About Tableau

Tableau is an integrated business intelligence (BI) and analytics solution that helps to analyze key business data and generate meaningful insights. The solution helps businesses to collect data from multiple source points such as SQL databases, spreadsheets, cloud apps like Google Analytics and Salesforce to create a collective dataset. Tableau's live visual analytics and interactive dashboard allow slicing & dicing datasets for generating relevant insights and exploring new opportunities. Users can create interactive maps and analyze data across regions, territories, demographics and more. Tableau helps to create a narrative story of the data analysis with interactive visualizations that can be shared with their audience. Tableau can be customized to serve a number of industry verticals including banking, communication, education, healthcare, real estate, manufacturing and technology. The solution can be either installed on-premises or hosted on the cloud as a SaaS application. Users can also view and analyze data on their Android and iOS smartphones with Tableau Mobile app.
Tableau Software - Advanced Mapping
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Tableau Software - Interactive Dashboards on the Web
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Tableau pricing

Tableau has a free version and offers a free trial.

Starting Price:
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Free Version:
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Free trial:
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Tableau Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.2
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
4.1
Customer Support
4.2
5 reviews of 2,076 View all reviews
Federico
  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 01/06/2022

The best Visualization Solution

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.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Reasons for Choosing Tableau

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.
Sung
  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 15/03/2023

Easy to use data visual tool with a tons of features

I use it everyday to track business performance and trends.

Pros

Once you get going and understand the basic functions, you can start using it right away. You can do a quick data visual (graphs, charts) from the pre-set templates. An interactive dashboard is very helpful for allowing other users to use the published dashboard without a full access to the tableau software.

Cons

Lack of clear explaination of different functions and features in the program. It is not always obvious and will require some training from an advance users or training program outside the software.

Graciela
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
3
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
1

2
Reviewed on 27/02/2023

Customer Service is terrible

See above

Pros

The product has a lot of potential and features that could really help us, but we ran into too many roadblocks with customer service.

Cons

Customer service was too difficult to work with

Ajumon
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 09/12/2022

Best tool to visualise the data.

overall, its very good software. we can use this software instead of power point for presentation. here, the presentations are available with responsive graphs and tabular columns.

Pros

Tableau is very useful software for data analysts. it is very easy to create Graphical and tabular visualisations using this software. the dashboard is vey responsive and we can easly understand about the dataset

Cons

initially, the interfaces are little bit tough to understand. some times, the geographical datas did not detect properly.

Mohammad
  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 22/02/2023

Tableau Review

Pros

Pros:Easy to use: Tableau is known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easy for even non-technical users to create interactive visualizations and analyze data.Data integration: Tableau offers seamless integration with a wide range of data sources, including spreadsheets, databases, and cloud services.Interactive visualizations: Tableau offers a range of visualization options that are interactive and allow businesses to drill down into their data to gain deeper insights.Collaboration: Tableau offers a range of collaboration tools that make it easy for teams to share data, insights, and visualizations with each other.Mobile compatibility: Tableau offers mobile compatibility, allowing businesses to access their data and visualizations from anywhere.

Cons

Cons:Steep learning curve: While Tableau is easy to use once you get the hang of it, some users may find that it has a steep learning curve, especially if they are new to data analysis and visualization.Cost: Tableau can be expensive, especially for small businesses or individuals who are on a tight budget.Limited data preparation tools: While Tableau offers a range of visualization options, it has limited data preparation tools, which can make it more difficult to clean and prepare data for analysis.Limited customization: While Tableau offers some customization options, some users may find that it has limited flexibility compared to other data visualization software.Processing time: Tableau can be slow when working with large data sets, which can be frustrating for users who need to analyze and visualize large amounts of data.

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