If you have the budget, Tableau Server is the way to go!
September 04, 2018
If you have the budget, Tableau Server is the way to go!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server
At Rollins, the Tableau Server is used within the Marketing area and primarily with the intent of sharing dashboards/ analyses with the Marketing Leadership Team and at times with leadership outside Marketing. It allows us to share analyses, with the option to dive deeper where necessary and based on the audience/ questions of interest.
- Having access to the server, the report developer only needs to send a link to the report to her audience, not the entire physical file or data behind it.
- The reports are dynamic. As the data behind them changes, the developer is not forced to send new reports each time.
- The reports remain dynamic. This allows for the user to look at what is pertinent to them and not necessarily a static version of the report. They can apply necessary filters as needed.
- The report user also has the ability to create their own Tableau reports using the data exposed to them through the dashboard. Self-empowered users are that much more effective in their own work product!
- Scaling Tableau Server comes with a big price tag.
- In an organization that does not already have Tableau as its enterprise reporting tool, driving adoption is very tough. People tend to slink back into the comfort of excel analyses.