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Adaptive Insights vs Birst vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

 

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

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Birst is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 16.5%, down from 23.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tableau Enterprise16.5%
Adaptive Insights1.5%
Birst0.8%
Other81.2%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew Rosenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight
Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models
For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.
SK
Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Offers dashboards and self-service reports. The report performance is very slow.
Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain Most of our customers are interested in dashboards and self-service reports. We are able to offer them these features with this solution. Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution The report…
Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization
Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task. AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher. ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Customer Service: Excellent, always available and hardly needed."
"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."
"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."
"Adaptive saves us huge hours in budgeting, for each roll-up it saves us two hours at least, and we usually have more than 20 roll-ups."
"Automated reporting."
"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."
"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."
"Birst has made it easier for us to provide embedded data visualization tools to our customers."
"Birst uses several connection methods to take data in from your data sources and stages it into its own data mart, and this staging from several sources makes Birst a fairly robust data warehouse solution."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"The impact of Birst has been felt company-wide."
"Cloud based BI that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime from mobiles, iPods, tablets, and PCs."
"In general, Birst as a cloud VI solution is a user-friendly tool that looks really nice and engages users straight away."
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"Birst provides quick and helpful support on raised queries."
"I recommended Tableau for the following reasons: truly mature product, price-performance balance, ease of use, lot of flexibilities in regrouping the data on the fly, most of the frequently used calculations are built-in and very easy to use - unlike some other BI tools, which are quite clumsy - and for best interactive data visualization capabilities."
"It has allowed a shift from IT-centric enterprise reporting to business-centered development of ad-hoc and enterprise reporting, in partnership with IT."
"I like Tableau a lot as its visualizations are great; there's no doubt about it."
"Because Tableau is a lot simpler to implement, we've been able to train people to do their own reports, so it's much better from a self-service perspective."
"It changed the way in which the data was consumed internally by enabling the business leaders to reduce the time for data discovery."
"The feature that is currently most valuable is the import feature where I can link to an Excel data source; I directly link it to an Excel sheet, and if I change anything in that Excel sheet, the changed data immediately gets reflected in the visualization, which is very convenient for me as of now."
"The most valuable features of Tableau include building hyper extracts and creating visuals."
"Tableau can be helpful for BI reports and data dashboards, for example when you are getting data from a few systems and want to see a consolidated report like a management report or a transactional report."
 

Cons

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."
"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."
"Pricing can be made better affordable to SMEs. Every year price increase is an issue."
"We do have issues getting information on our customer success turnover."
"It's complex; thinking about the business models and capabilities in Adaptive."
"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."
"Better user interface (UI)."
"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."
"Release management and version control are poor or not available."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"The cost-benefit was not great."
"We are yet to realize the real return on the investment given the need to alter the underlying intention of the product’s use."
"For complex reports with heavy calculations, performance can be improved."
"Performance is one big area of improvement I believe."
"Sometimes, data retrieval was slow I had a bad experience viewing the reports with Microsoft IE or Chrome."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"Pricing is certainly a bit expensive."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"Compared to those, Tableau is quite costly."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"They must have a write-back solution. You must have the ability to write back into the database, otherwise, it prevents full automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."
"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."
"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."
"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."
"It's affordable."
"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."
"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."
"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."
"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
"For data extraction and analysis, Tableau is better than any other tool I have used with the same pricing model."
"Pricing is not bad. It's competitive."
"Tableau has reasonable pricing."
"Tableau is not as cost-effective as Microsoft BI."
"Tableau is an expensive solution."
"We pay for the enterprise license for Tableau. The licensing could be cheaper and more flexible."
"Paying for users you never setup or buying expensive desktop licenses for users who can solve their users with web editing on the server are the two biggest expenses."
"The product's price is relatively inexpensive and manageable for enterprise-level companies."
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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
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Construction Company
15%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Performing Arts
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business117
Midsize Enterprise67
Large Enterprise184
 

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
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Sample Customers

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