Tableau

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.

What differentiates Tableau from other similar products?

It is very good and simple to use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of use and design.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing much, pretty great.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Refer to the documentation and even there is an abundance of StackOverflow posts.