We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio 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."Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."
"The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"It is easy to use, and it can handle a large amount of data."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"It is very good for data visualization. It has very powerful visualizations and is easy to use."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."
"When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."
"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."
"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"Small multiples (a.k.a. Trellis charts) are possible only through very hacky means. Update: Still remains a challenge."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"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."
Google Data Studio is ranked 13th in Reporting with 8 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". 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". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView and Databricks, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics. See our Google Data Studio vs. Tableau report.
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