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Tableau

8.8 /10

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What is Tableau?

Harness the power of your data. Unleash the potential of your people. Choose the analytics platform that disrupted the world of business intelligence. Choose Tableau.

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Awards & Recognition

Tableau won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

10 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2022

Tableau Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

2
Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 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?

3% Negative

7% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Real-Time Visualization

BI Security

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Operational Reporting Capabilities

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Spatial Analysis

Metadata Management

BI Platform Administration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Tableau Reviews

Pankaj K.

Role: Operations
Industry: Machinery
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Fantastic Visualization Capabilities.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

The software offers a wide range of visualization options, including charts, graphs, maps, and dashboards, empowering users to present data in compelling and meaningful ways.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I appreciate Tableau's user-friendly interface and the speed with which it enables us to derive insights from our data. The interactive dashboards allow us to monitor key metrics and trends in real-time, facilitating informed decision-making across departments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The learning curve for advanced features can be steep for new users. Additionally, optimizing performance with large datasets may require careful data modeling and hardware resources.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its ease of use, powerful visualization tools, and scalability make it an ideal solution for large businesses. The price point is rather steep making it unaffordable for smaller businesses.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Anand Kumar M.

Role: Operations
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

It has simple and interactive interface.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Collaborative data representation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Delayed refresh rate

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You can go for it just it shows data D-2

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Ranjan S.

Role: Operations
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Dynamic data visualisation platform

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

The drag and drop functionality allowing users to create interactive and visually appealing dashboards

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ability to transform raw data into actionable insights

What do you dislike most about this product?

Initial learning is curve steep

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend evaluating organisations data analytics needs

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Cons

Less Respectful
Slower Product Innovation

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Tableau Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

99 Plan to Renew

2 Since last award

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Tableau?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

Operational Reporting Capabilities Real-time detailed reporting to support operational business processes.

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities Selected user groups are able to interact with BI data, slice and dice, and find answers on their own.

Spatial Analysis Ability to natively visualize and analyze spatial data out of the box tied to postcode, zipcode or spacial co-ordinates.

Metadata Management A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users to see and access information in simple business language.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Tableau Reviews

Pankaj K.

Fantastic Visualization Capabilities.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Anand Kumar M.

It has simple and interactive interface.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ranjan S.

Dynamic data visualisation platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Since last award

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Feature Ratings

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Real-Time Visualization

BI Security

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Operational Reporting Capabilities

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

Spatial Analysis

Metadata Management

BI Platform Administration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support