How Tableau Online is working for us (review from a new user)
March 09, 2017
How Tableau Online is working for us (review from a new user)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Online
Currently, Tableau Online is being used by one department to help launch some new products we're developing. It will allow us to provide dynamic online visualizations - something up until now we never could do since we've always been a PowerPoint company. Jumping from PowerPoint to Tableau is a huge step - we've never had an online deliverable for clients before.
- Dynamic visualizations: it may seem simple but having tooltips appear when a user hovers over a number is very nice.
- Filter-able visualizations: in PowerPoint I have to produce ten slides for ten filters of data. In Tableau, I can do it once and allow the user to filter the chart himself.
- Online and interactive: PowerPoint is static and not particularly pretty and is a file that gets emailed or passed around. Having the ability to send our clients a username and password so they can access their own results is a big plus.
- I'd love to be able to control privacy and security a bit more in Tableau. We ended up using a SSO as a workaround.
- This may be a product of our company's demands but moving a sheet around on a dashboard by adjusting the width and x/y addresses can be tedious.
- I would love to be able to modify or customize the UI of tableau online. Not because it looks bad in any way, it would be nice to customize for clients (perhaps that is something that can be done that I have yet to be exposed to).