Tableau Cloud

Score7.9 out of 10

551 Reviews and Ratings

What is Tableau Cloud?

Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.

Categories & Use Cases

Customizable dashboards
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
Category average: 8.5
Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.4
Report Delivery Scheduling
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Category average: 8.4

REST API
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
Category average: 8.1
Java API
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
Category average: 8.1
Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Category average: 7.9

Hitesh Gautam View profile

Cloud engineer in Information Technology at Insight (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Return on Investment

Better business decisions
Less cash burn through insights
Individual employee growth through learning

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Visual Studio

Kanchana Velaga

Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Return on Investment

Improved Business Decision Making
Improved strong customer support with great insights
Saved Time

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ThoughtSpot and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Sigma Computing, Microsoft Power BI

Verified User

Professional (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is the "one-stop shop" for all analytical questions and reporting. The scope covers all departments like finance, people & culture, sales, marketing, customer success, customer support, and development. We are tracking financial performance, sales pipeline development, customer health metrics to reduce churn, etc. Tableau Cloud serves as the single entry point for everyone with data questions, as all the reports, dashboards, and ad hoc analyses are published there.

Pros

Self-Service.
Governance and differentiated permissions.
Easy and intuitive to use.

Cons

Performance of background jobs like extract refreshes.
Web edit functionality continuously improving, but not equal to desktop experience.
Limited logging and audit functionalities compared to Tableau Server.

Return on Investment

Enabled Product Management to make data-driven decisions on product roadmap.
Increased Annual Recurring Revenue.
Enabled data-driven churn motions.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tableau allows my team and the entire company to visualize important KPIs that are key to reaching business goals.
I use Tableau every day to check performances and report them back to the different stakeholders in the company, as well as filling the forecast.
Tableau is great for visualizing time series and being able to compare YoY, QoQ, WoW or DoD, as well have having the chance to switch between rates and row numbers.

Pros

comparison
personalization
sync

Cons

heaviness of the the dashboards: when the number of data is great, the dashboard start to lag and it is getting difficult to update.

Return on Investment

ability to report performances in an accurate way: on a day-to-day report, Tableau allows the company to understand what my channel is brining, ROI, weak points and possible improvements
negative impact: granularity of data - if the dashboard needs to have a lot more data (like millions of rows) to be used to deep dive, the dash lag

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Amplitude Analytics and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Amplitude Analytics, Iterable, Slack

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We just recently switched to Tableau Cloud for our organization-wide reporting. Tableau Cloud has allowed to create various reports and utilized data from multiple data sources throughout our organization. We can easily create reports, add visuals and share reports to our end users. It is very easy to set permissions and create user groups to allow reports to be viewed by certain users.

Pros

Easy to connect to multiple data sources
Easy to share reports between users
Add dashboards and visuals to reports
Moble app to access reports on your phone

Cons

Need experience with coding language and writing queries in order to design reports
Expensive, cost based on total number of licenses

Return on Investment

Easily share reports between users to save time
Real-time view of data (ticket sales, food & beverage sales, parternship revenue)
Reliance that data is accurate

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Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Customizable dashboards

Drill-down analysis

Report Delivery Scheduling

Areas for Improvement

REST API

Java API

Responsive Design for Web Access

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