Tableau Stability
Its performance and stability are good. Because we are not on the cloud, and it is on our internal servers, it is performing well.
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Theresa McLaughlin
Senior Capacity Planner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a stable and mature product.
View full review »It's been very stable for us. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.
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Tableau
March 2024
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reviewer2269986
Lead Business Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Everything seems fine. They provide good materials and articles for updates, so it's not cumbersome. It's quite good, actually.
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reviewer1659204
Senior Manager.Marketing Strategy & Analysis. at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »It is a stable solution. If the people who are working on the tool know about the product, then it's a stable solution. New people who have an understanding of the product can use its stable nature. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. There is a possibility that the product crashes at times.
I rate Tableau's stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »The stability is good, we haven't had many bugs. They provide many updates every week and we don't have problems with Tableau in general.
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Ahmed El Banna
Fintech Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I haven't had any issues with stability.
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SriramNatesan
Tech Lead at MindTree
Tableau is stable, and I believe stability is essential. Our infrastructure has been set up right. The last two updates have had very few bugs, so stability-wise, it is excellent. However, performance is something we need to investigate further. It's hard to say whether performance problems are on the Tableau side or an issue with the infrastructure or the data sources. If there is a performance issue, we can't identify precisely where the problem is.
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reviewer1160580
Assistant Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Tableau has been stable for us.
View full review »I rate the product’s stability seven or eight out of ten. I have never seen it crash.
View full review »It's stable. It's reliable and has a good security program.
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reviewer1642554
Manager BI/Analytics and Data Management at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has pretty good stability. It's a robust tool, even though it has a steep learning curve. But, still, I feel that from the stability perspective, it's a leading BI tool in the market. It's pretty stable.
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IrfanHanif2
Independent Consultant at Agility Analytics
It is a very stable tool. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
It is very stable.
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BenjaminArnulf
Senior Director BI & Analytics at Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.
Stability is okay, although performance is slow on our side.
View full review »We are somewhat new at it, so as more and more people onboard to the server, we'll see how that is being managed. Of course, if the performance is slow, we have to find out the reasons, the causes. If it has to do with how they are building certain things, we have to send that information back to them and then they have to correct their models.
We are in the early stages right now. I wouldn't consider ourselves in the middle or advanced stage yet. We're onboarding a number of customers now to our servers.
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Mohamed AbdelRhman
Data Teamlead at Elmenus
The stability is okay. It's not 24/7, but you can say it's stable enough. In the start, it's more stable, especially compared to our OBIEE problems, which have taken two or three days to solve in the past.
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reviewer1620732
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Tableau's performance takes a hit if you have huge data. So in terms of stability, I feel that Cognos would be more stable because you can import all the metadata and store it in the Framework Manager. Tableau has scope for improvement regarding stability.
View full review »There can be a memory hang, or the memory crashes sometimes. I'm not sure, but generally it's stable. I think it's when I build complicated data sets, like too many worksheets or too many reports in my workbook, this can happen, which is annoying.
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reviewer1329363
DW/BI Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In all aspects, Tableau has been very stable.
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RanvijayKumar
Application Development Assoc Manager at Eccenture
It is very stable and user-friendly. It is overall good.
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Byeongjun Chun
IT Manager at Glovis Europe
It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy.
We have roughly 20 people using this solution. Most users have the role of logistics operator. Most users are doing their job regarding logistics, and they take more effort to make dashboards.
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reviewer1621350
Business Analyst at a media company with 10,001+ employees
As of now, I haven't had any issues with the stability of the solution. Not any glitches.
View full review »If I'm going to upload data of more than 10,000 records, then it might be unstable. With 10,000 rows and more than 100 columns, it really becomes shaky. However, this could also be because of the local infrastructure. For example, if I am using Tableau on my local machine with 4GB RAM, it might not be suitable.
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Dr. Salah Alnajem
Founder and CEO at Information Age Consulting
The stability has been good. In general usage cases, it's reliable andhere are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. But we face some stability (crash or freezsing) and performance (slowness) issue with large datasets especially when we export our Tableau visualization to Tableau Public.
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Carlo Capasso
Partner at Bambino & Partners
The stability has been good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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reviewer1521363
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It's a reliable solution. There's no doubt about it. The solution is stable. It does not crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches.
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Tariq Raza (MS Certified)
Operations & BI Analyst at American Hospital Dubai
The solution is extremely stable. It's much more stable than, for example, Power BI. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable. The performance is great. We've never faced any stability issues while using the product.
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Carlo Capasso
Partner at Bambino & Partners
It is super stable.
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Peter Birksmith
(2IC) Senior System Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable.
The platform is relatively stable. I rate its stability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1048407
Senior tech architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say the solution is very stable. We have not had any issues in using the product at all.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
It is stable.
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reviewer1258353
Lead of Business Intelligence at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Tableau is quite stable.
View full review »The stability has been good. It's reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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Cristobal Rodriguez
Director Consultoria at tecnoscala consulting
The solution is stable.
In the past, you couldn't do a full query. You could do the right query or the left query but not the full query. They fixed that n 2016.
Also, there was another problem in that their selling approach was very aggressive and they were selling to sales directors. However, the problem is that after that you need the Tableau server. You need the deployment of the Tableau server and you have your dashboard. You needed IT buy-in. In order that them to be able to be seen in all the organizations, or even outside your organization, you need to get the Tableau server. With that in mind, companies must have IT people or training in the Tableau server, and then the dashboard is just developed in the desktop so you can upload them to the server. With all of that comes a lot of issues around security, modelization, and performance theses issues were not approached or considered in any by the users
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
It is stable.
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reviewer1494948
Senior Manager Analytic & Insights at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Tableau is very stable.
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reviewer1062786
MBA, MS Business Analytics at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Tableau is very stable, but it takes too long to load.
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reviewer1754865
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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reviewer1656066
Data Management Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
I've had a good experience with the stability. There are no bugs or glitches that I have experienced. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
We did have an issue with our server and it took a while for Tableau support to find a solution. However, that was a one-time thing. That's the only time where we've had issues with our server.
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reviewer1456341
Director of Professional Services, Analytics at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is good.
View full review »Performance has issues when you get too many users. The latest upgrade made it worse and had to be backed off.
View full review »So far, Tableau has been stable.
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reviewer930093
Director - Technology Operations at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The stability and reliability are good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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DENNISSUNNY
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Tableau is a stable solution.
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Pro3289Mng
Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a stable solution. I think we can use it for a while for a lot of different things. Again, we do not know the full scope of the capabilities. I think we are using it the best we can, but we could find better ways for it to best suit our needs. So, we just need to learn how to use it more efficiently.
View full review »I have found the solution to be stable.
View full review »It's pretty stable.
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Bohdan Harimovych
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Syapse
The solution is stable. I've never had any problems.
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VP9887765
Vice President Engineering Intellicloud at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's quite stable, aside from the data file which is not. Otherwise, Tableau doesn't hang.
View full review »No stability issues.
View full review »The stability is very good.
View full review »Tableau is a good product.
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reviewer1742631
Data Product Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Tableau can be a little slow when loading, and it can fail with higher gigs or terabytes of data.
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Mahesh-K
Sr. Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable compared to others solutions.
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Ayodele-Makun
Pre-Sales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
None at the moment.
View full review »Previous versions suffered from instability but that has been fixed in later versions. The current version has no issues with stability as far as I can see.
View full review »I've had no issues with stability.
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I have had a couple crashes - usually linked back to something stupid I did in my Windows machine. I've done some work with the latest Mac version - have had no issues, in it...
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reviewer1563138
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Tableau does break down a little bit. The server version of Tableau doesn't allow you to see what is going on, making it a part of Tableau that is not great. Tableau's server version doesn't provide the ability to extract the information to see why the reports or dashboard didn't run properly. When you refresh in Tableau, you can't see what it's doing, and nothing happens since it doesn't show you what's going on, and then Tableau gets fixed all of a sudden.
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reviewer1637409
Fleet Reporting Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good, especially now that they've joined with Salesforce.
View full review »There were few issues with the stability of the product when there were features such as built-in data processing using TDE (Tableau Data Engine).
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reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The platform's cloud version is stable and has no CPU or RAM limitations. The dashboards work fast. In the case of an on-premise site, the stability is based on the hardware capacity.
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Amany Eldaly
Business Intelligence Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Tableau is a stable solution.
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Alberto Guisande
Director at Decision Science
No stability issues. I never had it crash my computers. The stability is awesome.
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Pooja Kashyap
Product Manager at Rabita Software
The stability is good. It's easy to use. It's user-friendly.
View full review »No, very stable product
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reviewer1268523
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite stable.
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reviewer1478580
Senior BI Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It's a fairly stable product.
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reviewer1447362
Manager - Customer Success at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Tableau is stable.
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reviewer1585887
Lead Data Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1538121
Head of Data Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Since I have been using the solution it has been stable.
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Cristobal Rodriguez
Director Consultoria at tecnoscala consulting
It is a very stable solution.
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Reviewer3292
Manager Technology at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is a very stable product. It doesn't break.
View full review »We have never experienced an issue with the server software or any technical problems with the desktop or interactor licenses.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues. The QC process seems to improve with each major release.
View full review »The issues we have encountered have been largely due to our own server structure, not Tableau itself.
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reviewer2236278
Software Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The tool is stable.
View full review »It is stable, but at times, I have seen that it doesn't work for certain datasets. If the data is not correctly sanitized, there are chances that you would end up having no visualization at all, even after spending a lot of time. So, sanitization is a must in Tableau as of now. Other than that, I've not seen anything else. There are no bugs, but if the data is not sanitized, you will not get any visualization. That is a problem.
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reviewer1010763
IT Manager of Integration at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
That said, initially we had some performance issues. That has been the biggest issue: performance. Especially in our case, as we are using it as a performance database. However, any initial issues have been solved now.
No, we have not experienced any downtime or stability issues as yet with Tableau Online.
View full review »No problems, at least with the data sources I have used Tableau so far - MSSQL 2008 & 2012, Teradata RDBMS 14.x, and MSAS Cubes.
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reviewer914238
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In some projects, Tableau isn't stable. Sometimes it calls automatically.
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Sasa-Vujovic
Senior Consultant at ICTPro
I can't recall ever having an issue with Tableau's stability. And also, I'm not sure how often our clients have had to update software or install patches, but I think it's pretty stable. I would consider it moderately to highly stable.
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reviewer1595463
Project Manager at a local government with 51-200 employees
The solution seems to be very stable. I wouldn't say that we have used it in a big data kind of way. We don't have big data; we're not really able to test Tableau to the limits.
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reviewer1590450
BI technical analyst at a government with 11-50 employees
When it comes to stability this solution is very good.
View full review »This is a stable product.
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View full review »Tableau (both Desktop + Server) is one of most stable software I have worked with.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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reviewer1754874
Anonymous at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Tableau is a stable product.
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reviewer1463265
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have found the solution to be stable and reliable.
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MarcelHamasuna
Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I don't work with large amounts of data. I don't have millions of data points. In terms of how I use the product, I've never had issues with stability.
View full review »Stability is great.
View full review »Sometimes have issues with stability which are dependent on network bandwidth, latency and user logon from multiple browsers
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reviewer1654785
Global Head of Professional Services at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Tableau worked fairly well for straightforward data sets, but it struggled when we got into the more complicated data sets and larger data sets.
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Hugo Vera
CEO at Bi Solutions S.A
The stability is good.
View full review »It is super stable. No issues whatsoever.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »It is stable.
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Daniel Ragot
Presidente at EDR
Tableau is a stable solution.
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reviewer1497201
Principal Partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
We don't have any complaints about stability.
View full review »No, but important to note it was PoC.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues.
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reviewer1108068
Senior Data Analyst at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Tableau is a stable product.
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Jerry Paul
Product Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With respect to stability as a performance-driven metric, it is wonderful. Tableau is being used by one of the biggest gaming companies. Stability has mostly got to do with:
- Connectivity to your different data and database platforms
- The amount of data that you're dealing with
The Tableau platform can handle both of these because there is no limit per se in terms of the data size. However, a big fee is a challenge for everybody, and there is no escape from it.
Tableau has recently acquired Hyper, which speeds up the performance. Hyper is also something that Facebook uses. Therefore, when it comes to stability, it is one of the best solutions in the market. You don't need to worry about it.
If there are some glitches because a huge amount of data is coming in, there is an inbuilt performance monitoring option in Tableau where it actively monitors every user click on the platform. It will show you the results on the fly and tell you the part of your dashboarding or activity that is consuming the most memory. This way, you can optimize its performance.
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Alejandro Moscoso
General Surgeon at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The stability was good, it worked well.
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Pete Marshall
Operations Manager at iWantGreatCare
Good
View full review »This is a stable solution.
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reviewer601230
Business Intelligence Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
There have not been any areas of instability, thus far. The identified areas were a result of a lack of knowledge.
View full review »The maximum volume of data we have connected is approximately six million records each having about 130 data fields. We did not encounter stability issues when connecting to a pre-downloaded copy of the data. However, on trying to access the live data (a flat file system), the operation was very slow.
View full review »Initial versions crashed when large data sets were loaded. Subsequent releases were more stable.
View full review »We can tell you that Tableau 8 had issues mainly with SQL Server databases, but with Tableau 9 and above, the issues with SQL Server have been solved and now we have a very stable solution.
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reviewer1752162
Cloud Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Tableau is stable.
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reviewer938061
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Performance-wise, Tableau is good but it could always be better.
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AlexC
Project Manager at a government with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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Shagun Mishra
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is fairly stable. However, the issue is when it is time to upgrade. Upgrading a Tableau server is too tedious compared to other tools where normally you just have an update EXE file you run and it is done. This is not the case with Tableau, it requires the dashboard to go down for an hour and then we have to republish all the dashboards again.
View full review »I did not really encounter any deployment, stability or scalability issues. There is a whole support team inside the company to solve these type of issues.
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Diego Hidalgo
QA Manager at Tandicorp
We've had no issues with stability.
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reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Tableau is stable, but the analytic tools don't distribute. You should subscribe in analytic prospectus. In that way, Power BI or Calique or Tableau uses subscription instead of publication, so if the user should ask something or should want to avail of something, they focus on a report and click on subscribe. In that way, they get the data, so the business case is changing a little. Old products, like Oracle BI or SAP BusinessObjects, have more publication features that these kinds of products don't have. I think Tableau's publication feature needs to be improved.
View full review »In terms of stability, we encountered compatibility issues when we upgraded the server version from 8.3 to 9.1. Several reports encountered error messages and were not able to render properly. Later, it was resolved by the server administrator together with Tableau support.
View full review »It is very stable and we have been trying it without any issues for PoC purposes.
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Ed Dallal
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity
No issues encountered.
View full review »Tableau Public crashes on opening on my iMac. So far the web-based tools have worked very well.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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It is a mature and very stable product.
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No. Just that hardware requirements need to be met.
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reviewer1240239
Business Intelligence at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability is fantastic. There are no bugs or glitches. Its performance is reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »I think Tableau is quite stable, but it is likely to be an effect from another service, such as Web Map Service. Whenever there’s problem with the WMS, Tableau hangs with it.
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reviewer1774416
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1499169
Research & Development Expert at a energy/utilities company with 11-50 employees
I've found the solution to be quite stable and reliable so far. I haven't used it long, however, I can't recall it crashing or freezing. I haven't experienced bugs or glitches. Its performance is good.
View full review »We have had no issues with its stability.
View full review »There have been no issues with the stability.
View full review »I work with 4GB RAM and rarely I have a problem with it. My OS is 32 bits.
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Venkateswarlu Paturu
Service Delivery Manager / Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
As far as using low volumes of data, it is stable. If the data is too large then it becomes a problem.
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Yes, in v8.1 there was a problem with changing bg color of sheets and dashboards (TD shutdown)
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reviewer1481310
Lead Data Scientist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
I think currently we are suffering a lot of technical issues.
I am not sure if this is something encountered by other companies, but currently, the Tableau server is not really stable. We have many interruptions in the Big Tree.
It may not be related to the project directly, but because the server itself is not stable, it can impact everything, such as the performance.
View full review »Tableau's very stable.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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reviewer1387728
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »There is no issue with the stability.
View full review »No issues with stability.
View full review »We chose the solution because it was stable and scalable.
View full review »I encountered stability and HA issues.
View full review »Only with SAP BW data sources.
View full review »We have not experienced any issues with stability.
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Yes, certain features cause Tableau to hang repeatedly - for example, editing the data source to point to another extract. Certain issues with data blending exist as well.
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Buyer's Guide
Tableau
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tableau. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.