We performed a comparison between Tableau and Windward Core based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."
"The most valuable feature is that we can integrate with our own database, and it will displays the KPIs. This is highly required from the business side."
"Tableau's initial setup was straightforward."
"Technical support has been responsive."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"A valuable feature of Tableau is that it is a useful tool for small setups. I shuffle between Tableau and MicroStrategy, so I use Tableau for personal purposes more than enterprise. I like the light version of Tableau for personal usage and doing some use cases on my own. When it comes to something small, I use Tableau for setups, rather than any other tool."
"The two features that I like the best are the ability to generate Word and Excel documents, and the ability to create my templates directly inside those software sets. It's absolutely critical for me as a user to have design and layout control, because all of my reports are very, very customized. I have to have control over the ability to generate and to control what they look like."
"Technical support is very good. They reply immediately and follow-up with any questions."
"It's very feature-rich. You can create tables, you can create graphs, you can import pictures, and those features are also easy to use."
"The usually the response is within one hour. The technical support will WebEx with you. I rate them as a 10 out of 10."
"Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box."
"AutoTag is valuable because it integrates with MS Word and makes it easy for our users to create template documents and reports. It allows our users to design the templates based on differing needs."
"Creating dynamic table of contents (TOC) based on dynamic data in different reports."
"The integration with MS Office is an advantage, creating a better user experience."
"There should be more widgets that would help less trained individuals create charts with less difficulty."
"Tableau is a company that does not respect partners."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"Regarding AutoTag, we do notice that when you want to refactor a little bit of your template design or when you want to implement changes, sometimes you need a lot of clicks to get the change done. For instance... it would be helpful to be able to find all the identifiers with the old name and replace them with the new name. We haven't found a way to do that with the find-replace tool. Throughout the user-interface of Windward, you need a lot of clicks to get that done."
"The next release could benefit from a cloud-based environment."
"I'm still working in Office 2016, and we have had some issues, but Windward is very quick to react when there is a problem. We are also going to switch over to Office 365 and that will solve a few of the problems."
"The reason it took us so long to get the system up and running is that the APIs could be improved a bit. It could be a little bit more interoperable with software, without having to do a lot of the heavy lifting that we had do to get it in."
"AutoTag needs to be web-based, so our customers can create reports from our web."
"It needs the ability to drill down in a single report (i.e., interactive) into data."
"There are some Excel formatting things that you lose when you implement a template: some default Excel validation scripts, macros. You could create them in Excel if you were just using Excel, but in creating a template that generates a report, some of those validation things are lost."
"About six months ago, we raised the possibility of improving the way they manage the HTML 5. Sometimes, when you insert a lot of data in the data source, you get an error because it is not managing HTML 5 features well. I believe they have addressed this in later versions of their product."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews while Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting. Tableau is rated 8.4, while Windward Core is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, Nintex Document Generation, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and CA Easytrieve Report Generator.
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