We performed a comparison between Birst and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"Easy for beginners to use"
"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"The product has the best features for analytical views and filters."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"There's no mature ETL tool in Tableau, which is quite a negative for them."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"The charts need to be improved. The drawings and the visualization need to be more accurate."
"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."
"Areas for improvement would be visualization and augmented analytics. In the next release, I would like to see automated insights from the data added to the dashboard."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
"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."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 18 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx and ThoughtSpot, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud.
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