Tableau: Good but not idiot proof
June 21, 2016

Tableau: Good but not idiot proof

Jason Westenskow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

We use Tableau Desktop within our BI and Analytics Team fairly sparingly and mostly for the geocoding and mapping of our data for presentation. At a smaller level we have used Tableau for quick analysis.

Pros

  • Great for geocoding/viewing content plotted on a map
  • Analysis features are very powerful
  • Data connectivity options are numerous

Cons

  • Overly complex for the lay business user to connect to data
  • Needs to save connections and credentials such that they can be re-used
  • Microsoft PowerBI and SAP Business Objects
Tableau has superior mapping out of the box but the visualizations within PowerBI are superior. BusinesObjects allows an end-user to explore/write queries without knowledge of SQL and a cursory knowledge of the data whereas both PowerBI and Tableau require some SQL and data infrastructure knowledge and training.
Microsoft Power BI, SAP Business Objects
It's good for a start-up analysis but requires some investment to publish visualizations within the organization.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
8
6.3
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
4
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
7.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
7
Access Control and Security ()
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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