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."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"You are able to see and follow trends."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"We frequently utilize visualizations using maps and different objects, all with rich coloring options. And tooltips are absolutely essential for us. Tooltips, like the pop-up descriptions when you hover over some object or graph. Those tooltips in Tableau are great features."
"Data Interpreter: Which can identify issues or potential errors with your imported data."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"It has a shallow learning curve and so you can go to market very, very, very quickly."
"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"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."
"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."
"They need a write-back; that is what is missing. If they get the write back to the database, they will be fully automated, but for the time being, they are not."
"The forecasting feature in Tableau in my view is too limited because it must have dates but I should be able to predict the outcome of an event without having a date as part of the input."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"Users would like to be able to export an Excel file when they see a table or something like that. That's not an out-of-the-box feature for Tableau."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"The cost of owning the solutions from Tableau is much higher compared to any other analytical solutions."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 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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