Re:Ask HN: Tools to visualize data in SQL databases?
by Simon_O_Rourke on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:27AM
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Tableau is great, but that initial fee, while being peanuts in terms of absolute IT spend, has been a blocker getting it rolled out in one large BI team I worked with.
The backstory was a large BI team having no proper tools for reporting, except maybe Looker for tabular KPI reports. So any addition of Tableau was an all our nothing buy, every single analyst or whoever on the BI team needed a seat, even though most of them wouldn't ever use it. For that matter 95 percent of the BI team would never move away from Excel. Anyway, the costs were huge for something that should have been a leap in capabilities.
The backstory was a large BI team having no proper tools for reporting, except maybe Looker for tabular KPI reports. So any addition of Tableau was an all our nothing buy, every single analyst or whoever on the BI team needed a seat, even though most of them wouldn't ever use it. For that matter 95 percent of the BI team would never move away from Excel. Anyway, the costs were huge for something that should have been a leap in capabilities.