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- Drill-down analysis (95)8.787%
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- Multi-User Support (named login) (93)7.474%
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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
- Heat mapping
- Accessability to data sets directly
- Could use with programming shell; able to do mild SOAP API programming
- Could use with programming shell; able to do mild RESTAPI programming
- A bit expensive for initial engagement without a trusted referral
April 21, 2017
Tabeau the BI-Giant
- Scalability: one can easily add workers to the primary computer and thus increase performance of the enterprise tableau server.
- Security: Tableau server allows user to define security on multiple levels (server, site, project and workbook).
- Distribution: makes it easy to distribute tableau dashboards across the organization since it's web based.
- Making any change to the tableau infrastructure needs a restart of tableau server.
- Extract refresh once started cannot be canceled.
- License management is not possible using tableau server.
April 10, 2017
Tableau Server will Serve you Well
- Easy for non-technical users to learn how to access and manipulate reports
- Workbook editing features provide a lot of customization potential without having to buy desktop -- as long as the defined data source does not change
- Wide variety of role and content-based permissions settings
- Great for distributed enterprise implementation and support -- lots of flexibility and use can be tailored lots of ways to meet the needs of different user groups
- Love that all the user and content data is easily available for analysis.
- More ways to organize content would improve. For instance, sub folders within the project folders would assist greatly.
- Tags used to label and organize should be able to be assigned and managed at the project level. Having just one set for a big, distributed implementation like ours makes them useless.
- Either updates need to be bundled more and released less frequently, or Tableau workbooks need to work in any version of Tableau Server and Desktop. A big challenge with our distributed approach is that some desktop users want to do every update, but IT can't be updating the server every month. It should not be a problem to have different versions on server and desktop, but neither product allows earlier versions to open files generated in new one
December 27, 2016
Our experience by using Tableau Server
- Easy to use
- Mobile device support
- Good investment return
- Lacks some functions in enterprise BI like robust scheduling reporting.
- Cannot build data source when you use a browser to create a new report.
- Monitoring capabilities are not comprehensive.
December 02, 2016
Tableau Server experience
- Great visualization
- Able to connect with many databases
- Automatically update data
- Be able to set up a security filter
- Extracted data failed sometimes
October 13, 2016
Data at a Glance
- Connects to disparate data easily
- Reduces the need for IT personnel to extract custom datasets
- Compresses and visualizes large amounts of data for quick display
- Helps keep dashboards organized
- Allows for flexibility by making published dashboards accessible anywhere
- Cost
- Limited functionality of executing stored procedures and analytical cubes]
- Would like to see a stronger partnership with AWS and Azure
September 12, 2016
Tableau - a great reporting solution!
- Graphs are easy to create!
- Data connections are easy to use - and when your data is not formed well you can write custom queries.
- Great user experience! Our users love the tool.
- It is not easy to determine when using sets would be useful.
- Complicated calculations are a little hard to troubleshoot.
- Extracts! Killing an extract would be useful and currently no easy way to do this.
May 25, 2016
Tableau Server - A new way to Visualize data
- Tableau server is incredibly fast to deploy and easy to manage different permission levels for different roles and individuals
- Tableau server helps to share dashboards via cloud and it can be connected to live data sources so that the dashboard gets updated automatically when the data is refreshed. This was not possible with traditional dashboards.
- Tableau server enables integration of dashboards with existing enterprise applications so that data can be used by various departments to analyze business issues.
- Tableau server allows safe and secure connection to virtually any data source.
- The pricing plans should be made more affordable for small and medium businesses and continuous emphasis should be on reducing high maintenance costs which range from 20-25%.
- Tableau server is very user friendly and does not require much of technical expertise after the initial data preparation has been taken care of or if you are using basic data sources like a csv or an Excel file (which is highly unlikely to happen with an enterprise). So, there is still a need for someone with good technical skills to create the initial database and integrate it with Tableau server.
- It has a limited set of capabilities when it comes to advanced statistical or predictive features. So, Tableau server is best used to describe and analyse the past events but fails to predict the future events.
- Integration with other enterprise systems and applications is not possible and even customization is out of question.
- There is no provision for efficient reporting by scheduling reports and notifying the users once a new report has been generated. Also, data security is enabled by providing database access to the users which itself poses a threat to data security.
May 03, 2016
Probably the best interactive data visualization and business intelligence tool exits in the market
- Easy to use.
- Relatively easy to integrate with project native code.
- Very robust. I have never seen it fail.
- Performance/Cost is high.
- It could have a more competitive pricing schema.
- Cloud base services/solution for small enterprises, individual users.
April 27, 2016
Tableau is Highly Recommended
- User-friendly
- Efficient
- Fast
- Automatic generation of twbx for Tableau reader users
- Strength 1. Dashboards & visualization rendered in a browser looks almost the same as the original design in Tableau Desktop. As a developer, the last thing you want is to realize your published dashboard is a distorted reflection of your original design.
- Strength 2. Permission control. Although a bit more complex than other products (note I say "complex" and not "complicated"), Tableau Server provides great object and role-based permission control. Highly customizable.
- Strength 3. Workbooks decoupled from their sources for reuse (not mandatory but best practice). Although source/s can be monolithically embedded in a workbook for refreshing, they can be deployed as "stand-alone" sources (live or extracted) to be used and reused to feed into multiple workbooks.
- Strength 4. User-credentials management. Admins have the option to manage users and user groups via ad-hoc internal functionality or leveraging an existing Active Directory infrastructure. For large organizations, the latter allows adding a security layer by moving credential-granting responsibilities away from Tableau Admin's scope to an organization-wide security department.
- Data Governance. Adding functionality to make it easier to manage fields in a centralized manner, having a centralized data dictionary with synonyms, an impact analysis tool, etcetera, would be a big asset for large organizations (or smaller ones that do manual information lineage control).
- Simpler permission interface. Some improvements done recently, but still missing some functionality to see the big picture instead of having to review calculated user permissions at object level (project, workbook), same for data sources and a combination of the three.
- A graphic interface to see how extract schedules are designed to flow (using serial/parallel sequencing and priority values), as well as a report to show plan execution on a particular date or time-frame (highlighting where the extract failed).
April 01, 2016
Fast to deploy, easy to love!
- Distributing business intelligence across the organisation
- Enabling collaboration on analytics and data visualisation
- Managing user access to information by integrating with existing security models
- Empowering end users to share their data stories
- Providing governed data access to the entire organisation
- Customising the end user interface
- Being more restrictive by default with regard to user access
March 29, 2016
Visualise BIG data - Be Realistic Be A Tableauite!!
- I liked that it is self manageable, so I can access Tableau outside and inside of the VPN of the organization.
- The workbooks it generates can be shared online via its cloud online feature. It made it easy to share amongst the team.
- It is easy to access after sharing a workbook, and works in a fashion similar to a web browser.
- Data storage is easier and manageable.
- Security is the main concern for me when it comes to sharing it online in the cloud.
- More detailed documentation is a need. API documentation is missing.
- There is an integration issue when it comes to social integration among the different zones of users.
March 16, 2016
Tableau - Solution for the BIG data Analytics !!
- Displaying highly customizable graphs
- Aggregating unstructured data and establishing a relationship among them
- Realtime analytics of data and updates on the fly
- Adding social integration with Tableau
- More good API descriptions
- Platform independent and backward compatible
March 02, 2016
Getting the most out of small data in healthcare
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- For cases of "tell me something about X" for a data set I've never seen before such as data collected about blood transfusions, Tableau is fantastic at helping to make sense of the data and creating insights.
- In cases where the data is really messy, even though Tableau does not do full ETL it speeds up the analysis and distribution of analytics process by an order of magnitude or more over Excel, which is a huge win for us.
- Tableau's ability to aggregate at a variety of levels via table calculations is something that I haven't een done in other BI products (except via a ton of SQL), it makes a number of advanced computations easier for users to accomplish.
- Tableau's model for filtering and sorting is based on the individual worksheet. Though extensions have been made over time for filtering at the dashboard level, the level of functionality for filtering and sorting at the dashboard level isn't where I'd want it to be.
- Dashboard layout has definitely improved with version 8.0, and it's not quite the pixel perfect rendering that I want.
March 01, 2016
Tableau Server - Enterprise Data Visualization Software
- Tableau Server can be up and running within 30-60 minutes on a clean install since their installation wizard is extremely easy to use.
- Tableau Server is easily administered by a small technical team of 1-3 people. The majority of administrative needs can be addressed through the web application directly. Others can be configured easily in configuration files or utilities.
- High level business users LOVE the rich, interactive visualizations that are possible using Tableau. No experience is needed to interact with and draw meaningful conclusions from your data using the web application.
- Analyst-level users can quickly learn to use Tableau Desktop in harmony with Tableau Server. With Tableau Desktop, users can create/modify reports and draw even deeper analysis.
- The Tableau Community and Forums are extremely active. However, Tableau Support is also proactive in terms of troubleshooting issues. They are responsive, follow up, and work on a first name basis.
- In Tableau Desktop / Tableau Server you can add micro-ETL processing, mapping, and other business rules directly in Tableau reports. This quickly becomes a danger to undermine existing back-end systems and their business logic. To avoid this, enforce concrete rules and structure for where business rules live.
- The Tableau ecosystem is fantastic and flexible, but there is a learning curve. Creating meaningful reports is difficult and it takes time to learn.
- Tableau Server introduced such a fast moving paradigm to reporting and visualization that it flipped our business users and technical team upside down. Suddenly we saw the millions of ways we could be slicing and dicing our data. Tableau Server opens up enormous windows for creativity and out of the box thinking. It's important to slow down and define a vision and long term goals for the reporting suite.
- Tableau does not offer any solution for version control on its workbooks / dashboards / reports.
- There is no clear way on how to QA/test Tableau reports given that it is primarily GUI-driven.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Versatility -- there are endless ways to visualize data
- Adaptability -- all departments have unique business questions/challenges. Given the proper concision around the question, Tableau can usually be manipulated to have an answer.
- Immediacy -- Tableau Server is quick, simple as that.
- Some of the best use cases for Tableau come from building custom views out of the raw data sources. Tableau does not save custom views built in this fashion -- they have to be rebuilt each time which can be painfully time consuming.
- Data manipulation -- much of the time data has to be exported into excel in order to see things the right way.
March 01, 2016
Tableau Helping Healthcare
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We have a quality department responsible for gathering large volumes of quality data (are the correct medications being dispensed at the correct time, etc). This department had been using Excel spreadsheets to create visualizations of the data for sharing with other parts of the organization. The switch to Tableau allowed this team to build excellent visualizations much more quickly and easily. It essentially reduced the required cycle time form 30 days to 5/6 days. The tool is also used by other hospital departments like epidemiology.
- Tableau made it possible to offer a self-service BI solution. We really wanted to have a BI / visualization solution that empowered the end-users to do their jobs as well as possible without having to involve the IT department. Tableau democratizes the visualization process by allowing users to build the visualizations they need with no IT assistance required.
- The Tableau Server UI is quite basic. It's a drag-and-drop metaphor which is very easy to understand by end users. The design enables users to do what they need to do with a minimum of complication and clutter.
- New releases tend to very substantive with lots of new features rather than just bug fixes. For example, upgrading to Version 8 provided us with 10 new pre-built visualizations and some statistical tools that customers had been asking for. They are very good at listening to their user base.
- Product is quite affordable compared to some competitive products.
- The product itself is great. The only issue has been the high cost of the annual conferences which we try to attend. Conference passes are in the $1,500 range.
March 01, 2016
Yes, Tableau can make you feel "Tab - Blue" At Times
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Allows you to quickly visualize your data.
- Great for viewing data that has geospatial elements.
- Easy to share with others via publishing to Tableau Server.
- Not a one stop shop for summarizing large data sets (>1 million rows).
- Does not work well with Teradata (in my experience). There was a host of connectivity issues that were logged by Tableau support as bugs/defects that were going to be addressed.
- Performance is solely based on the amount of RAM your individual machine running the client app has (I would regularly see the Out of Memory error when trying to connect to Teradata).
- Requires customization in order to force a refresh of the the webpage when publishing the dashboard on Tableau Server (data refreshes in the background but webpage does not update at the same time).
March 01, 2016
Tableau - Everything You Need To Know
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Tableau's core strength is how easy it is to use. This was a key attraction to me in the early stage and remains a key consideration for many who want to visualise and understand the data in which they are subject matter experts without it requiring them to become experts in the software tool itself. As you use it more and more you also realise that while Tableau is deceptively simple to use it also has real depth and real power.
- This ease of use addresses a key business problem for many organisations which is that other solutions will require people who know a lot about databases but little about the data to produce solutions for people who truly understand the data but aren't database administrators. Tableau places very little demand at all on IT departments, many of whom are overworked and have long request queues to satisfy. Tableau allows the IT departments to work on the provision of simplified data connections with helpful metadata, leaving end users able to access the data, design and share meaningful dashboards from that data with anyone they wish in their organisation. This approach is very powerful and very productive.
- In browser animations
- Speed of rendering dashboards - this is getting faster all the time but it is there and can be a consideration. When we're so used to web pages rendering almost instantly it can feel unusual to wait 2-3 seconds for something to render on screen.
- auto update - Tableau does not automatically render new points if the underlying data changes. The browser page has to be manually or programatically refreshed to display new data.
March 01, 2016
Tableau: Simple and Elegant Visualizations
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Simple and elegant analytics.
- Speed to value.
- Scalability – ability to start with a Desktop dashboard and seamlessly move to a server version when ready.
- Ability to do simple calculations.
- Ability to investigate and clean data sets quickly and easily.
- Dynamic data connection options.
- Unable to write information back to a database (example: what if analysis engine).
- Difficult to perform complex table calculations.
- Challenging to join different tables or views and perform meaningful calculations.
February 16, 2016
Tableau - A Report in multiple dimensions
- You can "easily" add equations to the data that is displayed in your charts.
- We are able to provide "real time" reporting in Tableau. As the data in our service process occurs, it updates the report.
- We particularly like the mapping function. Again, we can easily provide data points in a map format in a multiple ways with dynamic icons.
- Great support.
- Drill down function: You can select a data field and drill down into the underlying data.
- Well, the viewer does not provide "drill down" capability. One of the nice features is the ability to drill down into the data that is displayed on the chart. It is easy to send someone the viewer to review a report, but it lacks this functionality.
February 16, 2016
Tableau - the Gold Standard
- One version of the truth, instead of passing around Excel workbooks which are prone to errors and lack of updates. A universal 'version' is used and is automatically updated based on new information fed by the data warehouse.
- Ease of integration with active directory allowing user level access restrictions based on existing infrastructure, as well as flexibility to easily override user level restrictions if needed.
- Intuitive interface, gold standard amongst a myriad of other products.
- Pricing can be a bit daunting compared to a desktop license, it should be cheaper.
February 12, 2016
My Tableau Review
- Connection to different data sources
- Quick setup for default visualizations
- Easy to construct dashboards, and easy to share and publish.
- Speed. If tables are large it can be very slow.
- Usage can result in many database connections active
- Some of the defaults are not easily modified.
February 12, 2016
Tableau - The Big Boss of Visualization tools.
- Charts
- In-built maps
- Extract based reporting
- Server maintenance
- User maintenance should be much easier ( For ex: Maintaining common users b/w Tableau Sites)
- Fail Over Setup
- Patch Releases are TOOOO Often.