Tableau

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

Leadership position with large community. Easy to use product that integrates well with other tools like Alteryx.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Flexibility of design and data connections is very powerful.

What do you dislike most about this product?

If you do not have significant training with Tableau you will create a lot of dashboards/reports that will not be well adopted. You need to spend time understanding best practices and have a plan to develop single sources of data so people trust you dashboards.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Get you data in order and then look to Tableau as presenting you data and insights. Data prep is so important. For every hours you spend on data prep, you will save 10 hours of Tableau work time. When Tableau user have good clean data they will be able to do more and do it faster.

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

Tableu connects with almost any type of data source and from my experience, I do not think it is matched by another software platform in this regard. Tableu connects with Excel spreadsheets, JSON, Pdfs , SQL servers , text files and the list just goes on and on.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I describe Tableu as a well oiled data visualization machine, because of its speed and powerful performance. This is crucial to me , since I use Tableu for manipulating large volumes of data.

What do you dislike most about this product?

This is one of the most difficult data visualization platforms to learn to use. Infact , it is vital for an intending Tableu user to already have experience using other data visualization and business analytics toolsets. This platform is just not designed for the average professional.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Tableu is an advanced data visualization platform and I will only recommend it for data professionals with experience using other data visualization software product.

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

Anyone using Tableau in the data science field immediately understands this. The numerous import options for all types of data are truly astounding. I can import data from my Microsoft database and create management dashboards, or I can import a simple 3 GB CSV file from the sales department. One can't really pick here very much. We create dashboards for higher management. Here, among other things, sales results are taken into account, and forecasts and other analyses are produced using Power BI's provided graphics. The reports in PDF are a good addition because we can quickly make them available and they work well for mass printing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

the essential selection of features and choices. Large data sets can be perfectly prepared for analysis and visualization with Tableau Prep. Numerous analyses move quickly and can be finished in a few minutes. LOD (especially for cohort analyses of customer data), Gruppieren/Aliasse/Hierarchie (to keep track of things when there are many dimensions or numbers), and Parameter are features that I frequently use. Regarding visualization, I especially value the capability to combine various diagrammtypes and quickly create very dynamic visualisations. Draw conclusions and present them using data analysis based on a range of data sources ERP.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Fundamentally, in order to utilize the full range of options, some topics (such as filterreihenfolge, LODs, etc.) require some initial work. What I still lack is a quick way to create beautiful dashboards and also, for example, a way to unify different dashboard designs (for example, adjusting the font size. Whoever switches from Power BI to Tableau has a problem because DAX commands are sadly not supported. Unfortunately, using Tableau's own language solution requires some extra work. However, because it involves logical English terms combined with commas, our division was a little confused when it was first implemented.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I use Tableau as a business intelligence tool for ongoing reporting as well as a quick-and-dirty analysis tool (zB Monatsdashboard). I use the tool specifically for the analyses listed below: Customer journey or conversion funnel analyses in the context of digital marketing, such as in relation to revenue data, creating management dashboards based on existing databanks and investigating previously unexplored datasets as part of a business analysis. I use Tableau Desktop to visualize data sets from customer data banks as well as to visually prepare other values for people who have less statistical knowledge.