Tableau is great for visually sharing lots of data from many sources!
Updated May 24, 2016

Tableau is great for visually sharing lots of data from many sources!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

It is currently being used by a department. It addressed the need to house, sort, segment, and slice a large amount of data to display very visual representations of trends and performance. Its ability to sort and filter data was great.
  • House large quantities of data
  • Import various data sources
  • Visually display and organize data in attractive and easy-to-use ways
  • User access
  • Ability to share
  • excel
Tableau was chosen when Excel couldn't handle mass quantities of data, several web queries, and formal presentations. Tableau's functionality makes much more sense for client-facing data visuals.
It was used by my organization for daily/weekly/monthly dashboards because it was easy to update and pull insights from.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
6
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
3
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
4
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated

Tableau Desktop Implementation

Everything worked great, was just a bit slow to get started.