Tableau is definitely a leader in BI, yet there is lot to catch up on.
October 15, 2018
Tableau is definitely a leader in BI, yet there is lot to catch up on.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server
We are using Tableau as the primary BI tool for Accurate organization. We used Tableau for creating dashboards, and we integrate those into our Clients portal using JS API. We also use the tool internally across all departments for data analysis and to build self-service reports/dashboards.
- Tableau is an easy to use yet powerful analytics tool. We have created 100+ dashboards for our clients in a short time.
- Tableau supports multiple data connectors to pull data from almost any database, and CRM tools. We are able to pull data into Tableau from multiple databases.
- If your business is looking at a tool to put data in the user's hands and avoid IT requests overhead around reporting, Tableau is the tool.
- It is not easy to subscribe to dashboards or send e-mails outside of Tableau users. We have to use open source solutions like VizAlerts to make this happen. I believe for a tool like Tableau this should be an out of box solution.
- Even though Tableau is an easy to use tool, there is still a solid learning curve to get familiar with the use of Tableau. One should invest a good amount of time to get an organization to adapt to Tableau, especially if the organization hasn't already used similar tools already.
- Tableau Desktop is powerful. Tableau Web Portal provides a lot of the same functionality as Tableau Desktop, yet there are lots of gaps.
- Data blending is one of the more powerful features. However, this only works with limited data. If you are blending a million rows of a data source, we found it very difficult to blend.
- Our clients are interested in the interactive dashboard on their data. This is a big ask and a good selling point for our future clients.
- We are not able to get a self-service model yet as it takes a good amount of training for our users.
- Tableau is definitely a good tool if you would like to build dashboards easily.