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Access PeopleXD vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Access PeopleXD
Average Rating
3.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (28th), Talent Management (38th), Expense Management (17th), HR Analytics Software (11th)
Tableau Enterprise
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
309
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd), Data Visualization (1st), Embedded BI (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Access PeopleXD and Tableau Enterprise aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Access PeopleXD is designed for Benefits Administration and holds a mindshare of 1.2%, up 0.7% compared to last year.
Tableau Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 5.8% mindshare, down 11.0% since last year.
Benefits Administration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Access PeopleXD1.2%
Workday HCM9.1%
UKG6.4%
Other83.3%
Benefits Administration
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tableau Enterprise5.8%
Microsoft Power BI7.1%
SAP Business Data Cloud3.0%
Other84.1%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer951189 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Has many features in need of improvement, including its monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support
The solution has many areas in need of improvement. I cannot cite just one or two. These include management, monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support, by way of example. A checklist should be included and the user interface should be addressed. The solution has a function which allows one to give feedback for every employee and to do so overall. The visibility, GUI and features involved in the feedback function are not up to snuff. Employee service details are an issue.
Swetha Dhanasekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior GenAI Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized dashboards have transformed workforce trend analysis and speed up decisions
Tableau Enterprise helps us to consolidate the data and visualize daily and weekly trends in a clear and centralized dashboard, offering powerful features such as interactive dashboards, real-time data refreshing, advanced visual analytics, role-based access control, secure data, and seamless interaction with multiple data sources and automated reports. This will help us to analyze trends and collaborate across teams and scale analytics across the organization. These features help my team specifically by centralizing all employees' data in one place. This helps us reduce manual tracking and gives us real-time visibility into work from home versus office trends. The interactive dashboards allow quick decision-making, and the automated refresh time saves us a lot, while role-based access ensures data is shared securely with the right stakeholders. Tableau Enterprise has had a strong positive impact on our organization by improving data visibility, speeding up decision-making, and managing reports efficiently. The team can now access and track trends more effectively, and collaboration has improved using interactive dashboards. Overall, it has enhanced effectiveness and fostered a data-driven culture across the organization. The specific outcomes showing this positive impact include speeding up decision-making, which is the biggest impact because it saves us more time. Reporting time actually reduces sequentially since the dashboards refresh automatically. Data security is stronger, and data accuracy has improved, thanks to a centralized data source. Decision-making is also much faster since leaders can view real-time impacts instead of waiting for manual entry.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is stable."
"We use the solution for employee and manager services and person management and employee records."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"Tableau has helped improve our organization by enabling layman people to use it."
"Tableau has allowed us to combine and visualize data from many entry points and provide users with a single source of consistent and reliable information."
"Tableau helps us tell stories with data."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"The drill-down approach and interactivity in Tableau are highly effective."
"Before we built a data platform using Tableau we were unable to align our employees around their data."
"We are able to create reports that are more helpful to our front-line employees, and they are able to implement decisions much faster."
 

Cons

"The solution has many areas in need of improvement, including management, monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support."
"I find data prepping in Tableau challenging to understand, perhaps because I am new to it. It sometimes requires extensive investigation to determine why the data does not appear correctly."
"Reports should be downloadable as PDF files."
"ETL functionality to be incorporated and Server to be improved in terms of including more features in Web Authoring, quick steps in replacing data source connection credentials etc."
"Development report publishing to the test server should have pointed to the test DB instead of the dev DB."
"But we face some stability (crash or freezing) and performance (slowness) issues with large datasets, especially when we export our Tableau visualization to Tableau Public."
"Add calculated columns in the edit text box like in Spotfire."
"There should be stronger data modules for the platform."
"I had a frustrating time with the borders a few weeks ago. When trying to make them all the same and shade the border, you have to shade all four sides."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is expensive when you compare it with Power BI. It should be cheaper."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"It is more expensive than other solutions."
"This license is on a yearly basis."
"Its price is reasonable. Everything is included in the license."
"We are on an annual license which costs us $1,400 which is very expensive. Microsft BI is less expensive."
"Its price is higher than Power BI and QlikView. Tableau costs around $70 per user per month, whereas Power BI is around $8 to $9. QlikView is around $30. Tableau has various prices for various models such as Creator, Designer."
"Tableau is not as cost-effective as Microsoft BI."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
27%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business117
Midsize Enterprise67
Large Enterprise185
 

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Also Known As

CoreTalent, CoreHR Compensation and Benefits, CoreHR CoreExpense
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online
 

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