Tableau Desktop still is my go-to product in a crowded BI tool market
Updated September 13, 2019
Tableau Desktop still is my go-to product in a crowded BI tool market
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Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop is one of the primary business Intelligence tools we use at my organization. We have an enterprise license of Tableau server (8 core) that runs in the AWS Cloud. We have over 100 licenses of Tableau desktop and use it to help visualize and make data easier to consume. While it is used for some ad-hoc analysis, I would say it is used to deliver dashboards to employees, faculty, administrators who don't have a lot of reporting or SQL experience. Meanwhile, we also use tableau public to showcase our official data. These dashboards are built with Tableau Desktop as well.
- Visualization of data.
- Easily connects to local or a variety of data sources or APIs.
- Short learning curve to come up to speed.
- The pricing model has been tricky at times.
- Tableau corporation doesn't do a great job with the inventory of those who own licenses.
- Performance has been an issue at times.
Tableau supports more data sources that both Amazon QuickSight and Microsoft Power BI. It also created a much more sophisticated dashboard which is important for leadership and others who use it. However, we use other products like Toad Data Point and Alteryx and tools that help augment the use of Tableau Desktop. For more power users, other tools are often preferred over Tableau.