Tableau

United States HQFounded 2003

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Overview

About Tableau

Tableau Software helps people see 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—no programming skills required.

At a glance

Software information

Industries served, licensing and the support Tableau provides.

Industries

  • Computer-software
  • Financial-services
  • Information-technology-services
  • Marketing-advertising

Licensing

  • Proprietary
  • Monthly Payment
  • Free trial

Support

  • Phone
  • 24x7 Support

Training

  • Help Guides
  • Video Guides
  • Blogs
  • Whitepapers
  • On-Site Training

Knowledge Base

  • Help Guides
  • Video
  • Blog
  • Whitepapers
  • On-Site Training
Languages (5)
EnglishFrenchGermanGreekPortuguese

Review analytics

What customers report

4.3
Based on 45 verified reviews

What users like the most

  • Mobile-friendly, high-performance, and abundant client resources
  • Fantastic mobile support Simple to upgrade
  • Low price

What users like the least

  • Faulty versioning
  • No automatic report updating
  • Requires manual labor

What users say

Review Analytics of Tableau

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4.345 Verified Reviews
Ease of use (19 reviews)4.6
Features & functionality (19 reviews)4.7
Customer support (19 reviews)4.2
Value for money (16 reviews)4.0
Integrations (16 reviews)4.5
Review Summary
Summarized from 45 verified reviews · Updated September 2026
Tableau excels at creating interactive, visually appealing dashboards and data visualizations with a user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop functionality that requires minimal technical expertise. The platform handles multiple data sources seamlessly and performs well with large datasets. However, reviewers consistently note limitations in statistical analysis capabilities, high costs relative to smaller teams, complexity for advanced tasks, and occasional performance issues. Despite these drawbacks, users find it well-suited for business intelligence and reporting needs beyond financial tabular reports.
✦ AI-generated summary. May not reflect every review.
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What reviewers mention most

Laura Nierengarten, Marketing Intern at Targetprocess, Inc.Verified Review
Posted on Dec 27, 2018

“The solution where there are multiple useful functions”

Overall rating5.0

A very powerful, affordable and easy to implement/adopt data mining tool. Very recommendable!All the elements needed for data mining and creation of reports that actually create intelligence in the business. Ability to slice all elements under a very easy to use interface (if you've used Excel's pivots, then you can use Tableau). Exporting ability and running is done in the background hence freeing the end-user.

Chris Airey, Managing Director at Umbrella Marketing TEAMVerified Review
Posted on Dec 27, 2018

“Tableau for Dashboarding”

Overall rating3.0

There are times I wish you could do more statistical analysis in Tableau. They have some built-in components for this, but in my opinion, this is one of the weaker areas of the tool. I can't see the autosave feature anywhere, which is a very major drawback. Also, the application takes time to load sometimes.

Abhinav Mahajan, Co-founder at HelfisVerified Review
Posted on Dec 26, 2018

“A repetitive and satisfied user”

Overall rating4.0

Pros: Used it in my earlier company and the BI reporting was very easy. Plus the UI was pleasing.

Cons: Needs skills to use it.

Overall Experience: Great experience working with it. Business reporting is fun with it.

Pragya NeerVerified Review
Posted on Dec 22, 2018

“Review for Tableau Tool”

Overall rating5.0

This is an amazing application which stands out for having a very balanced and dynamic design and interface, a huge graphic quality, fast performance, and efficient optimization, as well as having a range of tools that are very easy to use and complete.

Code InspirationVerified Review
Posted on Dec 21, 2018

“Visualization at its best”

Overall rating5.0

Anyone will be able to make Pretty visualization without much prior experience and can decipher stories underneath data. It was really easy for me to pick up the tool and get on the speed. Great for visualizations but if you want a BI Tool for numeric/tabular reports especially for financial reports - you should probably consider some other tool. With that being said, it is totally worth the money for all other BI needs and seriously the best BI Tool available! 

Capabilities

Tableau features

The full feature set, grouped by module.

Data Visualization Software

  • Dashboard
  • Data Mining
  • Filtered Views
  • Relational Display
  • Visual Discovery

Business Intelligence Software

  • Ad Hoc Analysis
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Dashboard
  • Data Visualization
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Strategic Planning
  • Trend/Problem Indicators

Reporting Software

  • Automated Reports
  • Financial Reports
  • Forecasting
  • Marketing Reports
  • OLAP
  • Report Export
  • Sales Reports
  • Visual Analysis

Heatmap Software

  • Behavioral Mapping
  • Clusters & Markers
  • Dashboard
  • Element Analytics
  • Embeddable Maps
  • Territorial Mapping
  • Website Analytics

Data Management Software

  • Customer Data
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Capture & Transfer
  • Data Integration
  • Data Migration
  • Data Quality Control
  • Data Security
  • Information Governance
  • Master Data Management
  • Match & Merge

Statistical Analysis Software

  • Compliance Tracking
  • Data Management
  • File Storage
  • Machine Learning
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Statistical Simulation
  • Survival Analysis

Plans

Tableau pricing

Price Type
Month
Free Version
No
Payment Frequency
Monthly Payment
Preferred Currency
USD ($)
Free Trial
14 Days
Standard$75 / month

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