We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio 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 ability to design complex data models and equations."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."
"This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"It's easy to use."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."
"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"When you physically install a product on one machine instead of the cloud, you have a better visibility, best icon quality, etc.. It's more of an issue with how we are adapting to the transition. We are still in the early moments of using this tool, and we need to go deeper to discover some improvements."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"The performance could be better."
"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."
"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."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
Google Data Studio is ranked 14th in Reporting with 8 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". 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". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks and QlikView, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics. See our Google Data Studio vs. Tableau report.
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