We use Tableau Cloud to publish interactive dashboards that consolidate data from multiple sources, enabling teams to access real-time business insights. Other than that it plays a pivotal role in decision making for our organization which in turn helps us organize our business ideas and assets such that our organization thrives in the market.
Pros
Detailed dashboards
Scorecards
Detailed KPIs
Cons
Mobile customization
Dealing with large datasets
Product Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau Cloud is a great option when it comes to creating interactive, real-time dashboards for leadership teams to monitor KPIs, sales trends, and operational performance without manual report generation. One scenario where it can be seen a little less suited can be when data is large and requires a lot of cleaning and transformation it alone cannot work.
Tableau Cloud as a platform is being used to provide interactive, visual analytics. Development on the platform has aided in exploring/verifying and enabling in the creation of interactive dashboards to sharing insights in a fast and easy way. Reduced IT bottlenecks created by complex code requirements. Enabled business users to get meaningful and trusted answers quickly. The Tableau Platform has allowed our creators to connect to data (stored in platforms such as RedShift, Snowflake, Google Sheets), build dashboards that integrate business logic and provide interactive visuals using Tableau Desktop, and publish for end users to consume insights and further explore on the web with Tableau Cloud.
Pros
Vizualization
Data Exploration
User Friendly Interface
Cons
Canned Reporting
Deeper insights with catalog and data lineage
Alerts and Notifications
Custom Views
Likelihood to Recommend
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Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 10,001+ employees)
We use Tableau Cloud to build Revenue dashboards.It is very user friendly and effective to use with wide range of KPIs and charts.Its customization in color pallates and other aspects helps a lot in building many user interactive dashboards.its ability to embed into other applications stands as top notch
Pros
Handling Huge Datasets
Customized color Themes
Wide Range of Charts
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have to work with Live data in huge records then Tableau Cloud is the best fit.Many customised features like switching between charts via a toggle, supporting multiple charts and many more advanced features are available in Tableau Cloud.If you are looking for building dashboards with various user intuitive insights then Tableau Cloud can be a good fit
In my situation, we have a license that was purchased long ago and I need to change the email of this license, the only thing they answered was to contact the person who made the contract. The person who made the contract does not work in the company anymore. They don't answer if they are able to switch the email, they don't answer about what kind of license we have, or any other questions. I am extremely disappointed with the Customer Service.
Pros
Good Software
Cons
Customer Service
Change the users easier
Permission to see prices, current licenses and do easy upgrades
Likelihood to Recommend
Creating a storyline, graphs and charts that are insightful.
Tableau Online is our major method of delivering our product to our clients, integrating our data and analytics. For example, we utilize it to assist us in analyzing our quarterly, yearly, and long-term objectives and metrics. Because it doesn't require a team of engineers to construct a custom solution, it's the most important business problem it solves for our company.
Pros
A wide range of databases may be seamlessly integrated.
Regardless of the device you use to access it, the look and feel are first-rate.
Displaying complicated data visualizations with a wide range of possibilities for interactivity for the end-user.
Cons
Only a few features are available for export.
License fees and the intricacy of the structure.
The processing time required to perform filtering on huge datasets might be prohibitive.
Likelihood to Recommend
We just need to refresh our data once a day for our unique use case, which allows the complete online system to run on extracts. For us, this is critical because our daylight hours are spent focusing on new updates and implementations rather than worrying about excessive database traffic (which would be required with a direct connection to the online system). The process of importing extracts is straightforward and sturdy enough to handle massive amounts of data.
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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 10,001+ employees)
Tableau [Online] is primarily used to create, publish and share the reports and dashboards across the organization. Tableau Online is used by the different functions in the organization to access the reports relevant to them. Tableau Online helps get rid to excel based dashboards and reports which at times were not portable and also now the reports and dashboards are updated as soon as the new information is available. Also, it is very convenient to manage who can view or edit each workbook which was not possible with excel based reports.
Pros
Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
Cons
Mobile experience is not at par with the desktop experience. The functionality set is limited and the UX is not that great. So this needs to be improved in leaps and bounds.
It's unintuitive to create dashboards for a new user. There is a long learning curve in order to figure out how to get different things done with Tableau. So the learning curve is long as of now.
Tableau Online still doesn't get the entire gamut of Tableau Desktop features. With the world moving towards cloud, the entire feature set has to be present in Tableau online as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau Online is great boon for the people who keep on travelling and now they don't require to access their laptops in order to access the latest information or reports. Further, with Tableau Online, it's easy to distribute the reports and one can use different cuts within a report as per their requirements. Also, in organizations where data is sensitive and one department's data should not be accessible to others, Tableau Online works wonders as now the report owner/administrator can manage the access to each individual report or workbooks within a report as well.
We majorly use Tableau Online to share live interactive dashboards with our clients containing insights of our SaaS service usage that they have signed up for. Using Tableau Desktop first, data is imported from our SaaS platform and dashboards are created according to what the client wants to be updated on in real-time without constantly nagging us to create manual data and share with them. Instead of creating our own analytics platform from the ground up, we leverage Tableau Online to share custom analytics dashboard with our clients.
Pros
Features like Workbook-specific permissions help us control who in our client's team can do what with the Tableau Online resources that we share with them. We mostly assign to them the user role of a viewer or interactor based on the scenario.
The Ask Data function really comes in handy as instead of wasting time using multiple filters, one can just write their query in simple English and get the results. Of course, it won't fulfill your every request, but it works ninety percent of the time.
Overall, Tableau Online provides many robust account-based administrative functions. One of them is the ability to check each user's history and activity to prevent or diagnose data leaks.
Cons
I feel that the interface is not as beautiful as other BI vendors out there. When one clicks on an interactive area to view the underlying data, the resultant data tables look very archaic and unappealing. Even the resultant dashboards are very uninspiring and lackluster in terms of aesthetic beauty. Like every other product and website nowadays, I think Tableau should adopt the philosophy of material design with bold colors.
The interface can sometimes feel clunky and not the most responsive. Pop-ups or underlying data take time to display. Loading times can be improved a little as data and sources get more complicated.
I understand that Tableau Desktop is the central hub to create reports and dashboards, and the online variant predominantly to share them with others. Still, some last-minute editing capabilities should be provided to Tableau Online.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think the whole service is suitable for people who don't have the time or resources to build a real-time analytics engine and integrate it with their product or service. You get a ready-made platform where you can instantly create insightful reports of your client's usage of your service and share them with multiple stakeholders.
We had a use case where we developed some visualization and onshore management wanted to see it. We were having Tableau Desktop licensed till that time and we were of the impression that Online is free or we will get a couple of licenses if we want. But Tableau Online has bundled licensed in order to get view from anywhere.
Management has decided to invest into it and now we are using Tableau Online situation in order to see and share reports online which will be definitely beneficial for a organization to take important decisions.
Tableau is the one of the best solution in industry now. We are fully utilizing its capabilities.
Pros
Can be accessed from anywhere with same set of reports shared between licensed users.
It's very useful when presenting something and wanted to share. As a developer perspective we can work and visualize things accordingly.
Without this online solution Tableau is nothing and hence they are charging more for online solution than desktop versions.
Cons
Licensing cost is the major concern and you have to take 100 at a time though you need 2 or 3 only.
Likelihood to Recommend
In mostly onshore/offshore scenarios it is more useful. If developers developed some graph and management wanted to showcase it in front of a business they can get just access of Tableau Online and present it.
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Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 10,001+ employees)
Tableau dashboards are built by the Analytics department and used by the entire company and clients for data visualization.
Pros
Visualizes data for standardized dashboards.
An aesthetically pleasing way to aggregate multiple data sources in one place.
Great for data storytelling.
Cons
It can be laggy compared to Desktop version.
Limitations can be frustrating if you are used to using the Desktop version.
Limited editing/formatting capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau works well for automated reporting, but the ramp-up/build time is not always worth it for ad-hoc reporting where a simple XLS or Keynote may be more appropriate.
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Verified User
Analyst in Marketing (Marketing and Advertising company, 501-1000 employees)
Our analytics consulting team uses Tableau Online for many of our client projects. We are a boutique data analytics consulting firm who specializes in advising clients on how to achieve their analytics goals as well as creating and implementing customized data visualization tools, and BI best practices. Tableau is usually an application that we will have clients consider, as it is considered a leader in the marketplace.
Tableau Online is one of my favorite applications in our toolbox and I thoroughly enjoy showing our clients how powerful it can be to get them started. It is very easy to use, and even the most intimidated, least tech-savvy customers tend to grow excited when using Tableau. It is powerful, easy to load data into, it is compatible with many sources, feature-rich, and packaged up behind a super-slick UI.
Pros
Compatible with many data sources.
Easy to use, easy to learn - with a slick UI.
Feature-rich, especially in the geo-analytic area. Lots of charts with customizable options.
Cons
Tech-support widgets or web-agents would be helpful. Because the tool is so feature-rich, it is not always easy to identify where the seemingly-endless list of features exists.
The price of Tableau over-all can be high depending on the needs of your organization and the purchase model.
The out-of-box color schemes and options could be more dynamic, but this is my personal preference.
Likelihood to Recommend
Custom formatting options can be limited with the Tableau Online edition.
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Verified User
Project Manager in Professional Services (Management Consulting company, 51-200 employees)
