Tableau Desktop - iReviewed
September 16, 2019
Tableau Desktop - iReviewed
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop
We use Tableau Desktop mainly for creating dashboards that are live and easy to refresh when required. It helps in monitoring KPIs of our business that may go up or down on a daily bases. We also use Tableau Desktop for ad hoc analysis where we want to look at any trends & patterns that may be helpful to provide insights for the broader audience.
- Very user friendly, even a beginner would not have problem in understanding how to use it.
- Various types of charts are available.
- Sharing the dashboards is easy.
- Creating a dashboard is pretty easy and only Tableau has storytelling options which have helped me in my presentations.
- Raw data downloading behind the dashboard - The format of the data that we download would be in a very confusing format.
- Format matching is pretty much manual for various charts that we create.
- Data cleaning, wrangling & formatting has a lot of room for improvement.
- Alerting system from the dashboard is not available yet.
In most cases, when we only want to look at the dashboard on a regular basis for monitoring KPIs, Tableau has always been the best option. It is easy to build charts, dashboards & even presentations with the Story Telling option. Although, I use Excel with javascript if I wanted any alerting system to be included. I would even go for Excel with Power BI if I wanted easy access to the data behind the charts.