Tableau - A Report in multiple dimensions
February 16, 2016

Tableau - A Report in multiple dimensions

Craig Rosenblum | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

Our organization uses Tableau as a reporting platform for our customer. We chose Tableau because of its versatility and its amazing ease of use. The later probably the main driver, because it is so easy to create different visual graphs, we use it in ways that we might not otherwise. The result is that we are able to exceed our customers' expectations in terms of reporting with very little maintenance.

Pros

  • You can "easily" add equations to the data that is displayed in your charts.
  • We are able to provide "real time" reporting in Tableau. As the data in our service process occurs, it updates the report.
  • We particularly like the mapping function. Again, we can easily provide data points in a map format in a multiple ways with dynamic icons.
  • Great support.
  • Drill down function: You can select a data field and drill down into the underlying data.

Cons

  • Well, the viewer does not provide "drill down" capability. One of the nice features is the ability to drill down into the data that is displayed on the chart. It is easy to send someone the viewer to review a report, but it lacks this functionality.
JReports is good, but more for creating dashboards. We decided to go with Tableau over creating a web solution because of the cost of entry and time to get it up and running. The support at Tableau is very good, but at some point, you don't need it anymore because of its intuitive structure.
It is well suited in cases where the reporting format can be standardized and involves a high volume of data inputs. It may be too much "horsepower" for something that can be managed in an Excel format.

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
7
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
6
Responsive Design for Web Access
10

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