Thinklytics and our customers have a long love for Tableau. For those who haven’t tried it, here are our 7 reasons to love Tableau.
1. Tableau helps to see and understand the data
With mission “We help people see and understand their data”, Tableau products are transforming the way people use data to solve the problems. Tableau makes analyzing data fast and easy, beautiful and useful. No wonder it has gained a growing interest among the business users, but also groups traditionally not using BI tools are taking it into use.
Tableau is revolutionizing the way data is being used. To access and further analyze the data doesn’t anymore require IT department participating. The data is accessible to all levels of organizations and individuals. Democratizing data allows people to think and act quickly, bringing transparency and agility to fact-based decision making.
2. Tableau suits different kinds of needs and organizations
As the needs of different kinds of organizations vary, Tableau provides many options to take it into use. If you are an individual user, Tableau Desktop is the tool for you. It’s an application that resides on your computer and is aimed at individual users. It is used for creating data visualizations, publishing data sources as well as workbooks to Tableau Server. For enterprises, there is a solution as well. Tableau Server is then the way to go – it is aimed at collaboration and security of data visualizations. The data can be taken from anywhere and shared within the organization via desktop or mobile browsers. There are apps available for different kind of mobile devices, eg. iPhone or Android based mobile phones. Tableau Server is an on-premise solution.
There is also a possibility for online server solution with Tableau Online. Tableau online cuts down the need for enhanced IT infrastructure or the need of IT support. However, it doesn’t suit enterprise sized organizations.
3. Tableau is a killer for creating visual dashboards – easy and fast
Tableau products are continuously developed keeping in mind ease of use. What makes Tableau so unique compared to other self-service BI tools is the quality of data visualizations and self-service analytics. Tableau has set golden standards for self-service BI tools which provide business users to analyze data without the need of IT intervention. It is easy and fast.
Tableau is primarily used for:
• Creating dashboard, reports
• Data discovery and Visualization
• Self-Service BI
• Simple statistical analytics like trends and forecasting
4. Continue your love affair with your data sources and Excel
Tableau is easy to connect to different data sources. It can be connected to more than 40 different sources. Some of the examples are below.
• File-based data sources – such as Excel and CSV…
• Relational database data sources – such as Teradata, SQL Server, DB2…
• OLAP data sources – such as Microsoft Analysis Services, BW…
• Cloud-based data sources – Successfactor, Google Analytics…
• Web Data Connector – web services as a source
Tableau built-in data connectors are free and you need no licensing fees to use them. Use live connections or make use of Tableau extract engine for super-fast performance.
5. Leverage the power of database
With Tableau, you can leverage the power of your database easily. You can connect to database views. Tableau helps you optimize the query performance. Further, Tableau has sufficient built-in Extract, Transform and Loading features. You can change data types, concatenate, split, join, blend data etc. You can further create sets, bins, groups etc. This means you don’t necessarily have to invest on a separate ETL solution.
6. Proven to satisfy customers
Tableau users are genuinely happy with the product. For example, the yearly Gartner research about Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, based on the user feedback, indicates Tableau´s success and ability to deliver a genuinely user-friendly solution for the customers. We have noticed the same enthusiasm and positive feedback about Tableau among our customers.
7. We make it easy to get started
Contact us and we will provide a FREE 1 Hour consultation and instructions on how to start and get the most out of your 14-day trial version of Tableau. Download it now to begin your journey of insights.
Curious to know more? Schedule a consultation with Thinklytics to know more about how data analytics can make your life easier and make you a hero at work.
