[pinewurst]

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.

[Dyac]

We have Tableau but I've never found it particularly useful, as most of what I do is very exploratory and Tableau seems more like a place to build final presentation of things that will just go to gather dust.

I now use both of these tools below (no affiliation), which you might find interesting.

[1] www.exploratory.io

[2] www.count.co

[nomilk]

I don't use Tableau but had similar feelings recently with Databricks. Tools like these are probably fine for folks who want more grunt than a laptop without needing to learn much about cloud, infrastructure or security. But for me, it feels like a straight jacket. It lets you get going quickly but at the expense of flexibility. Slowly but surely the warts become apparent.

A year or two really isn't a lot of time (for an individual nor company) to invest in order to build long term skills in powerful tools that side step inflexible (and expensive) platforms.

[Rastonbury]

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