Tableau Enterprise Reviews

• Create dashboards for different functions in the organization.
• Used to report out information from the corporate data repository.

It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT.

• Visual analytical reporting
• Ad hoc reporting
• Self-service; users can build their own reports based on their needs.
• Drag and drop to create analytical dashboards.
• Multiple data sources connectors

Needs bursting email and export to Excel. Many users still need to download the information (to Excel) and export to an Excel macro to merge the info with some other info. 

Bursting email is also needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau.

Analysis is now more visual than in the past, which was only long operational support reports with bunches of info.

As a BI system integrator. we design performance solutions for different industries. We do use different tools in our solutions, and Tableau software is one of the our partners. One of the solutions we developed for a telecom client was a performance management tool. The solution used reporting dashboards based on network performance KPIs.

Using Tableau, it has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part.

The most important feature is the tool is very easy to use. This makes it simple to introduce it to CxOs. After a rapid demo, they are usual impressed by the results shown, because it has such a rare simplicity. 

• Needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need. 
• The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible.

Business Intelligence for operational and executive dashboards. It is used to create real-time operational insights which start at the line-level staff person who manages their own productivity and performance indicators. This gets rolled up to middle and upper management and provides a full sense of operations and targeted goal achievement.

Excellent product: Great visualizers and it is easy to use. 

Allows insights into business performance issues, providing supporting data for critical policy and operational changes.

It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers. Powerful aggregating and drill-downs are critical for effective insight discovery.

Deployment of dashboards to viewers and unit supervisors can be prohibitively expensive.

The cost is high.

I use Tableau Desktop and Server 10.4 for data visualization to measure business targets and performance, it helps the business identify strategies and solutions to meet objectives.

Our clients are so happy with the new visualisation tools. It has answered most of their questions on how to measure and improve their business performance. 

It gives us a new dimension to the way that we analyse our data.

• Parameters
• Calculations
• Dynamic filters
• LOD
• The ability to use multiple data sources. 

The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation.

If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help.    

As a consultant and solutions developer for an integrator company, I use Tableau for the construction of Control Dashboards and BI applications.  

• Enhanced application development
• Less time spent with end users
• Better interaction with end users
• Better application quality

• Easy of use
• Easy to learn
• Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations
• Wide integration with BI industry

Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc.

Tableau works for a diverse range of industries and use cases. I have work with Tableau for big organizations and big governmental entities as well.

Tableau has comprehensive, insightful charts, which allow you to build stunning dashboards and enrich your support decision-making.

• Ease of use
• Maps
• Filters
• Drag and drop functionality
• Dates
• Undo button
• Wide-range of data connectors

• Scripting just as loops would be great. 
• Forecasting on table calculation fields.

• Easier to use

• Consultant engagement
• Margin analysis 
• Project break-even point (analysis of the project)
• SLE of projects

Tableau's very stable.

So far, so good.

There are two faces of Tableau. One face is Tableau partners. They are very few, and Tableau was only a subsidiary with no support and no representative in Brazil. Now they are represented. 

Really, there aren't many problems with Tableau.

ClickView. ClickView seemed easy to use, very simple, but it could not support the whole company. It couldn't be scaled.

We looked at Oracle BI. It seems that it's very easy to use, very competitive against Tableau, and it's a little bit cheaper. It seems that we have a competitive advantage going with Oracle. 

Oracle in the past had OBIEE that was hard to use, very expensive, and modeling was hard. Changing the modeling was difficult. We decided not to go with Oracle at that time. Now it's cloud-based, the TCO is very cheap. But we had already gone with Tableau.

We only it for the financial side of the company. We don't use it on other projects, for example, the production side, the IT of the company. Only for financial. I would say that the result is we have a lack of users, it's only part of company; we don't have a whole view of the business.

The most valuable features are:

• Ease of setup
• Ability to create visualizations
• Level of interaction.

The users required no training after visualizations have been presented to them.

There are some areas where finding answers required asking specific individuals and searching through many emails. Tableau has allowed us to combine and visualize data from many entry points and provide users with a single source of consistent and reliable information.

While noted that the product is specifically designed for visualization, it would be the perfect tool if it had more ETL features.

My company has been researching a BI tool for the past year. We came across Tableau and have been using the public version for approximately six months.

There have not been any areas of instability, thus far. The identified areas were a result of a lack of knowledge.

Based on the analysis currently being done, the public version is sufficiently meeting our needs.

Technical support has been awesome. We met a partner based in Trinidad and they have been providing us with assistance as we need it.

This is our first visualization solution being used. Attempts were made on another platform, but setup and use of tool were a huge challenge for the team.

The initial setup was very straightforward. The team was able to follow the videos posted on the Tableau website and required no technical assistance from the Tableau team.

I am quite pleased that Tableau has now revised their pricing and licensing. The initial model was quite expensive but the current model allows you to scale up as you need to and it is far more attractive. The ability to license on a per user per month basis is now very affordable.

The team looked at Pentaho, Microsoft Power BI, and IBM Cognos. The members of the team who were exposed to aspects of the evaluation were far more receptive to Tableau than the others.

It is very important to do an evaluation of your users who will be interacting with the tool. Their technical abilities will determine if a cumbersome tool is suitable for them. Secondly, if you do not have the technical expertise to administer a product, then it may not be the solution for you. Some of the other tools require a high dependence on the vendor for administrative purposes.