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Tableau

bySalesforce (Tableau)
in
4.4
2026
Market Presence: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Data Preparation Tools

Overview

Product Information on Tableau

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Tableau?

Tableau is a software designed for data visualization and business intelligence that enables users to connect, analyze, and share data insights from various sources. It provides features such as interactive dashboards, drag and drop analytics, and integration with spreadsheet, cloud, and relational databases. The software helps organizations transform raw data into visual representations including charts, graphs, and maps, allowing for the identification of patterns, trends, and outliers. Tableau addresses business challenges related to data analysis and reporting by simplifying the process of extracting actionable insights and supporting informed decision-making across different functional areas.

Tableau Pricing

Tableau software uses a subscription-based pricing model with different tiers depending on deployment options such as cloud or on-premises and user type, including Creator, Explorer, and Viewer roles. The pricing structure typically varies according to the number of users and the level of access to features, with annual or monthly payment options available.

Overall experience with Tableau

Senior Digital Analytics Manager
1B - 3B USD, Retail
FAVORABLE

“Cost Challenges Noted When Scaling Despite Strong Visualisation and Dashboard Capabilities”

4.0
Mar 27, 2026
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Sales Engineering Manager
3B - 10B USD, Telecommunication
CRITICAL

“Comprehensive Data Access and Visual Dashboards Hindered by Sluggish Performance Issues”

3.0
Mar 30, 2026
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2026
For Market:
Agentic Analytics

Key Insights

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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

Company Details

Updated 2nd November 2023
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.salesforce.com

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Tableau Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(111 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Senior Digital Analytics Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Cost Challenges Noted When Scaling Despite Strong Visualisation and Dashboard Capabilities

    4.0
    Mar 27, 2026
    Overall, our experience with Tableau has been positive. It's a mature and highly capable data visualisation platform that makes it relatively easy to explore data, build dashboards and share insights across the business. The interface is intuitive and flexible, which helps both technical and non-technical users get value from it fairly quickly. It feels like a well-rounded product that does most things very well, although in some areas the pace of new features and overall value for money could be stronger.
  • Senior Digital Analytics Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Cost Challenges Noted When Scaling Despite Strong Visualisation and Dashboard Capabilities

    4.0
    Mar 27, 2026
    Overall, our experience with Tableau has been positive. It's a mature and highly capable data visualisation platform that makes it relatively easy to explore data, build dashboards and share insights across the business. The interface is intuitive and flexible, which helps both technical and non-technical users get value from it fairly quickly. It feels like a well-rounded product that does most things very well, although in some areas the pace of new features and overall value for money could be stronger.
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User Sentiment About Tableau
Reviewer Insights for: Tableau
Deciding Factors: Tableau Vs. Market Average
Performance of Tableau Across Market Features

Tableau Likes & Dislikes

Like

One of the biggest strengths is the ease of use when building dashboards and exploring data. The drag-and-drop interface is intuitive and makes it quick to create meaningful visualisations without a huge learning curve. It's also very flexible in terms of how you can structure data and build calculations, which allows for more advanced analysis when needed. Performance is generally strong, and it handles reasonably complex datasets well. It's also a very polished product overall, with a consistent and reliable user experience.

Like

One of the biggest strengths is the ease of use when building dashboards and exploring data. The drag-and-drop interface is intuitive and makes it quick to create meaningful visualisations without a huge learning curve. It's also very flexible in terms of how you can structure data and build calculations, which allows for more advanced analysis when needed. Performance is generally strong, and it handles reasonably complex datasets well. It's also a very polished product overall, with a consistent and reliable user experience.

Like

One of the biggest strengths is the ease of use when building dashboards and exploring data. The drag-and-drop interface is intuitive and makes it quick to create meaningful visualisations without a huge learning curve. It's also very flexible in terms of how you can structure data and build calculations, which allows for more advanced analysis when needed. Performance is generally strong, and it handles reasonably complex datasets well. It's also a very polished product overall, with a consistent and reliable user experience.

Dislike

My number one complaint is that Tableau is incredibly slow. The more data you add to the dashboards, the slower it gets. And then if you want to use drop downs to switch views and toggle or re-sort data, it becomes nearly unusable. We are on Tableau Cloud, and toggling data and loading most dashboards takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This is painstakingly long to try and work with any of the data analytics.

Dislike

My number one complaint is that Tableau is incredibly slow. The more data you add to the dashboards, the slower it gets. And then if you want to use drop downs to switch views and toggle or re-sort data, it becomes nearly unusable. We are on Tableau Cloud, and toggling data and loading most dashboards takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This is painstakingly long to try and work with any of the data analytics.

Dislike

My number one complaint is that Tableau is incredibly slow. The more data you add to the dashboards, the slower it gets. And then if you want to use drop downs to switch views and toggle or re-sort data, it becomes nearly unusable. We are on Tableau Cloud, and toggling data and loading most dashboards takes anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. This is painstakingly long to try and work with any of the data analytics.