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BIME Analytics [EOL] vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BIME Analytics [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
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)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user370584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Solutions Officer at Treehouse Technology Group
It's given us the ability to quickly plot data with an expansive set of graphs and data blending capabilities.
For this product, we actually incorporated the dashboarding capabilities into an application we are building for one of our clients. Our clients love the dashboarding and analytics capabilities that it provides. BIME has allowed our organization to quickly chart data after we built a successful data management and warehousing capability. Essentially, it is the tip of the iceberg, but an essential one nonetheless.
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

"Our business is very fast pace, so live numbers help us on a daily basis figure out how to spend our time."
"The ability to paint a picture in any shape or form the user wants which can empower decision-making."
"Data importing from multiple sources was particularly useful for combining online and offline data, as well as across different analytical platforms (Google Analytics and Omniture)."
"Ability to connect all data sources (databases, online services, files, BigData)"
"I can recommend using BIME Analytics as it's definitely a very useful and powerful tool."
"BIME has accelerated Treehouse’s ability to execute on high visibility products by significantly decreasing the time to market for our products, especially during periods of rapid prototyping."
"I believe the most valuable feature of Tableau is the flexibility it offers with regard to the types of visualizations the user can create."
"It's intuitive and highly mature."
"We are able to create reports that are more helpful to our front-line employees, and they are able to implement decisions much faster."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"It is a nice visual and high performance all-in-one BI tool which is becoming more popular with its ease of use and user-friendly features, effective visuals and apt major functionalities of BI."
"It helps me deliver a tool to my clients that can be easily customized according to their business needs, and it provides great insights and analytics on huge volumes of data coming from disparate sources, which has helped my clients and managers make sound business decisions."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
 

Cons

"Whereas BIME clearly surpasses Excel on many fronts with regards to interactive charting, there are areas where small formatting features are not available."
"Currently, I have to download the data-set for analysis and it is difficult to deliver outputs with BIME concurrently."
"Although we were able to provide dashboards to our customers, it required that we create the dashboards with the essential analytics."
"The V6 should be better in terms of navigability and ergonomy"
"Customer Service is non existent."
"I wish that it had better database management mapping features."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"The solution could use more features in data analytics."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept."
"With Tableau, when you're dealing with very large datasets, it can be slow so the performance is an area that can be improved."
"It has some shortcomings: Not very well-made dashboard designing, lack of formatting options, and sometimes not enough operating speed while working with huge amount of data."
"However the other side of this coin is that in its standard form, it is much less accessible to less skilled users."
"Tableau's automatic insight could be improved. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data, but I think they need more. Customers need more insight automatically from data—they don't want to discover them, they want to get the forecast automatically. The data preparation should also be improved because it's not easy. Tableau tries to focus on the business side, but the backend side has not improved much. They also have an ETS solution, but it's limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"For our organization, the cost hasn't been an issue."
"The value for money is definitely there."
"The solution is very expensive. If you have many users then it is going to cost your company a lot of money."
"The solution is expensive but it depends on the customer's needs which will determine the cost of the licensing."
"The price of Tableau is high, although there are different types of licenses available."
"Tableau is not as cost-effective as Microsoft BI."
"We are on an annual license which costs us $1,400 which is very expensive. Microsft BI is less expensive."
"Tableau has core-based and user-based licensing, and it is tied to scalability. The core-based licensing is about you buying a certain number of cores, and there is no restriction on the number of users who can use Tableau. The restriction is only on the number of cores. In user-based subscription licensing, there is a restriction on the number of users. Big companies and government organizations with a lot of users typically go for core-based licensing. User-based subscription licensing is a more common model. It has user roles such as creator, explorer, and viewer. A creator is someone who does the groundwork or development work. An explorer is someone who is into middle management but is not technically savvy, such as a category head. A viewer is like a typical decision-maker in senior management. For each role, Tableau is priced differently. The viewer role has the minimum price, and the creator role has the highest price. This pricing is available on their website. Everybody can see it."
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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

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business117
Midsize Enterprise67
Large Enterprise185
 

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