| Author: Nigel Pendse
Released: 2006
Pages: 21
Single User Price: $395 USD
An in-depth product evaluation and rating
An innovative, multi-pane multidimensional visual analysis tool for both OLAP and relational data sources.
Find out how effectively Tableau's 'visual analysis' capabilities enable
people of all levels of technical ability to visually investigate
performance data. Tableau, incorporating many innovative features, is
designed for use with other BI tools. Its purpose is to makes it easier for
key insights to be achieved by 'seeing' trends, relationships, anomalies,
and outliers - a process that leads to better decision support. How
effectively it does so is revealed in this 21-page review.
The review is extensively illustrated with examples of the wide range of
charts that can be selected from a 'show-me' menu to allow the user to
rapidly switch from one chart type to another. Overall, the conclusion is
that the product is flexible, easy to learn and delightfully forgiving, even
for novices, with drag-and-drop functionality that allows charts to be
created from multidimensional data and simple formating tools to customise
on-screen presentation.
The review evaluates its suitability for:
* Ad-hoc analysis
* Different sizes of databases
* Multidimensional and relational data
* Inexperienced as well as power users.
It also looks at some of Tableau's limitations, for example, its
unsuitability for presentation graphics, its Windows-only architecture,
absence of sophisticated statistical analysis, the fact that it is not an
application building tool and needs to be used in conjunction with other
analytical tools
A sample of the numerous specially generated screenshots from this review. Click to enlarge.
  
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Contents:
Vendor overview
Product commercial issues
Pricing
Architecture, platforms and data access functionality
Calculation functionality
Automatic detection of exceptions
Time series intelligence
Visual analysis
Conclusions
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