Tableau Desktop Overview

Tableau Desktop connects, analyzes, and visualizes data for quick insights. It forms part of a comprehensive business intelligence solution with other Tableau products.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Funnel Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, Communication Management, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Tableau Desktop.

Other use cases:

  • Social Media Management
  • Engagement Management
  • Collaboration
  • Forecasting
  • Lead Analytics
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Workflow Management
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Business Priorities

Scale Best Practices and Enhance Customer Relationships are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Tableau Desktop.

Other priorities:

  • Acquire Customers
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Improve ROI
  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Launch New Products
  • Grow Market Share
  • Manage Risk
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Establish Thought Leadership
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Improve Visibility
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Consistency
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Improve Navigation
  • Shorten Ramp Up Time
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Tableau Desktop Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Tableau Desktop's features include Dashboard, Calculator, Personalization, etc. and Tableau Desktop support capabilities include AI Powered, Chat Support, Phone Support, etc. also Tableau Desktop analytics capabilities include Analytics, and Custom Reports.

Reviews

"Tableau allowed us to deliver a solution across our infrastructure that was so important and big across our infrastructure, and was seamless for non-data users and was seamless for them to access." - Ben Sabloff

Tableau Desktop, CARTO Platform, Hevo, Phocas, Databox, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Business Intelligence. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Popular Business Setting

for Tableau Desktop

Top Industries

  • Computer Software
  • Education
  • Information Technology and Services

Popular in

  • Large Enterprise
  • Enterprise
  • Mid Market

Tableau Desktop is popular in Computer Software, Education, and Information Technology And Services and is widely used by Large Enterprise, Enterprise, and Mid Market.

Comprehensive Insights on Tableau Desktop Use Cases

What benefits does Tableau Desktop offer for Funnel Analysis?

What solutions does Tableau Desktop provide for Competitive Intelligence?

How does Tableau Desktop facilitate Communication Management?

Why is Tableau Desktop the best choice for Social Media Management?

What solutions does Tableau Desktop provide for Engagement Management?

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Tableau Desktop solved their Business Intelligence needs. Cuspera uses 30134 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Business Intelligence needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Ben Sabloff

Executive vice president

KeyBank

Tableau allowed us to deliver a solution across our infrastructure that was so important and big across our infrastructure, and was seamless for non-data users and was seamless for them to access. Testimonial By Ben Sabloff
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Shiva Jaganathan PH.D

Chief Data Officer

The University of Texas at Austin

The Awards Analysis Tableau Report has proven to be a great dashboard to quickly identify under awarded faculty in each department and the options to drill down to race/ethnicity and gender dimensions provided opportunity for greater equity in the prestigious awards nomination process. Testimonial By Shiva Jaganathan PH.D
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Wes Gelpi

Senior Manager Business Intelligence and Analytics

Red Hat

Tableau Cloud gives us an opportunity to bring different facets of our organization together. And the ease with which we’ve been able to give that to Red Hatters across the globe and in different functions has helped speed up and create a community groundswell. Testimonial By Wes Gelpi
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Ben Sabloff

Executive vice president

KeyBank

Tableau allowed us to deliver a solution across our infrastructure that was so important and big across our infrastructure, and was seamless for non-data users and was seamless for them to access. Testimonial By Ben Sabloff
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Shiva Jaganathan PH.D

Chief Data Officer

The University of Texas at Austin

The Awards Analysis Tableau Report has proven to be a great dashboard to quickly identify under awarded faculty in each department and the options to drill down to race/ethnicity and gender dimensions provided opportunity for greater equity in the prestigious awards nomination process. Testimonial By Shiva Jaganathan PH.D
Tableau Desktop testimonial

Wes Gelpi

Senior Manager Business Intelligence and Analytics

Red Hat

Tableau Cloud gives us an opportunity to bring different facets of our organization together. And the ease with which we’ve been able to give that to Red Hatters across the globe and in different functions has helped speed up and create a community groundswell. Testimonial By Wes Gelpi

Case Studies

Sports

Case Study The Seattle Seahawks

How The Seattle Seahawks, Managed 30,000 customer touchpoints through Tableau Cloud

Insurance

Case Study Progressive Insurance

How Progressive Leverages Tableau for actionable insights across products and customer experiences

Sports

Case Study Team USA

U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee helps Team USA succeed by building a better digital HQ with Tableau and Salesforce

Automotive

Case Study Jaguar

Jaguar Land Rover develops a pioneering data culture to accelerate its digital transformation with Tableau

Financial Services

Case Study RBC Wealth Management

RBC Wealth Management personalizes and transforms the client experience with CRM Analytics

Banking

Case Study KeyBank

With Tableau, digital transformation at KeyBank integrates people, processes, and data

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Tableau Desktop

What is Tableau Desktop?

Tableau is a data visualization platform for sales, marketing, legal, data and analytics and operations teams to see and understand their data.

It primarily helps with analytics and reporting activities to track and measure outcomes. It supports desktop, mobile, server and web based access.

It comes with built in dashboards and widgets to provide analytics.

What is Tableau Desktop used for?

Tableau Desktop is a Business Intelligence Software mainly used by its customers to Scale Best Practices and Enhance Customer Relationships by Funnel Analysis, Competitive Intelligence and Communication Management .

What are the top features of Tableau Desktop?

Dashboard, Calculator and Personalization are some of the top features of Tableau Desktop.

Who uses Tableau Desktop?

Tableau Desktop is used by Computer Software, Education and Information Technology And Services among other industries.

What are Tableau Desktop alternatives?

CARTO Platform, Hevo, Phocas and Databox are popular alternatives for Tableau Desktop.

Where is Tableau Desktop located?

Tableau Desktop is headquartered at 1621 N 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103.
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Peers used Tableau Desktop for funnel analysis and competitive intelligence

Tableau Desktop Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.43/5 ★

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Analytics

4.30/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.83/5 ★

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.43/5 ★

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Analytics

4.30/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.83/5 ★

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Tableau Software, LLC Profile

Company Name

Tableau Software, LLC

Company Website

https://www.tableau.com/

Year Founded

2003

HQ Location

1621 N 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103

Employees

1001-5000

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Financials

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