We performed a comparison between Tableau and Yellowfin 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."The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"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 platform's most important feature is predictive analysis."
"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"Provides a very good sound analysis quotient."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"Tableau has so many functions, so sometimes it's hard to find the right solution quickly. I have to search multiple menu bars to find the right command."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Tableau is an end-to-end analytics platform, and it is doing a pretty good job in terms of connecting to the data and analyzing it. It can, however, do better in terms of data management and the ETL features, which are not on the advanced analytics or machine learning side. Tableau Prep is where users would want to see more advancements. They can improve Tableau Prep, which is an analytic platform tool for data cleansing. People who work with data spend most of their time curating the data. Cleaning up the data and getting it ready for analysis is what takes the most time. If Tableau can invest more time in improving the Tableau Prep platform, it would be great. Previously, Tableau didn't have the functionality for writing to a database. So, you couldn't really alter the database tables and write to your database, but they fixed that in one of the very recent releases. However, it isn't really advanced and should be improved."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"The product needs to allow for better ways to drill down more effectively on the information at hand."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Tableau is rated 8.4, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and 9 Spokes. See our Tableau vs. Yellowfin report.
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