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Tableau 9.3 - Visualization for novices and professionals alike.
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau allows the user to connect to a variety of data sources, including and not limited to CSV files (i.e. Excel sheets), Statistical file (i.e. R, SPSS), Access and server databases/warehouses such as Hadoop, Amazon Aurora and a Tableau Server. For my work with Tableau, virtually every kind data files can be imported and visualized using a very handy selection of built-in charts, graphics, geographical templates and mathematical models (confidence inferences for example). It's easy to drag and drop the dimensions and measures of your data files and Tableau does the hard job of visualization!
What do you dislike about the product?
Depending on your network capacity, server specifications and your local computer configuration, connecting to a server database can produce a significant delay in building your reports. I notice that Tableau tries to initially download files to cache so it would allow you to populate the measurements and dimensions into the report. However, this certainly takes a longer period of time than just working with a file locally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was using Tableau to analyze New York City High School graduation rates and how it corresponds to SAT (Standardized Assessment Test) scores. Tableau allows me to realize certain trends and niches through the stories and reports generated by Tableau.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Tableau offers a trial and I would take advantage of it to see if I can do more to visualize my data. It is relatively simple to learn and use due its relatively easy learning curve. The graphical user interface and drop-and-drag allows novice users to create professional-looking reports and charts without a heavy mathematical or statistical background knowledge. Even for professional data scientists, Tableau has enough advanced models and options to generate the reports that reflects what you want to show and tell.
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What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, multiple sources. Fast acting changes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it gets bogged down but certain sources but desktop is better than web.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reconciling between sources, once reporting has been set up it has been easier to retrieve data for common tasks.
Tableau Desktop
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau allows for easy data visualization regardless of the data type. It has been useful for creating presentations as well as making analysis decisions for work.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not appreciate how difficult it is to learn how to use the software. It can be a complicated system to pick up and the tutorials are not always easy to follow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving the business problem of presenting data in an understandable way. It makes it possible to conduct analysis with hard data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think you should reach out for additional support and tutorials to truly master this software. As it stands the tutorials are not adequate to make Tableau a useful solution without external training.
Helping to tell better stories using Data
What do you like best about the product?
We are using this tool for HR Analytics and it really is both user friendly in allowing for data to be displayed in a way that makes it incredibly accessible to all stakeholders at the Center and easy to drill down to make important business insights digestible with the help of the big data team we can easily connect with a variety of dffierent databases from which data is easily uploaded.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downsize is probably the cost, particularly for nonprofit organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to tell better stories about our organization around talent. Talent acquisition, talent retention and talent management.
Great for information sharing
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau Server is a great tool for information sharing as multiple users can access published workbooks in a controlled environment. I find the dashboards to be particularly useful for visualizing data.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find it a bit difficult for reporting purposes as the dashboard containers aren't able to adjust to fit nicely on a page for printing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for a way to easier see quarterly movements in multiple dimensions and this created a great framework to do so.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be aware that Tableau isn't backwards compatible. As a user publishing workbooks from Tableau Desktop to Server, this is important that the versions are in sync.
Helpful, professional reporting software
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I am able to track key metrics for my employees using Tableau's easy-to-use reporting framework.
What do you dislike about the product?
Given the high level of data we have in my company, it can take some time to refresh the reports. I also know we have issues syncing our data with Mitel at an 'on-demand' basis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking at key performance metrics for our staff has been tough. With Tableau, we can quantify this data in ways that we would never have thought of. This is especially great for creating effective presentation graphics as the visuals are quite aesthetic.
Powerful product, takes some time to learn.
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to handle a large range of data sources. Good user groups to help me discover what to build.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's a steep learning curve, but lots of resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I want to visualize Qualtrics data in a dashboard that can be shared with my entire company.
Great tool for data visualization and more!
What do you like best about the product?
Data loading is a breeze. The interface is simple and easy to use. The visualizations are wonderful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Takes a while to process large datasets. Creating an extract helps but not all the times. Need to have data formatted in the right format to to anything worthwhile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Big data visualizations. We have been able to offer our members so much more now that we use tableau. Visualizations and data manipulation is easy and can be done in a matter of minutes. Plus the data is all right there if a member wants to see a certain cut.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the free desktop version to visualize data. The best way to get used to it is to just start playing around. You will love what you come out with!
Useful BI tool for self sevice analytics
What do you like best about the product?
An easy reporting tool to start with for a beginner. Ability to connect many data sources and create impressive looking visualizations easily. Let's you to create compelling, interactive visualizations on your own with just drag & drop.
Plugins / addons that it supports (R integration).
Tableau provides API's that supports to automate functionalities like automatic deployment & extract.
Plugins / addons that it supports (R integration).
Tableau provides API's that supports to automate functionalities like automatic deployment & extract.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very expensive in terms of license.
Documentation & Tutorials - It can be hard to find the documentation for specific features.
Data formatting issues.
Data model is all about queries, slow down the processing when you have a considerable amount of data loaded
Documentation & Tutorials - It can be hard to find the documentation for specific features.
Data formatting issues.
Data model is all about queries, slow down the processing when you have a considerable amount of data loaded
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have moved most of our internal reporting solutions to tableau in no time.
Tableau helps us to resolve most of our operational reporting needs whereas MicroStrategy helps in business reporting needs.
Tableau helps us to resolve most of our operational reporting needs whereas MicroStrategy helps in business reporting needs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need highly sophisticated, interactive, customizable visualizations and a powerful desktop analytics engine, Tableau is becoming an industry standard.
Give it a shot, more powerful than most of the analytics tool.
Ease of use needs some work though.
Give it a shot, more powerful than most of the analytics tool.
Ease of use needs some work though.
Best modern analytics app
What do you like best about the product?
Mobile first approach towards app building is one of the best thing about Wave Analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall app is really safe and well implemented but it's too expensive to use for small companies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this to analyze our customer reports and come up with new products based on customer feedback.
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