Item: Tableau Server
Rating: 8
Author: Subhadipto Poddar

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau Server is used by our department to visualize displays. The transportation department uses it to visualize different performance parameters like congestion, delay, and other measures across the state. It is also being used to work in collaboration by different research groups at Iowa State University. Tableau server is also used to visualize different accident hotspots in the state of Iowa.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Access from any device
Worksheets can be managed online
Can change and visualize new stuff
Easy to use
Public server gives first few lines free of charge

Cons

Free lines are limited to 10 million per single connection
Premium is expensive
New data sources cam be published from Tableau Desktop

Return on Investment

We have to reduce datasize in most cases
Helps us to collaborate with one another
We need to have copies of data in our own machine, when we need to append some extra features in our data

Likelihood to Recommend

When you are using it to collaborate with other Tableau Servers, it is very useful. However, if you have data sets to be added from another sheet, it is not possible using Tableau Server. Tableau desktop version needs to be used to cope up with such a scenario. Thus we should have both Tableau Server as well as the desktop accounts.

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