Item: Tableau Desktop
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have chosen Tableau [Desktop] to teach students a tool that makes it easy and intuitive to extract value from big data sources. Tableau [Desktop] is our main tool in the Postgrad Masters and Programs to teach visualization, storytelling and dashboards.

Pros and Cons

Live connect: direct query to data sources with seamless efforts
Drag & Drop UI: build easy and faster great visualizations
Big Data ready: simplest way to get data from data lakes

Fastest to deploy simple data models, slowest to deploy complex data models
Data Prep is not an out-of-the-box feature, but a separate tool
Pricing compare to Power BI, still remains expensive

Return on Investment

Increase user adoption from bi tools
Increase use of datalakes

Alternatives Considered

Qlik Sense and Microsoft Power BI

We have chosen Tableau [Desktop] for its ability to extract live information from any data source, for its simplicity and simplicity that it has a very short learning curve.

Key Insights

Do you think Tableau Desktop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Tableau Desktop's feature set?

Yes

Did Tableau Desktop live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Tableau Desktop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Tableau Desktop again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server

Usability

Live mode lets you to access in the simplest way to data sources. The drag&drop interface lets you to visualize quick and navigate through data. Further more, you can define calculations and advanced measures (forecast, clustering) using predefined functions.

Support Rating

Maybe support is not the strongest point of Tableau. Qlik and Microsoft have larger communities and better documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

Tableau [Desktop] is the suitable table when you have a data warehouse or a datalake deployed and you want business users to get value from it. Also it's a great tool for data analyst and data scientist to discover and dig into the data.
When you want to deploy a guided analytics use case (dashboard or an analytics app), Power BI and Qlik Sense are better tools as long as they have ETL tools included.

Tableau Desktop the fastest way for business users to get value from big data

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop