The Dominant Tool, But Will It Stay That Way?
September 13, 2019
The Dominant Tool, But Will It Stay That Way?
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
Tableau was purchased on the recommendation of a SaaS provider to get analytic data from their product. The IT Dept currently is the only user of Tableau and processes all the data. Over two years our organization has used Tableau to go from zero analytic data to a significant amount for our size. Its use has grown far beyond the initial single SaaS tool we bought it to use with.
- Easy to learn.
- Analyzes your data and recommends potential reports.
- User-friendly interface.
- Expensive compared to other tools.
- Hooking into data beyond CSV can get complicated.
- Entire Tableau ecosystem (Desktop, Server, etc) is overly complicated.
Microsoft PowerBI could potentially be a better fit for organizations on Office365, it's a close call though. Google Data Studio has potential but is still far behind Tableau on the "user-friendly" factor. Tableau still seems to dominate for the "recommended" analytics tool, but that could easily change in the next 12 months with now being a part of SalesForce. It's a chance for both Google and Microsoft.