Tableau Desktop is a Highly Efficient Tool to See and Understand Your Data
April 28, 2021

Tableau Desktop is a Highly Efficient Tool to See and Understand Your Data

Jason Guinn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Desktop

Tableau touches every department within our organization, and also serves as the analytics platform for customer-facing data analysis needs. Clinical data, financial data, human capital metrics, and productivity data are all visualized and understood using Tableau Desktop. Tableau Desktop is able to blend data from multiple sources, making it a robust analytics platform for companies that have a need to tie underlying data together from disparate systems in order to understand trends and opportunities for improvement.
  • Quantitative analysis and trending.
  • Easily proves or disproves hypotheses about operational factors that drive data trends.
  • Allows subject-matter experts to visually display the story being told by the underlying data in a way that non-experts are able to understand.
  • Blending qualitative and quantitative information for visual presentations.
  • Level of detail can be somewhat challenging for new users to fully understand.
  • Easier editing of published data sources would be a nice-to-have.
  • Increased inventory turns
  • Significantly improved profit margins by identifying pricing opportunities
  • Improved employee productivity
Tableau hands-down wins based upon functionality, interoperability with a wide variety of enterprise-class data connections, end-user support, and quality of visualizations. Tableau Desktop offers a substantially more robust, refined, and mature product. It became quickly apparent that there was no real comparison. For applications that need fast, accurate analytics using a wide portfolio of underlying data sources, Tableau Desktop is the clear winner.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Tableau Desktop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Tableau Desktop again?

Yes

With a relatively small, simple learning curve, users can quickly begin visualizing and understanding their data. More advanced calculations can be accomplished by engaging with the robust, helpful user community. Tableau also offers excellent one-on-one resources to customers at the annual Tableau Customer Conference to assist with more advanced functionality.
We have required almost zero technical support over the entire duration of using Tableau. On the very few occasions that we did have to engage support teams, the responses were very fast, professional, and helpful. Tableau uses a Salesforce Customer Community to serve as the primary support / case management platform, empowering users with an ability to quickly submit new support tickets and check the status of existing tickets.
Tableau Desktop is a highly effective, efficient tool used to understand quantitative data. Trends can be easily identified using a number of rapid-fire tools that make iterating through different analyses, testing hypotheses, and visualizing data in a manner that makes the most sense exceptionally easy. Tableau Desktop is a perfect fit for answering very specific questions about how operational outcomes can be improved by paying attention to identified KPIs. It is important to move beyond thinking of Tableau Desktop as a tool used to "dump" raw data out into a report format for further analysis, but rather a tool to be used to do all the heavy-lifting analytics before the end-user engages with the data.

Tableau Desktop Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
REST API
8
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated