We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 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."The initial setup is easy."
"I mainly use the solution for the ease of reporting and for executive dashboards."
"The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"The stability of SSRS has been reliable, with minimal issues encountered during our usage."
"It is scalable."
"I'm very satisfied with the customer service. And usually, whenever we have any issue or details, we get to the person for the support. I'm really satisfied with the service. Within a few minutes or within a few hours, the support person will be available."
"We get good support from Microsoft."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"It's easy to use."
"Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space."
"Tableau is easy to use. That's the first and most important thing. I not only provide consulting but I also train people to use it, so with its ease-of-use it's not as difficult for me to train executives and management staff, because they don't have the IT background, unlike when I'm using Python."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"It would be really nice to have better integration between the solution and Power BI."
"It doesn't have quite the flexibility of a Tableau or something like that. Many users are more comfortable with Tableau and I'm not quite sure why that is right now, but it seems to be the case."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"The solution's interface is old."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"The product should improve its performance."
"The product could be improved by reducing the time it takes to build and deploy reports."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"Tableau is a company that does not respect partners."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better."
"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 16 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". 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". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, SAP Crystal Reports, Oracle OBIEE and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs. Tableau report.
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