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Tableau

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

268 Reviews Write a Review

What is Tableau?

Harness the power of your data. Unleash the potential of your people. Choose the analytics platform that disrupted the world of business intelligence. Choose Tableau.

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Awards & Recognition

Tableau won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics – Enterprise category

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Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

10 Top Rated Capabilities

13 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact

2022

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

10 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2022

Tableau Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

Down 1
Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

Service Experience

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 92%
Negotiation and Contract:: 87%
Conflict Resolution:: 91%
Strategy & Innovation:: 89%
Service Experience:: 90%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Tableau?

3% Negative

5% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Helps Innovate
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Dashboard

Data Exploration and Visualization

Real-Time Visualization

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Collaboration

Operational Reporting Capabilities

Spatial Analysis

BI Platform Administration

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

BI Security

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

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Tableau Reviews

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Far more modern and intuitive than most tools

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Yashvendra S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Fantastic BI product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

It offers best in class data visualization. The charts and dashboard is very comprehensive and supports extensive customization. It also supports advanced visual analytics. It offers unmatched integration and data connectivity. A highly scalable and performant data engine. It has strong community support and offers AI and augmented analytics that adds more value to the product.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is very performant and offers high quality features and customizations. It offers highly interactive and dynamic visualisations. A truly multi platform tool which works very well with desktop, cloud and mobile.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as such. License Cost is on higer side but everything apart it's a great product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I will definitely recommend to try Tableau as it offers many great features which are highly recommended. Very user friendly as it also offers drag and drop interface along with powerful interactivity which offers storytelling capabilities.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Tapishnu S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Powerful analytics tool for informed decisions

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

Tableau offers best-in-class data visualization, and intuitive drag-and-drop interface which most tools does not. It also has a strong community support for both technical and non-technical users. Tableau features helps leadership take informed decisions in a way that only a few tools in the market offer.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Interactive dashboards and real-time data visualization

What do you dislike most about this product?

Slow performance with large datasets and license cost can be high for implementing in a large organization

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Add Gen AI feature in Tableau to provide automated insights and answer queries about graphs/charts through interactive chat feature.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Tableau Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

Down 1 Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Tableau?

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Real-Time Visualization Ability to analyze and visualize data as soon as it becomes available via data-streaming pipelines.

Data Connectors and Data Mashup Connect to, merge and clean data from multiple diverse data sources.

Advanced Analytics and Data Science Techniques including predictive, data and text mining, machine learning, forecasting, what-if analysis, sentiment analysis etc.

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Operational Reporting Capabilities Real-time detailed reporting to support operational business processes.

Spatial Analysis Ability to natively visualize and analyze spatial data out of the box tied to postcode, zipcode or spacial co-ordinates.

BI Platform Administration Centralized console to manage BI portal administration. Management metrics and reports on usage, resource utilization, security, and other activities.

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities Selected user groups are able to interact with BI data, slice and dice, and find answers on their own.

BI Security Data access control management, including access permissions management, user authentication and enforcement of access permissions via technology.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Tableau Reviews

Far more modern and intuitive than most tools

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Yashvendra S.

Fantastic BI product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tapishnu S.

Powerful analytics tool for informed decisions

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Data Exploration and Visualization

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Data Connectors and Data Mashup

Advanced Analytics and Data Science

Collaboration

Operational Reporting Capabilities

Spatial Analysis

BI Platform Administration

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

BI Security

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Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support