We performed a comparison between Sisense and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the dashboard creating feature helpful."
"The most valuable thing I have found is the ability for Sisense to connect data from totally different sources."
"Support is very responsive and clearly one of the strengths of Sisense. I have always received a fast response and the staff is very helpful."
"ElastiCube Manager is a very easy to use ETL tool, which includes the ability to easily transform raw data into reusable data."
"No issues with stability. It is a very stable solution."
"Allows us to execute heavy, complex computations on the fly so customers can slice and dice the data based on their business needs."
"It has allowed me to move my data to the cloud."
"We like that this solution allows us to use data cubes to set up specific visualizations."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"Easy for beginners to use"
"Technical support has been responsive."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."
"At present there are additional costs involved if we wish to share our data queues within this solution, which we would like to see removed."
"I would also like to be able to run a bursts of reports based on different field values with PDF output right in the tool, rather than filtering on each field value and generating each PDF manually."
"The solution's setup process could be easier."
"I would like Sisense to improve its performance, particularly when we are dealing with large-scale data."
"The initial version we purchased only ran on Windows servers, which was less than ideal for our DevOps team. I believe that has been remedied in the latest release."
"Larger datasets will sometimes give a "Accumulated logs" error when trying to make minor changes. T"
"This solution does not have tabs. In order to have tabs, you have to download an add-on to mimic the tabs. They should be integrated to improve the solution."
"The administrative side of Sisense is a little cumbersome and confusing."
"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."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"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 user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"They need to improve the bar chart position and width."
Sisense is ranked 9th in Embedded BI with 39 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Embedded BI with 292 reviews. Sisense is rated 8.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sisense writes "Business intelligence solution that has improved automation and provided meaningful insights". 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". Sisense is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight and QlikView, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Sisense vs. Tableau report.
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I was in the same boat. Sisense said if you have any single table of more than half a billion rows, its big data and costs are 25k plus for server version. Though Sisense said they would offer discount later, I was put of by their price for 10 licenses. Tableau scored better when we try to weight average the features for our requirements.
Dear Peter,
Your analysis is so ever helpful. The imaginary TCO as broken down is quite helpful too. Will definitely incorporate your insights into my final analysis.
Thank you.
I work with a competing product, QlikView, but the rules are similar. Tableau and QlikView are 1 and 2 respectively in the Gartner Leadership quadrant and are similar in design, hence my answering specific issues as follows:
Licensing costs are normally your outright purchase plus 20% for annual maintenance, and then 20% of the purchase price going forward. There should be nothing "hidden" in the licensing costs.
Where you do have the potential to have cost creep is with the models required. It is obviously not feasible to put all information for all areas of a company in a single model, so what you might find is that as the product gains traction in the organisation, more models are required. to use an example:
You buy a Small Business edition with 10 license at $20,000 incl 1st year maintenance. Year two will cost you $4,000 assuming no price increase.
You have one model created at $8,000. Then you need a 2nd, third, and 4th to cater for different needs. All of a sudden you have spent R20,000 on the licenses and $32,000 on models. There is some backwards compatibility with new versions, but assume maintenance on those models of $2,000 per model in say year three. Year three then costs you $4,000 annual maintenance plus $8,000 model maintenance.
Next scenario, the data source - lets say an ERP or Accounting system, releases a major upgrade. fields are changed, and you need to do changes on all your models another = $8,000. the key then is to try to ensure you align both source and BI software upgrades to minimise costs.
Obviously each implementation is different, and these numbers tend towards a worst case scenario, but have occurred with many companies.
My final thought though is you mustn't be focused solely on the costs. You are using BI because it adds value to the business either through increased profit margins or reduced costs - either of which should cover the BI costs many times over.
We are using Tableau and satisfying our more than 250 clients. Its easy to handle & strong product in the manner of BI.
Regarding Tableau
There are 2 versions of the software Desktop and Server
The Desktop version may be licensed in Europe at 1600 euro per seat and the server has an initial cost of 6250 euro for 10 seats , after the initial 10 seats the server licences are 625 euro per seat
Desktop provides a full blown analysis and design and visualisation capability for analysts
Server provides report and dashboard scheduling and distribution capabilities and allows visualisations created in desktop to be shared in a web portal.
Most organisations require both types of licence and to understand the best fit for your organisation means that you should understand the needs of your business and analytical users.
You can obtain a trial licence for 14 days form the tableau website that will enable you to evaluate the capabilities of the product.
Regarding training, lots of online training resources are available on the tableau website and it is a very intuitive tool and so IU would highly recommend hat you give it a try before you buy.
I hope that this helps
Kind Regards
Andrew McSwiggan
I'm in the middle of a Tableau implementation going from desktop to server. It's a great product and our team went through a review of several products for about 8 months before deciding on this one. Very easy to install and use. We conducted an end-user test with one of our managers who is not very tech savvy. With outlined tasks he was able to complete all tasks in independent visuals with limited support in about 20 minutes. In 10 additional minutes was able to gather those visuals into a dynamic dashboard. The R site integration was perfect for our I/O analysts to conduct predictive analysis. If the start up company ends up moving this from desktop to server the costs are low in comparison to the other options out there. No signs of upcharging and costs are spelled out clearly in their quotes. Good luck with your selection process!
I forgot to mention-
Tableau Desktop Installs by clicking setup.exe - very easy and fast. To show your already made visualization you can use Tableau Reader - it is free of charge - www.tableausoftware.com
To publish your visualization you can use Tableau Server ($999 per user, but at first you should buy license for 10 user min) or Tableau Online - it is cloud service by Tableau - $500 per year per user.
Hi, Tableau Desktop - $1999. You can use one license key for two PCs. Your PCs, I think, should have 4 CPU and 8 Gb ROM for feeling you comfortable during working with Tableau Desktop. About trainings - a lot of free online training sessions. Also they have online trainings from $200 to $600 depends on level (you will get a certificate:)). Classroom - $1390 - www.tableausoftware.com