Laddy's Tableau Server Review
Updated December 02, 2021

Laddy's Tableau Server Review

Bob Ladd | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

We use it to deploy dashboards that help our decision makers across all companies. It helps our sales associates direct their attention to customers for changes in business activity. It helps our MFG department plan and visually see future demands. We use it to analyze our forecasting and on time delivery.
  • It always available and allows us to make it easy for users outside of the building get their BI info.
  • It's easy to manage and takes very little daily or monthly maintenance.
  • The subscription service really helps users stay on top of things with their alerts.
  • Doesn't send out PDF versions of the dashboards.
  • Tabcmd is old and needs to be updated to a visual client.
  • It is sometimes slow opening dashboards and the new data methodology hasn't proven the improvement as promised.
Cognos was outdated and much harder to use and implement.

Qlik was more expensive and a little harder to manage your data.
  • Is well suited at deploying BI dashboards to any audience that has a license.
  • It not good at servicing users outside of the license for one-off reporting. Microsoft BI does this very well.

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
4
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
2
Report Versioning
3
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
1
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
4
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
4
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
3
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6
REST API
7
Javascript API
4
iFrames
4
Java API
4
Themeable User Interface (UI)
4
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
1