Excellent tool to publish and share your Tableau works and foster a self-service culture.
February 26, 2025

Excellent tool to publish and share your Tableau works and foster a self-service culture.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Cloud

It is the "one-stop shop" for all analytical questions and reporting. The scope covers all departments like finance, people & culture, sales, marketing, customer success, customer support, and development. We are tracking financial performance, sales pipeline development, customer health metrics to reduce churn, etc. Tableau Cloud serves as the single entry point for everyone with data questions, as all the reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses are published there.

Pros

  • Self-Service.
  • Governance and differentiated permissions.
  • Easy and intuitive to use.

Cons

  • Performance of background jobs like extract refreshes.
  • Web edit functionality continuously improving, but not equal to desktop experience.
  • Limited logging and audit functionalities compared to Tableau Server.
  • Enabled Product Management to make data-driven decisions on product roadmap.
  • Increased Annual Recurring Revenue.
  • Enabled data-driven churn motions.
It is very easy and intuitive. However, some more advanced features require training or a quick demo to users as they might otherwise be hidden, and users might not find them alone, like exporting to various formats, using favorites and collections actively, using subscriptions or alerts, or creating your metrics.
Tableau Cloud offers easier ways to make the content browsable by users. It also offers more flexible ways to set up self-service governance. Standard filtering functionalities are easier to use.

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?

Yes

Would you buy Tableau Cloud again?

Yes

If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.

Tableau Cloud Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
8
Javascript API
5
iFrames
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
7
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
7

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