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 very intuitive business intelligence tool
I started using it while I was making my MBA and I was amazed at the easy of use and the possibility to make chart in a very powerful way beyond excel. Later on, when I was asked to do some complex representation of many parameters, Tableau has been the best and easiest option, beyond other 3 options I have tried from major sellers
The best of the visualization tools
It is very helpful in allowing us to visualize data for clients and set it up to be automatically refreshable
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.
Excellent Product but Poor Support
I've been using the software for about five years and it has been able to provide insight into our data in a way that no other tool has been able to. However, support is terrible for this product and some of the versions are released with a few bugs. We will likely continue to this but it is imperfect.
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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 very intuitive business intelligence tool
I started using it while I was making my MBA and I was amazed at the easy of use and the possibility to make chart in a very powerful way beyond excel. Later on, when I was asked to do some complex representation of many parameters, Tableau has been the best and easiest option, beyond other 3 options I have tried from major sellers
Pros
- Very intuitive way o assemble data, no need for programming or special commands
- Easily change data from numeric to alphanumeric
- The most common and useful charts are available
- Easy to breakdown data into several clusters
- I once plotted 6 parameters in a 2 dimensional chart: X, Y, bubble size, color, name, icon
- You can build special read-only docs with the functionality to be read by Tableu Reader (as in acrobat reader)
- You can customize label, axis, trend and references lines
Cons
- Eventually some very specific charts are not there as chord, tornado, tree maps, nodes, gauges, alluvial diagram, dendograms
- Even with all the clustering, it lacks statistical analysis as Anova, hypothesis test between two set of data, normal probability plot
The best of the visualization tools
It is very helpful in allowing us to visualize data for clients and set it up to be automatically refreshable
Pros
It allows for a really nice product to send to clients, it can also be set up to automatically refresh connecting into databases which make recurring reports very easy
Cons
A lot of the functions like creating calculations from data require writing queries in order to create them which should be much easier to do from a user standpoint
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.
Excellent Product but Poor Support
I've been using the software for about five years and it has been able to provide insight into our data in a way that no other tool has been able to. However, support is terrible for this product and some of the versions are released with a few bugs. We will likely continue to this but it is imperfect.
Pros
The software is very powerful tool and excellent visualization tool. It is easy to get started and there is a ton of free training available. The pool of users is great and the community is very helpful to new and existing users.
Cons
The support we pay for is almost worthless. We frequently solve the problem ourselves and it is time consuming to submit everything via their helpdesk with nothing to show for it. Providing logs and files and emailing with someone on the west coast outside of normal east coast business hours is frustrating. Tickets get "escalated" to the engineering team and that ends up being code for "we don't know and this won't be fixed by us". Turnover for their sales representatives indicates it isn't a great company to work for either.
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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
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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. What type of pricing plans does Tableau offer?
Tableau has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
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:
Bitium, Creatio CRM, Marketing Creatio, Mendix, Sales Creatio, 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.