Tableau Server will Serve you Well
April 10, 2017
Tableau Server will Serve you Well
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.
- 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.
- 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.