Tableau Server will Serve you Well
April 10, 2017

Tableau Server will Serve you Well

Heidi Hiemstra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

The University of Kentucky has implemented Tableau server at the enterprise level to deliver operational and analytical reports and visualizations. This includes both public-facing summary reports and secure project folders used by individual colleges, business units and other work teams. There are currently over 1,400 registered users across the university supported by a central IT and analytics team, as well as designated "Superusers" across the institution who manage Tableau project folders and publish their own workbooks.

Pros

  • Easy for non-technical users to learn how to access and manipulate reports
  • Workbook editing features provide a lot of customization potential without having to buy desktop -- as long as the defined data source does not change
  • Wide variety of role and content-based permissions settings
  • Great for distributed enterprise implementation and support -- lots of flexibility and use can be tailored lots of ways to meet the needs of different user groups
  • Love that all the user and content data is easily available for analysis.

Cons

  • More ways to organize content would improve. For instance, sub folders within the project folders would assist greatly.
  • Tags used to label and organize should be able to be assigned and managed at the project level. Having just one set for a big, distributed implementation like ours makes them useless.
  • Either updates need to be bundled more and released less frequently, or Tableau workbooks need to work in any version of Tableau Server and Desktop. A big challenge with our distributed approach is that some desktop users want to do every update, but IT can't be updating the server every month. It should not be a problem to have different versions on server and desktop, but neither product allows earlier versions to open files generated in new one
I did not choose Tableau for my organization, but did choose my organization in part because they use Tableau! Fantastic flexibility combined with relative ease of visualization.
Well suited to just about any reporting need. We've been able to replace numerous other reporting packages with Tableau Server & Desktop. The only function Tableau lacks is the ability to produce multi-page, formatted, printable reports. Some folks really do need the long paper version.

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
7
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
8.3
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
5
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
9.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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