Item: Tableau Desktop
Rating: 9
Author: Agni G

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Master filter and sub filters.
Maps and location view.
Easy to use dashboards.
Story.
Drag and drop.

Cons

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.

Alternatives Considered

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.

Other Software Used

QlikView, SAP HANA, SAP Crystal Reports

Likelihood to Recommend

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

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