Tableau makes me look like a rockstar at presenting insights without spending hours .
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau is faster and is super intuitive for creating stunning visualizations in rapid time. Easy to make customizable dashboards, and I love how fast I can connect to data sources like Excel, SQL, or even cloud platforms, and start exploring trends in minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tableau is more for an experienced analyst or BI developer. It falls littlebit behind Power BI when it comes to interface, and integration. However, it's still very powerful visualization tool, and high in demand for different jobs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped me extensively at many times to transform messy data into clear insights.
Tableu as a beginer
What do you like best about the product?
It has a comprehensive feature and, since it is established in the market, so offers stability and a support system. One can find ways to address their issues on the internet.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's complex to get started. You sort of need some training. Though the fruits are their to reap once you know how to use it effectively. But it can become tiresome to get there. Also It may frustrate you with speed sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have connected it with live student action (our internal function) data. It is perfectly able to manage, create and help to monitor the data flow and its interpretation. We are monitoring and generating reports on a regular basis using Tableau.
A strong platform that helps you with all your reporting needs
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use to build comprehensive dashboards as per the requirements. Another major aspect is the ability to integrate with different data sources that makes the entire process quite seamless for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost and pricing - It is super expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We majorly use it for building a wide variety of reporting dashboards for our org.
Best Tool To Convert Complex data into Digestible Insights
What do you like best about the product?
I used Tableau during my tenure as a Business Analyst, and I found it to be one of the most powerful data visualization tools available. My primary experience was in building interactive dashboards, What stood out to me was the high degree of customization it offers; allowing visuals to be tailored based on various data points ( no matter how complex or simple) also its ability to synthesize complex datasets into clear, intuitive dashboards.
I’m also a personal fan of its forecasting analytics features, which provide built-in capabilities to project future trends using historical data.
What do you dislike about the product?
One challenge I initially faced with Tableau was its learning curve. The user interface can feel quite overwhelming at first, especially for new users who aren’t familiar with data visualization tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau helps solve the problem of making sense of complex and large datasets by transforming them into clear, interactive visualizations. As a Business Analyst, this was especially beneficial for me in identifying trends, patterns, and outliers that wouldn’t have been obvious in raw data. Quicker decision-making by presenting insights in a digestible format for non-technical stakeholders.
The ability to customize dashboards and drill down into specific data points helped me deliver more actionable insights, improving both the quality and speed of business recommendations.
Good data visualization software.
What do you like best about the product?
Ig you want to make your data talk to the masses, tableau is a great tool that can help you with that.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some things in tableau that require work arounds and what is worse is that it is simple things like different column colors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking metrics and reporting out after the fact data to general managers that would indicate if their associates are doing the correct things or not.
Personal Experience
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is very user friendly and the data base structure is very organised!! The most important things the keyword search option!!
What do you dislike about the product?
The loading time if the database is heavy and crashes in between!!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The tableau helping me in order to organised the entire data at one place also giving me a clear picture how the things are working and what needs to be done next…
I use Tableau to create various data dashboards for our company.
What do you like best about the product?
It can create interactive data for my audience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not easy to change the location where we save files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to show map data and provide our audiences with interesting and insightful charts.
Simple and effective
What do you like best about the product?
I like how simple it is to search and find the document you need to create spreadsheets
What do you dislike about the product?
I haven't had any issues so far that were related to Tableau itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps to view older online account access details to better prevent fraud
Powerful and user-friendly tool for visualizing data effectively
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau makes it easy to create interactive dashboards with just a few clicks.
It connects seamlessly with various data sources like Excel, databases, and cloud apps like Salesforce, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, etc.
The drag-and-drop interface is very natural even for beginners, and its data visualization capabilities are among the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tableau can get expensive, especially for small businesses or individual users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau helps transform raw data into meaningful insights quickly and interactively.
It solves the problem of manual reporting and static Excel charts by offering dynamic dashboards that update in real-time.
Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization
What is our primary use case?
We have implemented Tableau for visualization, and that experience has been good, as we have been using Azure AI Foundry rigorously since the last two months, which has also been a good experience. I think that it's a new service that they launched roughly a year back.
We have been using Tableau for the last eight to nine years, and that is a good solution. The experience has been good; though, customization is not so easy. By customization, I mean, for example, we are thinking of introducing an NLP-based feature, exposing a REST API into the solution, and that sort of thing is not easily done. Otherwise, as far as the BI tool is concerned, Tableau is quite good.
What is most valuable?
Tableau is quite easy to develop dashboards with, and the range of dashboards is good. The drag-and-drop features are also quite good.
Tableau is quite scalable; on a scale of one to ten, it would rate as a ten for scalability.
Tableau's stability is highly stable, and it would rate at a nine.
What needs improvement?
Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task.
AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher.
ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Tableau for the last eight to nine years.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate Tableau's technical support as good, rating it at a nine.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have had experiences working with IBM SPSS Modeler, which is IBM PASW, but it wouldn't be relevant feedback because they offered it for free, and it was end of life. The IBM PASW was outdated around five years back, so we shifted to Python-based solutions, open source.
It was a fine solution, but since things in this field in AI/ML are constantly changing, my experience with IBM PASW, where SPSS Modeler was the major component, wasn't so great. The product is outdated, and they have removed it from their suite of software offerings.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Tableau was easy; it wasn't difficult at all.
What about the implementation team?
Initially, we got Tableau through a reseller, and the deployment was done by that third party. Later on, we took the deployment in-house, and most of our subsequent deployments were done internally.
What was our ROI?
It's very difficult to calculate an ROI for these sorts of initiatives because you cannot directly convert it into manpower savings or similar metrics. However, we have performed some cost-benefit analysis, and we derive benefits from Tableau primarily in terms of data and dashboards being made available for respective views throughout the organization. While ROI calculation is slightly difficult because you cannot associate revenue with certain dashboarding activities, we assess some cost benefits.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing of Tableau is on the higher side compared to other competitors, such as QlikView or Microsoft Power BI.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
An important point is that you can easily find resources who have worked on Tableau, but with ThoughtSpot, finding a resource with that experience might be difficult.
What other advice do I have?
As far as dashboarding and connecting to various databases are concerned, Tableau is quite good. I rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
