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PK's Tableau Server Review
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use of Tableau Server and the multiple options that it provides the user in terms of data consumption is really intuitive and helpful. For instance, the new Data Extract Refresh is a very helpful and thoughtful feature for connections made to extremely slow-performing databases.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish Tableau Server can remember passwords when it comes to data refreshes when uploading changes from Tableau Desktop. I have to manually embed passwords every time. Also, if there was a loading bar that shows the progress of the load, that would be very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau Server provides easy access to members of my organization to monitor my team's metrics and get quick and easy insight into our team's performance. We are able to share our data with other teams leading to business decisions being made from insight that was non-existent before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you have the proper access and permissions but once you do, Tableau Server is very easy and intuitive to use. The extract refresh option is particularly helpful for large data sets as well as slow connections to databases.
Excellent BI tool for quick visualizations and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Ease to connect to data source, eliminating need for data semantics layer
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited export options of your reports, especially to MS Excel
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting & analytics for pharma market research. Quick answers to complex questions/trends
Helped us take our Analytics to next level
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau has ability to connect to almost any available data source. And in many cases you can blend your data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Designing your dashboard and applying formatting to all pieces is challenging. If you really like to have your dashboards look great - you have to spend some time on layout and formatting. There is no easy way to use a theme or apply formatting from one dashboard to other.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Tableau as our organization wide data reporting tool. It took us some time but with the help of Tableau we are able to adapt self serve analytics model.
worked on visualization for management reporting
What do you like best about the product?
It has good visualization features. I liked the Heapmap with locations. You get a wide variety of variations to choose from for better visualization of data.
What do you dislike about the product?
expensive licensing. Need learning curve to get used to it. Documentation is not great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To help effectively decisions for the management of my organization. I perform feature analysis using this tool.
I conduct risk monitoring activity report reviews using this platform
What do you like best about the product?
Most importantly, the graphics and visualization showing different data elements clearly help define our company's engagement activities and help our organizations make decisions as a result of what we see. They also help me and my team explain trends and statistics much more easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have noticed that when our data expands t include more than just names but multiple variables that connect with other page views, data freezes. Tableau Server stop working effectively. Filters may not work and then, visualization is skewed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
capture of risk of certain engagements and activities between company representatives and stakeholders.
Ease to Use and Share Graphically. Continously improving.
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau is easy to set up and start using. Building charts and graphs are quite simple and help to spot trends on transaction data as long as it fits the format that tableau needs. The product has been continuously evolving and adding real core usability like union queries. Reasonably good to mash up data. It has a very large and active user community so if you are stuck you should be able to search and find a solution quickly or post in their forums and get a response in a few hours. Tableau Reader is a great companion app that lets you share findings with colleagues. Lot of tutorials on youtube on how to start off. Perfect for business users looking to do some analysis and charting without the clunky interface that excel forces. Also share data without exposing it and only share to relevant business users.
What do you dislike about the product?
It requires a lot of data cleansing and prep before it can be loaded into it for charting/analysis. This means you can end up going back to excel and get enticed to stay there. Discipline to go back to it and you are fine. Can be very slow when reading large data sets so not very scalable. A number of issues with formats and having to use too many complicated code in formulas for straight forward things like date formats. This can put you off or will be time consuming to set up. Colour palette is not best in class and often you cannot import you company's branding and colour palette into the tool to ensure that you don't fall foul of the brand police. Editing of fonts is time consuming and difficult to automatically apply styling to different charts once they are built.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easily show outliers and visual graphs that show differences and issues for various items in one dashboard that takes very little time to put together compared to standard spread sheets. Its also visually appealing and a welcome change from large rows and tables of numbers that a number of finance reports tend to be. Hence you can show absolute numbers and proportions to each other at the same time. This allows easy comparison of different cuts of the data in one dashboard and quickly focus on business decision making rather than spend hours creating and securing an excel file.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go ahead and buy it. You will see the benefits immediately, Get your team to adopt it and eventually you go go for the server version once you have critical mass. As long as your team has access to data they can quickly build compelling data charts to support ideas and collaborate with each other.
Useful visualization product
What do you like best about the product?
This product is a great tool to visualize data and create dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a slight learning curve that is necessary to fully utilize all of its features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data visualization to present statistics in an easily understandable way.
Use for dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
Useful when dashboards are properly configured.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard for a regular non-analyst user to dig into data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High level dashboards. Easy to share across many people.
Great Reporting Tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the flexibility of the reporing views, tables and charts. Tableau turns out very professional looking reports that are useful and easy for the client to view.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not well versed in programming, so have difficulty sometime determining how to create certain fields that I need to show on my reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Giving clients a clear view of results from various programs including PPC, Organic search and Pay-Per-Call platforms. One huge benefit is being able to easily go back in history to pull and compare past performance. Highlight trends over time and across various media.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend that everyone using Tableau go through an in-person training session to be bale to fully understand everyting that Tableau can do with your data. It's only a good as the data that is inputting, so you need to make sure everything you might possibly need now of in the future is included in the data source.
Tableau shaved hours off manual reporting in Excel
What do you like best about the product?
Tableau is very easy to pick up. The ability to export reports and create trend lines aided me in tracking key metrics for my team.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with all data crunching suites, the tool works best when the data is solid. For some of my reports, the data set was massive and the reports weren't as current as needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau helped me analyze data and trends swiftly. It shaved off hours of time previously spent creating manual reports in Excel. Being able to shift reports on the fly and the drag-and-drop interface was a huge gain for creating and tweaking reports.
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