Item: Tableau Desktop
Rating: 8
Author: MeghanMarie Fowler-Finn

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Desktop is being used by one small department in our organization. We use it to track daily and monthly metrics for the organization and to visualize data coming from multiple different data sources. Our agency has been involved with a major data automation projection and depends on Tableau to test and use that data.

Pros and Cons

Easy to learn
Simple vizualizations
Interaction with Tableau Server so non-developers can explore with filters
Easy connections to many different types of data sources

Automatically updated parameters - when my database encounters a new date field, the parameter should automatically update to include that date
Easier mapping capabilities so I can more easily connect geo-located items with a polygon

Alternatives Considered

MicroStrategy Analytics

Tableau Desktop is less complex and has a better array of visualizations.

Other Software Used

QuickBase, Salesforce.com

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau Desktop is suited for data visualizations that are complex but need to be drilled down into and seen at multiple levels detail. It is also suitable where multiple people might have different questions about the same data set using filters. Tableau Desktop is less appropriate for real time monitoring of multiple streams of data changing rapidly because it is too slow.

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Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Alternatives Considered

Other Software Used

Likelihood to Recommend

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