What do you like best about the product?

Tableau Desktop is a great reporting tool that is used by most business users to quickly design a report in the tableau environment. The tableau desktop allows managing the data sources which is seamless to the users as to where the data is coming from. The tableau desktop tool easily integrates with multiple data sources like oracle , sql or even the excel files on the local desktop folder

What do you dislike about the product?

tableau desktop is a great tool. nothing to dislike

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

Tableau desktop is used in our organization to develop monthly and weekly reports. The desktop tool can be easily installed on the local machine or the laptop of the user and allows us to design various reports related to sales data , HR reporting , Salesforce and marking data. It is very convenient to develop new dashboards and worksheets using the tableau desktop tool

What do you like best about the product?

Tableau has so many inbuilt connection settings in order to connect to some databases or Data warehouse solutions or in our case Redshift, Athena for data visualization and charts creation purpose for our company usage on a dialy basis and it has reduced so much code complexity we had previously with Notebooks and all. All I can say is Tableau is a real winner when it comes to data visualization for business analytics in real-time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing more to dislike from the Tableau. Whenever we connect to some 3rd party applications/tools we may face some issues apart from that all is good.

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

We have used it for Churn Analysis for Customer data platform. and Data visualization graphs and more insights into customer Analytics.

What do you like best about the product?

You can create a scintillating and self-explanatory dashboard using this which is easily understandable by higher management even if they don't have any technical knowledge. The overall design of this software comes in hand with charts and pretty neat visualisation tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

Tableau is limited in its analytical capabilities. The statistical analysis part of the software is weak.

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

The ability to use multiple data sources and live data from server to build a dashboard is amazing. Tableau does a great job providing data for you to use for quarterly reviews for customers.

What do you like best about the product?

Can handle large data at once. A great user friendly software and all the trainings are available on Tableau site

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes changing the back end data destabilise the front end dashboards.

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

Making BI dashboards and reports.

What do you like best about the product?

It connects to many different sources (text files, databases, Excel files, Google Drive files, ...). Data analysis and preparation are extremely intuitive and flexible. Data visualization is straightforward: just drag&drop dimensions and metrics to different templates and you see your data come to life in colorful and impressive plots of all shapes, so you can choose the right visualization to tell the story behind your data. There is a community of users and developers that create amazing templates and give priceless suggestions and tips. Definitely, the best tool to manage, prepare and show your data.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is somewhat pricy. They offer a 14-day trial, which is maybe not that much as you have to get the hang of the interface and the command structure before actually being able to play effectively with your data.

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

I use it to run RFM analysis on e-commerce businesses, to show complex data in intuitive visualizations, sometimes also to speed-up operations that I was used to perform in Excel, but that are much faster in Tableau!

What do you like best about the product?

I like the visualization options. They allow me to understand my data at a glance in clear graphic formats. Even as a non-data scientist, I can use filtering, notification, and customization features to optimize my experience.

What do you dislike about the product?

At times it can be hard to navigate between views and to easily find the view I need. I would not be able to do the initial set up independently but that is expected and it is not a basic tool for anyone to configure.

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

I can access data quickly without individual requests to my data team. As an account management professional my customers and I benefit from convenient access to data.

What do you like best about the product?

This data analysis tool is very easy to use and this is best for beginners. we can Conjunction databases together which allows data blending and real-time collaboration.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't have major dislikes in this application but compared to the other data analysis tool this application doesn't have option to use machine learning algorithms

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

I m solving data analytical scenarios using this application very quickly.This application allows me to do my analysis projects very easyly.Therefor im using this application oftenly.

What do you like best about the product?

The software has the benefit of being able to work with practically any database and being simple to use simply dragging and dropping to build an interactive graphic that expresses the required format.

What do you dislike about the product?

when it comes to machine learning projects, We cannot use Tableau for the data cleaning part. we have to use another way or software for our data cleaning and pre-processing part. Only we can use cleaner data set for analysis.

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

I'm using this Tableau Desktop software for my machine learning projects and data analytics. It helps me to create a proper visualization dashboard which can more understandable for the customers

What do you like best about the product?

What I like the best about Tableau is how easy it is to use and how many brilliant features it has to offer. You can visualize and customize your data to present it. Tons of easy-to-use features present can help you visualize your data. Tableau Desktop can make you fall in love with data and the pleasing charts, dashboards.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not everything is perfect, even though Tableau offers a variety of robust features, sometimes it can be pretty slow. With huge datasets, sometimes it can take a long time to load your datasets. That's the reason people prefer other BI tools over Tableau sometimes.

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

I am currently using Tableau Desktop to learn about data visualization and making reports. I have worked with Excel and Power BI, but Tableau Desktop has turned out to be much easier to understand. Not only that, a beginner can learn everything they have to about data, by just starting using Tableau, it's very intuitive.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

My advice to anyone considering Tableau Desktop is, it's a great application for BI, it's really intuitive and beautiful. It has a lot to offer. Another great thing about it is that it's free for students, so they can learn about data visualization.

What do you like best about the product?

Tableau is clearly very powerful. It can visualise huge amounts of data quickly and can connect to a number of different data sources
Visualisations look good (on the whole) and with sufficient training, analysts can create useful dashboards with relative ease

What do you dislike about the product?

There are many things I dislike about Tableau. I shall try to be brief.
1 - Broken data connectors. Some critical data connectors are broken - and have been for some time. If a Google Sheet contains a pivot table, Tableau cannot connect to it. This has been a known issue for years and shows no sign of being fixed
2 - Random crashes. I have lost count of the number of times that mid dashboard build, suddenly, *poof!* Tableau Desktop just disappears. Reopen and no auto-save, not even a "Sorry we crashed" message
3 - Huge learning curve. Whilst you can make basic visualisations pretty easily (if you can do a pivot table you can do a viz) to do anything more complex requires a lot of learning. Don't even get me started on how difficult it is to lay out a dashboard
4 - A system built on workarounds. There are so many things you want to do in Tableau that are possible in other software packages that are impossible to do "out of the box" with Tableau. So many of the official knowledge base guides say "not supported, but here's this workaround to have the same effect"

And on the licensing structure specifically:
6 - For a data-driven organisation, a viewer licence is basically pointless unless you have a huge bank of highly proficient analysts churning out perfect dashboards that need no further alterations or adjustments by the end user. This necessitates everyone to either have no licence or an Explorer licence
7 - Explorer licences are expensive - and for a smaller company, prohibitively so. The jump from the features Viewers have access to vs Explorers is huge. Most of the time, our Explorers just want to add a new field or filter, yet we have to pay the full cost of an Explorer licence to use 5% of the features. There should be a "Viewer+" or "Editor" that is more expensive that Viewer, but allows for simple and small modifications to dashboards.
8 - Discounts are time limited. Don't be fooled by the 25% reduction in licence cost when you sign the contract! They only last for 1 year and then all discounts get removed once you're locked in

Overall, if you're able to, I would recommend a free alternative like Metabase. The stupidly high cost of Tableau just isn't worth it and cheaper alternatives are getting better all the time.

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

We are trying to democratise our data to the business to empower end-users to answer their own questions without relying on Analytics to answer them for them