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."
"Tableau Prep tool for data preparation is a most valuable tool."
"It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility."
"I like the calculation feature. I would not say it's such a good feature in Tableau, but if you have the knowledge, you can make that feature visible to everyone. It's not a feature that we can drag and drop and get the information. But whatever the data, whatever the calculation, I'm able to do. It's basically the knowledge base. Whatever knowledge I have, I can make that information public and publish it for management."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source. I'm not using it with any other data source, such as SQL Server. I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the virtualization. This is something that is very convenient for me as of now."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."
"Whenever it comes to specialized visualization, Tableau is an absolute failure."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
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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, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Birst vs. Tableau report.
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