Tableau - a great reporting solution!
September 12, 2016

Tableau - a great reporting solution!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

We are using Tableau as an enterprise reporting tool. We are using Tableau for reporting against our new DW. It will provide one source of truth of our data.
The graphs are easy to create and very attractive. The dashboards help tell a story about our data.
  • Graphs are easy to create!
  • Data connections are easy to use - and when your data is not formed well you can write custom queries.
  • Great user experience! Our users love the tool.
  • It is not easy to determine when using sets would be useful.
  • Complicated calculations are a little hard to troubleshoot.
  • Extracts! Killing an extract would be useful and currently no easy way to do this.
I didn't select Tableau but am very glad we have it! I have used several reporting tools and Tableau is the easiest to use and has the best user adoption.
Other tools can involve lots of background work or just difficult to display the data as needed. Tableau is easy to use and makes our job easier.
Overall status on a data set is perfect in Tableau, plus you can drill into an area to look at more detail.

A report with 'just' numbers is better created elsewhere. Tableau is for visualizations! I can hardly think of a report that couldn't use a visualization.

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
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
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10