We performed a comparison between Birst and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"Technical support has been responsive."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"Its performance is pretty good, and the development time is very low."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"There are not enough language options. It needs to be offered in more than just English."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"I have noticed that Tableau is not very compatible with ClickHouse. There's no direct connection to ClickHouse; you have to set up an ODBC connection."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
"The tool's OpenAI integration was announced last year. However, it is late. Tableau is a good solution for end customers. However, there are some concerns regarding the stability and performance of its server architecture, including SaaS services. The server side appears unstable, and performance issues are noticeable, often accompanied by unclear error messages."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Birst vs. Tableau report.
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