Tableau Reviews

Summary: It allows us to understand the business more clearly and completely. We had an overall positive experience with it. It auto collects data from Salesforce, inbound transactions and enables the best business intelligence solution.

Positive: #1- Data collected from various sources gives us the best insights to analyze.
#2- Salesforce connection is great.
#3- Summarised Analytics gives very easy to understand and helps to take the best decision for business.

Negative: #1- We enjoyed using this platform. No cons we ever faced.

Summary: Tableau is a great data visualization tool and lets you create personalized dashboards for any data analytics task. It can easily handle large amount of data and presents data in a easy to understand graphical view.

Positive: Clear interface for better visualization
Simple to use - Drag & Drop
Easily integrates with multiple data points
Multiple graphical structures
Great performance even with large amount of data
Good documentation

Negative: Expensive for individual license
Advanced features require good amount of learning

Summary: Overall it's a superb software tool for someone needing a way to digest large amounts of data for business decisions.

Positive: Super useful for creating data forms and graphs when you need to manipulate data to better understand for decisions.

Negative: There is a strong learning curve when using this and takes time to learn.

Summary: If you want to analyze data set with perfection and precise detailing, this software does wonders.
It is fast and well organized.
The algorithm used for sorting data is so optimized.

Positive: Seamless and power-packed with tools.
It is very generic and can be integrated with a lot of software.
It gets frequent upgrades.
The price is very decent.

Negative: It has limited tools for analyzing unsupervised data.
Does not provide support for neural algorithms.

Summary: Pretty highly recommended for generating visuals of key data in presentations and similar. Used in academia and big companies alike.

Positive: Tableau offers a wide suite of visualization types and is quite powerful, sometimes even bypassing the need to do basic types of calculations (like ratios, you do that within Tableau so you don't have to calculate special columns in your spreadsheet).

Negative: If your data is complex or irregular you do need to normalize the data and make sure each column's references don't break (i.e. referring to a cell in another book sometimes might cause problems). And the interface for Tableau isn't all that intuitive either, so expect to do some reading of tutorials. Oh and Tableau can be expensive if you're using it commercially.

Summary: I believe there should be easier and better ways to visualize large datasets within the reach of an average user without any intricate coding skills. Tableau offers just that.

Positive: - The whole concept of drag and drop interface is quite novel and makes the software really easy to pick up and deploy.
- Lot's of really interesting built-in and tested features that make the reports interactive. A lot of niche excel skills were needed to do this before.

Negative: - It might not be so obvious initially but the software gets really expensive once you start deploying it in large teams. This makes it beyond reach for small businesses.

Summary: Tableau can be used to do basic data explorations and do help in visualizing the insights obtained from the analysis. Tableau is a very powerful tool that can do the weightlifting in SQL, Python, R. Sometimes the tool maybe become slow when large datasets are used. The most important feature which made tableau popular is the drag and drop through which a lot of visualization can be made easy to implement.

Pricing is something that has to be considered.

Positive: (+) Easy to use and integrate with the tool.
(+) Ability to integrate with multiple data sources and API.
(+) UI is very lively, using tableau one can create interactive and creative dashboards which helps in understanding data much better and faster.
(+) One can collaborate with tableau in R, Python, or SQL.

Negative: (-) Data cleansing is not possible with Tableau,
(-) The product is quite expensive compared to competitors.
(-) A simple guide on navigating through the product would help in understanding the product for new users.