Just gimme the spreadsheet version!!

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:52:26 GMT

OK, so my company has had Tableau Desktop and Server for 8 months now and adoption is still not great....

People like numbers and spreadsheets. As a business analyst, I go to elicit their reporting requirments and it always comes back to the same thing - Tableau is great, but we wanna see the numbers!!

I managed to produce something that vaguely looks like a spreadsheet in Tableau and it 8 different worksheets and loads of calculations and paras to do something which would have taken an hour in Excel. I even had to create a new staging table in SQL to get the data right.

Now, they want to expand the idea to include drill throughs (we're on 8.2, so stories?), bridges (yay- visuals), and secondary data sources (I see poor performance coming!) The main component of the report is still tabular and looks like a spreadsheet though.

This brings me to my point. When do you give up and advise that Excel (or SQL RS) would suit the requirement better? Am I missing something in Tableau? Has anybody got a way to acheive basically a more complicated version of the above (more comparatives/bridges) without having ten zillion worksheets on a dashboard all lined up in a miltary stylee????

Thanks.

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