We performed a comparison between Tableau and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."I like Tableau's heat maps and the storyboard. You can create data stories and tons of visuals with it, and it goes together really well. Tableau lets you manipulate the data in various ways."
"You are able to see and follow trends."
"I believe one of the most valuable features of the solution is trend analysis."
"I like the solution's web version, more so than Power BI's web version. It just makes it easier to drag and drop things and to blend data on the backend. It simplifies the process."
"It's intuitive and highly mature"
"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"It's the ease of use. It is also a self-service tool so it decreases the burden on having centralized IT-type teams or developers."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"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."
"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."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"The customization in the front end is a bit difficult."
"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 only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"Could have more integrations with different platforms."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Tableau is rated 8.4, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. 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 XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI.
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