We performed a comparison between Tableau and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Partner support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"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."
"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."
"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."
"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."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"The development part should be better. We are putting a lot of effort in during development, so if we face any struggles, we have to find workaround solutions on the internet."
"Tableau's data modeling, mining, and AI library features need improvement."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Tableau is rated 8.4, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI.
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