"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"It's easy to use."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"Data is easily understood at all levels of the company."
"The most valuable feature is the richness of its visualization and from a self-service standpoint, the ease of use."
"The solution offers very good reporting."
"One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations. When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together. Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"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."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."
"The price could be better."
"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."
"Tableau is difficult to scale because of the cost, which makes it difficult to scale."
Looker is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI Tools with 2 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 105 reviews. Looker is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Looker writes "Easy to set up and has good community support but requires better UI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Lets me train new users quickly, easily, and intuitively". Looker is most compared with IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense, Microsoft BI, Google Data Studio and Domo, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, Amazon QuickSight, MicroStrategy and SAS Visual Analytics.
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