My Tableau Review
October 07, 2016

My Tableau Review

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

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

Tableau is being used across the organization by various business units and departments. It helped discover all kinds of business problems using Tableau's intuitive interface as compared to other BI reporting tools.
  • TDE - takes a selection of data into the in-memory and helps in quicker processing
  • TDE - data can be refreshed and scheduled
  • TDE - can work offline with the snapshot of data and later connect
  • Smart-Trigger the data extract refresh
  • More varied sources of data input
  • Thin client, smaller footprint, invoked as an applet in browser
  • Training cost and learning curve for business users
  • Good ROI compared to other BI tools
  • Easy to administer and manage
  • Good drill down capabilities
  • Intuitive and friendly GUI
  • Less dependency on IT
  • Costs less
  • Lighter and quicker
Tableau is more useful: When the user base is less technical, doesn't have SQL knowledge, has to do data analysis for their day to day business. It reduces dependency on IT.

Tableau is less useful: When the IT team already provides business data insight using other BI tools in a much easy to comprehend dashboard format on time.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
6
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10