Tableau+ | Salesforce
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Great BI tool and great community/support
What do you like best about the product?
The Tableau community is phenomenal. Every time I feel like I've stumbled onto a dead end, there's someone out there who's solved it. And Tableau's customer service and tech support is fantastic too. I'm particularly pleased with version 10.1 which has a bunch of features I was looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not Alteryx or Excel so there are a few things it can't do but it's not supposed to. It's a fact that takes getting used to.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Everything from sales analysis, retention, reporting, data mining and BI. I was even able to put together a Cube!
Easy to use and very powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive as well as easy to visualize. Easy to carry out a quick analysis as well as delve deeper into the weeds.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I haven't faced any problems using Tableau. Adding additional charting tools in future updates would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Looking at large data sets and deriving conclusions from them. It allows for easy navigation through data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look at the cost vs man hours that can be saved
Use it daily, nightly, weekly
What do you like best about the product?
Best software for data visualization since back when I had to build my own charts with PHP and GD.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost. I wish it cost a lot less because I'd love to use it for personal purposes!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to get reports done far quicker!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great software once you learn it. Requires a lot of training. Hell, I went to the conference this year and spent $5k and STILL feel I need more. Part of this is only having used this for a year...
Great insight on sales revenue data!
What do you like best about the product?
It makes it easy to see revenue numbers and compare trends as to what accounts to work in order to generate the most revenue.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the site will freeze and not update on a daily basis
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visual display of revenue, ability to sort by which accounts make the most money
View, investigate, and discover your data with ease
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau makes data analysis approachable to anyone. You can with ease and speed discover hidden stories, present your findings, and make your data discover able to others. With high quality and easy to read visuals what you discover can easily be understood.
Tableau is great for presenting in working meetings. Have an initial visual and then people can ask questions and when sharing the screen you can discover the answers together easily in the span of the meeting. Drag and drop simplicity.
Tableau also has an amazing support community. Company themselves are responsive, the user community is very active and approachable. There are TONS of training and learning opportunities both paid and free.
Tableau itself is extensible and hack-able. If it does not do what you need, you can likely make it do that. Tableau recently added several APIs to aid in web development and data extraction. You can use Python and R to extend the capability of the product. And with the ability to use it on Mac, Windows, and soon Linux, it will likely fit in any IT structure.
Tableau is great for presenting in working meetings. Have an initial visual and then people can ask questions and when sharing the screen you can discover the answers together easily in the span of the meeting. Drag and drop simplicity.
Tableau also has an amazing support community. Company themselves are responsive, the user community is very active and approachable. There are TONS of training and learning opportunities both paid and free.
Tableau itself is extensible and hack-able. If it does not do what you need, you can likely make it do that. Tableau recently added several APIs to aid in web development and data extraction. You can use Python and R to extend the capability of the product. And with the ability to use it on Mac, Windows, and soon Linux, it will likely fit in any IT structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tableau keep growing and expanding (a good thing) but still does not do everything. Not all that it can do is best in class. Tableau can do ETL, but I would not depend on it for ETL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau dramatically reduces development time, not only in the initial creation of the report/visual, but also in that is is so easy to use, when you deliver the report to your customers, they can ask and discover the answers to their own questions with the data, rather than having to request a new report.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You get out what you put in. It is easy to get started, but there is SO much in there, I don't know anyone who knows it all to an expert degree. It is easy enough to pick up and be productive with minimal training, but pay attention to what you need and focus on that. Still don't be afraid to branch out and explore.
Tableau has revolutionized the way our company views data
What do you like best about the product?
The best feature is the ability to integrate multiple data sources into one unified, user-friendly, and visually appealing dashboard where anyone can access exactly the information they are looking for. Prior to Tableau, we struggled finding ways to show how multiple data sources were interacting.
What do you dislike about the product?
For me, what I disliked the most was the initial learning curve. Yes, Tableau offers free, in-depth online tutorial videos that were certainly helpful, but it is difficult to follow along without pausing. The particular data set I was working with may have been a little more difficult than the norm and that may have contributed to my initial difficulties, but the tutorials didn't necessarily align or work with my particular situation. Also, there is a lack of resources for how to integrate R with Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit in using Tableau is being able to see how one source of data is affecting another across platforms. Using Tableau has allowed us to connect different business units together and increase collaboration due to the ability to see how data is interacting from a more global perspective.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend taking a class to become familiar with the software and actually having a data set to work with during the training. I found that some things weren't necessarily applicable to my data and had to look to other sources for help.
A great BI tool with tons of flexibility, with ETL weaknesses
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau is a fantastic visualization tool, with a wide depth of personalization options, basic data functionality, and the capability to make all sorts of useful calculations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some data connectors, like the Salesforce connector could be better, allowing for SOQL queries would be a big plus. I've always had to do data building, cleaning, and customization pre-Tableau, which makes this not a "full-stack" solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales and Marketing dashboards that are impossible in either Marketo and Salesforce.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Tableau Desktop is a great tool for making data visualizations and customizing the data exploration process for users. While it is not what I would consider a full stack BI tool, since it lacks some data joining and prepping capabilities, it is fantastic for exploring and visualizing standardized data sets. Building and customizing dashboards is quick through Tableau's best practices that are automatically used by just double clicking the data you want to see. It is an intuitive and highly flexible tool with a great community and a responsive support team.
Amazingly Appealing Visualization Engine!
What do you like best about the product?
It is visually appealing to work with for both beginners without visualization/analytics knowledge as well as expert analysts.
Tableau offers drag and drop feature that enables you to build visually appealing dashboards and reports in fraction of time compared to traditional visualization approaches. It needs minimal and in most of the cases zero knowledge of programming.
By couple of click of a mouse, you have a high quality agile and fast visualization dashboard or store that helps you to uncover hidden insight from your data.
Tableau offers drag and drop feature that enables you to build visually appealing dashboards and reports in fraction of time compared to traditional visualization approaches. It needs minimal and in most of the cases zero knowledge of programming.
By couple of click of a mouse, you have a high quality agile and fast visualization dashboard or store that helps you to uncover hidden insight from your data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It goes slow when you have millions of records in memory especially when it is from multiple sources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics, dashboard designing and reporting. It is surprisingly quick to creating visual reports or dashboards.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is one of the best solution to visualize your data. It is also reasonably priced and easy to buy.
Spent much of my career in Tableau hell...
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau provides unsophisticated, non-technical users with the ability to create high-fidelity, visual/graphical representations of their data.
What do you dislike about the product?
In my career as an IT executive, and having worked on multiple enterprise Business Intelligence programs for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, Tableau was the bane of my existence and in every company where Tableau was implemented by business, I found myself in Tableau hell. While Tableau does enable unsophisticated users with the ability to create stunning visual representations of data, Tableau goes against the very challenges that Business Intelligence programs and Information Management have been diligently trying to solve. At the end of the day, Tableau is like a virus across the organization; there is no single version of the truth, the data and KPI's in the reports are stove-piped and the context of the data is not understood by those creating and using the reports. With great power comes great responsibility and my experience with Tableau has been a proverbial thorn in my side and considerable time, money and resources was invested by the companies I worked for trying to reconcile the Tableau reports produced by end-users against the gold-standard reports being produced by Enterprise Business Intelligence platforms, and mission-critical business decisions were negatively affected by inaccurate data on Tableau reports and significant monies were wasted replacing/automating the Tableau reports with accurate, enterprise reports, dashboards and real Business Intelligence solutions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No benefits were realized. Business Unit developed Desktop Tableau reports had to be replaced with automated enterprise BI reports produced by IT.
Tableau Desktop/Server
What do you like best about the product?
I am a data anlyst/engineer who was writing queries for every report request before Tableau. Tableau definitely solved the problem of allowing my coworkers to create their own reports, and also to ingest reports that I created and hosed on Tableau server online. Hosting reports online also allowed access for my executive team.
What do you dislike about the product?
I used Tableau for the past 2 years, but I have recently been exploring new tools like Looker, Periscope, etc. To me, compared to these other tools, Tableau unfortunately seems archaic now. The fact that it is a desktop application makes it so that when I create calculations and rename fields noone else can see that. Then there is a discrepency between what I see and what others see/create.
I know there is a web version but its really not very good, and very slow.
I know there is a web version but its really not very good, and very slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am a data analyst/engineer. I needed a reporting layer on top of my data warehouse so that my coworkers could not only view reports that I created, but make their own reports. I no longer wanted to write a query every time someone needed a report. I also needed a website where I could host reports online so that people who did not need to create their own reports had access.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do a full vendor analysis when thinking about buying Tableau. Consider who will be your users. It is somewhat clunky and will not be a tool where your whole company can create their own reports. BUT it can definitely solve a lot of problems.
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