Tableau Public: A Bargain You Can't Beat
May 20, 2021

Tableau Public: A Bargain You Can't Beat

Christopher Penn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Public

Tableau Public is used within our organization to make publicly-available data dashboards and visualizations for public consumption. We do internal data analysis and then publish to Tableau Public's servers; additionally, we'll use its sharing features to distribute our visualizations to other organizations, as well as embed the visualizations on our own content on our site and publication sites we work with.
  • Free
  • Integrated with Tableau Desktop
  • Easy to use visualizations
  • User friendly for the consumer
  • Tableau Public could use a bit of access control
  • Integration with Google Analytics would be nice
  • Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
  • The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients
Tableau Public's primary advantage is its lack of cost. That's really what it excels at; otherwise, it's functionally just another Tableau Server.

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

Yes

Are you happy with Tableau Public's feature set?

Yes

Did Tableau Public live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Tableau Public go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Tableau Public again?

Yes

It's very easy to use, integrated with Tableau Desktop nicely, and the visualzations are easy to share.
Support is seamless; because it's SaaS, there's little to no maintenance on the user's side.
Tableau Public is ideal for sharing any visualization that is intended for the public. It is inappropriate for use with any proprietary or confidential data.

Tableau Public Feature Ratings

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
4
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
6
Pixel Perfect reports
6
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
10