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Posit vs Salesforce Einstein Analytics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
Posit boosts productivity and revenue by saving time, enhancing forecasting, and improving efficiency with concurrent application access.
Sentiment score
6.2
Salesforce Einstein Analytics offers varied ROI, showing quick returns for some users, while others face challenges due to implementation or company size.
Posit simplifies the deployment of analytics outputs and reduces time spent on environment setup and troubleshooting, allowing teams to focus more on analysis and delivering insights.
Senior Manager, Scientific Computing at MSD
Since adopting Posit, by using the tool, we have saved about 57% on the amount of time needed to compile a systematic review.
Electrical Engineer Ii at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I have seen a return on investment because Posit is the standard in the field for coding in R and deploying applications like Shiny apps, so a lot of time is saved with a very quality product.
Sr. Scientist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Posit customer support is responsive with varying speeds due to time zones, valued for direct communication and issue resolution.
Sentiment score
7.1
Salesforce Einstein Analytics offers effective customer service, quick responses, knowledgeable support, though some experience slow issue resolution.
Whenever we encounter any issues or require assistance with configuration, we email support@posit.co and receive an immediate response.
Data Engineer at Bayer
You have a dedicated sales rep associated with your account.
Director, Data Science at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate the technical support team a six or seven because they operate on U.S. time, which can delay response times to 24 to 48 hours.
Principal Data Enigeneer at Oracle
Tech support for Salesforce Einstein Analytics is generally good.
Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Posit efficiently scales across environments, supports resource expansion on AWS, but costs and horizontal scaling need enhancement.
Sentiment score
7.5
Salesforce Einstein Analytics is scalable, easily integrates, handles diverse user bases, and offers seamless expansion, despite cost concerns.
Posit's scalability is commendable, as we are running in EKS, so we can easily scale anywhere from 20 to 200 users with both the IDEs and app deployment.
Data Engineer at Bayer
While Posit Connect can scale vertically, horizontal scaling may be a prospective feature to consider.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Posit offers stability, with minor setup challenges and responsiveness issues with large datasets, but ensures a reliable environment.
Sentiment score
7.9
Salesforce Einstein Analytics is praised for its stability and reliability, with occasional minor issues swiftly resolved.
There are certain glitches, especially when the modules are upgraded or when there is a source code update, causing the entire tool to go offline.
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
 

Room For Improvement

Posit requires improvements in resource management, AI integration, documentation, licensing, and costs to enhance usability for enterprises.
Salesforce Einstein Analytics needs improvements in support, data handling, user-friendliness, flexibility, and cost to boost adoption.
The time savings is an incredible feature and the horizontal deployability is great.
Electrical Engineer Ii at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Posit lacks a smooth solution for the build and release pipeline, requiring duplicate effort for production transitions.
Principal Data Enigeneer at Oracle
I hope for it to provide specific issue resolutions and suggestions, not just basic searches.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There are certain glitches, especially when the modules are upgraded or when there is a source code update, causing the entire tool to go offline.
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
There is a learning curve associated with Salesforce Einstein Analytics, particularly since users need to learn a new language.
Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users appreciate Posit's transparent pricing, flexible licensing, and manage costs despite the anticipated price increase.
Salesforce Einstein Analytics is costly yet valued for features, with negotiating licenses helping reduce expenses in enterprise environments.
The pricing was very transparent and they have three different product lines, or at least they did when we purchased it.
Director, Data Science at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
RStudio Pro and Workbench are quite costly.
Principal Data Enigeneer at Oracle
The licensing is straightforward for our enterprise environment and aligns well with our teams.
Senior Manager, Scientific Computing at MSD
A benefit is that the pricing is available online, ensuring there are no hidden costs.
Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy
In general, I would rate it as a little bit on the expensive side compared to other available options.
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
 

Valuable Features

Posit centralizes R and Python collaboration, enhancing productivity with features like seamless deployment, secure access, and AI integration.
Salesforce Einstein Analytics offers user-friendly, scalable analytics with predictive insights and seamless CRM integration for enhanced decision-making and productivity.
Posit has significantly increased the productivity of our team by allowing us to incorporate AI tools and other computational tools to reduce the stress and workload of scientists so that they can continue to do science without having to worry about organization and structure.
Electrical Engineer Ii at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The RStudio integration is great because I can tap Posit workbench server compute, which is significantly higher than our laptops, to scale our processes up if we are working with a particularly large dataset.
Director, Data Science at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Posit Workbench serves as a shared IDE for users and stands out as one of the best features Posit offers.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It allows for a personalized customer experience by providing insights.
Preseales And Solution Head at Tata Consultancy
Their machine learning model, which they have integrated, provides us with accurate data and creates projection maps.
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
 

Categories and Ranking

Posit
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
16th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Salesforce Einstein Analytics
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
24th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Posit is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Posit0.7%
Salesforce Einstein Analytics1.1%
Other98.2%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

MK
Data Engineer at Bayer
Unified analytics has transformed collaborative drug research and clinical reporting workflows
Posit can be improved as they are constantly listening to our feedback; currently, we have Databricks and Snowflake support, and we have been trying to ask for more in the LLM space, as previously only Anthropic and GitHub were available, and now we see AWS Bedrock has been added. They continue to engage with the user community across multiple customers and keep adding features. If they keep progressing in this innovation space, it would be fantastic for a company Posit to adopt more Posit. An improvement needed for Posit that I haven't mentioned yet is possibly providing more user-level training for vendors such as us; not just monthly, but at least quarterly deep dives into their features would be beneficial.
Sunny Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect And Senior Consultant at Keysight Technologies
Business insights improve with reliable integration but face occasional system downtimes
It is difficult to integrate the modules. The customization is also a little bit complex currently, but it is getting easier as they continue improving the market. There are certain glitches, especially when the modules are upgraded or when there is a source code update, causing the entire tool to go offline. There is downtime which still affects the particular product. I would provide a reliability rating of 70%, with 30% still having scope for improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
10%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Posit?
My main use case for Posit is data science workflows, automation, and using it for model building and data exploration. A specific example of how I use Posit for model building and automation in my...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Posit?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is a fairly good experience. Posit does seating based in batches, so for example, you could purchase ten seats, fifteen seats, or twenty seats....
What needs improvement with Posit?
Posit could have better integrations with a couple of components. Posit has an integration with Snowflake, but an integration with Redshift and a better integration with Databricks would be very he...
What needs improvement with Salesforce Einstein Analytics?
It is difficult to integrate the modules. The customization is also a little bit complex currently, but it is getting easier as they continue improving the market. There are certain glitches, espec...
What is your primary use case for Salesforce Einstein Analytics?
It is more of an integrated platform where marketing, customer service, and the ticketing system are integrated into each other as a SaaS-based solution, which is what we use. For Marketing Cloud, ...
What advice do you have for others considering Salesforce Einstein Analytics?
We use portions of Teams if I am not wrong, though it is managed by a different team and we do not use it much. On a scale of one to 100, I would say at least 70 to 80. I rate Salesforce Einstein A...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Einstein Analytics, Salesforce Wave Analytics
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
ADS Securities, Alstom Grid, American Express, Barclays Bank, Coca-Cola, CoderDojo, Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, Financial Conduct Authority
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