Tableau is a leading data platform that has gained attention and is well known for its extraordinary abilities towards businesses and individuals for generating powerful insights. What makes Tableau different is that it actively listens to its community and shapes the platform’s future. Tableau as a company takes the users suggestions seriously and translates it to provide actual improvements with its new features.
Users have a direct link to Tableau development team with the help of Tableau community ideas forum. This forum helps customers to submit their feature requests, discuss and vote on ideas and also suggests measures to improve the platform. This integrated approach has made Tableau more responsive to the user’s needs. And it is the reason for some of the most popular updates in the platform.
Built on Community Feedback
One of the major missions of Tableau is to create features that have real value. This helps in solving real on-the-ground problems. This community starts from the root and has people from developers to business analysts who provide right suggestions at the right time with their on ground experience. So, this ensures that even the smallest feature is worth all the efforts.
For example, one of the feature called “Quick Level of Detail Expressions (LOD)” of 2021 is the best idea at the community level. Many users had requested for it. The amazing thing is that Tableau adopted this user idea and released it and this became one of the most appreciated enhancements on Tableau.
Another example is the Dynamic Zone Visibility released from various vibrant users for a dynamic way of designing the dashboards. This improves the visibility on the dashboard and can be managed by filters and improves flexibility in design.
The Process – How it works
The starting point of this is the feedback loop and it’s done through the Tableau ideas forum.
- Submit Ideas – Users and members of this community are allowed to propose an idea that is related to a new feature or improvement through the forum.
- Vote: The other members in the community are allowed to vote on the proposed idea. This helps Tableau to prioritize the same based on the criticality of the idea.
- Review Team: Post this, the ideas are reviewed by the product team of Tableau and they evaluate the feasibility of the highest voted ideas.
- Updates: After this, Tableau updates about the ideas that were selected and are under review or in progress or if it’s completed.
Based on the above steps, it further clarifies its idea’s status under various categories. This helps in tracking from the user’s side. It shows the dedication shown by the company towards transparency and collaboration.
Advantages of a Community-Driven Approach
This collaborative approach has various advantages including:
- Greater User Satisfaction: Users get a feel of ownership and also appreciated and get attached to the platform, especially when their suggestion turns into reality.
- Relentless Improvement: This helps Tableau in being relevant to the ground level reality of the community and ensures that users are constantly updated and it also keeps it real.
- Innovation Through Diversity: These ideas come from individuals of different industries and use cases so it makes Tableau adaptable to diverse needs.
The Future
Because of Tableau’s commitment to its community, it has evolved in the ways which really matters to its users. Tableau, by actively connecting and engaging with its audience and turning feedback into the features, has become a benchmark to other software companies to co-create with its users.
Whether you are just starting with Tableau or if you are an advanced level user, this ideas community forum has made many voices heard and has a greater effect on the future of the platform. Visit the Tableau Community Ideas Forum here to explore or contribute your ideas. (Link- https://community.tableau.com/s/ this has to be hyper linked)
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