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Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by arrosenberg »

walker7734 wrote: post #39
andrewvc wrote: post #4

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If you've ever run tableau server, you know why.

I would very much like to know what particular issues you are having as well? I work at Tableau and I would like to make sure that issues people are seeing are on our radar, if they aren't already.

I recently had to perform updates, and the biggest aggravation was having to start and stop the server for every config change.

Also, lack of Sharepoint integration / ability to handle federated login services with OData connectors.

Minor issues though, I'm a huge Tableau fan.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by WhitneyLand »

belzebub wrote: post #137
pjob wrote: post #114

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It's free, offered as a standalone service separate from Office. You just need to sign up with an email address from a non-free provider. https://powerbi.microsoft.com Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

It didn't work well in safari unfortunately. I use Tableau often so I'd like to see a competitive offering.

What part didn't work well for you? It's intentionally designed to work with all modern browsers.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by WhitneyLand »

TheLogothete wrote: post #175
greggyb wrote: post #157

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Power BI, Microsoft's answer to it is $10/mo - yes, not $50/year, but a lot closer to that than to $1,000. The vis layer doesn't need to be expensive.

PowerBI has nowhere near the capabilities of Tableau. On top of that, PowerBI is subsidized in order to funnel customers for SQL Server.

What's are some of the biggest things missing in Power BI compared to Tableau?

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by njx »

physcab wrote: post #90

Tableau is a good product. I use it daily. There simply is no better alternative for quick ad-hoc, enterprise-level, intuitive graph and dashboard making. I've been at large orgs where we evaluated all the cloud services like Mixpanel and the ilk, but they are very different use cases. Tableau + Redshift (or Vertica but Redshift is way less expensive) is the typical BI tech stack. When I go a client or a new job and…

you should check out the web based alternative http://www.infocaptor.com 70% functionality of Tableau

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by njx »

gomox wrote: post #88
PaulHoule wrote: post #72

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It's a pretty good product but everybody and his brother sells analytics and visualization tools, most of the companies that have been around a while sell a few different tools since they've grown by acquisition. Tableau is more differentiated than it looks, but it doesn't look very differentiated. If Microsoft ever gets around to making many of the "smart" features in Excel actually work (i.e. csv import and automat…

Honestly I have never used anything similar to Tableau in the balance of "straight-forwardness" and quality of results. My use case is: here's some data, let's take a look at it and make some decent graphs including any sort of comparative analysis. Excel is... well, Excel. The kitchen sink bundled in it contains pivot tables. Graphs are hideous out of the box, and very limited. Apple Numbers makes cute looking graph…

There is Qlik and InfoCaptor

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by pjob »

krmmalik wrote: post #183
pjob wrote: post #114

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It's free, offered as a standalone service separate from Office. You just need to sign up with an email address from a non-free provider. https://powerbi.microsoft.com Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.

Any idea when the mac version is coming, if at all?

I'm not sure about the Desktop app, but the web app should work in any modern browser today. Features are generally prioritized using user feedback, and this is one of the top suggestions on the ideas site:

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/sugge...

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by RockyMcNuts »

brooklyndude wrote: post #98

I can hack d3js. Can crunch billions of records in a flash of the eye, can wrangle most any DB (NoSQL, et al) out there, why would I need Tableau? Answer: We want someone stable! Not some crazy hacker. Plus if we don't spend the cash, we don't have it in our budget next year. Oh, I get it now. :-)

or plotly ... or shiny ...

https://plot.ly/javascript/ http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by walker7734 »

joombaga wrote: post #105
walker7734 wrote: post #39

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I would very much like to know what particular issues you are having as well? I work at Tableau and I would like to make sure that issues people are seeing are on our radar, if they aren't already.

[1] I had to set the client-side map rendering threshold to a very high number (100000 I believe) to get maps to render at all. Server-side rendering doesn't work, even though it can contact the map servers and display all of the examples in the documentation (Miami/Havana I think?). [2] It's been a few months, but I remember getting the license activated offline was a weird process. Something like, point tabadmin to…

So, I am not on the server team specifically. A lot of these issues that are mentioned may already be in the pipeline/on our radar. However, I think it is beneficial to make sure that we continually follow up to ensure the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so to speak.

All of these issues mentioned here will be sent to the server product owners and managers. :)

I am, however, on the maps team. I am curious about [1] above. I'll see what I can find internally on this. I am rather curious since this isn't something I have seen.

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by genericpseudo »

AJ007 wrote: post #189
babo wrote: post #160

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Tableau is a great product but with a high price stigma. I really like it, when clients asking for recommendation my first answer is Tableau. They like the product and the features but the reaction is always the same: nice, but it's too expensive for us, we'll go with PowerBI. Competing with Microsoft is a tough game.

It is expensive if you have a lot of people. Paying $2k for a license may be for two or three analysts is a good deal. Compare this to a start up like Looker which costs substantially more to get your foot in the door (last I checked, correct me if I'm wrong.) IBM has chosen to display "Analytics" as a major piece of their company. Presumably they want investors to think this could generate billions of dollars in rev…

The low-price contender is Periscope (periscopedata.com).

Re: Tableau stock down almost 50%

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Post by genericpseudo »

capkutay wrote: post #130
dev1n wrote: post #124

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Tableau is for business analysts. ELK is for Sys Admins. I think.

Tableau is for business analysts. Splunk is for Sys Admins. ELK is for engineers with a lot of patience.

The ELK stack is really fancy next generation "tail -f | grep" in a web browser. Which is awesome and really important, but a very different problem from "tell me how many users have used my app for three or more days in a sliding thirty day window".
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