What is Tableau Prep?
Tableau Prep makes it easier to prepare, shape, and combine data for analysis. Tableau Prep ensures that data sources are clean and organized before sharing, and saves companies countless hours of preparation. Tableau Prep Builder provides a modern approach to data preparation, making it easier and faster to combine, shape, and clean data for analysis within Tableau. By providing a visual and direct path to prep your data, you can get your hands on quality data in just a few clicks.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Tableau Prep?
Pros
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Data Profiling
Record Deduplication
Data Cleansing
Data Connectors and Data Mashup
Data Access
Data Packaging
Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities
Data Integration
Data Labeling
Data Enrichment
Data Pre-Processing
Vendor Capability Ratings
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Tableau Prep Reviews
Aakash M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2023
Good for Data Modeling and Data Joining
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Tableau Prep from other similar products?
1. Better Data handling. 2. Great feature for data joining and cleaning. 3. Good GUI, user can easily adapt
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
1. Can connect to many data sources 2. Best tool for data prep and cleaning
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance issues with large datasets: Working with large datasets in Tableau Prep can sometimes lead to performance issues, such as slow processing times or memory constraints. Users may need to optimize their workflows or make adjustments to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
1. Use the trial version first before buying the product 2. Understand each feature of the product if its meets your requirement
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Daniel C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2023
Easy to use, to clean data and to create ETLs.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Tableau Prep from other similar products?
The abilitity to clean data so effortlesly.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The way that I can create a flow of work, like cleaning, then transforming and then exporting the data for visualization.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It takes too mucho computer power
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To try it and keep learning, beacuase it is a great tool!
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Caring
- Respectful
Sofia L.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2023
Powerfull, time saver and user friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Tableau Prep from other similar products?
The ease of use if amazing. Also I appreciate the availability to see in a visual way all the ETL process, each step result and the suggestions it gives you in the process. Also is very user friendly and lets you work on your data even from different sources.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The output formats, is so helpful to have an exce, a csv or write a table in a database. Is very useful and helps me optimize time.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price is higher than other solutions, and is the main point of discussion when making the renewal or considering of other tools
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is a product that can excel your business analytics, however you need to invest time to understand its use in order to consider if is the right tool for you or not. Also you should consider your budget when investing in this tool.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
