We performed a comparison between Board and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What is very valuable is the ability to customize. We didn't see a solution out there that really matched exactly what our functional requirements would be. So we were able to work with New Brain, our integrator, and we were able to build from the ground up what we wanted, and I think that's pretty unique to BOARD."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"It is very easy to use. It has got what they call a toolkit, which is a no-code development environment. You can develop a whole solution with it because it is a complete platform. There is a lot of online material that can be used as a reference. You can help yourself while developing a solution. There are some prebuilt applications in the platform environment. You can very easily customize and integrate these applications. It also has flexible scaling of machine resources, which is really great."
"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI."
"A valuable feature of Tableau is that it is a useful tool for small setups. I shuffle between Tableau and MicroStrategy, so I use Tableau for personal purposes more than enterprise. I like the light version of Tableau for personal usage and doing some use cases on my own. When it comes to something small, I use Tableau for setups, rather than any other tool."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"Very user friendly."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"Formatting controls could use some improvement."
"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". 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". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and OneStream XF, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Board vs. Tableau report.
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