Tableau+ | Salesforce
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Great reporting features
What do you like best about the product?
The reporting functionalities are very sophisticated. It’s easy to connect to the data table and blend datasets, and it can handle visualization with complex logic. It’s also straightforward to schedule workflows and manage them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Authentication sometimes breaks intermittently, which forces us to download the file and republish it to get things working again. Also, for certain use cases, the documentation isn’t sufficient and leaves some gaps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It handles complex reporting logic and visualizes it in a way our data warehouse software couldn’t.
Tableau Makes Real-Time Dashboards Easy With Powerful Analysis Flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
Recently, I learned about Tableau and its features. Before, writing SQL queries took an extensive amount of time. Now, with a live connection to Salesforce and Excel, it’s much easier to build dashboards that update with real-time data.
Tableau’s calculated fields and level of detail features provide a lot of flexibility for analysis, and they also reduce the need to rely on pre-processed data from external sources.
For this organization, Tableau is helping make the platform more data-driven, especially for Excel data. Their decision and ROI feel clear because it enables broad insights and helps Tableau deliver consistently across the team.
Tableau’s calculated fields and level of detail features provide a lot of flexibility for analysis, and they also reduce the need to rely on pre-processed data from external sources.
For this organization, Tableau is helping make the platform more data-driven, especially for Excel data. Their decision and ROI feel clear because it enables broad insights and helps Tableau deliver consistently across the team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tableau’s UI/UX can feel overwhelming for a new user, mainly because there are so many options and configuration settings to navigate. The onboarding support within the platform also sometimes feels limited, which can make the initial learning curve steeper than it needs to be.
Overall performance is strong for the basic features, but it can degrade when using live connections to slower databases.
Ask Data–type features seem intelligently designed in theory, but in practice they feel somewhat lacking and immature. It often misinterprets natural-language queries, which ends up making the work more complicated than necessary.
Customer support is underwhelming as well, with slow ticket resolution times. It also leans heavily on community forums and predefined solutions, which can feel insufficient when you’re stuck in a specific situation that doesn’t fit the standard answers.
Overall performance is strong for the basic features, but it can degrade when using live connections to slower databases.
Ask Data–type features seem intelligently designed in theory, but in practice they feel somewhat lacking and immature. It often misinterprets natural-language queries, which ends up making the work more complicated than necessary.
Customer support is underwhelming as well, with slow ticket resolution times. It also leans heavily on community forums and predefined solutions, which can feel insufficient when you’re stuck in a specific situation that doesn’t fit the standard answers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the fundamental problem of having data that is only viewed in spreadsheets, while the underlying databases are typically accessed and interpreted only by technical users. Tableau generates reports from this spreadsheet, and we can update them each round after verifying that the spreadsheet contains the latest data.
Intuitive Dashboards, But Slow Server Hinders Speed
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how I'm able to put so much information into a canvas while creating a storyline for the user. It's great to start with a simple dashboard with high-level metrics and then allow the user to drill down into insights easily, rather than going through several clicks or creating massive Excel files. Tableau Servers allow us to provide and share the dashboards with many users efficiently. I find the date sliders, the ability to apply filters to several worksheets, and the ability to source directly from SQL databases and then blend that information with Excel files to be amazing. The initial setup of Tableau was also very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Tableau Desktop is awesome, Tableau Server is slow, like head scratching slow. There's a ton of information out there for fantasy football that people can interact with so quickly, but then changing a filter in a Tableau dashboard on Tableau Server takes forever. I make dashboards for users with 10+ filters across 5+ dashboards in a single workbook and the primary complaint I get is that it's slow. It would be great to have a filter not affect the entire workbook, but just the dashboard the user is looking at, or find some way to speed up the dashboard when filters change.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Tableau to create interactive dashboards for AI initiatives, allowing users to drill down into metrics like Accuracy and Precision. It lets us visualize complex data, integrate SQL and Excel, and share insights broadly, streamlining analysis.
Unmatched Customization in Tableau
What do you like best about the product?
The customization available in Tableau is better than any other bi tool that I have used
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some simple charts that don't look as good as other providers (such as the waterfall chart looks much better with DOMO). It's not significant for myself but some stakeholders put a lot of weight into the feel of the visuals unfortunately
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Descriptive analytics and predictive analytics. We are able to run QBRs through them and give leaders insight to their business
Effortless Data Integration, Needs Transparency in Output
What do you like best about the product?
I use Tableau for scraping and pulling data from various sources to create meaningful insights and perform various functions. I really appreciate that it's able to manipulate raw data and transform it into meaningful and actionable insights very quickly and easily. It connects to multiple data sources effortlessly and identifies the needed information instantly. I like how it instantly gathers data required from several sources, which would take much longer with manual spreadsheets.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that it "magically" does all of this for you, if there are any errors in the data it is hard to know if what you provided is 100% accurate, as no formulas are given in the output so to speak, just the end result, so you have to be very careful with the inputs and accuracy of data, with what you are asking it. It is open to error. It's not so much Tableau but it relies on parameters being input and reading the available data "that should be correct" the user would be better to implement checks or you could build a query into the parameters to do a sense check so to speak. But because it is reading vast amounts of data it can make mistakes also and transpose things or read data incorrectly. Quite time-consuming initially to get it connected up to all the sources and then training for the different types of users specifically the Creator role.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Tableau to quickly transform raw data into actionable insights, identify trends, and create clean reports from multiple sources. It connects effortlessly to various data sources, saving me the hassle of manually gathering and analyzing data from spreadsheets and databases.
A Very Good Tool for Reporting and Presenting Data
What do you like best about the product?
A very good tool for reporting and presenting data.
What do you dislike about the product?
For a new user, it’s difficult to get hands-on with it and feel comfortable using it right away.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tableau is the primary tool we use for our reporting layer.
Highly Customizable, Intuitive, and Easy to Learn
What do you like best about the product?
It’s very customizable, easy to learn, and intuitive to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
The copy-and-paste functionality isn’t as easy to use as it is in other software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I like having a server where all the reports are available in one place and connected to multiple data sources.
Tableau Review
What do you like best about the product?
The drag drop interface is what is awesome. No sort of coding is needed to create the vizuals. Flexibilty to pull from a variety of connectors such a Excel , SQL Server etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance issues sometimes as the data gets large, The pricing is steep for smaller companies to afford.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick solutions to trace metrics and easier than excel reporting with support to automation
No-Code Data Visualization Made Easy with Tableau
What do you like best about the product?
I like that there is no coding required and Tableau can turn the data in understandable visuals for everyone
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is steep for beginners and in general tableau can be expensive for some users. Some features require a lot of processing power
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to turn the data into some insights which is really valuable. I can see trends, blind spots for improvement.
Fast Visualizations and Strong Connectors for Large-Scale Data
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to work with large volumes of data.
Quickness of data visualization.
Large amount of connectors to hook up to plethora of data sources.
Quickness of data visualization.
Large amount of connectors to hook up to plethora of data sources.
What do you dislike about the product?
Almost nothing added in terms of visualizations over the couple of last years.
Sankey? What's that?
Proper, large table utilization? Nope!
There are some very large hoops, workarounds etc. to get some simple stuff working.
Some competitive software (like Qlik) either started to include those years ago, or offer community plugins to take care of that. I have honestly didn;t see a lot of changes happen since I started using Tableau like 7 years ago. Back then, it was revolutionary. Right now it feels almost outdated.
Sankey? What's that?
Proper, large table utilization? Nope!
There are some very large hoops, workarounds etc. to get some simple stuff working.
Some competitive software (like Qlik) either started to include those years ago, or offer community plugins to take care of that. I have honestly didn;t see a lot of changes happen since I started using Tableau like 7 years ago. Back then, it was revolutionary. Right now it feels almost outdated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data visualization done easy with some advanced ways (if you are willing to jump through some workaround hoops)
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