Best 9 Tableau Partners
Learn about the different resourcing options for leveraging Tableau. Explore the top Tableau Partners & Consultants or connect with FoundHQ to hire directly.
Why Leverage Tableau Consultants?
Acquired by Salesforce in 2019, Tableau is an incredible robust Business Intelligence (B) platform that helps businesses analyze data and make more informed decisions. Tableau provides a wide range of features for data visualization, including drag-and-drop analysis, interactive dashboards, and mobile apps. Tableau is used by businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises.
The challenge with such a flexible and powerful data visualization tool is that it needs to be integrated with precision and tailored to your specific data needs.
Importance of using Tableau Specialists
The main benefit of Tableau is how powerful the tool can be; however, that comes with a good deal of complexity. That's why it's important to use Tableau Specialists to help you implement and use Tableau. Tableau Consultants are data experts that have specialized knowledge of Tableau's capabilities and deep expertise across the Salesforce suite of products. They can help you:
Choose the right Tableau product for your needs
Migrate your data to Tableau and set up necessary integrations
Create and design dashboards and reports
Train your employees on how to use Tableau
Main Tableau Features
This list is comprised by the best Tableau Partners that will help you maximize the potential of the platform and enable you to fully utilize its most incredible features:
Tableau Desktop: An intuitive drag-and-drop interface for creating interactive visualizations and dashboards.
Data Blending: Tableau's data blending feature allows users to combine data from multiple sources, even if they have different structures, to create a unified view for analysis.
Data Preparation: Tableau's data preparation capabilities, including features like data cleaning, filtering, pivoting, and reshaping, help users prepare and transform data directly within the tool.
Show Me: A feature that provides recommendations on suitable visualizations based on the selected data, helping users quickly create appropriate charts and graphs.
Interactive Filters: Tableau enables users to apply interactive filters to their visualizations, allowing for dynamic data exploration and analysis by adjusting parameters on the fly.
Drill Down and Drill Up: Users can drill down into hierarchical data or drill up to higher levels of aggregation to explore details or summarize data, respectively.
Tableau Server and Tableau Online: These platforms enable users to publish and share visualizations, collaborate with colleagues, and provide secure access to data and insights.
Tableau Mobile: Native iOS and Android applications.
Analytics Integrations: Tableau integrates with statistical programming languages like R and Python, allowing users to perform advanced analytics, statistical modeling, and predictive analysis within the Tableau environment.
Mapping and Spatial Analysis: Tableau offers built-in mapping capabilities, allowing users to create interactive maps, perform geospatial analysis, and visualize data based on geographical locations.
Dashboard and Storytelling: Users can combine multiple visualizations into interactive dashboards, enabling them to present a cohesive narrative and tell data-driven stories. Story points allow users to sequence and present visualizations in a "storytelling" format.
Web Data Connector: Tableau's Web Data Connector feature allows users to connect and extract data from web-based APIs and other online sources, expanding the range of data that can be analyzed.
FoundHQ vs Consulting Partners
Companies are told that Salesforce Partners are the only place to go for quality guidance or reliable execution. But that’s simply not true. At least anymore.
There is absolutely a time and place to leverage Consulting Partners but that is primarily limited to projects that will require a Delivery team of 10+ Consultants engaged simultaneously. More often than not, stakeholders turn to Firms when a better option is hiring a small team of Independent Consultants.
FoundHQ was born out of a very real need: a way to engage the same Salesforce Consultants you get from a Partner at a fraction of the cost.
How Consulting Partners Work
There are a few key aspects to the way Salesforce Partners work with you to get the work done. This is a simple reality of their business model.
Deliver the Work and Leave
Their business runs on delivering projects efficiently so they can manage their workload and move on to the next project. Obviously, you're looking to get the work delivered quickly as well but you want to make sure it's done right before they leave - and if the Partner has another project lined up for their Consultants, the final stages can get rushed.
Not to mention, most Partners simply don't have a cost-effective model to support you after go-live. They will either charge astronomical rates for access to an individual Consultant or they will hand everything over and wish you luck.
All Deliverables are Scoped Upfront
In order to achieve the fastest possible deployment, the start of an engagement with a Partner involves scoping the entire project from start to finish and solidifying a timeline for when everything is scheduled to be completed.
Again, project planning is critical for success but it leaves very little room to maneuver. As you learn new things along the way, you might want to change some of the original plans and Partners make it very difficult to do so.
Partners Execute 100% of the Work
Perhaps you have a capable Salesforce Administrator or Developer in-house that would love to get their hands on this new project. It would give them experience and bring the cost of the project down but Consulting Partners don't want to do things that way.
They want to staff an entire team on the project and get as many Consultants billable as possible in order to maintain control. It means means that regardless of what expertise you have within your company - or who on your team you'd like to get some Salesforce exposure - the Partner will be push as many of their Consultants as possible, increasing the overall cost of the project and making knowledge transfer harder during go-live.
Partners are Very Expensive
The typical bill rate per Consultant from a Partner is $200/hour to $350/hour.
They will justify it by saying quality comes at a cost but it's really because Consulting Partners have a lot of overhead, which needs to accounted for in their price. In contrast, Independent Salesforce Consultants charge a significantly lower hourly rate - typically in the range of $100/hour to $175/hour.
And don't be fooled, their experience is identical to the Consultants you get from a Consulting Partner since many Independent Salesforce Consultants used to work for a Partner!
When To Hire Who: FoundHQ vs Consulting Partners
The Partner approach is ideal for larger transformation projects where the team being engaged across strategy, business process optimization, and systems work exceeds 10+ Consultants engaged simultaneously.
At this scale, it's beneficial to have a single vendor accountable for managing the all workstreams and keeping things organized.
But you should strongly consider engaging Independent Consultants for any initiative that requires fewer than 10 Consultants - and especially those that only need a team of 2-3.
In these scenarios, you can take a surgical approach to hiring only the experience needed, while also partnering with someone that remains available to you long after the project is delivered.
Why FoundHQ
Our approach gives you the best of both worlds.
The expertise of a Consulting Firm. The collaboration of an FTE.
And cost savings only a Freelancer can offer.
FoundHQ brings 10+ years of experience building Salesforce teams, including work with some of the top Partners globally. By partnering with us, you get access to a network of 8,000+ pre-vetted Salesforce Consultants, including talent from Slalom, Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Kicksaw, Coastal Cloud, Salesforce, and hundreds of other Consulting Firms.
We possess the single largest Salesforce knowledge base and the ability to help you identify the right team needed to deliver any scope of work.
Get Matched to the Right Salesforce Consultant
FoundHQ is the easiest way to get work done in Salesforce.
As we highlighted in our Guide to Selecting a Partner, finding a Consulting Firm with expertise in the specific Product you need is only one piece of the equation.
Don't overlook the importance of vetting Partners on the specific type of work they deliver and how they will engage with you throughout the engagement.
If you're looking for guidance or an outside opinion on vendor selection, book a call with our team any time.
FoundHQ
New York, NY
Consultants:
8,000+
FoundHQ - The Largest Network of Salesforce Support Experts
Quick Stats
500+ completed Salesforce projects
8,000+ pre-vetted Salesforce Freelance Consultants
No minimum project size
No rigid SOWs
No matching fees
Founded in 2020
Serves United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia with Salesforce Consultants in 30+ Countries
FoundHQ provides access to the single largest network of Salesforce support experts in the world. This unique positioning allows FoundHQ to serve startups, mid-market, and enterprise organizations with a wide range of Salesforce services. Our model supports customers looking to identify project-based Salesforce contractors that function as embedded members of their team.
Getting started with FoundHQ is easy:
You tell FoundHQ about your project needs.
Within 24 hours, we match you with 2-3 Salesforce support consultants specifically identified for your project.
You choose the consultant(s) to interview.
Kick off the project — and FoundHQ will support you every step of the way.
To learn more about if FoundHQ is the right fit for your project, you can Create an Account, List a Quick Project, or Book an Intro Call.
Decision Foundry
New York, NY
Consultants:
31
Decision Foundry have over 140 dedicated data professionals and specialize in Datorama and Tableau. They pride themselves in not just building the tools you might need to manage your data, but they teach you how to best use those tools on your own. Their goal is for their customers to become self-sufficient, so they train your in-house team and provide on-going support.
ClearR
Sidney, Australia
Consultants:
11
Australian owned ClearR focused on moving you from data to insight to action to results. They have offices in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. and have big customer names like Motorola and FinancialForce.
Atrium
Bozeman, Montana
Consultants:
186
Atrium is focused on delivering data-driven CRM strategy by applying the principles of data, analytics, and AI and machine learning to Tableau, Snowflake and Mulesoft.
With over 200+ employees all over the world (including India), Atrium is a top Partner option for larger enterprises looking for a boutique-like service.
Neuraflash
Burlington, MA
Consultants:
321
Neuraflash is huge. They have over 300 certified experts and have experience across many sectors and industries. Some of their customers include Sonos, Macy's and Reddit. If you've got the budget, Neuraflash can deliver.
Saleon Consulting
Pune, India
Consultants:
18
Since their inception, Saleon Consulting was focused purely in Einstein Analytics (now Tableau). They are a certified Tableau Premier Services Partner with a core service offering that includes Einstein Discovery, Lightning Components development , Community/Portal Development and more.
Revelation.AI
Boston, MA
Consultants:
29
Coming from Neuraflash as a Salesforce Analytics lead, Justin Miller founded Revelation.AI to focus primarily in Tableau and Snowflake. A boutique firm with 25 employees, RevAI offers quick acceleation packages and Managed Services for companies of all sizes.
Saberpoint
New York, NY
Consultants:
15
Headquartered in New York City and with operations in New Jersey, Israel, and India, Saberpoint was founded as the internal IT arm of the Arjay Wireless Group of Companies. Saberpoint is not solely focused on Tableau but still fairly specialized in data analytics.
Praesto Consulting
London, England
Consultants:
4
Specialized in Power BI and Tableau, Preasto is an England-based Consulting Partner with over 10 years experience. Praesto prides itself in being a small but mighty team of 95 employees and have worked with the likes of Prudential and Bloomberg.
Get Matched to the Right Salesforce Consultant
FoundHQ is the easiest way to get work done in Salesforce.