Item: Tableau Public
Rating: 8
Author: Hiren Mistry

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Public

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau is being used to make sense of the plethora of data to CxO team and bank-clients. It is used across the organization. It solves the problem of generating insights and aids in making a quick decision. Internally, it helps discover data patterns such as customer purchase behavior, sales trends, or production bottlenecks.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Excellent, mind-blowing variety of visualization wizards
Lightweight and secure
Variety of data sources supported by its connectors, from plain file, Excel, RDBMS, and Hadoop to NoSQL databases.
Easy deployment to production.

Cons

Padding and working with null or missing values.
Expensive Licenses
Slow rendering when the data volume is huge.
Real-time changes in visualization as the underlying data changes.

Alternatives Considered

QlikView, D3.js and Sisense

Tableau Public provides a variety of visualization and point-and-click functionality, with little or no scripting, gives Tableau the advantage. Also, being lightweight, Tableau Public finds the ease of use from our PSU bank-clients that use low-end hardware and devices. Tableau public helps raise satisfaction index, by way of ease of use and beautiful visualizations.

Other Software Used

OpenText Analytics, Tableau Server, Qliktag IoT Connected Smart Products Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

For a data warehouse environment, where a post-facto analysis is done, Tableau is well suited. For generating insights or summary analysis and for predictive analysis. The visualization, coupled with critical thinking, aids in data storytelling. For real-time dashboards, where refresh rates are high coupled with high data volumes, Tableau is less suited.

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Review of Tableau Public for reports and dashboards serving banking clients