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.


Key benefits of Tableau

  • Ask Data: Use natural language to ask questions of any published data source and get a response in the form of a visualization.

  • Tableau Prep: Get to analysis faster by quickly and confidently combining, shaping, cleaning and operationalizing data flows.

  • VizQL Technology: Patented technology based on years of research at Stanford University. Create queries without writing code and transform these into queries graphical visualizations and dashboards.

  • Tableau Public: Allows users to publish interactive data stories on the web. Publish data on the business website and guide readers through a narrative of data.

  • Open, view and interact with dashboards built within the app. Users can filter and drill down into data, but cannot edit or interact without author permissions.

  • Metadata Management: Rename fields, modify number formats, combine fields into groups, create subsets of data by selecting groups of points, and build new hierarchies.

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    Dhrumil
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    • Industry: Banking
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Excellent Product, great integration options!

    Reviewed on 13/07/2022

    It's got a whole lot of benefits and the look and feel of the software is better than any other...

    It's got a whole lot of benefits and the look and feel of the software is better than any other software.

    Pros

    I love amount of features they have as compared to it's competitors. It just makes it so easy to integrate data within the software.

    Cons

    I don't like the fact that it has lesser functionalities when I comes to coding, preferably Python.

    Alternatives Considered

    Qlik Sense

    Reasons for Choosing Tableau

    It's just a lot better when it comes to the features.

    Switched From

    Microsoft Power BI

    Reasons for Switching to Tableau

    Sheerly due to the features offered.
    Nadezhda
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    A Comprehensive Review of Tableau

    Reviewed on 22/02/2023

    Overall, Tableau is an excellent data visualization tool that is incredibly powerful and easy to...

    Overall, Tableau is an excellent data visualization tool that is incredibly powerful and easy to use. It is a great tool for both novice and experienced users due to its drag-and-drop interface and wide range of features. However, it can be quite pricey and lack some of the advanced analytics capabilities of its competitors.

    Pros

    Tableau is an incredibly powerful and user-friendly data visualization tool. It is incredibly easy to use and provides incredibly powerful visualizations that can help users better understand their data. The drag-and-drop interface makes it incredibly easy to build complex visualizations with minimal effort. Additionally, Tableau has a wide variety of features that give users the ability to customize their visualizations to their needs.

    Cons

    One of the drawbacks of Tableau is that it can be quite expensive for larger organizations. Additionally, the user interface is not as intuitive as some of its competitors, which can make it difficult for new users to learn. Finally, Tableau does not have the ability to perform advanced analytics, which can be a limitation for some users.

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    • Industry: Computer Hardware
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Aggressive onboarding, false statements. Not customer-oriented.

    Reviewed on 31/08/2020

    We were on 30 days trial. The trial was about to expire but things didn't work correctly. Tableaus...

    We were on 30 days trial. The trial was about to expire but things didn't work correctly. Tableaus aggressive onboarding team made me sign for a one-year contract anyway. They promised to support us until everything works. But that did not happen. So I talked to them. Someone seemed to understand and said, he'd cancel the invoice and give us another trial and hopes, thins will work. After a few months, it worked indeed. So we purchased again. But: we never got a license even we already paid. Statement: the old invoice needs to be paid. So although we have a written confirmation, that the invoice is cancelled, tableau didn't cancel and now we have no money and no license. Very sad company. The product might be great but the philosophy horrible.

    Pros

    Once you have your data ready in a way, tableau is able to connect, it's an easy to use tool.

    Cons

    There's supposed to be a web data connector between Filemaker and tableau. This is not working. Tableau sales representative do not care about it.

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    • Industry: Real Estate
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Excellence in Data Visualization using Tableau

    Reviewed on 08/06/2023

    Tableau is a premier tool for data visualization that enables users to produce powerful visual...

    Tableau is a premier tool for data visualization that enables users to produce powerful visual representations of their data. The overall Tableau experience is very excellent, despite a learning curve for new users and potential performance issues with huge datasets. The platform is a go-to choice for professionals and organizations looking to maximize the value of their data because of its user-friendly interface, wide range of visualization options, and strong analytics capabilities. Because of Tableau's dedication to superior data visualization, users can share insights with others and make wise decisions.

    Pros

    Using Tableau, a top tool for data visualization, users can easily produce eye-catching visual representations of their data. Without extensive coding skills, interactive dashboards, charts, and graphs may be created using its user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop features. Tableau's vast visualization options library enables innovative and interesting data displays. Users are able to connect to a variety of data sources on-premises and in the cloud thanks to the platform's strong data connectivity features. Tableau's robust analytics features assist customers in finding insightful information and making fact-based decisions.

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    The learning process for Tableau can be challenging for new users or those with little background in data visualization. To effectively utilize some sophisticated capabilities, you might need more education or experience. Smaller companies or individuals with tighter budgets may want to take the licensing charges of the program into account. Performance concerns can occasionally be caused by managing very large datasets or advanced data structures.

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    Efficiency of Tableau for Business Intelligence

    Reviewed on 17/03/2023

    I enjoy using Tableau because it is one of the most powerful BI tools that exist, I worked using...

    I enjoy using Tableau because it is one of the most powerful BI tools that exist, I worked using Tableau for several clients and it was a success

    Pros

    That it has Tableau Prep that lets you extract, transform and load the data.

    Cons

    The LOD experssions can be a little difficult to use at first

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    Because Tableau has the feature to transform and work with the data at the first place
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    Tableau FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Tableau.

    Tableau offers the following pricing plans:

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    • 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

    Tableau has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Tableau supports the following languages:

    Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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    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, Qualtrics CoreXM, RapidMiner, Salesforce Sales Cloud, ServiceNow, Simply Measured, SnapLogic, Splunk Cloud, TapClicks, Workable

    Tableau offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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