Tableau has been a great tool for us, has room to improve too!
October 05, 2018

Tableau has been a great tool for us, has room to improve too!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

TS is used as a reporting framework that connects to a legacy SQL server that stores Time and Expense information for a national consulting company. We primary use tabluar\xtab reporting formats

Pros

  • Easy connection to SQL Server. Easy creation of SQL statement, data source for reporting. Easy drag and drop report creation
  • Flexible report formats
  • Easy to set permissions on a per User basis

Cons

  • We use Tab CMD extensively; documentation is poor (specifically on how to format some exports - a topic we recently had to rerseach).
  • We leverage xtab reports a lot, and we run into the 16 column limit
  • Positive - has allowed our business to access and analyze data that was previously not available via stock reports in our legacy system. Has allowed us to identify and pursue growth opportunities
It works great for our applications; internal reporting directly connected to our back end database. In our case we were replacing the reporting tools that accompanied a legacy system - and Tableau performed that role easily.

We're a middle sized company, and only have 12 licenses because adding more is too expensive...

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.0
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
8.0
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
9
8.0
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
6
9.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
7.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated

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