Tableau Desktop - A Powerful, Insightful, Dynamic Tool
August 22, 2016

Tableau Desktop - A Powerful, Insightful, Dynamic Tool

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

Tableau Desktop is being used throughout my organization. Every department from accounting and purchasing to engineering and sales and marketing has a at least a few people dedicated to using Tableau to enhance reporting. My company captures all sorts of data and Tableau is providing a way to turn that data into something meaningful.

Pros

  • Tableau can handle huge data sources and crunch through the numbers.
  • Tableau can shine the light on trends and issues that are hidden among the rows and rows of data.
  • Tableau has great visuals that help users tell insightful stories.
  • Tableau has great dashboards that are easy to use and easy to make.

Cons

  • Tableau has a learning curve that is fairly steep.
  • Users that are not familiar with joins will struggle initially.
  • Formulas in Tableau can be a challenge.
  • SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
I feel like Tableau is easier to use and offers a greater selection of visualizations. I feel that the dashboards are easier to put together and offer a great amount of flexibility for the end-user. Tableau has an excellent user support group. I find the community to be extremely helpful and supportive.
Tableau excels at providing dynamic insightful dashboards. I work with financial analysts that everyday send reports up to the CEO and other executives. They spend a frustrating amount of time updating multiple PowerPoint slides with several graphs on each one. With Tableau we turned those clunky, static, manual graphs in dynamic dashboards. They can be viewed from the mobile device of their choice; as well as change the sliders and filters on those dashboards to dig deeper into that data.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
8.8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
5
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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