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Is Tableau Dead?

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Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Our renewal got Shanghaied by an extremely greedy and over zealous sales rep who injected himself between us and our renewals reps, and wanted to turn a sub $80k renewal into damn near $200k this year and $300k next.

Needless to say it got nowhere fast and, by the time he gave up and threw us “back” to renewals, the damage had been done.

We elected to do what they thought was unthinkable and we just walked away.

My oh my, it was very, very good day, when I got to tell them to go f themselves.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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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.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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post #2

Our renewal got Shanghaied by an extremely greedy and over zealous sales rep who injected himself between us and our renewals reps, and wanted to turn a sub $80k renewal into damn near $200k this year and $300k next. Needless to say it got nowhere fast and, by the time he gave up and threw us “back” to renewals, the damage had been done. We elected to do what they thought was unthinkable and we just walked away. My o…

This is about to be us with Heroku.

Feels like software sales has just gotten worse for years now.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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post #5
post #2

Our renewal got Shanghaied by an extremely greedy and over zealous sales rep who injected himself between us and our renewals reps, and wanted to turn a sub $80k renewal into damn near $200k this year and $300k next. Needless to say it got nowhere fast and, by the time he gave up and threw us “back” to renewals, the damage had been done. We elected to do what they thought was unthinkable and we just walked away. My o…

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

Just Salesforce.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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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 its users.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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Considering that when I asked about basic features, and bring told that the people interested/working on those left once Salesforce came in... Yeah.

Re: Is Tableau Dead?

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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…

Why do they want to avoid PowerBI?
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