Tableau Desktop reality revealed
Updated May 25, 2016
Tableau Desktop reality revealed

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop is used as the BI tool for a group of 3000 end users and more than 300 developers in our organization. We moved out of tools like Cognos, BO to Tableau for all our reporting and analytic needs. Tableau is cost effective and useful for quick turn around and is very suitable for self service BI.
Pros
- Connectivity to RDBMS, Excel, Files, Big Data. So a wide variety of data can be reported through Tableau.
- Tableau extracts can get the data out of source system and store it in the Tableau server or desktop user's machine to enhance the response time.
- Wide variety of analysis tips and pre-defined chart features that guide new users to create intuitive reports.
- Quick filter, easy to share and number of analytical functions to create custom calculations.
Cons
- Blending of sources can be enhanced to provide option for full outer blending.
- Join option between tables need to have more variety than equi-joins.
- Restriction of showing 16 distinct dimensional field in a report needs to be removed.
- SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Pentaho
Tableau Desktop is better than any of its competitors as it is cost effective and user friendly.
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