Tableau Review
August 10, 2016

Tableau Review

Danish Ali Ahmad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

The BI group always got hampered by their turnaround time and when they were streamlining projects. Nowadays corporations are moving towards self-service.

Our Research Institute needed to access data, and their nature of work would not allow them to be specific about their request. So first we launched Tableau for our Research Institute customers which gave them ability for self service and discovery. Project specialists and process improvement were our next customers.
  • The ability to schedule a refresh or cache is very powerful.
  • Measures calculations, graphics and the ease of use (user friendly) is very robust.
  • Ability to edit, share and create stories.
  • Drop down menu (prompt filter) can only be applied on 1 page of the story. I need to control all pages in stories by 1 change in value.
  • More types of charts. They have Pie charts, but what about Donut charts?
  • OBIEE
Ease of use, user friendly. The user finds it easy to work with and started creating things from day 1.
SAP Business Objects, QlikView, SAP Crystal Reports
For BI self service, I would say no to canned reports.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
3
Formatting capabilities
6
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7