Tableau+ | Salesforce
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Powerful Self Service BI Platform
What do you like best about the product?
So easy to get up and running with Tableau server. Allows for clients to easily publish workbooks and dashboards to Tableau server to allow users to at their leisure access the views via a self service portal. The UI is easy and clear to understand and use and embedded search facility allows you to find views with ease. The server specs we found considering the amount of work that goes onto our Tableau server are very good with the server running absolutely fine with 4 cores and 16Gb RAM.
What do you dislike about the product?
Licencing changed after we purchased the server product from Tableau and now if we wanted to extend our infrastructure it would cost us far too much money so expand-ability has somewhat been cut off for us. We have also had some fairly annoying problems on upgrading from one version of Tableau server to another. These have been as minor as graphical glitches in the views displayed via Tableau server to most extreme one where the product was using up vast quantities of disk space causing our disks to fill and the product to stop functioning. Tableau releases are very frequent and I personally feel that Tableau as a company should do more testing before simply releasing it to the world.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to connect disparate data sources from different technologies together (e.g. Excel, Access and SQL server) and to be able to disseminate views and dashboards of this data to our user base via a web client. Mobile devices can now be used to consume MI and BI reports and bespoke Android and Apple apps only enhance this experience.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a look at Tableau public first as this is a very close experience to the server product and do not be put off by the installation and administration side of Tableau Server as it is extremely simple and easy to look after.
New User - Loving It So Far
What do you like best about the product?
We're just now in the process of setting up Wave at our company. I think there is a steeper learning curve than we would have hoped, but it is a new software to us, so we did expect to be a little slower on the uptake.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation is a little confusing - it presumes a certain amount of knowledge about the product which we may not have had. I would suggest running through the Trailheads before diving into Wave to have a deeper understanding of the terminology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had limited insight into trends in both our sales funnel and our customer health metrics. With just one dashboard, we've enabled our Customer Success Manager's to be able to slice their data a variety of ways to get a better understanding of their book's of business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would make sure that you have enough time to dedicate to learning the tool completely. There is a learning curve, but once you start to get the hang of it, things begin to come together more easily.
Tableau for new sales
What do you like best about the product?
The graphical option of making new surveys look interesting makes working with data more fun.
What do you dislike about the product?
It needs much more improvement. The drill down is not elaborate and crunching of huge volumes of data is not fast enough
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Needed a software that can give insight on our available data / documents / leads, this resolved it for us
Recommendations to others considering the product:
if you are a small business and you need a perspective, location based leads, status of your logistics, then you need this.
functional
What do you like best about the product?
Reports and integration with others platforms
What do you dislike about the product?
You can export the report in excel or csv
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting (Management reports, financial reports)
A very smart software
What do you like best about the product?
The interface is very user friendly and enable users to obtain information eliminating data requests.
What do you dislike about the product?
I hope the data preparation of the software can be stronger.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This allow users to obtain basic standard information on their own.
This eliminate data requests and empower the user to look into information they needed and even what they ever thought they needed.
This eliminate data requests and empower the user to look into information they needed and even what they ever thought they needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The downside of Tableau is it is expensive, so there are many other growing choices for other options from Microsoft or other small vendors.
Tableau Server is amazing!
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can connect to any data source securely - whether on-premise or in the cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how it exports rows, and rows of data in Excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company is trying to create and share curated data sources for our internal stakeholders. I've realized that this allows us to gain visibility into usage to optimize our analytics eco system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Utilize all of their online tutorial/resources
Tableau New User
What do you like best about the product?
It's usability - as a beginner it's really helpful to have simple drag and drop capabilities. It also helps us identify what we want to look at, it's acting as a data recorder, identifier and tool to render our data in different ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's be great it if was more compatible with exporting into a PDF, I know this takes away from it's clicking options to carve out more data, but it's hard to show a room without a projector. A lot of times we're on the go and only have a computer to help us showcase our data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying our portfolio trends so we can make better informed decision about how to give grant money.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Talk with your account manager when you need help trouble shooting. And don't forget to use the demos on demand, and visit the gallery to see what companies like yours are using.
Tableau is amazing
What do you like best about the product?
I love the usability of Tableau. You do not need to be a data scientist or have familiarity with databases to use tableau. For medium level Excel users - Tableau makes your data into a glorified pivot table, with added depth, insights and way more usability and functionality than Excel.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm still fairly new to Tableau - so I need to dig a bit deeper - but sharing datasets is currently a bit confusing and looks like it requires a separate subscription for Tableau Server, which doesn't make sense.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am easily able to analyze prospects affiliate programs, paid adwords effectiveness, as well as geographical trends sales data trends for our B2B clients.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a business intelligence / insights solutions. Tableau is a great place to start. Their training sample workbooks will get you up and going in no time and the usability and functionality is way better than fumbling around with Excel spreadsheets.
Tableau Desktop review
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, flexibility. I love their online videos for a quick tutorial & the User community is very helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
On a map i cannot show multiple names if they are in same zipcode. Sometime i face issues with formatting. The font size in a tree map does not adjust with the box size.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Management dashboards, forecasting, showing pipelines & past performances. Helps us get a clear picture & we can slice & dice easily by regions.
Good view on big pieces of data
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to see a picture of data in a clean way that makes sense
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be slow, needs better info on how to pull in all appropriate data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
sharing data in a way that makes sense
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