Tableau is extremely user-friendly through drag and drop and automatic visualizations. However, if you need to include complex calculations, the capabilities are available to the advanced user.
They listen to customers and as a result, they periodically add valuable new features, several times a year.
What started as a data visualization curiosity back in 2003 has become a very robust Business Intelligence tool.
Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards.
What I appreciate most about Tableau is its extensive customization options for graphics. It offers you the flexibility to create any dashboard you desire, with a wide range of customization choices. This makes it an incredibly versatile system.
Senior Research Analyst at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 28, 2022
The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now.
Deputy General Manger - Information Technology at Nayara Energy
Real User
Mar 22, 2022
Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.
Business Intelligence Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Mar 10, 2022
Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool.
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jan 5, 2022
Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us.
Application Development Assoc Manager at Eccenture
Real User
Jan 5, 2022
All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly.
One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations.
When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together.
Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data.
Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors.
Fintech Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Dec 14, 2021
A valuable feature of Tableau is that it is a useful tool for small setups. I shuffle between Tableau and MicroStrategy, so I use Tableau for personal purposes more than enterprise. I like the light version of Tableau for personal usage and doing some use cases on my own. When it comes to something small, I use Tableau for setups, rather than any other tool.
The most valuable feature is that we can integrate with our own database, and it will displays the KPIs. This is highly required from the business side.
Director , Business Intelligence at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Dec 2, 2021
Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation.
Senior Data Analyst at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 22, 2021
Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis.
Assistant Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 20, 2021
I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management.
IT Expert in Project Finance in Government of Serbia at ICTPro
Real User
Top 5
Oct 12, 2021
Tableau's visualization features let you present information insights quickly and practically. So it's something which I prefer with Tableau. In terms of reporting, I have to point out the sheer quality and function of the Tableau server, but the first impression is that it's a great visualization tool.
Subject Matter Expert, IT Operations Management, CS Professor at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Sep 30, 2021
I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways.
Senior Manager.Marketing Strategy & Analysis. at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Reseller
Top 10
Sep 9, 2021
The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature.
Global Head of Professional Services at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Aug 31, 2021
The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time.
I like the solution's web version, more so than Power BI's web version. It just makes it easier to drag and drop things and to blend data on the backend. It simplifies the process.
Manager - Customer Success at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Aug 12, 2021
The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns.
Lead Data Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
May 26, 2021
It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI.
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Apr 23, 2021
The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features.
Product Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Apr 8, 2021
Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space.
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
Real User
ModeratorTop 10
Mar 3, 2021
Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards.
It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice.
Lead Data Scientist at International School of Engineering
Real User
Mar 1, 2021
From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics.
We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like.
Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau.
Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals.
Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python.
It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats.
Chief SAP - ICT (Digital & IT) at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 29, 2020
The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments.
Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 28, 2020
Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools.
The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau.
One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be.
As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been.
Vice President Engineering Intellicloud at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Apr 2, 2019
I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it.
This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases).
Director, Data-Driven Innovation with 201-500 employees
Real User
May 29, 2018
The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts.
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Tableau is a fantastic tool that provides impressive dashboards and customized reports.
The platform's most important feature is predictive analysis.
The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations
Tableau is extremely user-friendly through drag and drop and automatic visualizations. However, if you need to include complex calculations, the capabilities are available to the advanced user.
They listen to customers and as a result, they periodically add valuable new features, several times a year.
What started as a data visualization curiosity back in 2003 has become a very robust Business Intelligence tool.
Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards.
What I appreciate most about Tableau is its extensive customization options for graphics. It offers you the flexibility to create any dashboard you desire, with a wide range of customization choices. This makes it an incredibly versatile system.
The product has the best features for analytical views and filters.
Tableau's initial setup was straightforward.
Technical support has been responsive.
I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people.
The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now.
Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.
When compared with Power BI, Tableau is much easier.
Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool.
Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard.
The solution offers very good reporting.
There is a lot of APIs available, which means that Tableau can be customized to a large extent.
Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use.
Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution.
It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility.
I like the visualization component.
The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce.
The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools.
From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information.
It's easy to use.
Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us.
All features are valuable. It is very user-friendly, and it is mostly drag-and-drop. If we have the dataset available, then we can develop any dashboard very quickly.
One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations.
When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together.
Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data.
Its performance is pretty good, and the development time is very low.
The initial setup is simple.
It is very easy to implement and to use.
The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness.
Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors.
Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features.
There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of.
The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting.
I have found Tableau easy to use and the features are superb.
Although Tableau isn't the best for us when it comes to processing and working on live data, it is very good at extracting data for analysis.
When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources.
Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates.
A valuable feature of Tableau is that it is a useful tool for small setups. I shuffle between Tableau and MicroStrategy, so I use Tableau for personal purposes more than enterprise. I like the light version of Tableau for personal usage and doing some use cases on my own. When it comes to something small, I use Tableau for setups, rather than any other tool.
Tableau is easy to use.
It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there.
You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau.
The most valuable feature is that we can integrate with our own database, and it will displays the KPIs. This is highly required from the business side.
Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation.
The solution deployment was straightforward.
Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability.
The geospatial maps representation and the visualizations are nice.
Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis.
I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management.
Tableau's visualization features let you present information insights quickly and practically. So it's something which I prefer with Tableau. In terms of reporting, I have to point out the sheer quality and function of the Tableau server, but the first impression is that it's a great visualization tool.
Tableau is easy to use compared to some other solutions, such as Excel.
You are able to see and follow trends.
I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways.
It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly.
I really like the interactivity of the dashboards.
The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI.
It is easy to use, and it can handle a large amount of data.
The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature.
Very user friendly.
The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time.
I like the solution's web version, more so than Power BI's web version. It just makes it easier to drag and drop things and to blend data on the backend. It simplifies the process.
The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns.
The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts.
The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free.
The stability seems to be very reliable.
Easy to create graphs and visualizations.
I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good.
It's intuitive and highly mature
While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution.
Provides a very good sound analysis quotient.
It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI.
The maps and colors and interface are all fantastic.
I have found many of the self-service features valuable.
The best part about Tableau is the visualization.
It is very good for data visualization. It has very powerful visualizations and is easy to use.
The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features.
The ease of presenting findings is very helpful.
Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space.
The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it.
It's very easy to set everything up.
I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis.
Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards.
It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice.
Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool.
From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics.
We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like.
The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features.
Tableau is easy to use and it has great predictive features.
Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau.
The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics.
Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI.
The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up.
I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already.
The most valuable feature is the aggregation function.
The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis.
It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it.
Show Me is a feature to help with knowing which chart is an appropriate one for the selected variables, and it makes helps in creating appropriate visuals.
It is very easy to create dashboards, charts, and graphs.
The most valuable feature is the ease of use.
Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python.
It's very easy to visualize data with this product. The visualization maps of and frames that we have been able to cross-reference has been excellent.
It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn.
Compared to other products, visualization features are really good.
The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use.
It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats.
The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments.
Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools.
The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau.
The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive.
Good data flow and management.
This solution has improved insights into quantitative data.
This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration.
The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations.
It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view.
Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!
One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be.
As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been.
I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it.
It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner.
It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs.
It is a very stable product. It doesn't break.
The most valuable feature is the drag and drop, then the simplicity to build dashboards which allows us to provide more usable data to our customers.
This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases).
The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts.
Data is easily understood at all levels of the company.
The most valuable feature is the 3D charting.
Visualization attributes: Marks – Color, Size, Label, etc.. Easily Accessible and Intuitive.