Tableau

Today companies create, track and analyze business data at a scale like never before. But all this data doesn’t make sense if it cannot be used to improve business outcomes. Thus, business intelligence software helps companies to make informed choices and base their decisions on evidence.

We at VinPit have been using “Tableau” for data discovery, data visualization, geocoding, survey analysis, time-series analysis, social analytics, and much more.

Pros of Tableau:

-Unparalleled capabilities of visualizing information.

-User-friendly interface allows non-development users to make the utmost utilization of the app’s functionality. 

-Robust and reliable performance, even performs fast on big data. 

-Multiple data source connections, such as HADOOP, SAP, and DB Technologies.

-Mobile app available for IOS and Android

Cons of Tableau:

-License is quite costly for most small to medium companies

-It requires clients to purchase the extended license from the start.

-Many operations need the creation of SQL queries, which need the services of a skilled developer.

- Integration into a company’s product is a real challenge.

I am Phil Crippen from John Adams IT. We are a full-service technology leader based in Ventura, CA.John Adams provides a unique complete IT management solution for IT-intensive data services companies. The main services we provide include Cybersecurity service, Data centre service, Digital workplace service, Business process operation, etc.

We at our company prefer to use Tableau.

Pros

We recommend this software because it helps people read and understand data.

Offering a revolutionary new approach to business intelligence, Tableau allows you to quickly connect, visualize, and share data with a seamless experience from the PC to the iPad.

Create and publish dashboards and share them with colleagues, partners, or customers without any need for programming skills.

This mobile friendly software is relatively easy to use.

The software offers a free 14-day trial and then it costs $70/month.

Cons

I still think that it costs more than it should.

Other cons of this software are that it has security issues combined with very poor after-sales support from the company.

Pros: Fully customizable, Speed

Cons: Complex for initial understanding

Pros: Good integrations

Cons: Pricey and often requires a data-scientist to really get the value out of it

Pros: good stuff

Cons: solid product

Pros: Nice overlay

Cons: Kinda hard to use, have to be used to it

The current clients of EBI Management Group include Department of Defense (DoD), Veterans Affairs (VA), and Department of Transportation (DoT). Some clients utilize high-end Business Intelligence Tools (like Cognos Analytics) and some still use MS Excel Spreadsheets. We have started introducing the Excel clients to Tableau, as a way to expand their Data Visualization capabilities. We introduced it last year on a VA project and are currently introducing it to one of our DoT client project teams. It has gone really well, so our overall rating has been a 5. 

Pros include the affordable price point for getting started as a project team and the learning curve is also fairly quick compared to other tools we have used for client delivery.  Our team hasn’t encountered many Cons, but there is a longer learning curve for more advanced data visualizations. That is true with all the BI and Data Visualization tools, however.

As a Marketing Manager of Codal, I share that using Tableau is very seamless and easy to create a customized dashboard, which is important for me as and probably most marketers. For a SaaS platform, Tableau probably has some of the best data visualizations I have seen on a SaaS platform. On top of being very interactive and customizable, the user interface is really intuitive, so there really was not a large learning curve at all.

Another huge pro was that they have a very robust mobile application that also has an intuitive UI. Always being on-the-go, mobile friendliness is another crucial aspect of any type of software.

The only con that I saw and the only reason I didn’t give it a 5 out of 5 is because I was looking to use the professional edition, which can definitely become a little pricey if you connect all of your data sources and onboard a lot of users.