We performed a comparison between Board 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."The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."
"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools."
"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."
"It is easy to use, and it can handle a large amount of data."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool."
"Tableau is a fantastic tool that provides impressive dashboards and customized reports."
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."
"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "
"Building similar models entirely from scratch could be made quicker with transfer abilities between databases and capsules."
"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"Reports should be downloadable as PDF files."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"Whenever it comes to specialized visualization, Tableau is an absolute failure."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"The user story model is the most deceptive part of Tableau. It is a big marketing option, however, the reality is that it is not enough."
Board is ranked 19th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 292 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". 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". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and OneStream XF, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Board vs. Tableau report.
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