Tableau Server: A No-Brainer
December 20, 2018

Tableau Server: A No-Brainer

Cody Kimball | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Tableau Server

Tableau Server is a vital part of our data ecosystem. Without it, our data analytics and general reporting efforts would be greatly impeded if not completely derailed. It hosts a large majority of our internal facing reporting KPIs and metrics, and enables our business leaders to keep a watchful eye on the status of the company and its health.

Pros

  • It is able to extract data very efficiently, as compared to extracting data on one's personal machine
  • It is able to handle a large quantity of content and traffic to the reports hosted on the server
  • It is fairly self-sustaining and doesn't require too much maintenance, though it is hosted in our own environment.

Cons

  • Some of the metrics and data relevant to Tableau Server are difficult to get to, and it would be super insightful if it was more accessible and readily available to users trying to report on it
  • Without a doubt, the use of Tableau Server has saved millions in terms of dollars saved with automated and accessible reporting
  • Deployment level of effort is quite minimal from an analyst's perspective, and still relatively small on the Dev Ops and Infrastructural dependencies as well
If you have sensitive data that you are wanting to share in a High Level Visual Analytics environment, Tableau Server is the way to go. Your executives will appreciate no longer wondering how their business is actually doing, but can in a lot of cases have real-time visual depictions on the health of their companies, or at least accurate as of the previous day (depending on your data ecosystem).

Tableau Server Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.5
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
8
9.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
10
8.7
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
8.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
7
9.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
8.5
Javascript API
7
iFrames
10

Comments

More Reviews of Tableau Server

  1. Home
  2. Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
  3. Tableau Server Reviews
  4. User Review of Tableau Server