Pyramid Analytics vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

Pyramid Analytics and Salesforce are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Pyramid Analytics is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.5, while Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. Pyramid Analytics holds a 0.9% mindshare in BIT, compared to Salesforce’s 10.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Pyramid Analytics users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 4, 2025

Tableau Enterprise and Pyramid Analytics compete in the business analytics and data visualization category. Tableau appears to have the upper hand primarily due to its user-friendly design and strong community support, which are critical in enhancing user experience and fostering a supportive customer service environment.

Features: Tableau Enterprise is valued for its graphical representation, data source integration, and flexibility, allowing users to create reports effortlessly with parameters and filters. Pyramid Analytics is known for advanced features such as data prediction capabilities, drill-down reports, and support for multiple data sources.

Room for Improvement: Tableau faces challenges with handling large datasets, has high pricing, limited predictive analytics, and complex licensing. Pyramid Analytics needs to enhance user-friendliness, improve training materials, and support for large datasets. Technical complexity and insufficient documentation are additional areas for Pyramid's improvement.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tableau offers various deployment options including on-premises and hybrid cloud, with excellent community support and responsive customer service. Pyramid provides similar deployment options but requires more user training and offers less intuitive support resources, which are less favorable compared to Tableau.

Pricing and ROI: Tableau's pricing is considered high, particularly for large organizations, yet users report significant ROI from its analytics capabilities. Despite its cost, the value from comprehensive data insights is notable. Pyramid Analytics, on the other hand, offers reasonable pricing for its functionalities, especially for larger businesses, with consulting services potentially adding extra costs. Its cost-effectiveness is attractive for enterprises looking for in-depth data analysis capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Pyramid Analytics

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

23rd

Ranking in Data Visualization

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tableau Enterprise

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

2nd

Ranking in Data Visualization

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

307

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (2nd), Embedded BI (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Pyramid Analytics is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 10.3%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tableau Enterprise	10.3%
Pyramid Analytics	0.9%
Other	88.8%

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Featured Reviews

Shyam Pendyala

Manager, BI Platforms at Refinitiv, an LSEG Business at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

A comprehensive and user-friendly business intelligence for enhanced data insight

When developing multidimensional IMDS models in Pyramid Analytics, there is a need for better features to maintain and analyze data. The application currently lacks the ability to easily track the original physical table and field names, making it challenging to relate them to business names. It would be desirable to have the possibility to generate a data dictionary, detailing the original physical tables, renamed fields, and derived fields. Such features would simplify documentation, facilitate understanding of how calculations depend on physical fields and aid in explaining the development process to others. Having this lineage and easy-to-generate data dictionary would greatly enhance the usability of Pyramid Analytics for developers.

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Uzair Faruqi

Head Of Analytics 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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It offers a wide range of analytics options including statistics and visualizations, as well as prediction capabilities, allowing users to make forecasts based on the latest data."

"The features I find most valuable are 'Discover,' 'Formulate,' and 'Model.' I use them regularly to build logic and create reports for my job."

"It proved to be a very powerful and useful tool due to its breakdown capabilities, easy reporting features, flexibility in building custom calculations, and the ability to integrate them into reports."

"Pyramid has a wide level of uses, as it's a complete ETL process and has a good level of connecting to a lot of data sources."

"It seems quite performant in analyzing multi-dimensional information sets and presenting them."

"The on-premise version has quite good scalability."

"The most valuable feature of Pyramid Analytics, outshining even top-tier platforms like Power BI, is its robust support for DAX queries."

"I think the most valuable Pyramid Analytics feature is the solution's ability to drill down and dice in the loop. I think it is better than InExcel or Power BI."

"Tableau's performance is really good, and it is adding new features."

"I like the visualization component."

"The solution deployment was straightforward."

"When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."

"You can create attractive dashboards that inform users using Tableau."

"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."

"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."

"It's intuitive and highly mature"

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Cons

"There is room for improvement in terms of documentation and examples, especially for newcomers like me who are learning both business intelligence and Pyramid."

"There is room for improvement in terms of the user interface, particularly when it comes to modifying connections between filters and visual components in a dashboard."

"Pyramid Analytics could improve by speeding up data refresh, especially for large datasets."

"I think the graphic number of charts and components could be higher, at least comparable to Brain Power BI."

"It would be desirable to have the possibility to generate a data dictionary, detailing the original physical tables, renamed fields, and derived fields."

"The general amount of negative comments that I am hearing from my team makes me very wary."

"I find that this is quite a heavy, time-consuming tool for developers."

"Even though the solution has a functionality for every step, it's not so well- defined. That needs to be improved."

"Tableau's data blending feature could use some improvement. Previously, I used other tools, such as Alteryx, for data blending because Tableau had limitations."

"An area needing improvement involves the complexity of the product should you need to alter a lot of parameters. If you have technical servers, much interface, different providers and more serious processes, that will be time consuming."

"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."

"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."

"In the next release, there should be more information describing each chart because users have a difficult time telling them apart. They should also include the animations/videos, similar to Power BI."

"From a downside perspective, some of the more advanced modeling techniques are actually fairly difficult to do. In addition, I just fundamentally disagree with the way you have to implement them because you can get incorrect answers in some cases."

"If I have to develop any, for example, pie charts, I can develop them just fine. However, if I have to develop a donut chart, that I cannot do it in a simple way. There are tricks that I need to use if I have to design a donut chart. It should be more flexible and provide more visualization options."

"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost is not excessively expensive, but it does increase with the addition of new features and modules."

"For our organization, the cost hasn't been an issue."

"Tableau is an expensive solution compared to Power BI."

"Tableau is free."

"The pricing for Tableau is the same as the other products in the market."

"Be careful with the Tableau Viewer's licenses, and stay with the right number of users."

"There is a license for the use of this solution and it is on a per-user basis. The server is free but the users you have to pay for."

"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. My guess would be that it is $1000 or less per year. We might go for Power BI in the future because of its umbrella with Microsoft licensing. It is much cheaper for us to use Power BI, and some folks will go in that direction because they don't want to pay the higher license."

"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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	117
Midsize Enterprise	66
Large Enterprise	182

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Pyramid Analytics?

The most valuable feature of Pyramid Analytics, outshining even top-tier platforms like Power BI, is its robust support for DAX queries.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pyramid Analytics?

I find the price of Pyramid Analytics to be quite reasonable, especially when compared to other tools in the industry. It is a cost-effective choice, particularly for mid-sized or larger companies ...

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What needs improvement with Pyramid Analytics?

Pyramid Analytics could improve by speeding up data refresh, especially for large datasets. While it is currently an in-memory tool, efforts are underway to enhance direct connections to source sys...

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Tableau is easy to set up and maintain. In about a day it is possible for the entire platform to be deployed for use. This relatively short amount of time can make all the difference for companies ...

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

The BI Office from Pyramid Analytics is a web-based governed data discovery and analytics platform. It integrates the four principal functions of any comprehensive BI strategy into a single, seamless application. Users can now analyze, present, report and predict on their data in a single application. Pyramid Analytics has native apps to cover the entire mobile spectrum, iOS, Android and Windows. With BI Office users can integrate SAP data with data from other sources giving them the right tools and better data to make data-driven decisions.

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Tableau Enterprise offers powerful features for creating interactive visualizations, dashboards, and maps, including drag-and-drop functionality and easy integration with multiple data sources, promoting real-time collaboration and self-service analysis.

Tableau Enterprise stands out with its ability to create user-friendly, interactive visualizations, making it pivotal for business intelligence applications. Users benefit from its seamless connectivity and advanced analytical functions, facilitating data blending and storytelling. Despite a complex learning curve and high licensing costs, its features like geospatial analysis and efficient content distribution drive its indispensable value for data-driven insights. Enhancements in predictive analytics and support integration with machine learning tools further its capabilities across industries.

What are the most valuable features?

Interactive Visualizations: Enables users to create engaging reports.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Simplifies data analysis processes.
Data Integration: Offers seamless connectivity with multiple sources.
Real-Time Collaboration: Supports synchronous data sharing.
Advanced Analytics: Provides predictive analytics and geospatial analysis.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Informed Decision-Making: Facilitates data-driven insights.
Efficiency in Reporting: Streamlines dashboard and reporting tasks.
Cost-Effectiveness: Despite high licensing, value in robust analytics tools.
Customizable Options: Tailors analytics to specific needs.

Tableau Enterprise is widely used for business intelligence, supporting industries like healthcare, telecommunications, and finance. Organizations utilize it to analyze performance indicators, operational insights, and financial analytics, enhancing decision-making through interactive reports and real-time data integration.

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Sample Customers

US Department of Veterans Affair, Volkswagen, Siemens, Blackboard, Hallmark, Orange, CDW, LA Fitness, Atelier GS, Memorial Healthcare, Acadia Insurance, BancoBic, Advanced Learning, Microsoft, Drake University

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.

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