About Tableau
Tableau helps people and organizations become more data-driven as the trusted leader in analytics.
The Tableau platform provides the breadth and depth of capabilities to serve the needs of even the largest global enterprises in a seamless, integrated experience. Tableau is designed to fit, not dictate your data strategy, and adapts to your environment with unmatched flexibility and choice, while meeting the toughest governance and security requirements.
People love using Tableau because it is both powerful and intuitive—and offers a fundamentally different user experience by empowering people of all skill levels to explore and analyze data using visuals and natural language. Tableau has become the standard language of analytics for modern business users and continues to lead the industry with the most passionate and engaged user community in analytics, a customer base with millions of users at more than 80,000 organizations, and a deep commitment to customer-focused innovation.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Excellent tool for Data Visualization with simplicity
Reviewed on 25/6/2019
I have worked on domains like Telecom and Network where in I have been using Tableau. Its really...
I have worked on domains like Telecom and Network where in I have been using Tableau. Its really liked by senior management as it shows each and every bit very clearly to relevant stake holders. For example, Marketing head likes region wise revenue sale dashboard which gives region/sales manager/product wise sale.
Pros
There are many features which lot of users would have liked:-
1. Connection to almost all database
2. Many types of Charts can be created including Sankey, Doughnut, Maps etc.
3. Its has the feature of data blending and data extraction
4. Dashboards can be viewed on multiple devices like tablet, mobile and laptops.
5. Its really fast while drilling down or filtering out from any dashboard.
Cons
Its a bit expensive tool as compared to other data visualization tools however its a value for money.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Tableau for business intelligence and reporting
Reviewed on 2/11/2023
Pros
Tableau is one of the best business intelligence software that has many great features to help any business create its dashboards and KPIs. It is easy to use and very flexible and can handle all complex cases.
Cons
Tableau is one of the best applications and I don't have any dislikes.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
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Reviewed on 10/11/2023
Although it integrates with many platforms and getting data into the system is easy, trying to...
Although it integrates with many platforms and getting data into the system is easy, trying to manipulate and display that data compared to the likes of powerbi, I find difficult and cumbersome and wouldn’t recommend
Pros
Tableau integrated with a lot of other providers which was great for connecting data across the tech stack, and it easily allowed you to import data form excel or other files
Cons
The set up and learning curve was very difficult, the tool isn’t intuitive to use and setting up dashboards and real time reporting just felt very time consuming and difficult, never particularly got anywhere with it where I felt I was using it to its full potential.
- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Exceptional Data Visualization Tool & Dashboard
Reviewed on 30/8/2023
Still Learning to create the dashboard & integrating BigData like Google's Big Query and its fun...
Still Learning to create the dashboard & integrating BigData like Google's Big Query and its fun while building visualization. I enjoyed creating Visualization for one of the Clothing Brands in Surat, India.
Pros
It supports Python, so customized visualization is possible (for Python programmers, it's easy) to create their own custom dashboard and visualization.
Cons
It's a bit costly, where PowerBI is free.
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Microsoft Power BIReasons for Switching to Tableau
In-depth customization and data cleaning is possible and easy in Tableau, which is why I liked this.- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Tableau provide great insights into your data
Reviewed on 24/11/2023
I love that we can pull in data from different sources and combine into very rich reporting. Also...
I love that we can pull in data from different sources and combine into very rich reporting. Also as I look at charts, the ability to click on elements on the chart to quickly filter what to what I want to focus on is very powerful.
Pros
Easy to set up reports with multiple ways to filter by any data element or timeframe.
Can connect to many different types of data from different data sources.
Color coding and filtering while reviewing charts and data is very easy to use.
Cons
Searching for the report I want can be challenging when you have many reports created.
Tableau FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Tableau.Q. What type of pricing plans does Tableau offer?
Tableau offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
For Individuals Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually For Teams & Organizations (On-premises or public cloud) Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually Tableau Explorer: $35 USD/user/month, billed annually Tableau Viewer: $12 USD/user/month, billed annually | min. 100 Viewers required Fully hosted by Tableau Tableau Creator: $70 USD/user/month, billed annually Tableau Explorer: $42 USD/user/month, billed annually Tableau Viewer: $15 USD/user/month, billed annually | min. 100 Viewers required
Q. Who are the typical users of Tableau?
Tableau has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Tableau support?
Tableau supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does Tableau support mobile devices?
Tableau supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Tableau integrate with?
Tableau integrates with the following applications:
Alteryx Designer, Anaplan, Attivio, ClickTale, CloverDX, Crimson Hexagon, Datameer, Google Analytics 360, Infor OS, Jedox, Khoros Marketing, Kognitio, Numerify, Panoply, Procore, RapidMiner, Salesforce Sales Cloud, ServiceNow, Simply Measured, SnapLogic, Splunk Cloud, Strategy & Research, TapClicks, Workable
Q. What level of support does Tableau offer?
Tableau offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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