What do you like best about the product?

It is good at making things look pretty, sometimes

What do you dislike about the product?

Literally every other part of its use. I purchased Tableau Cloud for my organisation of 50 people and will tell any peer or colleague in the industry to avoid it at all costs.

Here are a selection of the issues I deal with every day:
* I get logged out every few hours. I understand that this is a security feature, but there is no ability to change the logout duration.
* Permissions for each piece of content are completely byzantine... good luck every figuring out why someone can't access a report (or why one chart in a report isn't working for them).
* The data model and layout of data sources is completely nonsensical and impossible to use. Any time a change is made in an upstream report, get to make the same change in nine different places, and even then sometimes for it not to work. There is no robustness here. Has nobody at Tableau thought of what the actual day-to-day process of using a BI tool involve?
* Everything is slooooooooooooow, I wait and wait and wait for pages to load. Using the Data Flow is painfully slow – any change requires a wait of 30 seconds before the UI is usable again. And because caching has clearly been wrongly implemented, I frequently make a change in the application, navigate to another part of the site, and find that change has yet to propagate.
* Error messages are totally opaque. Something will break, and there will be absolutely no way for you to identify what the root cause is.
* It feels like none of the components of the system are actually integrated with one another. For example, if you set up a Data Flow to write an output file, then move that file, the Data Flow will continue writing to the old location, meaning any reports that were downstream of the original file just silently fail to show any updated data.
* The UI is horribly inconsistent and smacks of "four different product squads are working on this same page" – there are always multiple different ways to do things, each of which brings some subtlety or unintended consequence.
* There are a number of advertisements for irrelevant or paid features that you cannot hide. This is despite paying many thousands of dollars a year for licenses.
* Integrations with more sophisticated analytics environments are absymal. The Snowflake connector still does not support key-pair authentication, and there is no ability to actually store credentials in Tableau Cloud.
* There is no ability to automatically schedule a report to be posted in Slack... despite the fact that Salesforce owns both Slack and Tableau!

How is it possible that a >$1B company that has now been acquired by a >$100B can produce such an embarrassingly poor piece of software? I will never understand. Do not, under any circumstances, purchase this if you want to have any luck with "democratising data" or "driving analytics" at your organisation.

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

Making pretty charts. But this is something any BI tool can do.

What do you like best about the product?

The ability to filter down into specific details utilizing Tableau to find the exact information needed is a game changer. While I use Tableau a few times a week, and it can be a bit confusing to start, once you understand where to find what you need, it's a breeze!

What do you dislike about the product?

Can be extremely slow loading times due to the amount of information that it houses.

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

Looking at specific metrics all in one place, and being able to locate details on certain accounts for clients to gain a better understanding of the holistic view.

What do you like best about the product?

1. Tableau makes data visualization simple and interactive, helping turn complex data into easy-to-understand insights.


2. Its drag-and-drop interface allows quick dashboard creation without heavy coding.


3. It connects seamlessly with multiple data sources, enabling real-time analysis.

What do you dislike about the product?

1. Tableau can be resource-intensive, sometimes slowing down with very large datasets.


2. Its licensing and pricing are relatively high compared to alternatives.


3. Some advanced customizations require complex workarounds, which reduces ease of use.

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

Tableau solves the problem of manually analyzing and interpreting large, complex datasets by transforming them into clear, interactive visualizations.
It reduces the time spent on reporting, ensures accuracy, and helps identify trends and patterns quickly.

What do you like best about the product?

It helps to create a interactive dashboard

What do you dislike about the product?

Higher cost, rest everything is fine for tableau.

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

We have integrated Tablue with our DLP solution and it gives us complete work hours reports in single dashboard

What do you like best about the product?

1. A centralized location for all dashboarding requirements
2. Vast variety of data adapters available, enabling ease of integration
3. Multiple views and interactive charts present
4. High adaptivity (frequency of usage) among various stakeholders from developers to analysts to CXO
5. Dashboarding process is simple and enhances ease of implementation

What do you dislike about the product?

1. Under dropdown, while selecting multiple items, tableau buffers and applies each and every category and the user has to wait between every new category selection which is pretty irritating
2. Alerts can be useful. Spikes in data and its timely communication will be very much useful
3. Login flow of tableau desktop is pretty poor. Immediately it throws up purchase the license option.
4. An AI bot can be added, that provide tableau workflows to improve quick shipping

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

1. Centralized location for all dashboarding requirements
2. Integrating data from multiple sources and dashboarding all of them to see results in real time
3. Multiple views and interactive charts present, to monitor and track various department growths and targets
4. High adaptivity (frequency of usage) among various stakeholders from developers to analysts to CXO

What do you like best about the product?

It's easy to use and can make most of the required views with only drag and drop. Provides support with most of the databases. Easy to create connection with multiple sources.

What do you dislike about the product?

sometimes it gets confusing in calculated fields if you are using aggregated and non aggregated values in a single formula and there is no clear explanation for this.

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

It has made the reporting part really easier. Reports which used to be shared manually on a periodic bases can now be automated on tableau and any stakeholder can view the data or report for any period of time with ease.

What do you like best about the product?

Tableau is a great tool and it is turning data into more understandable way where you can easily understand. It has a great UI which is easy to set and use just like drag and drop fields to create visualizations which makes it feel less in work and you can explore more. Another thing which i like about it is that it gives you many options for customizing chart and dashboards.

What do you dislike about the product?

Overall Tableau is preforming fantastic but it has also somethings which i really not liking about it is that it has a bit of learning curve when you start using more advanced features.

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

Tableau helped us in many senses. The first one, he helped us in managing large and complex datasets. Tableau has also helped us with team communication like stakeholder are able to look into dashboard and they can quickly get the idea what is happening and going on right now. It is saving lots of our time by reducing mundane and repetitive tasks.

What do you like best about the product?

Tableau makes it really simple to turn complex dataset into clear, interactive dashboards. In terms of ease of use once you get comfortable, dragging and dropping data field intuitive. The features are robust especially the wide variety of charts, visual customization, and ability to handle large datasets smoothly. Integration with tools like Excel, Google sheet, Salesforce and databases has been seamless, so pulling in data isn't a hassle. We use it frequently, almost daily to monitor KPIs and share insights across team. Customer support and the online tableau community are both helpful for troubleshooting and learning.

What do you dislike about the product?

As of now, I working fine i haven't faced any problem yet. it's running smoothly

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

Tableau has transformed the way we approach data decisions making is now more data-driven and insights that once took hours to prepare in spreadsheet can now be visualized in minutes. It's helped us spot trends quickly and communicate results in a way that everyone can understand from executives to frontline teams.

What do you like best about the product?

Tableau is one of the best tool for data visualization that provides powerful features to work with data. It provides interactive user interface for user like drag and drop functionality but also provides advanced functionality for data analyst to work on data insights.

we can create interactive dashboards by analysing data in real time which helps business to understand the market trends and make data driven . It gives you power to connect to any of the datasets whether it be a simple excel sheet or a high end data base as SQL, Oracle which gives it a edge on other analytics tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing dislike in Tableau, it is giving results as per expectations.

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

It is helping us to solve the problem related to understand and analysing of data. It is simplifying data visualization which is helping me to quickly grasp insights and trends. It is saving time and efforts instead of writing complex queries, by the use of Tableau, i can simply drag and drop field to create visualization that i need.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the simplicity in navigating the platform and the scale of options available to best present your data and distribute the output to colleagues (and to facilitate collaboration).

I am currently in the annual leave phase of my notice period and cannot share a screenshot of my Lifebit account as proof.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the options to configure widgets could be more user-friendly because trying to configure the presentation of data can be confusing.

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

Seamlessly providing a means of presenting data sets in a meaningful way that can tell a story for key stakeholders. The scope of widgets are great and provide a wealth of opportunities to make the most of your data.

Please note that I am currently in the annual leave phase of my notice period and cannot share a screenshot of my Lifebit account as proof.