
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.
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- Free Version
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
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Total features of Tableau: 136
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- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The best Visualization Solution
Reviewed on 2022/06/01
Really impressed on the way this tools works, as easy as drag and drop fields in an Excel pivot...
Really impressed on the way this tools works, as easy as drag and drop fields in an Excel pivot table, in addition, Tableau won't allow yo to develop wrongful charts.
Pros
We really like the easiness to upload and prepare data visualizations, charts, graphics and dashboards. It works with the mains data files such as text crv, xls and google sheet documents. They have a free version which present the main functionalities, perfect for a small business, then if you need to upgrade to a paid version the process is very simple. Their forums and community really support, and help to improve, learn and develop great visualizations.
Cons
As any other solution, it takes some investigation and learning to understand the way it works and how to prepare robust presentations in Tableau. Some older versions do not allow roll back. Some sharing and analytic challenges are presented and really wish they develop additional features.
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Tableau is a better product for the easiness and the complete customer service experience.Reasons for Switching to Tableau
Once we started working with Tableau, we would not change to another solution because the way we work with the tool fits our opertive needs.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The best data analysis and visualization tool ever reviewed
Reviewed on 2023/03/25
Tableau has slashed the time it takes to connect to data sources, run sophisticated analyses, and...
Tableau has slashed the time it takes to connect to data sources, run sophisticated analyses, and design insightful visualizations for use across the company. Our company's decision-making is aided by the fact that it integrates a plethora of tools for efficiently exploring, analyzing, and visualizing massive datasets. It has worked wonderfully with my company, and we couldn't be happier with the outcomes. Data experts and analytics teams seeking a robust yet user-friendly BI solution will find it an ideal alternative.
Pros
Tableau is a robust and intuitive program for analyzing and visualizing data. The easy-to-navigate interface facilitates rapid data exploration and analysis. I like how quickly and easily it allows me to integrate and analyze massive amounts of data from many sources, all while making visually appealing and insightful visualizations. It also incorporates sophisticated analytics tools like complicated aggregations and predictive models. Users may find answers fast because of Tableau's broad online community and resources. The implementation of Tableau within my company has been smooth sailing.
Cons
Tableau can be pricey, especially for startups or single users, and there is a learning curve to getting the most out of all its advanced features and capabilities.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2022/12/06
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)
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great tool for analyzing big datasets!
Reviewed on 2022/12/02
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.
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 1 001–5 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Yes we can trust tableau
Reviewed on 2023/03/18
Pros
I. The flexibility, simplicity are the process of data processing using tableau softwareII. Used of table for Geographical data analysisIII. Easy maping of data setIW. The data visualization potential of tableau is very
Cons
From tableau, I leask like nothing. Yeah tableau, can be used for a lot of thing and we still exploring...
Tableau FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Tableau.Q. What type of pricing plans does Tableau offer?
Tableau offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- 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
Q. Who are the typical users of Tableau?
Tableau has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does Tableau support?
Tableau supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does Tableau support mobile devices?
Tableau supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Tableau integrate with?
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
Q. What level of support does Tableau offer?
Tableau offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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