Tableau Server

Tableau Server

878 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Tableau Server	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.	$12 Per User Per Month

Pricing

Tableau Server

Viewer: $12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer: $35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator: $70.00
Per User Per Month

Pricing Offerings
Tableau Server
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Tableau Server
Considered Both Products	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Server Looker and Tableau are quite similar products. I think Tableau's ability to view data visually is more comprehensive. The different breakdowns in UTM level versus first touch and last touch are shown in a visual format, making it much easier to view and interpret the results. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Tableau Server can handle a large datasets without any lagging the data or slow updating the data, easily can use all the functions and formulas by using data up-to thousands of entry and easily can present in table, charts and dashboards formats and main thing to store and … Incentivized Helpful? Gianluca Ruggiero CEO & Founder in Corporate at MASSIVE (Market Research, 1-10 employees) Chose Tableau Server Seemed to be the industry standard with a lot of support. The problem is their own support suck so much that if you use them you can only pray nothing will ever go wrong. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Tableau Server is extremely well suited for a company with a few dedicated analysts creating dashboards and reports for a few stakeholders. It is also great at handling a large number of report viewers, but it is more expensive because you have to pay for each user. We have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Tableau Server is a world-class product offering ease of integration with a database or third-party service platforms such as SalesForce, Intercom, or Hubspot. Data visualisation and chart capability is excellent. Tableau really helps an organisation connect with its data to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server The interface of Tableau Server is good. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Tableau server has among the best visualization compared to other similar products. It is in some cases much easier to use when the data is nicely arranged in the required format. It also has a good drill down capability which helps us expand and look for variances and other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server We selected Tableau Server over other options because of the published feature set and capabilities. It appeared to be far more advanced than its competition. However, it failed to meet expectations. Moving forward we are going to give a more serious look at Google Data Studio … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Ladd Vice President Global Procurement & Manufacturing in Information Technology at Potter Electric Signal Co. (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 201-500 employees) Chose Tableau Server Cognos was outdated and much harder to use and implement. Qlik was more expensive and a little harder to manage your data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server We used and still are using IBM Cognos for business intelligence purposes. It is good for use as a data infrastructure and analytic framework, rather than a BI toolkit, but Tableau is replacing Cognos fast. We used D3.js for a few proofs of concept visualization and … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Downs Software Developer and Database Manager in Manufacturing at HAP Housing (Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Tableau Server Better visually and ease of use. Incentivized Helpful? Ilham AB Senior Solutions Manager (Enterprise Architect) in Information Technology at 3 (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Tableau Server Compared to our previous version of software and tool that had been used since the beginning of the company, Tableau is reliable, fast and accurate. Some important features for advanced analytics and data visualization are not available with the previous system. Therefore it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server The choice to use Tableau Server is really made for you if you already have adopted Tableau Desktop. If you're focused on an on-premise solution, Tableau is probably the way that you'll have to go. Looker and Mode are cloud-based (so is Tableau Online) and offer a true … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server We find Tableau Server much more flexible and powerful for the developer. The resulting dashboard and interactive charts far surpass those of Business Objects. IBM Cognos is much too restrictive in its ability to present data visualizations in a way that is easily integrated … Incentivized Helpful? Siggy Tetteh, CSSGB, MBA, MCP Lead Systems Analyst/Project Manager in Information Technology at Navicent Health (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Tableau Server There were a lot of reasons why we chose Tableau and the least is the cost but also the way Tableau stores data in the columnar fashion instead of in Cubes. We went through a painstaking selection process and at the end, came down to a couple of vendors and we ended up with the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Excel took forever to load the data and crashed, and Tableau wins. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Metropulos Product Manager in Product Management at Atkore International (Building Materials, 501-1000 employees) Chose Tableau Server We still use Microsoft Excel for much of the lighter, day-to-day pivot tables or calculations. We see Tableau as the future however and are slowly tying more and more of our standard work with Tableau. Smartsheet isn't a 1:1 example, but it was considered for importing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server We're currently evaluating Power BI as an alternative to Tableau Server. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Server Tableau is a stable and time tested product which can handle hundreds and thousands of users and a huge amount of content, plus tableau has also introduced a web authoring tool which you can [use to] edit dashboards using your browser. However, the recent introduction of NLP … Incentivized Helpful? Heidi Hiemstra Business Data Analyst in Institutional Research at University of Kentucky (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Server I did not choose Tableau for my organization, but did choose my organization in part because they use Tableau! Fantastic flexibility combined with relative ease of visualization. Incentivized Helpful? Elvin Cheng IT Specialist in Information Technology at LCY CHEMICAL CORP. (Chemicals, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Tableau Server Because our big data project team wants to show highly customized visualization for their complex data and analyzed results, only Tableau Desktop can support this target. After we developed many, many dashboards and other views, we wanted to share it with different users. We … Incentivized Helpful? Sergio Martinez Director, Data Engineering & Automation in Information Technology at Buxton (Market Research, 51-200 employees) Chose Tableau Server Tableau is extremely self intuitive to use and has a large supporting community Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Tableau Server

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 9.5 94 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.793 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	9.780 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 9.1 94 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.994 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.892 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	9.058 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.888 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 8.4 90 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.884 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.783 Ratings
Report Versioning	9.169 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.376 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	5.19 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 8.7 89 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.985 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.984 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.563 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 8.3 94 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.392 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.389 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.391 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.361 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 8.4 78 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	8.276 Ratings
Mobile Application	8.160 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	9.067 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Server
Feature	Tableau Server 7.2 45 Ratings
REST API	9.039 Ratings
Javascript API	9.036 Ratings
iFrames	9.039 Ratings
Java API	5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	4.67 Ratings

User Ratings
	Tableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (20 ratings)
Usability	5.2 (16 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (9 ratings)
Performance	8.1 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	3.0 (18 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.0 (4 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (13 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	5.1 (79 ratings)
Data Sources	6.6 (82 ratings)