We performed a comparison between Birst and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Easy for beginners to use"
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"Partner support is very good."
"Data Interpreter: Which can identify issues or potential errors with your imported data."
"Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"Although Tableau isn't the best for us when it comes to processing and working on live data, it is very good at extracting data for analysis."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"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."
"I would like the solution to have certain features allowing the delivery of reports to the email."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"There could be improvements on the mobile application, it is lacking features."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"The solution needs to improve its integration capabilities."
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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, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks.
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