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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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- Drill-down analysis (95)8.787%
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- Multi-User Support (named login) (93)7.575%
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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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November 01, 2018
Insight into data from multiple systems in a single place
- 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.
November 01, 2018
Tableau - A world of visualizations at your fingertips.
- 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 31, 2018
Tableau fits our needs as a small company
- 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 30, 2018
Tableau Server is the best of the best
- 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 30, 2018
Amazing product for sharing actionable insights!
- 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 30, 2018
Tableau Server Serves Organizations Well!
- Centralized reporting
- Role-based security
- Data visualizations
- Animated time series visualizations
- Custom filtering
- Easier D3 integration
October 30, 2018
Tableau as an embedded reporting solution
- 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.
October 19, 2018
Data consolidation and visualizations done right
- One of the main features of this product is the ease of generating reports. Dashboards can be shared among team members instantaneously.
- Scheduling and alert notifications can be easily configured to help managers find out critical information in a timely fashion.
- Some of the reports and dashboards generated by Tableau Server are not fully mobile responsive.
- We have had several issues with Tableau being unable to communicate with other data sources and servers, possibly arising through some authentication failures.
October 19, 2018
Usable Analytics for the Right Price!
- 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 16, 2018
Review by a technician that embeds reports in a web portal
- Allows non-technical data scientists and analysts to approach and visualize data.
- Allows reports prepared by non-technical analysts to be readily adapted by technicians into an always-live web portal.
- Its "extract" capability, although imperfect, can help to digest and visualize larger amounts of data in a moderately performant way.
- Consume hardware resources like crazy. It is implemented using a raft of heavy technologies, including Postres, Java, Apache httpd, and more.
- It has decent support for tabular data, but this support is somewhat rigid.
- It nags end users to upgrade their desktop versions frequently, even though this risks compatibility errors with the server.
- It's a significant resource hog. To some degree this is understandable, but it is largely due to its use of many heavyweight technologies (Postgres, Java, Apache httpd, and more).
- You can't change its use of port 443 when using SQL, forcing extra deployment complexity (e.g. proxy servers) in many deployment scenarios.
- The look and feel of their "story" feature is surprisingly hard to customize (beyond basic style elements) -- it's "a row of blocky buttons" only.
- It's geographic maps are fairly basic, and the UI controls for navigating them are clumsy.
- 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.
October 12, 2018
Tableau - One Stop Shop for Visual Analytics
- 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.
October 05, 2018
Tableau Server is great
- Quick access to data in one place that is easy to find
- Ability for inexperienced users to interact with the data
- Easy sharing, downloading. Everyone can get what they want.
- Management of users is easy
- Editing a workbook in Server has gotten much better, but it would be nice to add even more Desktop-like functionality.
- Not being able to get rid of the Default project is annoying.
- When tasks fail, send an email to the admin instead of just a notification in server.
- Would be great to be able to purchase more licenses within Server.
October 05, 2018
Tableau has been a great tool for us, has room to improve too!
- Easy connection to SQL Server. Easy creation of SQL statement, data source for reporting. Easy drag and drop report creation
- Flexible report formats
- Easy to set permissions on a per User basis
- We use Tab CMD extensively; documentation is poor (specifically on how to format some exports - a topic we recently had to rerseach).
- We leverage xtab reports a lot, and we run into the 16 column limit
September 28, 2018
Flexible easy to use analytics platform
- Tableau Server does a good job of making data easily accessible for consumers of data and analytics.
- Tableau Server is very easy to populate with data using extracts and storing that in the hyper data engine.
- Tableau is very fast for viewing complicated analytics - even better when using extracts.
- Tableau Online would be better if it used Encryption at rest and in transit - this would allow my organization to use it instead of managing our own VM in Azure with Tableau Server.
- More color palettes would be nice for both Tableau Server and Desktop.
September 28, 2018
Decent product and good UX (except requirement for desktop client) but legacy underlying architecture
- Data presentation
- Visual data exploration
- Story telling
- Deployment and management are quite hard.
- Required Tableau Desktop for report design (embedded browser version is too weak and incomplete)
September 28, 2018
Tableau part of the DNA of this OEM.
- The visuals are beautiful and powerful, and the interface is easy to understand.
- The Tableau REST API provides a very functional programmatic interface between our web app and the back-end server.
- We use Tableau Server for Linux, which greatly simplifies the installation and maintenance of the server architecture.
- While I have some thoughts for improvements in the Tableau Desktop application, the server environment is a powerful, growing, and improving software. No significant cons.
September 28, 2018
Tableau Server is a good tool for sharing content within the organization but still has some flaws
- Democratizes information. Any user can share information.
- The community is supportive.
- Auditing has always been lacking. The repository has some information, but being able to see what is clicked and what filters are used is needed.
- The UI has improved over the years, but finding content is still hard. People keep looking at custom portals or embedding content since it is hard to find.
- The 2018.2 upgrade is onerous and we have been putting it off. Not just because of tabadmin to tsm changes but also because o the updater not making the upgrade seamless. I have to reset every configuration.
- Backup and restore is slow.
September 23, 2018
Tableau Server and IT
- We were using a third party tool to visualize data in SSRS reports. Tableau is very helpful to visualize the data. Tableau visuals are easy to develop and need a very minimal amount of IT support.
- It would be better if Tableau could work like Microsoft SSRS reports work. Through SSRS , we can call the Stored procedures and pass the parameter, but in Tableau there are a few constraints.
September 21, 2018
Tableau is the best solution
- Easy to build.
- The Linux version is very stable.
- Upgrades fast.
- We can't open admin web because of the certificate issue.
- It needs automatic backup and recovery.
September 19, 2018
Data visualizations made easy
- Reporting through Tableau Server is just a matter of few clicks. Anyone with the correct user access can we the dashboards instantaneously.
- Using dynamic filtering, users can access the relevant sections of the reports without the need for any admin re-configuration.
- Thus far I have not seen Tableau generated reports being mobile responsive.
- Some of the navigation required to access workbooks, folders and projects can quickly get messy.
September 17, 2018
Tableau - The One Stop Shop
- Various connections to different data sources all in one product. We have so many different data sources within our organization. Tableau makes it easy for us to have all of our reporting in one place.
- The ability to leverage the software with the company's growth. We have acquired three companies in the last 3 years. Our company has grown from 800 to 1500 plus employees in that short amount of time. Our Tableau Server is the same from day one when we purchased the software, and that was 6 years ago. We haven't need to buy additional cores as we have eight cores right now and we are doing extremely well for an organization with such large growth.
- The process of how one manages permissions to the different projects saves IT time and resources.
- I would really like to have the ability to schedule a report as an extract (TXT, CSV, Excel, PDF, or other) that I can either email, place onto a network share, or other transfer method.)
September 13, 2018
Tableau review for in home medical visit company use.
- Geo-mapping
- Data drill-down
- Sharing dashboards online
- Better ways to move dashboard items, like when all items need to be moved 2 x or y radius to the right, down, etc.
- More Graphs and Charts
- Better color customization
- Maybe a search bar for tools or other items
September 07, 2018
Experience with Tableau
- Saves plenty of time in Development Work.
- Better Visualization
- Flexibility to connect to plenty of databases, if not create your data set, using WDC functionality
- Easy Server maintenance & very quick releases by Tableau.
- Workday connectivity will help easy integration for HR department & this will encourage more usage in our company
- Enabling the XML format of the dashboard will help easily share the dashboard, like in COGNOS
September 07, 2018
An essential part of our service offering.
- Set up and administration are very easy. It takes little time to implement and structure according to the business needs.
- Broad customization is possible through the use of embedded analytics. Even without that - simple tweaks such as replacing the landing page logo with a company logo and modifying the logos within the standard tableau server interface allow for enough customization to ensure professionalism.
- Permission structures are thoughtful. It's not challenging to create groups of users that are able to access only the elements appropriate for them to be viewing.
- .\tabadmin cleanup is an essential function that would benefit from an automated run option through the configuration menu. Currently a batch or bash script must be created and scheduled.
- Tableau Server extracts are currently very good, but occasionally if a user needs to run a full refresh from within the server environment it can end up appearing to have worked, but bad data has still made its way through. the only solution for this that we have found thus far is to actually re-publish the workbook with a fresh extract