in about a day. It is a nice, flexible tool to complement OBIEE 11g, the enterprise BI tool. It is available to any department within the bank and is being used by roughly 30 or so different groups within the bank. There are about 3,000 Tableau Server users currently, with substantial user growth projected by year end. Each of these groups have their own unique website on Tableau Server and site administrators control who can see what. This can be done on an individual basis, or on a group basis. Also, a member of site A can not access site B.
June 21, 2014
Tableau Helps us Compete
At Passenger we use Tableau Server to combine datasets about all apsects of our communities. This includes, contract, billing, web site performance and email tracking data. We are using across the organization for different purposes and different use cases. For us, it allows for a one-stop view of disparate data sets, while also using that data to track the company's and client's performance.