Project Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Fantastic visualizations & dashboarding capability but some basic ETL functionality will do a world of good
What is most valuable?
Fantastic visualizations & dashboarding capability, ease of use for business users.
What needs improvement?
It is meant as a visualization tool agreed, but some basic ETL functionality will do a world of good. Also, enterprise collaboration and embedded analytics (like Spotfire) would be great
For how long have I used the solution?
3 years
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
Yes, hierarchies and cube definitions are not retained while connecting to an OLAP DB.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Yes, certain features cause Tableau to hang repeatedly - for example, editing the data source to point to another extract. Certain issues with data blending exist as well.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Lots of care including design/caching required to ensure quick reports while handling large amounts of data.
How are customer service and support?
Good, most times any technical queries I have are addressed by the community posts itself - but there a number of easy to implement and tremendously useful functionalities included in the Ideas page that are yet to be implemented.
How was the initial setup?
Easy as pie.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
QlikView/Microstrategy
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Intresting. I think it has to improve a lot in terms of performance and scalability.
+'s are : Visualizations and Self service BI is amazing stuff that one can do in browser itself.
PS: it is my own comment and not aligned to my company or someone else.