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I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced.

by EC1 11y ago

tremguy 11y ago
+1
untog 11y ago
This is an extremely frustrating thread to follow. We have some people who have run a Tableau server with no issues, and now two people who are effectively saying "oh, it's awful but I have no interest in telling you why".
- EC1 11y ago
  I wouldn't even know where to start to be completely honest.
  - recursive 11y ago
    Thanks for your honesty, but I hope you understand that's completely useless. I might have preferred if you lied.
    - EC1 11y ago
      To be completely honest I've never even heard of Tableau.
- karmawitch 11y ago
  five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? (except those seasoned exchange-experts of course) did you ever consider there might be valid reasons some folks prefer *nix based servers?
  - untog 11y ago
    five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? Check the timestamps of those messages vs mine. At the time there were only the two responses I mentioned.
    - karmawitch 11y ago
      you have a point there
bsg75 11y ago
> I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced. Deploying visualizations without having to develop any HTML or JavaScript code. Publishing to the desktop (Windows or Mac), to the web, to the cloud, or mobile devices (iOS and Android). Publish to the server once, consume on all supported platforms. Deploying a copy of a current site for redundancy, testing or development. Install the app, backup the primary Tableau database with its admin utility (command line), restore it on the new box. All data, visualizations, users and permissions are contained in that single restore step. Tableau means I spend time working with my data, instead of the presentation of it. Its not a perfect product by any measure, and could obviously use some improvements, but is a timesaver in many areas.

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I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced.

by EC1 11y ago

I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced.

tremguy 11y ago
+1
untog 11y ago
This is an extremely frustrating thread to follow. We have some people who have run a Tableau server with no issues, and now two people who are effectively saying "oh, it's awful but I have no interest in telling you why".
- EC1 11y ago
  I wouldn't even know where to start to be completely honest.
  - recursive 11y ago
    Thanks for your honesty, but I hope you understand that's completely useless. I might have preferred if you lied.
    - EC1 11y ago
      To be completely honest I've never even heard of Tableau.
- karmawitch 11y ago
  five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? (except those seasoned exchange-experts of course) did you ever consider there might be valid reasons some folks prefer *nix based servers?
  - untog 11y ago
    five people telling in detail horror stories that make every other devop feel the pain? Check the timestamps of those messages vs mine. At the time there were only the two responses I mentioned.
    - karmawitch 11y ago
      you have a point there
bsg75 11y ago
> I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced. Deploying visualizations without having to develop any HTML or JavaScript code. Publishing to the desktop (Windows or Mac), to the web, to the cloud, or mobile devices (iOS and Android). Publish to the server once, consume on all supported platforms. Deploying a copy of a current site for redundancy, testing or development. Install the app, backup the primary Tableau database with its admin utility (command line), restore it on the new box. All data, visualizations, users and permissions are contained in that single restore step. Tableau means I spend time working with my data, instead of the presentation of it. Its not a perfect product by any measure, and could obviously use some improvements, but is a timesaver in many areas.