Tableau - Analytics Leader
Updated March 16, 2016
Tableau - Analytics Leader
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop is being used for end user reporting mainly as a self service reporting model. It's used currently for general and category reporting including all aspects of business:
1. Reducing IT overhead
2. Increase flexibility in data analysis
3. Promote self service
1. Reducing IT overhead
2. Increase flexibility in data analysis
3. Promote self service
- Biggest strength of Tableau desktop is its abundant availability of visualization charts. This makes it easy for users/analysts for decision making rather than going through Raw data.
- Ease of Use: This helps in a homogenous user interface.
- Support: This tool supports all kinds of users from basic to advanced. No coding required thus reducing the IT overhead.
- Data Integration: Tableau works well in merging third party data sources with the existing. This gives users flexibility in analyzing multi sources of data in a single place.
- Column limit: There is a limit in displaying the number of columns to no more than 16 in the layout.
- Initial Data Preparation: Users need to have some technical knowledge in order to prepare/massage the data for the analysis.
- HANA Connectivity: Though Tableau connects to HANA well, the integration provided is not flexible at an enterprise level.
- OLAP Connectivity: Integration with SAP BW is poor.
- SAP Lumira and SAP Business Objects
SAP Lumira starts off well with its ease of use but the number of visualizations are very limited in Lumira when compared to Tableau Desktop. Also the ability to customize the visualizations is limited. Its integration with the non SAP data sources is poor. Also, the components such as sliders, input controls that helps in what if analysis are not provided.Overall, SAP Lumira still is evolving where as Tableau is matured and stable.
SAP
Business objects suite has some limited self service capability but is not competitive
with the list of new products that are available in the market especially with Tableau. Dashboard Designer (previously known as Xcelsius) comes closer in look and feel of the output, but the development time is huge and the dashboards are not slice and dice ready and lastly it's not self servicing. Design Studio also has the same drawbacks along with lot of coding involved.
SAP
Business objects suite has some limited self service capability but is not competitive
with the list of new products that are available in the market especially with Tableau. Dashboard Designer (previously known as Xcelsius) comes closer in look and feel of the output, but the development time is huge and the dashboards are not slice and dice ready and lastly it's not self servicing. Design Studio also has the same drawbacks along with lot of coding involved.