Review by a technician that embeds reports in a web portal
October 16, 2018
Review by a technician that embeds reports in a web portal
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server
Across organization, augmenting our client-facing web portal that helps us optimize our clients' database marketing efforts.
- Allows non-technical data scientists and analysts to approach and visualize data.
- Allows reports prepared by non-technical analysts to be readily adapted by technicians into an always-live web portal.
- Its "extract" capability, although imperfect, can help to digest and visualize larger amounts of data in a moderately performant way.
- Consume hardware resources like crazy. It is implemented using a raft of heavy technologies, including Postres, Java, Apache httpd, and more.
- It has decent support for tabular data, but this support is somewhat rigid.
- It nags end users to upgrade their desktop versions frequently, even though this risks compatibility errors with the server.
- It's a significant resource hog. To some degree this is understandable, but it is largely due to its use of many heavyweight technologies (Postgres, Java, Apache httpd, and more).
- You can't change its use of port 443 when using SQL, forcing extra deployment complexity (e.g. proxy servers) in many deployment scenarios.
- The look and feel of their "story" feature is surprisingly hard to customize (beyond basic style elements) -- it's "a row of blocky buttons" only.
- It's geographic maps are fairly basic, and the UI controls for navigating them are clumsy.
- The analysts love it. As chief technician, I'm neutral. It's heavy, expensive, and somewhat slow. But it helps our analysts contribute to the contents of our client-facing web portals, and that has value.