Wonderful Tableau!
February 09, 2017

Wonderful Tableau!

Agni G | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

I used Tableau Desktop to visualize the global workforce metrics for the organization. The organization previously used PowerPoint for visualizations. Tableau helped overcome a lot of challenges. It is being used by the workforce planning department now. I am not sure about other departments. It's used to create dashboards and charts to present to business partners.
  • Master filter and sub filters.
  • Maps and location view.
  • Easy to use dashboards.
  • Story.
  • Drag and drop.
  • Using a common filter for multiple dashboards is needed in many cases but when we use sub-filters for a common filter, it doesn't work well.
  • When you change the data source, all the customization gets reset which is not good.
If any changes had to be made to existing visualizations when we used QlikView, a lot of security constraints existed and I had to run to the IT team for every change I had to implement.

Tableau gives easy security change rights to the developer environment.
Appropriate: when we need to show animation (changes over a period of time or so), when we want to project scenarios over multiple locations, when we want to show developments or changes as a story, to handle large data.

Not appropriate when: We need to show a lot of details in one screen, when we try to replicate the existing visualizations of some other tool

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

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