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Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by plufz »

CSMastermind wrote: post #28
leetrout wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is about to be us with Heroku. Feels like software sales has just gotten worse for years now.

Heroku is one of those things that if someone tells me their still on it without a plan to migrate I question the executive leadership at their company. Shade of its former self, expensive, and there are plenty of better options. Really seems like the company is in zombie mode until it's eventual slow demise.

I haven’t used Heroku in a long time but I really liked the feeling of starting up a database and a container for the app with two clicks. Which are the main alternatives in that space today?

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by navaneethpk »

A customer of ours at ToolJet, specializing in service-based offerings, traditionally used Tableau for their analytics needs. They decided to give us a shot and started moving some of their customers over to ToolJet, taking advantage of our Plotly-based chart component for visualizations. While the initial lift to replicate their Tableau setups in ToolJet is non-trivial, the value proposition is turning out to be significantly more compelling. They're now confidently migrating more customers.

They're aware that our platform might hit some snags with the more complex use cases but most of their customers have similar use cases that are less complex.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by Rastonbury »

kimi wrote: post #7

I don't know jack about Tableau, but if the alternative is Power BI, I got a feeling they may be safe. My current company sells telephony and call-center analytics for MS Teams using our software, and during pre-sales meeting, one of the staple questions is "So we can avoid Power BI entirely?" followed by a minor thanksgiving ceremony and presentation of credit card. I get a feeling it's not too dear to the hearts of…

If you haven't used PowerBI recently, let me tell you it is better than Tableau. In my previous work, using PowerBI I can easily drag and drop dimensions and it can suggest data visualization in browser. Now I have tableau and I have to open the laggy Tableau Creator, wait for a sync, then build a visualization from scratch. Maybe its poorly implemented at the new place, but I avoid it when I can - its easier and faster to download the raw data and visualized it in Google Sheets even

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

#44

Post by Rastonbury »

pinewurst wrote: post #4

I’m not sure this is totally on Salesforce as the Tableau product has gotten so sluggish and inflexible. At my last job I started dumping data from Tableau to CSV (don’t get me started on the crap CSVs that Tableau generates) and importing to R for analysis. Good riddance.

Looking what they did to Heroku and are doing to Tableau, I'm not optimistic for Slack

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

#46

Post by bantunes »

plufz wrote: post #41
CSMastermind wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heroku is one of those things that if someone tells me their still on it without a plan to migrate I question the executive leadership at their company. Shade of its former self, expensive, and there are plenty of better options. Really seems like the company is in zombie mode until it's eventual slow demise.

I haven’t used Heroku in a long time but I really liked the feeling of starting up a database and a container for the app with two clicks. Which are the main alternatives in that space today?

Fly.io maybe?

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

#47

Post by laichzeit0 »

Rastonbury wrote: post #43
kimi wrote: post #7

I don't know jack about Tableau, but if the alternative is Power BI, I got a feeling they may be safe. My current company sells telephony and call-center analytics for MS Teams using our software, and during pre-sales meeting, one of the staple questions is "So we can avoid Power BI entirely?" followed by a minor thanksgiving ceremony and presentation of credit card. I get a feeling it's not too dear to the hearts of…

If you haven't used PowerBI recently, let me tell you it is better than Tableau. In my previous work, using PowerBI I can easily drag and drop dimensions and it can suggest data visualization in browser. Now I have tableau and I have to open the laggy Tableau Creator, wait for a sync, then build a visualization from scratch. Maybe its poorly implemented at the new place, but I avoid it when I can - its easier and fas…

I'm the opposite. I love Tableau Creator and hate working in the browser. There's also no Power BI creator desktop app for Mac (nor will there ever be, I guess), so I refuse to use it.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by ic_fly2 »

kimi wrote: post #7

I don't know jack about Tableau, but if the alternative is Power BI, I got a feeling they may be safe. My current company sells telephony and call-center analytics for MS Teams using our software, and during pre-sales meeting, one of the staple questions is "So we can avoid Power BI entirely?" followed by a minor thanksgiving ceremony and presentation of credit card. I get a feeling it's not too dear to the hearts of…

My understanding is that people prefer power bi to tableau. So that says everything.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by hhhhhhhmmmmmmm »

antoine_b0ss wrote: post #16
kimi wrote: post #7

I don't know jack about Tableau, but if the alternative is Power BI, I got a feeling they may be safe. My current company sells telephony and call-center analytics for MS Teams using our software, and during pre-sales meeting, one of the staple questions is "So we can avoid Power BI entirely?" followed by a minor thanksgiving ceremony and presentation of credit card. I get a feeling it's not too dear to the hearts of…

I work for $LARGE_ENTERPRISE_CONSULTING_FIRM and I'd really could do without Power bi. It's so sluggish and a time-waste. If your product is even half-good, I can see why they like it. What does it do exactly?

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Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Post by doctor_eval »

WhrRTheBaboons wrote: post #25
petepete wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try to avoid these tools wherever possible, given the choice I'd always go for tools like Blazer. https://github.com/ankane/blazer No such luck in my current role, Looker and PowerBI are both in use by different bits of the org and nobody has the ability to delve into the underlying figures.

Blazer sounds cool, thanks for the link!

The whole instacart oss list is quite amazing. Some amazing tools there!

https://www.instacart.com/opensource

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