Overview
What is Tableau Cloud?
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser…
Tableau Online - decent tool
Horrible customer service
Tableau is a powerful data integration tool for many databases.
Tableau Online makes data sharing easy
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
Startups take notice: Avoid high developer costs and deliver your product(s) with Tableau Online
Sharing is easy but editing is not great
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
User friendly dashboard king
Outstanding Data Analytics and Data Visualisation that’s worth the cost!
Tableau- an intuitive solution to report complex data across your organization
The leader in data visualization for big data and beyond!
Great merchandising and analytics tool for retail companies
Tableau is a must for freemium products
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Popular Features
- Report sharing and collaboration (65)9.595%
- Formatting capabilities (64)8.686%
- Customizable dashboards (67)8.282%
- Drill-down analysis (67)8.181%
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Pricing
What is Tableau Cloud?
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile…
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Tableau Server?
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
What is Tableau Desktop?
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.6Pixel Perfect reports(50) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.2Customizable dashboards(67) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 9.6Report Formatting Templates(56) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.1Drill-down analysis(67) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.6Formatting capabilities(64) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8.7Integration with R or other statistical packages(42) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 9.5Report sharing and collaboration(65) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.7Publish to Web(61) Ratings
- 8.7Publish to PDF(60) Ratings
- 7.8Report Versioning(49) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 9.6Report Delivery Scheduling(53) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.9Delivery to Remote Servers(32) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 8.8Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(60) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(59) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 9.6Predictive Analytics(51) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.3Multi-User Support (named login)(56) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 9Role-Based Security Model(49) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 7.6Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(52) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 9Single Sign-On (SSO)(47) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(50) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7Mobile Application(38) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.7Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(45) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 9.7REST API(29) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 9.7Javascript API(27) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 8iFrames(27) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 8.8Java API(24) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 9.7Themeable User Interface (UI)(28) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 8.8Customizable Platform (Open Source)(27) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is Tableau Cloud?
Tableau Cloud is a fully hosted solution, meaning that users won't have to configure servers, manage software upgrades, or scale hardware capacity. According to the vendor, Tableau Cloud is an enterprise-ready infrastructure with the latest security certifications. The product can support the entire analytics journey, from data preparation, to deep analysis, to the shared insights that drive the business forward.
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Tableau Cloud Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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- Business Problems Solved
Tableau Online has become an essential tool for organizations across various departments, providing valuable data analysis and visualization capabilities. Users from the Digital Marketing department rely on Tableau Online to accurately track lead and sale counts, as well as credit pass reports. By analyzing campaign performance and identifying areas for improvement, users are able to focus their time effectively and make data-driven decisions. The software also integrates seamlessly with web analysis tools, allowing for incident and defect analysis within the organization.
Tableau Online's strength lies in its ability to provide excellent KPI graphics and executive summaries, making it a valuable tool for data visualization and analysis. Users can easily customize reports to meet their specific needs, and the software also offers live data visualizations, ensuring that users always have access to up-to-date information. Vivint, for example, utilizes Tableau as a platform to centralize lead, sale, and install data, creating custom dashboards that display conversion rates and call center metrics.
Another key use case for Tableau Online is generating daily, monthly, and annual reports in the analytics department. The software provides powerful data insights that help drive business decisions. It is particularly useful for data integration with other software systems, serving as a bridge between data teams and business/product teams by presenting data in ways that stakeholders can understand and use effectively.
Sales representatives also benefit from Tableau Online as they can track their performance and commission through the software. It acts as the front-end to the in-house sales commission system. Additionally, Tableau Online promotes collaboration within organizations by facilitating data sharing and visualization.
The analytics and reporting team extensively uses Tableau Online for automated sharing of reports across various verticals. Similarly, partners of Tableau Software leverage this tool to advise customers on usage, implementation, and support.
Tableau Online has revolutionized product launches by providing dynamic online visualizations that were not possible with traditional presentation tools like PowerPoint. It enables different departments to present complex reporting in a visually pleasing and easy-to-understand manner.
In addition to marketing and sales, Tableau Online finds applications in HR, procurement, trade, security, and other business areas. It helps track the impact of projects, investigate whether design goals are being met, and provides valuable business intelligence through visualizations and exploration of key metrics.
Overall, Tableau Online is a versatile tool that addresses a wide range of business problems and enables organizations to make informed decisions based on data insights.
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(1-25 of 67)Tableau Online - decent tool
- Quick
- Interactive
- Reliable
- Expensive
- Unique interface
Horrible customer service
- Good Software
- Customer Service
- Change the users easier
- Permission to see prices, current licenses and do easy upgrades
- A wide range of databases may be seamlessly integrated.
- Regardless of the device you use to access it, the look and feel are first-rate.
- Displaying complicated data visualizations with a wide range of possibilities for interactivity for the end-user.
- Only a few features are available for export.
- License fees and the intricacy of the structure.
- The processing time required to perform filtering on huge datasets might be prohibitive.
Tableau Online makes data sharing easy
- Great visuals
- Excellent customization
- Easy data exports
- Building dashboards and reports can get complex and sometimes difficult, depending on the source of the data
Data Visualization for companies of all sizes
- Visualize complex information in an easy way
- Allowing publishers/users to present data amongst multiple different dimensions
- Having integrations with underlying datasets that allows for scheduled refreshes of the data
- Reduce barrier of entry for new users i.e. make it more intuitive for new users to join Tableau as a publisher
- Mobile version is not as easy to navigate at the online/desktop version
- Ad-hoc reporting
Startups take notice: Avoid high developer costs and deliver your product(s) with Tableau Online
- Robust data integration with a variety of databases
- Ability to display complex data visualizations with many options for user interactivity
- Look and feel is impressive no matter what device you use to access it
- Exporting functionality is limited
- Cost and complexity of license structure
- Filtering on large datasets can at times be slow
Scenarios where Tableau Online would be less appropriate is where there is a high need to export and distribute data and reports. That functionality is rather limited in the online system.
Sharing is easy but editing is not great
- Easy sharing with clients and executive team.
- Can quickly fix some report issue in browser.
- Can easily create different views .
- Online editor is not that great.
- Mobile view can be better.
- Filters are not working properly with large datasets.
Tableau Online- Future of data visualization
- Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
- The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
- The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
- Mobile experience is not at par with the desktop experience. The functionality set is limited and the UX is not that great. So this needs to be improved in leaps and bounds.
- It's unintuitive to create dashboards for a new user. There is a long learning curve in order to figure out how to get different things done with Tableau. So the learning curve is long as of now.
- Tableau Online still doesn't get the entire gamut of Tableau Desktop features. With the world moving towards cloud, the entire feature set has to be present in Tableau online as well.
Also, in organizations where data is sensitive and one department's data should not be accessible to others, Tableau Online works wonders as now the report owner/administrator can manage the access to each individual report or workbooks within a report as well.
The Last BI Tool You'll Ever Need
- user interface with reporting outputs are easy to understand and navigate
- online dashboards are incredibly helpful to provide 'snapshot' data
- reporting automation for building custom reports in PPTX
- Data analytics and statistical modeling are fantastic
- Can be a steep learning curve for new users
- Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
- Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
User friendly dashboard king
- Data analysis
- Actionable information
- Helpful insights
- Customization
- Customization and integration know how.
- Organizational structure.
- Data entry.
- Easy to [use] UI
- Generates intuitive charts maps and graphs
- Takes a wide variety of data sources
- Hard to build up adhoc reports.
- One off joins of reports are unnecessarily difficult.
- Cost for license prohibits us from getting as many users as we’d like!
- Dashboards
- Compiling data and making a variety visual charts
- Connects easily to most databases
- Can easily blend data
- Usable on many different device types
- Their paid version can be pricier than some competitors
- Report distribution can a challenge
- You need technical resources to get things up and running
- Fine-grained permissions and user access tokens allow sensitive data to stay in the right place.
- Scheduled reports save time by delivering data when we need it.
- Online search makes it easy to find what you're looking for.
- Mobile integration is not quite up-to-par with desktop in terms of performance.
- Data filters can be clunky to use.
- Sorting can be quirky when dealing with multiple character encodings.
- What I love about Tableau is that I can filter items by SKU performance. We have tons of items that feature different colors and designs and I am able to see which option is selling the best and provide that information to our buying team.
- Being able to see the currently available units, excess and inventory projections has saved me the time when it comes to picking which item I should feature when I am merchandising.
- There are many filtering options within the tool so it is easy to personalize data and export results that you need.
- I'm not sure if this is standard for everyone but our Tableau is updated twice a week so the information may not be the most up-to-date possible.
- There's no search function in the tool which would help me a lot if I am seeking information about a specific item.
- There are frequent software updates which require you to completely reinstall everything.
Tableau is a must for freemium products
- It handles large amounts of information.
- It is customizable enough to bubble up powerful insights.
- It plugs into enough data sources to be meaningful.
- Tableau Online can be really clunky.
- It's not easy to filter data.
- We see awkward UX while trying to perform specific actions on the platform.
Salesforce didn't buy Tableau for no reason!
- Features like Workbook-specific permissions help us control who in our client's team can do what with the Tableau Online resources that we share with them. We mostly assign to them the user role of a viewer or interactor based on the scenario.
- The Ask Data function really comes in handy as instead of wasting time using multiple filters, one can just write their query in simple English and get the results. Of course, it won't fulfill your every request, but it works ninety percent of the time.
- Overall, Tableau Online provides many robust account-based administrative functions. One of them is the ability to check each user's history and activity to prevent or diagnose data leaks.
- I feel that the interface is not as beautiful as other BI vendors out there. When one clicks on an interactive area to view the underlying data, the resultant data tables look very archaic and unappealing. Even the resultant dashboards are very uninspiring and lackluster in terms of aesthetic beauty. Like every other product and website nowadays, I think Tableau should adopt the philosophy of material design with bold colors.
- The interface can sometimes feel clunky and not the most responsive. Pop-ups or underlying data take time to display. Loading times can be improved a little as data and sources get more complicated.
- I understand that Tableau Desktop is the central hub to create reports and dashboards, and the online variant predominantly to share them with others. Still, some last-minute editing capabilities should be provided to Tableau Online.
Would Recommend
- Pulling in accurate data from multiple sources
- Opportunities to visualize data
- Multiple users with ease
- More options to customize views of data
- better mobile experience
- more plug ins for different tools
- Good data visualisation and insights
- Easy deployment
- Strong community
- Expensive
- Improving business process outcomes
- Continued innovation on analytics stack
- Data integration and importing is well supported
- Great data visualization and dashboarding capabilities
- Enterprise level security and can easily restrict/grant access across users and user groups
- Takes time to train new associates and for new associates to become proficient using Tableau
- UI can sometimes feel a little bit overcomplicated (e.g. editing dashboards)
- Tableau Online can be slow/experience data refresh lags
Tableau Online is a manager's DREAM!!!!!
- Tableau Online has a really good search system to help users find data.
- Tableau Online has a system to send regular reports of workbooks that users choose to subscribe to.
- Tableau Online has a very user friendly app that can be used by anyone with no formal training.
- Tableau Online refreshes on an hourly and daily basis to make sure its users always has up to date data.
- Tableau Online could be better when pulling up data on a phone. Some data is cut off and is not able to be expanded for mobile viewing.
- Tableau Online mobile requires a manual refresh each time you log on. It does not default to the latest data.
- Sometimes I am not allowed to log on unless I clear the cache or cookies. I rarely have this issue with any other sites.
Data? Think Tableau!
- Tableau has a clean layout and is super friendly in creating custom dashboards.
- The option to create custom formulas using calculated fields is really helpful.
- It is super easy to connect Tableau with a data source.
- Sometimes it becomes a little difficult to handle null values, but that may be just user case scenario.
- More options to represent data should be provided.
- Tableau Online does not provide me with an option to sort out with top function. Again, that maybe just user case scenario.
Good Data Source
- Gives accurate reports
- Reports in real time
- Has multiple metrics to review
- Lag time is often bothersome
- When filtering by date, the dates get mixed up easily
- Filtering in general can be annoying
Tableau Online
- Multiple data source connections.
- High performance.
- Excellent visualization capabilities.
- Easy to use.
- High cost.
- Security issues.
- Integration issues.
Premium Data Aggregation and Synthesis
- Their dashboards are easy to navigate and customize.
- The drill-down capabilities are intuitive.
- Their integrations with other mainstream solutions are quite good.
- I'd love to see Tableau continue building out their knowledge base.
- I wish Tableau didn't automatically refresh reports because it causes the default date range to be reinstated.
- I'd like to see Tableau continue building out its integrations with other prominent third party solutions.
From my limited use, Tableau is a great way to share reports across an organization
- Large degree of control over data and how it can be used
- Better UI to help navigate through folders and subfolders.