Great product for Dashboarding and Data discovery
Updated May 24, 2016

Great product for Dashboarding and Data discovery

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

I used Tableau Desktop when I was searching for our business intelligence and dashboarding tool. I heard a lot about the product, and then I tried it. I'm still using it, and we use it in our database administrator team, for business intelligence attached to our data warehouse (internal use, sysadmin, log in, reporting status of machines, server, database usage, and so on...). We use it for its great dashboarding and for the power of the data load editor.
  • Data loading is really powerful.
  • A lot of data sources are available. For us the connection to SQL Server Analysis Services is really cool.
  • Powerful customization of graphics and dashboards.
  • Analysis functions, like forecast and so on.
  • It's not so easy to understand.
  • They should have a more intuitive data load editor.
Tableau Desktop is powerful in terms of data sources and dashboarding creation. You can customize and fine-tune your graphics (color, size, text, tooltips and so on). You can make calculations on measures and dimensions. It's also has a cool geocoding function and maps layers.
Tableau Desktop is well suited for business intelligence, dashboarding and reporting, geographical analysis on business data, and forecasting and analysis of big data. It is also well suited for connecting to a lot of data sources. We created some worksheets for database monitoring; to log the status of servers; to monitor replica sets and so on, but we would like to use it to create dashboards for business users.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
Not Rated
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9

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