Tableau+ | Salesforce

What do you like best about the product?

Clear data reporting and the ability to have multiple variations of the data.

What do you dislike about the product?

It has to reload every time you change a filter and it's kind of slow.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps solve for gaps in partner outreach.

What do you like best about the product?

It helps with reporting and makes it easy to pull stats to share with management.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing to report at the moment—it works perfectly fine.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps track the numbers and provides accurate numbers to managers

What do you like best about the product?

its powerful and intuitive drag-and-drop interface, which makes transforming complex datasets into clear, interactive visualisations remarkably straightforward.

The platform's standout performance and seamless ability to handle large volumes of data have completely transformed our analytics workflow.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Tableau is exceptionally powerful, the pricing model can be quite restrictive for smaller teams or growing businesses, making it a significant investment.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Tableau, we struggled with fragmented data across multiple spreadsheets and silos, which made generating cohesive reports slow and prone to errors.

Implementing Tableau allowed us to centralize our data sources and automate complex reporting workflows.

What do you like best about the product?

I like Tableau's rich visualization capability and modularized KPI management. It saves a lot of time in maintaining or upgrading each KPI version, and its visualization out of the box is good compared to our older solution. Tableau is also a established platform, great for internal analytics with a lot of visualizations. We don't have to program our own visualization layer, which is a huge time saver. Just by changing one line in a Tableau report, we avoid repeated manual KPI updates, making it much easier to manage metrics and reducing the chance of errors.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are a few things that didn't work out with Tableau for us. First, the customizability was a big issue. It was really hard to make it fit into our existing design library, such as just changing the font or color to match our styles. If we wanted to add anything like a pop-up window or a drawer, it didn't support these features easily, which made us spend a lot of time figuring out workarounds. Performance was another major problem. We expected fast report rendering times since we're dealing with a large employee experience platform and tons of data, but using Tableau with live data took at least 30 seconds for a report to render, which is far too long. The lack of lazy loading resulted in poor experiences for our clients, often leading to complaints about response times. Version control and compatibility with other platforms were also challenging. Each client might have different report versions and metrics, and Tableau didn't make it easy to manage these various versions. Permission control was tough too, as some clients wanted to see specific cards or rows programmatically, which was difficult to implement. These issues were significant enough that we ended up canceling our contract with Tableau.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau saved us time by offering a modularized KPI management system, eliminating the need for manual updates and reducing errors. It provides robust visualization tools, allowing deeper insight analysis, which our clients appreciate.

What do you like best about the product?

The best part I liked about Tableau is I can connect to almost any data source and without any code I can quickly build powerful visualizations. Also the ability to turn raw data into clear, dashboards is easy. The stand out point of Tableau which is important to me is when I am conducting fraud investigation and need to compare different data from multiple touch points.

What do you dislike about the product?

Although Tableau provided a supportive community but still we required a dedicated resource to setup, use and manage. The customization is sometimes challenging, data syncing too doesn't seem to work right.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem Tableau solved for me is identifying the user behaviour from patterns and product usage trends early. Moreover getting clear data out of unfiltered data easily and I can build the prototypes of data exploration in no time. I can now detect performance issues before it becomes pattern.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like the wide variety of data source connectors that Tableau provides. It easily connects to sources like Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and many more. This makes integrating data much simpler and reduces the need for extensive backend coding. Also, being a legacy software, Tableau has a large community which is really helpful in solving any bugs or issues I face. The data modeling tools are also valuable, allowing me to model different data sources into one big data model and create calculated fields within Tableau itself.

What do you dislike about the product?

Uh, one thing that I don't like about Tableau is the lack of customization of dashboards and worksheets. I think other competitors like Power BI have developed a much more convenient UI and UX interface. Tableau just feels a little bit left behind in that area. I would suggest adding a few more extensions or visualization options to create more in-depth customization features, like creating shadows on boxes or any visualization. Even basic features that Microsoft Word has, such as creating a glow or shadow, would be beneficial. These basic formatting features are missing and can make Tableau feel outdated, especially since it's been around for so many years. Also, learning Tableau is pretty hard compared to Power BI and other software, though the initial setup itself is quite easy.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau helps with data visualization and modeling, connecting various data sources like Salesforce, and customizes visualizations. It simplifies integrating data without complex backend coding. This connectivity and ease make it really valuable for my work.

What do you like best about the product?

I love how easy Tableau is to use and appreciate its extensive features and functionalities for dealing with unorganized and abstract data. It's very useful how it shapes something from no SQL tables. I like how the final dashboards are very interactive, with built-in filters and drill-downs, which makes it easier to handle large-scale data. The visualizations are really easy to customize, and sharing metrics with stakeholders is a breeze. I find calculated fields, parameters, filters, and dashboard actions particularly useful, especially when the raw data doesn't directly contain the metrics I need. Tableau Prep is also very helpful when combining data before visualization. I really enjoy the drill-down functionality that lets me move from high-level KPIs to underlying details to ensure we deliver KPIs on time and keep stakeholders satisfied. Additionally, the setup process for basic database connection was pretty easy for us, which was nice. Overall, I give Tableau a 9 out of 10 for recommendation as it performs really well under most conditions.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes performance can be an issue when dashboards handle very large datasets or have too many calculations. We have a large dataset for attendance data, and it takes a lot of time to load the dashboard. Implementing a dynamic caching layer, like Dynamo DB or Aurora Postgres, would help. Additionally, better automatic optimizations for large data sets, clearer performance diagnostics, and knowing exactly which tables are causing slowdowns would be beneficial. Specifically, if I have many tables and only a few are affecting Tableau's performance, it would be great to easily identify them to optimize these parts effectively.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau simplifies complex data visualization, eliminating manual chart compilation and enhancing interactivity with features like filters and drill-downs. It easily handles unorganized data, enabling quick KPI delivery and accessible sharing of metrics across stakeholders.

What do you like best about the product?

There are a lot of things I like about Tableau. For one, it lets you build visualizations from the ground up using the Marks card feature. Another big plus is that it works on the fly, so you don’t have to pre-aggregate your numbers in a spreadsheet before you can start exploring and visualizing them.

What do you dislike about the product?

A “creator” license is essential, and if you want to share dashboards securely across the company, you also have to buy additional viewer or server licenses for every employee who needs to access and view the data.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau approaches data from a highly visual perspective. Although it includes tools for preparing data, its real superpower is the drag-and-drop visual canvas. Rather than spending most of your time building a rigid data model upfront, you can connect your data and begin exploring it visually right away.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Tableau for data collection and analysis in humanitarian agencies. I find its graph generation feature particularly valuable, and it was very easy to set up initially.

What do you dislike about the product?

Tableau struggles when dealing with large and complex datasets, which affects its performance. Additionally, the data preparation process can be challenging, and establishing complex relationships within the data is not as straightforward as I'd like.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau helps me manage data scattered across sources and understand large datasets. It simplifies graph generation, providing clear visual insights for humanitarian data analysis.

What do you like best about the product?

Creating interactive dashboards makes data easy to understand.

What do you dislike about the product?

Setting up advanced calculations can take extra effort.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tableau turns data into clear insights for faster decisions.