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Tableau - the BI Giant
What do you like best about the product?
Efficient servers are necessary in the business world today so that the vast quantities of information being transmitted to, through, and from businesses can be delivered to the right people at the right time. Servers need to transmit data, perform data analysis and manipulate data. The transformation of raw data into something meaningful and an insightful presentation of this data is crucial to a business’s success.Tableau Software provides a solution to this server need. In addition to their desktop, online and mobile products, Tableau delivers a server product called Tableau Server. Tableau Server provides solutions to all of the basic server needs while adding details that make it one of the best options on the market today. The Server operates by housing and sharing dashboards created in Tableau Desktop in a matter of minutes. These dashboards can be accessed by users from mobile devices like tablets and phones as well as from individual PCs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial Data Preparation: Companies need to have strong technical skills to build the initial structure. This is typically done by IT or a consulting organization. Once the integration with the data source is done, though users with no or very little SQL knowledge can also access the tool create the dashboards and analyze data.
Features: Some argue that not all statistical features are provided by Tableau. Business–centric solution such as Tableau are used broadly throughout the organization, though they do have narrower set of capability.
Financial Reporting: Although great for analytical purposes, Tableau and other BI tools cannot replace Financial Reporting applications. This does require financial analyst to be proficient in a number of reporting tools and to use them interchangeably.
Can be cost prohibitive
Like most BI vendors, Tableau offers a few different software licensing options. There’s a free version of Tableau for personal use, but its functionality is limited. To download Tableau to your desktop, you’ll pay in the range of $1000 and $2000 per year. Online or hosted access to Tableau costs $500 per person, per year.
Features: Some argue that not all statistical features are provided by Tableau. Business–centric solution such as Tableau are used broadly throughout the organization, though they do have narrower set of capability.
Financial Reporting: Although great for analytical purposes, Tableau and other BI tools cannot replace Financial Reporting applications. This does require financial analyst to be proficient in a number of reporting tools and to use them interchangeably.
Can be cost prohibitive
Like most BI vendors, Tableau offers a few different software licensing options. There’s a free version of Tableau for personal use, but its functionality is limited. To download Tableau to your desktop, you’ll pay in the range of $1000 and $2000 per year. Online or hosted access to Tableau costs $500 per person, per year.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dashboard generation for Visual Analytics
Tableau Server - Great for Data Visualization
What do you like best about the product?
Best for high level data visualization and cohort analysis
What do you dislike about the product?
Load times can vary with large underlying data sets
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identification of trends within large data sets
Tableau Server - Where data speaks cont.
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite part of using Tableau server is the ability to share data across the server. I think that it's imperative that the data I am using to pull my reports can be something that anyone in the marketing department would have access to.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how often I disconnect from the server when I am trying to run various reports. I understand that the reason behind this is due to too much being asked on my end at any one time but it would be nice to go between reports without it occasionally disconnecting from the server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I think the number 1 business problem that Tableau Server solves is the use of false data across a company. When we have the ability to pull the data from Salesforce into Tableau and end up getting the same data as our sales team or any other department I think we are able to address concerns as a company easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I truly believe that Tableau server much like Tableau Desktop is essential for all data analytics. I honestly don't know how else I would be able to review the data of what I do on a quarterly basis and make the difficult choices that I make with the 20+ vendors that I work with if it wasn't for this platform and these capabilities of this software.
As a basic user, I find Tableau straightforward and simple
What do you like best about the product?
I like that everything has a purpose, there isn't any unnecessary clutter. I like that each icon gives a description when hovering and it's always been simple to find my way around.
What do you dislike about the product?
One frustration i've experienced is lag time while selecting multiple filters, when there are a significant amount of options, it always brings me back to the top after selecting 2-3 boxes. The interface could use some updates in terms of visual appearance, font size, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Viewing and interacting with data. I run reports for my personal performance metrics as well as using it to find project status reports.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I can only speak to it from a basic user standpoint, but it is easy to find and run reports, the data visualization / charts are very intuitive and user-friendly.
Tableau
What do you like best about the product?
I love the graphical way it displays our complex information. Great alternative to Excel. It is a great in presenting to sales/marketing etc. It is fast in changing the views via drop down filters. I like that you can have multiple grapsh on one page.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one thing I do not like and not sure if it is just the way our admin has created the views or not...but sometimes if I filter too many options, I have to totally close down the file and start over..it doesn't undo very wel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consolidated view of multiple files...Tableau provides a really nice way to view all data at once.
Tableau Desktop is an Excellent Visualization Software
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau is great at creating many different kinds of visualizations, and gives you many more options to tweak the charts/graphs than Excel does.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for beginners is fairly high. It can be confusing to get tables to show up the way that you want them to - requires a lot of trial and error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are trying to create visualizations that can be easily shared throughout the organization. We want dashboards that will easily be understood by those with all levels of analytical knowledge. By allowing everyone in the company to access dashboards, we have cut down on the analytics requests that take time away from the analytics team.
Great tool for beautiful reports
What do you like best about the product?
This is the one of the best data visualization tool i have used. The ability of it to connect to multiple data sources makes it unique in the market and of course with the ease of implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The memory needed to run these reports can be an issue sometimes, of course there are workarounds but they take time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps in distributing reports which are time sensitive in a quick manner. Nothing better than that.
Tableau Review
What do you like best about the product?
Nice basic interface and reliable software.
What do you dislike about the product?
I diislike the fact that I don't fully know how to use the software being as though I am a beginner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Email reporting - tracking open and click-through rates for my position specifically.
Good tool for data visualizations
What do you like best about the product?
Can visualize data, graphics looks decent
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to invest some time to learn software usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifyb patterns, weaknesses and strengths
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very powerful once you got familiarized
This software has changed the way I am able to do my day-to-day tasks
What do you like best about the product?
Previously, I had to wait for monthly reports to see the status of my budget. Now I can access it instantly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have to drill down into certain areas to access exactly what I want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to get up to date answers on budget questions instead of basing my decisions on information that may be weeks old.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to really understand what Tableau offers. At first, it is a lot of information to take in and sort through, but it is worth the time and effort.
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