What is Tableau?
Tableau is the leading data visualisation and exploratory analytics platform — owned by Salesforce since 2019. It lets analysts and business users build dashboards, explore data interactively, and surface insights faster than traditional BI tools. Tableau now spans Tableau Desktop (authoring), Tableau Cloud / Server (sharing), Tableau Prep (data prep), Tableau Pulse (AI-driven insights), and tight integration with Salesforce Data Cloud.
What does Decision Foundry's Tableau service include?
Strategy and metric definition; dashboard design and development; data prep and source modelling; performance tuning (extract optimisation, calculation refactoring, materialised views); Tableau Server / Cloud deployment and governance; embedded analytics inside web and Salesforce applications; user training; and the broader "Data UX" design discipline we pioneered.
How does Tableau compare to Power BI or Looker?
Power BI wins on cost and DAX modelling, especially in Microsoft-centric stacks. Looker excels at semantic modelling and LookML governance. Tableau leads on visual flexibility, exploratory analytics, design polish, and native integration with the rest of the Salesforce stack (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud, MCI). Each has a sweet spot; we deliver across all three.
How long does a Tableau engagement take, and what does it cost?
A focused dashboard build (1–3 dashboards, single data source) runs 4–8 weeks. A multi-dashboard program with governance, performance tuning, and adoption support runs 3–5 months. Tableau licensing depends on Creator / Explorer / Viewer mix and Cloud vs Server choice. Every engagement starts with a discovery call and metric workshop.
We have Tableau but dashboards are slow or unused — can you fix that?
This is the most common Tableau engagement we see. Performance issues usually trace to extracts, data source design, or chart-level calculations. Adoption issues trace to design that wasn't built for the actual decision-maker. We run a 2-week diagnostic and rebuild from the decision backwards. Adoption typically jumps 50%+ within 60 days of redesign.
Why Decision Foundry for Tableau?
Tableau is core to our practice — multiple Tableau Zen Masters and Iron Vizards on staff, plus Salesforce Marketing Champions across the broader analytics stack. We pioneered the "Data UX" practice. Certified across Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server, Tableau Prep, and the broader Salesforce analytics stack (MCI, CRM Analytics, Data Cloud, Tableau Pulse). 200+ data projects delivered.