Powerful but Easy Insight for All Skill Levels
Overall Satisfaction
Pros
- Tableau allows us to connect to almost any data set we can muster without translating or restructuing
- It allows end users who are business experts but not technical experts to explore and visualize data in ways that are visually rich, compelling, and highly communicative
Cons
- Can't think of any
Product Usage
100 - All aspects of the university: Admissions, Financial Aid, Academic Affairs, Business Operations, IT, Student Affairs.
1 - A server admin who does this as a part of his duty; in FTE the actual number is less than one.
- Easily publishable and shareable dashboards
- Critical, time-sensitive ad-hoc reports
- Engenders a sense of curiosity about data among young staff
Evaluation and Selection
Excel
Although I evaluated Omniscope, several versions of Xcelsisus, and have since looked at Qlikview, I find that Tableau offers extraordinary power to the end user; that is, the people who know the business best. This is true and especially important for non-technical business experts.
Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Training
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
I would recommend a few videos, then exploration, then videos and then the community.
Support
No - Not available, but not needed.
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