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 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."
"I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"Tableau is a fantastic tool that provides impressive dashboards and customized reports."
"Tableau's initial setup was straightforward."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The extraction, transformation and loading of data in Tableau takes a lot of time and we do not have confidence that Tableau is showing all the data we need."
"The solution needs to improve its integration capabilities."
"The charting is overly complex in comparison with Power BI's"
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"I am not a frequent user of this solution, so I am not sure what they've been doing recently. The last time when I used it, I had to use other tools with it for data extraction and cleansing. Its price should also be improved. It is more expensive than Power BI. In terms of training, there is generally better online training for Power BI, but I am not sure of that. It would be helpful to know from where to access its training."
"The solution could use more features in data analytics."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."
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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, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Birst vs. Tableau report.
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