Best dashboard/reporting for mid to advanced final users (managers and top board)
April 01, 2016

Best dashboard/reporting for mid to advanced final users (managers and top board)

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

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

We use Tableau Desktop as data viewer and modeler for some of our reports: the ones that need interactive data visualization and are critical to address our products' performance on the market on a daily basis, including multiple sources of information and different types of variables. The users are top brand managers and we manage the software in the projects department so no deep level of development languages are required, only basic data and reports skills.
  • Is simple to manage, and the learning curve is easy.
  • Deployment made easy and included.
  • Interaction with the data is the most powerful feature you can give to an user, and Tableu exceeds on this.
  • Multiple devices ready.
  • No need of advanced reporting skills.
  • Printed reports is not as good as other tools, but who needs this nowadays?
Tableau is so much better for data visualization and analysis than Microsoft Reporting Services, but lacks the other functionalities that are included on Microsoft BI (MBI). That's why we use MBI to extract and consolidate our data and Tableau to create some advanced reports.
Well suited for mid to high management profiles on companies, not so good for mass level deployment as license is per user and is only worth if the person have skills to understand and manipulate multiple variables and data.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

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

Using Tableau Desktop

50 - Marketing, Sales Managers.
  • Product performance
  • Brand performance
  • Financial and budget management
  • Real time presentations
  • Advanced drill down analysis in one dashboard included
  • Mobile devices to view reports