Tabeau the BI-Giant
April 21, 2017
Tabeau the BI-Giant
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server
Tableau server is the backbone of all BI reporting in my current company and also in my previous company. We have users across the globe using tableau every day to view their KPIs and make effective business decisions. Tableau's ease of use and powerful visualization makes it an obvious choice for our business users to use it as the front end BI application for all major data-driven decisions.
- Scalability: one can easily add workers to the primary computer and thus increase performance of the enterprise tableau server.
- Security: Tableau server allows user to define security on multiple levels (server, site, project and workbook).
- Distribution: makes it easy to distribute tableau dashboards across the organization since it's web based.
- Making any change to the tableau infrastructure needs a restart of tableau server.
- Extract refresh once started cannot be canceled.
- License management is not possible using tableau server.
- Tableau is a stable and time tested product which can handle hundreds and thousands of users and a huge amount of content, plus tableau has also introduced a web authoring tool which you can [use to] edit dashboards using your browser.
- However, the recent introduction of NLP and keyword search based BI applications like ThoughtSpot and answer rocket are disruptive to the normal trend of BI technologies and hence bring to the table a new range of solutions that allow the users to generate reports on the go.