A robust and important tool, but that complexity can create confusion.
December 18, 2024

A robust and important tool, but that complexity can create confusion.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Cloud

We use Tableau Cloud to report on various hiring and acquisition campaigns. Understanding how successful certain channels are versus others, what channels are more profitable and provide more return on investment than others. It also helps us identify problems that we can investigate and find out more. Since its cloud based it is also very easy to share and get information from.

Pros

  • Is sharable with others easily.
  • Provides excellence ways of merging different data sources.
  • Reporting and understanding complex metrics.

Cons

  • Tableau (including its cloud form) has a steep learning curve.
  • Not great for adding in comments, notes, or callouts in the report itself.
  • Can sometimes get something else then what you are trying to download.
  • We've been able to merge data from multiple different sources.
  • We've been able to identify ROI from some of our campaigns.
  • We've been able to find out what sources generate more value.
Its a great product, possibly the most advanced then any of the the others. However, its really hard to learn if you are one of the individuals making the report. There is a lot of things to know, often times some knowledge with a programming language can get you far.
It seems more robust then the other platforms. There is a lot you can do from merging many different data sets together by joining them at like points, to creating visualizations of the data, or by showcasing some important data to any number of people within your organization. However, it is more complex then Looker Studio and although it is very sharable in the cloud, it is not quite the most sharable.

Do you think Tableau Cloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Tableau Cloud's feature set?

Yes

Did Tableau Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Tableau Cloud go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Tableau Cloud again?

Yes

Its a great place to centralize those reports that go to leadership but still have it accessible for anyone to access. We've used Tableau for a long time within our organization, the ones that know how to create the reports in detail have always loved how it can portray the data, however it would either have to be exported, be shown in a meeting, or someone would need a license. Cloud based makes it so anyone in the organization can view the reports but those that can create them still have the control.

Tableau Cloud Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
5
7.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
5
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
8
7.4
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
5
7.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
7
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
7
7.2
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Report-Level Access Control
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
6.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
6.0
REST API
5
Javascript API
6
iFrames
6
Java API
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
6
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
7

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