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.

Pricing starting from:

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  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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.
  • Typical Customers

    • Freelancers
    • Small Businesses (2-50)
    • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
    • Large enterprises (500 and more)

    Deployment

    • Cloud-based
    • On-premise

    Markets

    Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France and 11 others

    Supported Languages

    Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and 3 others

    Pricing starting from:

    Not provided by vendor

    • Free Version
    • Free Trial
    • Subscription

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    Features

    Total features of Tableau: 136

    • AB Testing
    • AI/Machine Learning
    • API
    • Access Controls/Permissions
    • Activity Dashboard
    • Ad hoc Analysis
    • Ad hoc Query
    • Ad hoc Reporting
    • Alerts/Escalation
    • Alerts/Notifications
    • Annotations
    • Association Discovery
    • Authentication Software
    • Bayesian Analysis
    • Behavioral Analytics
    • Benchmarking
    • Campaign Tracking
    • Categorization/Grouping
    • Collaboration Tools
    • Compliance Tracking
    • Contextual Search
    • Customer Database
    • Customer Journey Mapping
    • Customizable Branding
    • Customizable Dashboard
    • Customizable Fields
    • Customizable Reports
    • Dashboard Creation
    • Dashboard Software
    • Data Analysis Tools
    • Data Blending
    • Data Capture and Transfer
    • Data Cleansing
    • Data Coding
    • Data Connectors
    • Data Dictionary Management
    • Data Discovery Software
    • Data Import/Export
    • Data Integration
    • Data Management Software
    • Data Mapping
    • Data Migration
    • Data Quality Control
    • Data Security
    • Data Storage Management
    • Data Transformation
    • Data Visualization Software
    • Data Warehousing
    • Database Support
    • Demand Forecasting
    • Drag & Drop
    • Dynamic Content
    • ETL Software
    • Element Analytics
    • Embeddable Maps
    • Event Logs
    • File Storage
    • Financial Reporting Software
    • For Education
    • For Healthcare
    • For Sales Teams/Organizations
    • For Science
    • Forecasting
    • Functions/Calculations
    • Geographic Maps
    • Heatmaps
    • High Volume Processing
    • IT, Server & Network Monitoring Software
    • Information Governance
    • Integration into Third Party Applications
    • KPI Monitoring
    • Key Performance Indicators
    • Marketing Reports
    • Master Data Management Software
    • Match & Merge
    • Media Analytics
    • Metadata Management
    • Mixed Methods Research
    • Mobile Dashboards
    • Modeling & Simulation
    • Monitoring
    • Multi-Channel Attribution
    • Multi-Channel Data Collection
    • Multi-Language
    • Multivariate Analysis
    • Natural Language Search
    • OLAP
    • Performance Metrics
    • Performance Monitoring
    • Predictive Analytics Software
    • Private Dashboards
    • Profitability Analysis
    • Public Dashboards
    • Publishing/Sharing
    • Qualitative Comparative Analysis
    • Quantitative Analysis
    • Query Builder
    • ROI Tracking
    • Radial Mapping
    • Real Time Analytics
    • Real Time Data
    • Regression Analysis
    • Relational Display
    • Reporting & Statistics
    • Reporting/Analytics
    • Role-Based Permissions
    • Sales Reports
    • Scheduled/Automated Reports
    • Scorecards
    • Search/Filter
    • Self Service Data Preparation
    • Self Service Portal
    • Self-service Analytics
    • Sensitive Data Identification
    • Sentiment Analysis
    • Single Page View
    • Statistical Analysis Software
    • Statistical Process Control
    • Statistical Simulation
    • Storytelling
    • Strategic Planning Software
    • Survival Analysis
    • Task Management Software
    • Templates
    • Territorial Mapping
    • Text Analysis Software
    • Third Party Integrations
    • Time Series Analysis
    • Trend Analysis
    • Trend/Problem Indicators
    • User Management
    • User Research Analysis
    • Visual Analytics
    • Visual Discovery
    • Website Analytics
    • Widgets

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4.5 /5
    (2,078)
    Value for Money
    4.2/5
    Features
    4.5/5
    Ease of Use
    4.1/5
    Customer Support Software
    4.2/5

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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.
    Kakoli
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    The best reporting and data visualization tool

    Reviewed on 23/02/2023

    Wonderful and impressed

    Wonderful and impressed

    Pros

    Ease of access, smooth integration with other tools, dashboard view.

    Cons

    Not a free tool but the desktop version is not bad to try your hands on.

    Sakshi
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    • Industry: Hospitality
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Best Data Analytics and Visualization Tool

    Reviewed on 17/02/2023

    Overall This tool is very great and amazing and becoming popular in the industry.Highly appreciated...

    Overall This tool is very great and amazing and becoming popular in the industry.Highly appreciated and recommended.

    Pros

    This software helps a lot in terms of data visualizations, creating dashboard, reports.In our day to day activities we work on data analysis to review performance and forecasting.This tool comes as a saviour.Additional working experience with tableau gives advantage and weightage in our skills at work

    Cons

    Sometimes exporting large data takes time. I don't find any significant challenges.

    Jamie
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    • Industry: Computer Software
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
    • Review Source

    Overall rating

    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Tableau Review

    Reviewed on 06/12/2022

    We only have one license because of the cost. This means that only one user can edit reports, etc....

    We only have one license because of the cost. This means that only one user can edit reports, etc. This makes it very difficult as the user who runs the daily report isn't necessarily the user who we would want to create new reports or edit existing ones. More than one license is too expensive and working with a single license is annoying.

    Pros

    We use it mostly to create a daily report. Once it is setup, modifying the dated is simple enough to produce the same report daily.

    Cons

    It is very slow when trying to modify an existing report to add something new. Takes many minutes to load after each additional join. Takes a very long time to create new reports. Also, I would like to see the SQL that is being run in an easier way (currently can edit the log files and find it, but very annoying and difficult to find the queries in a text editor)

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Higher Education Software
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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    • Ease of Use
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Great tool for analyzing big datasets!

    Reviewed on 02/12/2022

    My overall experience with Tableau has been good. There are plenty of features that I know how to...

    My overall experience with Tableau has been good. There are plenty of features that I know how to use, and many more that I am still learning. I learn something new about the software everyday.

    Pros

    I like the flexibility in presentation and in data preparation and the beautiful data analysis features to Tableau.

    Cons

    Tableau has a learning curve that similar pieces of software don't have. It is not ideal for the beginner data analyst.

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    Tableau FAQs

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    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

    Tableau supports the following devices:

    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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