Item: Tableau Server
Rating: 10
Author: Chris Metropulos

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau is being used across my organization as a primary tool for product management or sales metrics tracking for different business units. Reports are generated quickly and it links fairly nice with SalesForce.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Aesthetic value of reports generated is a plus.
Intuitive system, not overly complex but not too simplistic either.
Reliable platform, haven't had many notable issues of crashes, security penetration, or misinformation.

Cons

Tutorials don't always help 100% - typically you have to go through their support team for special integrations. Once set up however, things run efficiently.
You need to have reliably fast internet, otherwise it can get overloaded and you can possibly lose data.

Alternatives Considered

Smartsheet

We still use Microsoft Excel for much of the lighter, day-to-day pivot tables or calculations. We see Tableau as the future however and are slowly tying more and more of our standard work with Tableau. Smartsheet isn't a 1:1 example, but it was considered for importing information but we found imports were fragmented and the program wasn't meant to be used as we intended.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any persons involved in viewing, managing, or manipulating analytics regarding products, quantities, sales, weights, and more should consider Tableau. On the sales side especially it's nice to pull up reports real time when discussing with remote sales members' performance. Less appropriate may be a marketing group or engineering group within a company. I feel there are alternate platforms that could help more task-oriented roles.

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