Tableau Overview
What is 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.
Tableau Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
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 Features
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Tableau Reviews
Tableau Reviews
Excellent tool for Data Visualization with simplicity
I have worked on domains like Telecom and Network where in I have been using Tableau. Its really liked by senior management as it shows each and every bit very clearly to relevant stake holders. For example, Marketing head likes region wise revenue sale dashboard which gives region/sales manager/product wise sale.
A premium option at a premium price point
Overall Tableau is a great BI/Visualization tool where the only limitations are what your team can do with it. The platform itself has every bell and whistle you could want and provides a ton of customization for various use cases.
The challenge arises when moving to the logistical management of the platform, specifically around access, user education and price. While it might be great for individual organizations, our use case of deploying dashboards to hundreds of clients just isn’t what Tableau was built for.
If you have the right use case and team to support it, it’s a fantastic option. But if you’re lacking in those areas (or perhaps want a tool with more automatic BI/AI capabilities), there’s likely a better option for your organization.
Aggressive onboarding, false statements. Not customer-oriented.
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.
Very comprehensive and all-inclusive solution
The ability to build dashboards that capture data that originate from sources so that it can be compiled in reports and dashboards that are used to analyze performance data of digital marketing campaigns.
Easy Analytics Tool
It is one of the grate tool that is saving my bunch of time. I can utilize more timings to make attractive visualizations rather than spending time in Organizing and Cleaning of data, It has everything like calculations, Maps, Filters and lot more very cool functions.
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Excellent tool for Data Visualization with simplicity
Pros
There are many features which lot of users would have liked:-
1. Connection to almost all database
2. Many types of Charts can be created including Sankey, Doughnut, Maps etc.
3. Its has the feature of data blending and data extraction
4. Dashboards can be viewed on multiple devices like tablet, mobile and laptops.
5. Its really fast while drilling down or filtering out from any dashboard.
Cons
Its a bit expensive tool as compared to other data visualization tools however its a value for money.
A premium option at a premium price point
Overall Tableau is a great BI/Visualization tool where the only limitations are what your team can do with it. The platform itself has every bell and whistle you could want and provides a ton of customization for various use cases.
The challenge arises when moving to the logistical management of the platform, specifically around access, user education and price. While it might be great for individual organizations, our use case of deploying dashboards to hundreds of clients just isn’t what Tableau was built for.
If you have the right use case and team to support it, it’s a fantastic option. But if you’re lacking in those areas (or perhaps want a tool with more automatic BI/AI capabilities), there’s likely a better option for your organization.
Pros
There is a reason that Tableau is synonymous with data visualization tools to many people and organizations. It’s a premium product that can do pretty much whatever you want it to.
Tableau’s features are limitless and with the proper resources to maintain and deploy it, you’ll rarely identify capabilities that it doesn’t have. It is truly a BI tool that enables your team to overcome any obstacle they face.
I specifically enjoyed some of the advanced visualization capabilities of Tableau that more “basic” tools don’t offer. The time series visualizations are easy to configure and are always a crowd favorite. The ability to deploy on-premise or in the cloud means that organizations can configure to their preference.
All in all, it is an incredibly powerful tool that leaves very few stones unturned.
Cons
The three biggest drawbacks to our organization continuing with Tableau were ease of use, cost scalability and functional scalability.
Tableau is not the tool for organizations that lack technical resources. It’s not as “plug and play” as other options on the market and requires significant training of architects to fully take advantage of all its capabilities.
Tableau also isn’t the ideal solution if price is an obstacle in your organization. Frankly, it ain’t cheap. Depending on your desired level of investment and the number of users you’ll need, it can run the tab up quickly.
Additionally, user management in Tableau itself isn’t an issue, but deployment presents its challenges. Other options on the market are much easier to introduce users to (here’s your login, go to this URL and boom, you’re good to go) whereas Tableau requires more configuration. This is dependent on which Tableau version you utilize, but there are efforts involved in scaling the platform.
Aggressive onboarding, false statements. Not customer-oriented.
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.
Very comprehensive and all-inclusive solution
The ability to build dashboards that capture data that originate from sources so that it can be compiled in reports and dashboards that are used to analyze performance data of digital marketing campaigns.
Pros
The ability to create and visualize sets of data in a number of different ways, and tailor it to your liking something very powerful about the tool that really stands out. Having one set of data and being able to visualize and paint of a picture of that data in two different ways side by side in one dashboard really stands out for me.
Cons
The time it has taken to get in touch with customer support at times when there are urgent issues has been a frustration and has prevented our team from being able to troubleshoot a few different technical product issues in a timely manner.
Easy Analytics Tool
It is one of the grate tool that is saving my bunch of time. I can utilize more timings to make attractive visualizations rather than spending time in Organizing and Cleaning of data, It has everything like calculations, Maps, Filters and lot more very cool functions.
Pros
So Easy to Clean and Reorganize data , data cleaning takes forever via database or Excel, Tableau makes it easy to load and clean before its ready for analysis
Cons
Takes to much time at first load or update large amount of data. Once it load successfully then you are good to go
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Tableau Pricing
Tableau Pricing
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
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
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Tableau Features
Tableau Features
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Additional information for Tableau
Additional information for Tableau
Key features of Tableau
- API
- Access control
- Active Directory integration
- Activity dashboard
- Ad hoc analysis
- Ad hoc query
- Ad hoc reporting
- Application security
- Authentication
- Automatic notifications
- Automatic updates
- Categorization
- Collaboration tools
- Content library
- Create interactive dashboards
- Create "no-code" data queries
- Custom fields
- Customizable reporting
- Dashboard commenting
- Dashboard creation
- Data filtering
- Data import/export
- Data manipulation
- Data mapping
- Data notifications
- Data querying
- Data storage management
- Data transformation
- Data visualization
- Database integration
- Drag & drop interface
- Email integration
- Email notifications
- Embed dashboards within
- Filtered views
- Gantt charts
- Geographic maps
- Geolocation
- Graphical data presentation
- Highlight and filter data
- Import all ranges and sizes of data
- Interactive content
- List of native data connectors.
- Metadata management
- Mobile-ready dashboards
- Monitoring
- Multiple projects
- Offline access
- Permission management
- Real time analytics
- Real time data
- Role-based permissions
- Security permissions at any level
- Server REST API
- Share dashboards
- String insights into a guided story
- Tableau Public for data sharing
- Tableau Reader for data viewing
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Toggle view and drag-and-drop
- Translate queries to visualizations
- Trend analysis
- Usage tracking
- User activity monitoring
- Visual analytics
Benefits
Tableau FAQs
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: US$70,00/month
Pricing model: 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. What are the main features of Tableau?
Tableau offers the following features:
- API
- Access control
- Active Directory integration
- Activity dashboard
- Ad hoc analysis
- Ad hoc query
- Ad hoc reporting
- Application security
- Authentication
- Automatic notifications
- Automatic updates
- Categorization
- Collaboration tools
- Content library
- Create interactive dashboards
- Create "no-code" data queries
- Custom fields
- Customizable reporting
- Dashboard commenting
- Dashboard creation
- Data filtering
- Data import/export
- Data manipulation
- Data mapping
- Data notifications
- Data querying
- Data storage management
- Data transformation
- Data visualization
- Database integration
- Drag & drop interface
- Email integration
- Email notifications
- Embed dashboards within
- Filtered views
- Gantt charts
- Geographic maps
- Geolocation
- Graphical data presentation
- Highlight and filter data
- Import all ranges and sizes of data
- Interactive content
- List of native data connectors.
- Metadata management
- Mobile-ready dashboards
- Monitoring
- Multiple projects
- Offline access
- Permission management
- Real time analytics
- Real time data
- Role-based permissions
- Security permissions at any level
- Server REST API
- Share dashboards
- String insights into a guided story
- Tableau Public for data sharing
- Tableau Reader for data viewing
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Toggle view and drag-and-drop
- Translate queries to visualizations
- Trend analysis
- Usage tracking
- User activity monitoring
- Visual analytics
Q. Who are the typical users of Tableau?
Tableau has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Tableau support?
Tableau supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does Tableau support mobile devices?
Tableau supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Tableau integrate with?
Tableau integrates with the following applications:
Alteryx, Bitium, Creatio CRM, Financial Services Creatio, Mendix, Service Creatio, Smartsheet, SocialChorus, Targetprocess, iAuditor
Q. What level of support does Tableau offer?
Tableau offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
I have worked on domains like Telecom and Network where in I have been using Tableau. Its really liked by senior management as it shows each and every bit very clearly to relevant stake holders. For example, Marketing head likes region wise revenue sale dashboard which gives region/sales manager/product wise sale.