Best BI tool to do things really quickly and get insights from data very easily.
Updated July 10, 2017

Best BI tool to do things really quickly and get insights from data very easily.

sanjeev pandey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

We have used tableau desktop to find the key reasons for customer churn in one of the largest telecom companies in the word. We have integrated it with R programming to forecast potential customers that can be churned in next few months. This way the client customer support team can focus more on those customers [in order] to retain them.
  • Very easy to come up with the dashboard, you can develop the dashboards in a few minutes.
  • Good support to database connections, the best thing is that it supports R.
  • It's fast when you use one sheet as a filter for other sheets in the dashboard.
  • Median calculation using live data(version 8.0, now it has) - although we found a workaround to get this functionality, it would be good if we had an option to use it directly.
  • Editing font and color of text is really complex. The user needs to do it all manually so there should be an option so that you can apply styles in a complete sheet and dashboard at once.
  • When you try to work quickly and switch from one sheet to other, it crashes.
In tableau you can achieve things really quickly and it has the power to show you insight data very easily. Tableau is also economical in comparison to what these tools cost. It's a full value tool.
This is the best tool if you want to get some dashboards really quickly. You will get all dimensions and measures separately along with the hierarchical information like date and time or the product and its subcategories. The visualization provided by it is really great. One area where I want improvement is its support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript so that it has more flexibility towards the other charting styles and client side validation for input parameters.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
4
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
5
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
6
Multi-User Support (named login)
5
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated