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We are currently using two tools, and we are considering moving to Power BI. We are evaluating whether we want to move to the cloud or not. If we are moving to the cloud, we may completely move to Power BI in the future. If we move to the cloud, we mostly would move to Azure, and integrating Azure and Tableau doesn't make sense. We are also considering the pricing point.
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reviewer1659204
Senior Manager.Marketing Strategy & Analysis. at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have evaluated Microsoft BI.
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YAWANTWI-ADJEI
Data Visualization Specialist at Data Catalyst
I have occasionally used IBM SPSS for similar work that I perform in Tableau, but I only use it when the client absolutely requires it.
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I evaluated QlikView.
View full review »We are always evaluating this solution in relation to Microsoft Power BI and QlikView. Power BI requires knowledge of numerous other Microsoft products in order to get results from your implementation. You need an expert DBA that can handle it in cloud and many specialists to implement the Microsoft solution. People think that buying or using Power BI is all that they need to do, but that's not the case, Power BI is just the last step of the implementation. A lot needs to be done before implementation. It's the same when it comes to automatizing the data refresh. Tableau has just three products and you don't need much time to learn and to finish a project and be up and running. QlikView has less tools and less features for data preparation. Vertica is another database that handles built-in models for data science and for the data scientist, this is a good choice in order to run, test and train the models.
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YAWANTWI-ADJEI
Data Visualization Specialist at Data Catalyst
I had already used other tools and also wrote my own program in VBA to analyze data.
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BenjaminArnulf
Senior Director BI & Analytics at Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.
Before choosing this solution we evaluated Qlik, Domo, and Power BI.
View full review »In our case, people were already using Tableau. There are other groups within our company that are using other types of tools like MicroStrategy, and we already had BusinessObjects and Cognos here. But because of the ease of use and the self-service nature of the product we decided, for products in that category, that Tableau was the best.
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reviewer1620732
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have experience working with Cognos and Power BI. Compared to Cognos, Tableau and Power BI are pretty fast. Cognos has the concept of Framework Manager where you can build a framework model. Once you build the model, then you have to release the package, and only then is the subset or the package of data available for reporting. Tableau and Power BI eradicate the dependency on a framework model.
With Cognos, installation and configuration wise the setup takes a bit of time. You have to install and configure and then make the data available. After that, you can do reporting. Unlike that, Tableau is very quick; you can just directly connect to Excel or a file on your desktop.
The connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless in Tableau and Power BI, unlike those in Cognos.
From a license perspective, I think Cognos is the most expensive, then Tableau, and then Power BI.
If I were to rate these solutions on a scale from one to ten, I would rate Power BI at 7 and Cognos at 8.
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Djalma Gomes, Pmp, Mba
Managing Partner at Data Pine
Another option I evaluated is Power BI from Microsoft. It's cheaper than other solutions and requires fewer different packages. The major competitor of Tableau is Power BI from Microsoft and Microsoft's much cheaper than Tableau. But Microsoft usually requires me to be on Microsoft cloud Azure. You have to buy other solutions for an integrated solution. At the end your cost will be much higher. So Tableau is more flexible.
In Tableau, I can have a scatter plot with millions of marks. Suppose I have a graph that plots my value against my process and each dot in the graph is a sale that I've made. So I have 30 million dots in this graph reflecting my 30 million sales. Tableau can run this easily and fast. Power BI cannot. Power BI has a limitation of 13,500 marks, meaning Tableau has more capacity in delivering data than its competitors.
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Byeongjun Chun
IT Manager at Glovis Europe
We didn't really evaluate other options. Every application provides some concept of a dashboard in using the data in that application. We have our own homemade dashboard and our business application, but users normally don't use it.
I think Tableau has many features for display, like graphs or pie charts. We can change dynamically, but our own dashboard doesn't provide that. It takes much more time if we change the layout there.
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Carlo Capasso
Partner at Bambino & Partners
Yes I did: MicroStrategy because , it was the first competitor of Tableau. However, there is no comparison. Tableau's the best platform for me and offers the best software.
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Carlo Capasso
Partner at Bambino & Partners
I did try another platform, MicroStrategy. I spent one year and several webinars on both companies, Tableau and MicroStrategy. I decided to invest in Tableau because of its simplicity; it's more simple to understand and less complicated than MicroStrategy. With Tableau's infrastructure to build a dashboard, I found the perfect instrument.
I also had interest in QlikView, but it did not fit my requirements.
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Peter Birksmith
(2IC) Senior System Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Actually no. This was a spontaneous purchase by an executive and we basically ran with it.
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Cristobal Rodriguez
Director Consultoria at tecnoscala consulting
We evaluated in 2013 QLICKVIEW .
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
I have looking at SAP SAC and Oracle / Essbase for a client.
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dataware204993
Data Warehouse Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
We only went with Tableau based on the feature set and the user base reviews.
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reviewer1754865
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I'm also aware of solutions such as Microsoft BI, which is bundled into Microsoft Cloud products. It makes it less expensive for users if they are already heavily using Microsoft.
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reviewer1656066
Data Management Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
I've looked into Microsoft BI and downloaded some information about it recently.
View full review »Yes, we did an alternatives analysis of all the product line options against our criteria of need in our environment, where recurring cost, time to implement, and other interoperation, security, platform scalability, architecture, etc. factors play a role. The majority were mentioned above.
View full review »I am most familiar with SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence, but have been to classes on Tableau, Power BI, and Qlikview as part of our internal efforts to help the business choose which is right for their needs.
R and SAS are under our heading of Advanced Analytic tools in the BI space and will be evaluated in phase 2.
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Pro3289Mng
Program Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
We always like to evaluate other products in tandem with what we are using.
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reviewer1384707
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am currently researching Sisense to get an idea of what the pros and cons of the different BI tools are. Sisense is a more complete tool that includes data cleaning, data transformation, and ETL capabilities right in the tool.
Tableau, on the other hand, is used for visualizations, dashboards, and storytelling. Their data has been cleaned or preprocessed in an SQL database beforehand.
View full review »Again, this was more based on learning curve and user experience for me. I've worked with MicroStrategy and BusinessObjects (learning curve is higher for me for these, then Tableau). Big thing here is the user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience). I'm sure MSTR and BO are good tools, just not my preference.
View full review »We performed a POC before going with Tableau, we tried Power BI because Power BI is competing against tableau. But to use Power BI at its full potential, you need the Power BI cloud edition, which our organization cannot go with. So the obvious choice was to go with Tableau.
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Mahesh-K
Sr. Manager at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
We have evaluated Domo, Microsoft BI, and Qlik, and we have found Tableau is much better.
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Ayodele-Makun
Pre-Sales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
As a consultant in the area of Business Intelligence and data analytics, I have personally evaluated BI tools such as QlikView, Qlik Sense, Power BI and MicroStrategy.
View full review »We compared Tableau to QlikView, Panorama Necto and TIBCO Spotfire. We evaluated them by:
- Price
- Ease of use
- Speed of implementation
- Use-case visualizations
Yes & no. No real "project" to review where I was going. Many times, the client dictates what I would be using. As I developed into more a higher level consultant, I was always looking at new products, and updates from existing ones. In the last nine years, no one has come close to unseating Tableau as my choice...
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reviewer1563138
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Before choosing Tableau, I had checked QlikView, which is now Qlik Sense, and I preferred the way Tableau works over Qlik Sense. Tableau made me feel independent and not dependent on programmers, making it more user-friendly.
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reviewer1637409
Fleet Reporting Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I had a look at Qlik but didn't get a chance to really evaluate the benefits from one platform to another, other than what you find on the internet.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
I have also worked with Microsoft's Power BI and I've found Tableau to be far more flexible and user-friendly in terms of the variety of visualizations it allows you to create.
View full review »We did evaluate QlikView. We actually have both in place, for various reasons.
View full review »I also evaluated Qlik and Spotfire, but found Tableau to be more intuitive and visually appealing.
View full review »I have evaluated other competitive tools but in the end, my clients have always gone with Tableau.
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reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Tableau has a good interface, is easy to deploy, and can be integrated with different AI systems. Compared to other vendors like SAP, the product's data layers need enhancement. Additionally, it could directly connect to cloud services similar to Power BI.
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Alberto Guisande
Director at Decision Science
Power BI, which was in its early stages at the time, but now sprawling across Latin America. Yellowfin, who we are a partner with now. We are now looking at Birst.
We chose Tableau because they were the whole package at the time.
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Pooja Kashyap
Product Manager at Rabita Software
We also evaluated Power BI and Qlikview. I'm more comfortable with Tableau, it's user-friendly.
When time came to select a tool for my work, I did thorough research. I downloaded trial versions of both products and selected Tableau based on my user experience and the ratings (Gartner quadrant).
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reviewer1447362
Manager - Customer Success at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have evaluated Microsoft Power BI.
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Cristobal Rodriguez
Director Consultoria at tecnoscala consulting
Before choosing this solution we evaluated Qlik, BusinessObjects, and Oracle BI.
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Reviewer3292
Manager Technology at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We are researching for a new solution.
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Anthony Febres
Ejecutivo de cuentas at Kantar Worldpanel
I have trialed a number of different tools similar to Tableau. There seems to be a whole group of them. However, I found that Tableau was by far the easiest to use. Within about 20 minutes of playing around I was able to quickly make fantastic looking, incredibly useful charts that I struggled to make in Excel or other data discovery tools.
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- MicroStrategy VI
- Qlik
We evaluated several potential software systems such as Visier, Lumira, and Qlik, but found Tableau the easiest to use for individuals who did not need to have a programming background. Plus, the freedom to develop from a blank canvas with data that could be from any corner of the company appealed more to our team than working with a set of canned metrics to one specific department.
View full review »We do studies for firms as part of our services. QLTek is still viable but more and more we are hearing about Power BI. Carolina Health Systems just adopted Power BI to replace Tableau due to server costs.
View full review »I compared it with QlikView, which is a leading data visualization tool, but because I had heard a lot about Tableau and I had seen that there is a lot of scope in the market to get hired, I decided to go ahead with Tableau.
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reviewer1010763
IT Manager of Integration at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did evaluate other options. At the end of the day, it came down to the license cost and the ease of use.
View full review »We evaluated eight vendors: Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, SAS, MicroStrategy, Domo, Sisense, and R Shiny. We compared FOSS and COTS options, assessed feature sets, vendors, and support. COTS was preferred, with Tableau edging out Power BI.
View full review »Prior to purchase, we did evaluate several other vendors. We choose Tableau based on Gartner research, deployments at peer institutions and finally, price.
View full review »Yes. We evaluated Microstrategy v10, Sisense, SAP Business Objects.
View full review »We evaluated Spotfire, QlikView & Sisense. It came down to a tough choice between Spotfire and Tableau. We finally selected Tableau because it is good in providing visualizations, its integration with R, and it has a lot of connectors with various databases that Spotfire does not have. It also looked promising that it would provide more features in future releases.
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- PowerPivot/PowerBI
- Birst
- Sisense
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reviewer1463265
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did evaluate other options before we choose this solution.
View full review »The team I am part of works on different tools, not just Tableau. The tools are chosen based on the use case. Tableau is not the best choice for traditional reporting, which are still in demand.
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We were introduced to Tableau by a collaborator and went on their recommendation as they had already looked at other vendors.
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Hugo Vera
CEO at Bi Solutions S.A
Our customers often evaluate competitors like Microsoft BI and Qlik Sense. These products are deployed everywhere, in the cloud and on-premise. Tableau loses to the competition because of price.
View full review »Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.
View full review »We evaluated Lumira and QlikView. Tableau is more flexible and reliable, and it has no additional cost for sharing reports.
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Joe Carrión
Educator at a university with 51-200 employees
We looked at Power BI and realized that would would need some experience to use this solution since it will not automatically pair a chart with the data that it is related to.
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reviewer1497201
Principal Partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
We are thinking about switching to Microsoft Power BI from MicroStrategy and Tableau. Cost is a factor that is driving us toward the Microsoft solution.
View full review »Evaluated numerous different BI tools, including but not restricted to Cognos, Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Tibco Spotfire.
View full review »We also evaluated Domo and QlikView.
View full review »Among Tableau, QlikView, and Qlik Sense, I prefer QlikView, due to its higher customization capabilities, its associative nature, and its ETL features.
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reviewer1722318
Expert Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I have evaluated Microsoft BI.
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reviewer1454163
Performance and Business Intelligence Specialist at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are currently focused on building a data lake. Whether it is ultimately a data lake, data warehouse, or other data storage, we will require tools. There are several that we are looking into now. It is a collective effort with the data and the tools that we have, and what BI tools are necessary and required. Some of the solutions we are looking at are Alteryx, Azure, and Qlik Sense, in addition to Tableau.
With Qlik Sense, there is an ETL component and there is also a data storage option.
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Pete Marshall
Operations Manager at iWantGreatCare
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reviewer601230
Business Intelligence Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The team looked at Pentaho, Microsoft Power BI, and IBM Cognos. The members of the team who were exposed to aspects of the evaluation were far more receptive to Tableau than the others.
View full review »Qlik Sense and ACL.
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View full review »We explored other tools such as QlikView and Pentaho, but Tableau stood out in terms of its ease of use, great visualizations and simplicity. We already had an ETL solution in place, so Tableau complemented it well for our use cases.
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Shagun Mishra
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have evaluated ClixSense in the past. With ClixSense, it is not as customizable as this solution, I would even say restricted. For each and every customization and format change, the basic stuff, it asks us to buy another extension. We will not be doing that.
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LUCAS GIANPAOLO
Project Development Coordinator at ALIMENTOS ITALIA
I have not reviewed other options. I think it does not exist; if it exists, I would know and leave a record to compare these tools.
View full review »We evaluated Qlik Sense, SAP Lumira and Tableau. We decided on Tableau over Qlik and Lumira for ease of use by the functional teams, and because they have a direct supplier in Venezuela, including support and training. At the time of evaluation in May 2015, SAP Lumira’s analysis development capabilities and its integration with different data sources were not as good as Tableau’s. Even when connecting SAP Lumira with SAP BW, we could not publish analyses.
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reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We also evaluated Power BI. We chose Tableau because it is a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution, so there are no limitations with Tableau. The second reason was because Tableau is more fancy—you can create more visual graphics and visual dashboards. However, Power BI has the advantage on the backend side. It has a huge cloud environment, but Tableau doesn't.
View full review »Tableau is more GUI based and intuitive. I don't like to code and this does away with a lot of what its competitors force you to do.
View full review »We installed a number of modern BI tools in order to evaluate them for our purposes. It didn’t take me long to discover that Tableau was much easier to use than the other tools. Since ours is a small organization and most importantly we tried it for a PoC because this tool has an amazing look and feel.
View full review »I also evaluated MS BI and QlikView. Compared with MS BI, I find Tableau and QlikView have stronger visualization; intuitive data insights; less development lead time - MS BI requires creating OLAP cubes, which takes more time; clearer and simpler charts; and intuitive data mapping/insights.
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I have used a variety of BI-related products:
- QlikView: not worth trying. Not good for support (Qlik Japan); ugly charts; limited functions. It’s one strength is that it's free.
- IBM Cognos: very scalable. You can do anything with your dashboard/report using HTML; good at all functions. However, it's only suitable for big companies, hard to maintain, and very expensive.
- Oracle PBCS/Essbase: good for medium-sized or big enterprises with big/multi-dimensional data; supports Excel. Difficult to set up, and browser-based PBCS is so bad, you may lose your work at any time because of its corrupt JavaScript.
- Tableau is good for small-sized companies; reasonable price. But you get what you pay for: limited functions. It's a data visualization tool, not a BI tool.
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Ed Dallal
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity
We evaluated it alongside QlikSense, which we also use, and Cognos BI.
View full review »We are currently in the evaluation process.
View full review »As mentioned in previously, many clients choose Tableau due to its data model and presentation layer.
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Sas Microsoft SSRS Qliktech Oracle OBIEE Microstrategy
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My team evaluated 50 visual analysis tools in 2014. I also was one of the key developers of Cygron Datascope.
Tableau was selected because it is the common platform for both data analysts and regular users. Both groups can use it. Of course, analysts can utilize more advanced techniques, but even an average user can understand charts and do basic things after 60 minutes of training.
View full review »Qlikview, Pentaho.
View full review »Besides Cognos, we also evaluated Power BI, SAP Lumira, Pentaho, OBIEE, BO, Spago, etc., but most of them are either too expensive, lack functionality, have limited usage of charts, are hard to use and unfriendly.
View full review »Evaluated a few options: QlickView and OBIEE.
View full review »We also looked at QlikView.
View full review »Yes, OBIE.
View full review »I had evaluated Qlik, and for our purposes, Tableau was better suited both technically and commercially.
View full review »ClickView. ClickView seemed easy to use, very simple, but it could not support the whole company. It couldn't be scaled.
We looked at Oracle BI. It seems that it's very easy to use, very competitive against Tableau, and it's a little bit cheaper. It seems that we have a competitive advantage going with Oracle.
Oracle in the past had OBIEE that was hard to use, very expensive, and modeling was hard. Changing the modeling was difficult. We decided not to go with Oracle at that time. Now it's cloud-based, the TCO is very cheap. But we had already gone with Tableau.
- BIME
- QlikView
- SiSense
We always use multiple solutions for our varied client base. I have used other products before and now as well for clients. Our evaluation always revolves around client requirements like preference to open source, cost of ownership, etc.
View full review »I've tested a lot of products. I researched which tool is the best for visualization, and I found that Tableau is one of the best for it.
View full review »Yes, Microsoft Power BI, SAP Lumira, and BOARD.
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QlikView/Microstrategy
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Yes, IBM Cognos, BusinessObjects, SAS, TIBCO, and Qlik.
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Tableau
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tableau. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.