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Business Problems Solved
Tableau Server has become an essential tool for organizations across various industries, offering a wide range of use cases that have proven valuable to users. Its ability to transform complex data into user-friendly visualizations has been particularly beneficial in emergency preparedness analytics within the healthcare sector. Additionally, dedicated analysts have utilized Tableau Server to create and deploy dashboards that are accessible to all employees, serving as the main repository for reporting needs. This versatility extends beyond healthcare, with organizations from IT to Human Resources leveraging the platform to address key issues such as device availability, performance tracking, and enterprise reporting.
Marketing teams have also found value in Tableau Server, using it to gain a better understanding of their customer base and track product ownership and usage trends. The platform's storytelling approach has been especially valuable for data scientists who use Tableau Server to present data to managers and executives, facilitating understanding and supporting decision-making processes. Furthermore, Tableau Server has been integrated into third-party applications and platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, making it a convenient one-stop-shop for reporting needs.
Tableau Server's ease of maintenance from an administrator level and seamless integration with Active Directory for user permission management have made it a preferred choice for many organizations. It fosters secure and controlled sharing of work done by Tableau Desktop analysts and developers, enabling real-time data visualization and monitoring across the organization. This has led to increased adoption and expansion of its usage in various departments such as Finance, Supply Chain, and HR.
Overall, Tableau Server's ability to store, visualize, and share information effectively has provided organizations with leverage over other systems. Its versatility and ease of use have made it a trusted platform for reporting and analytics needs across different industries, enabling self-service analytics, cost savings through improved tracking capabilities, enhanced customer experience operations, and centralization of reporting.
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Tableau Server Reviews
11 Reviews
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
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We use Tableau Server as a data visualization tool for our customers. Our proprietary data are delivered to our customers via Tableau Server. Tableau Server is installed on our servers and we provide our customers with an URL for them to engage with our data and analyze them. Seriously TrustRadius, I don't know what to write anymore.
Pros
Data Visualization
Data Interaction
Flexibility to find the best visualization
Cons
Handling of Licenses
The "Activation Key" business is a thing of the past millennium, in 2022 it is ridiculous
Customer Service is HORRIBLE
Just don't ever buy it, it will make your life miserable.
Likelihood to Recommend
The software is ok, but it was developed by people with their heads in the 80s and the Customer Service is so horrible that you don't want ever to do business with them. And since they have been acquired by Salesforce, things have only gotten worse, from ridiculous to plain farce.
Tableau Server is being used for data visualisation and analysis of our internal and third-party data sets. Tableau allows our business analytics team to assist the business in reporting, data visualisation, performance monitoring, and machine learning across multiple organisation functions - operations, marketing, finance, product, compliance, and automation design.
Pros
Data visualisation.
Analysis.
Dashboards.
Reports.
Cons
Worksheets, Stories, Dashboards different tabs are a bit cumbersome.
Limitations with Tableau Online.
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau Server is well suited for a data warehouse build and handling big data. Tableau data aggregation, transformation, clustering capability is powerful and easy to implement. The choice of charts and visualisation tools is outstanding. Customisation and dynamic data visualisation capability is superb. The user interface takes some time getting used to.
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Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
Yes, we have adopted the Tableau Server in our environment. It has been used by higher authority people who want to get some insights out of their data. And also it has been maintained by the AWS team to manage and control the server. It mainly solves sharing and collaboration problems in Tableau.
Pros
Integrating with APIs, and also on webpages.
Version controlling of Workbooks.
Provides high-level security to the dashboards. It is completely isolated with other users who don't have access.
Cons
Adoption of AI [Artifical Intelligence].
More options for dashboard management in server.
Sharing an interactive dashboard with another environment is the missing factor.
Likelihood to Recommend
It doesn't have any particular scenarios...but If you are using Tableau Desktop and if you want to share your dashboard with other people in your organization, then you need to go for Tableau Server for sharing and collaboration. If you want to share your dashboard by using cloud-based functionality, then Tableau Online is sufficient. Tableau Server is not required.
At Vinyl we use Tableau to develop dashboards for insight into our business. It houses most of our day to day reporting and we are now developing our KPI system on it.
Pros
Access to our data sources such as MS SQL and MySQL
Ease of use and administration
Relatively small footprint for hardware
Reasonable pricing
Cons
Better exposure of the engine components for diagnostics and reporting
Having to uninstall the product and reinstall to upgrade is odd and cumbersome
Bring the command line options into a modern web admin interface with better information like backup processes and history
Admin reporting on use of data sources and ability to search out dependencies in the database
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau does a great job of providing a simple interface to access various dashboards by groups, and has powerful development tools, but they can be a little quirky. It would be much better if there were better admin tools to analyze data sources, the dependencies in the database, and who owns the various dashboards throughout the system.
Across organization, augmenting our client-facing web portal that helps us optimize our clients' database marketing efforts.
Pros
Allows non-technical data scientists and analysts to approach and visualize data.
Allows reports prepared by non-technical analysts to be readily adapted by technicians into an always-live web portal.
Its "extract" capability, although imperfect, can help to digest and visualize larger amounts of data in a moderately performant way.
Consume hardware resources like crazy. It is implemented using a raft of heavy technologies, including Postres, Java, Apache httpd, and more.
Cons
It has decent support for tabular data, but this support is somewhat rigid.
It nags end users to upgrade their desktop versions frequently, even though this risks compatibility errors with the server.
It's a significant resource hog. To some degree this is understandable, but it is largely due to its use of many heavyweight technologies (Postgres, Java, Apache httpd, and more).
You can't change its use of port 443 when using SQL, forcing extra deployment complexity (e.g. proxy servers) in many deployment scenarios.
The look and feel of their "story" feature is surprisingly hard to customize (beyond basic style elements) -- it's "a row of blocky buttons" only.
It's geographic maps are fairly basic, and the UI controls for navigating them are clumsy.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited when non-technical analysts need to approach and visualize data sets. Poorly suited for shops that are well-positioned to do their own, more nimble web application visualization (e.g. using D3).
VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
At our firm as we started building solutions for clients from overseas, we felt the need to have better analytics for our marketing and sales departments. Previously we had a wide array of different services that were pretty much offering the same results for us. We decided to go with Tableau Server to consolidate most of that information into a single source.
Pros
Reporting through Tableau Server is just a matter of few clicks. Anyone with the correct user access can we the dashboards instantaneously.
Using dynamic filtering, users can access the relevant sections of the reports without the need for any admin re-configuration.
Cons
Thus far I have not seen Tableau generated reports being mobile responsive.
Some of the navigation required to access workbooks, folders and projects can quickly get messy.
Likelihood to Recommend
So far into our implementation of Tableau server for single point of data access and visualization we have seen good success. We've managed to retrieve data from different databases like Oracle and SQL server. Our next step is integrating our HR solution Workday with the Tableau Server as well.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
We created different reports and dashboard for reporting on sales, existing policies breakdowns as well as monitoring agent and partner performance. We also gather data from Athena to present reports on traffic sources, etc.
Pros
Able to create different data sources in a single report.
Easy integration between the desktop app and the server.
Cons
Upload from the desktop to the server if more than 3 different data sources exist is slow, and sometimes the connection resets.
The desktop app consumes a lot of battery on a MacBook Pro.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for organizations who have developers/IT that can maintain queries and develop business logic.
As a consultant, I work with many organizations, all using Tableau Sever differently. Some implementations are department oriented, and, some are total enterprise installations. Tableau Server facilitates the secure, controlled, sharing of work done my Tableau Desktop analysts and developers.
Pros
Ease of use - connecting to different data sources, and, in visualizing data.
Rapid and intuitive analysis.
Easy to share (Tableau Server)
Cons
In Tableau Desktop version 8.1, a direct interface to the 'R' open source statistical library was implemented. This allows for a major enhancement in the ability to do high-end statistics. I would love to see an interface where I did not, also, have to know 'R' syntax. But, for now, this enhancement is great!
Likelihood to Recommend
I've been to Tableau Customer Conferences. The passion of the customer base is like no other...
Tableau's core strength is how easy it is to use. This was a key attraction to me in the early stage and remains a key consideration for many who want to visualise and understand the data in which they are subject matter experts without it requiring them to become experts in the software tool itself. As you use it more and more you also realise that while Tableau is deceptively simple to use it also has real depth and real power.
This ease of use addresses a key business problem for many organisations which is that other solutions will require people who know a lot about databases but little about the data to produce solutions for people who truly understand the data but aren't database administrators. Tableau places very little demand at all on IT departments, many of whom are overworked and have long request queues to satisfy. Tableau allows the IT departments to work on the provision of simplified data connections with helpful metadata, leaving end users able to access the data, design and share meaningful dashboards from that data with anyone they wish in their organisation. This approach is very powerful and very productive.
Cons
In browser animations
Speed of rendering dashboards - this is getting faster all the time but it is there and can be a consideration. When we're so used to web pages rendering almost instantly it can feel unusual to wait 2-3 seconds for something to render on screen.
auto update - Tableau does not automatically render new points if the underlying data changes. The browser page has to be manually or programatically refreshed to display new data.
