Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
The company I worked for did analytics for music festivals. We deployed Bluetooth beacons and the smartphones would submit data (telemetry, geo lat/long, etc). We used it to generate after-festival reports that included percentages of who saw what artists, and most watched artists. We used it for as many reports as you can think of. Tableau Destktop let us do way more than when we were pre-compiling these and running SQL. We were able to move the databases around and let some of the non-technical business side use it to generate reports instead of going through developers.
- It lets people dive into tables/SQL without needing to know complex queries.
- It's easy to use and makes generating reports very easy.
- It was easy to set up and didnt require much maintenance.
- Getting it to do some things that seem easy end up being quite complex.
- Expensive.