Tableau Server - A Powerful Tool to Democratize Data
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server
Pros
- Rapid fire analysis: the ability to ask questions and find answers rapidly of the data on the fly.
- Dashboarding: taking different views or sheets and bringing them to one screen where they can then interact with one another.
- Integrated mapping: rather than layering on top of Google Maps through complex coding, Tableau gives you the ability to look at geospatial data simply and quickly with both point maps and filled maps.
- Data Blending: taking data from different sources (even different DB types) and bringing it into visualizations together.
- Putting the ability to do analysis in the hands of the user
Cons
- Can be a bit buggy every so often.
We also looked at Spotfire and Qilkview
- Greater understanding of our data.
- Greater transparency both internally and with our clients.
Tableau Server Feature Ratings
Using Tableau Server
- Data Storage
- Data Management
- Data Visualizations
- Dashboarding
- Automated Reporting
Evaluating Tableau Server and Competitors
This is the only BI tool we've implemented.
Tableau Server Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Tableau Server Training
- Self-taught
It is certainly learn-able without formal training. The formal training would provide some best practices, but the software is very approachable on your own.
Tableau Server Support
No - The free tutorials and forums are almost always acquit for answering our questions and solving our issues.
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