QBO vs Tableau comparison

Unscrambl, Inc and Salesforce are both solutions in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category. Unscrambl, Inc is ranked #62, while Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.3. Unscrambl, Inc holds a 0.1% mindshare in BIT, compared to Salesforce’s 16.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Unscrambl, Inc users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Tableau and QBO compete in the business intelligence and accounting software categories. Tableau holds the upper hand in data visualization, while QBO excels in accounting functionalities.

Features: Tableau excels in creating visually appealing charts and dashboards with extensive user community support. It enables efficiency in connecting to various data sources and blending data for rapid insights. QBO focuses on streamlining accounting processes, offering reliable functionalities for order processing, sales, and invoice management.

Room for Improvement: Tableau can improve its handling of complex data sets and machine learning capabilities. Licensing costs are also a concern. QBO could enhance inventory management and increase keyboard shortcut options to improve user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tableau provides flexible deployment options, either on-premises or in the cloud, and receives high ratings for customer service with strong community support. QBO’s customer service is satisfactory but needs better adherence to SLAs.

Pricing and ROI: Tableau is expensive for small businesses but provides strong ROI with its analytics capabilities. QBO is seen as moderately pricey for its domain yet valuable for comprehensive accounting needs. Pricing and ROI depend on specific use cases and company size.

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Categories and Ranking

QBO

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

62nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tableau

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

306

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of QBO is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau is 16.4%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mimi Evans

Owner/Operator at Fearless Bookkeeping Services LLC

Offer great partnership models and relatively simple to use

My only issue with QuickBooks Online is their inventory capabilities. My understanding is that they're rolling out improvements in 2023, but anytime a person asks me about using QuickBooks Online and inventory, then I always recommend the desktop version because otherwise the functionality isn't great. They're trying to become the all-in source that we use for everything. However, the product lakcs a client portal, a feature that would make a huge difference. I'm an accountant and if I can't use it well, I can't train my customers to use it well. There are so many professional service companies that would love to be able to offer a client portal of some sort but they're so industry-specific or they're outrageously expensive because they're meant for enterprise level. I don't like the UI or the functionality of their cash flow planner. I would rather pay for another software than use theirs.

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Nattawat Choosuwan

Senior Data Consultant at a government with 11-50 employees

Real-time data connection enhances workflow and decision-making process

An area for improvement in Tableau is the Explorer license type. It is not as useful, and the product owner should enhance its benefits or clarify its role. Additionally, the frequent updates with many versions available for download can be confusing and could affect stability. They should avoid providing access to older versions on their website.

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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

"The most valuable features of QBO are its order processing and sales capabilities, as well as its invoice and batch processing capabilities. It allows for multiple batch processing and integration with other platforms, such as SAP V1, Oracle, and Dynamics BC. This makes the solution versatile and effective for customers, and they are satisfied with its integration with different platforms. The integration of this solution is not fixed, it can be based on the user's requirements."

"The most valuable feature is the collaboration around allowing many people to ask questions and see the dashboards together."

"It's intuitive, electronic, and, as in the old days, eliminates the need for pen and paper. It is the only option. It's the best software."

"The scheduling feature for salaries and taxes is one of the best features of QBO. It's also very user-friendly."

"The most valuable feature of QBO is that it can be reconnected at any time and anywhere. It is not like other software where you have to back up and restore the data."

"QBO has a very good reconciliation tool."

"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."

"The solution has great features which nobody can beat, you can do a lot of customizations, such as use different dimensions and colorize them. Additionally, you can use the numeric values for the customization, which is an exceptional feature."

"The solution provides the leverage of having custom visualization and the capability of self-service."

"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."

"The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments."

"I have found many of the self-service features valuable."

"Analysis is now more visual than in the past."

"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."

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Cons

"QBO could be improved by adding more flexibility in its invoice and sales order processing capabilities. Customers have requested the ability to integrate with different retail services and the ability to easily integrate with different payment gateways, such as PayPal, by providing API and credentials, with the system automatically processing the integration."

"Inventory capabilities are lacking in the cloud version."

"Compared to offline accounting software with many shortcuts and allows you to operate the software using the keyboard, QBO doesn't have the keyboard feature."

"The dashboards can be improved by making them customizable in a more granular manner."

"The internet version is less user-friendly than the desktop version. The desktop version is their flagship, whereas the online version is considerably different, requiring all new learning and having several glitches."

"The Linux Operating System feature is not available. When we access it from the accounting features, it does not transit to installation."

"When compared to Power BI, it is less user-friendly."

"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."

"From a customer's point of view, I have noted that after the acquisition by Salesforce, the customer service for Tableau has declined significantly."

"The visualizations should be user-friendly and allow for more custom visualizations."

"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."

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

"Tableau has so many functions, so sometimes it's hard to find the right solution quickly. I have to search multiple menu bars to find the right command."

"I would like to have the product be more flexible in terms of creating online shared dashboards."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I give the pricing a nine out of ten."

"The solution is expensive."

"In my opinion, QBO is a bit on the pricey side, but you have no choice. It is still better, in the long run, to go with their pricing or their software than the alternatives."

"Basically, we prefer a permanent license. A one-time charge is much better."

"The pricing of Tableau should be better to remain competitive in the market, especially when compared to alternatives."

"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."

"The pricing is $70 per month. You have to pay about $800 or something in that ballpark annually for one license."

"I'm using Tableau Public, which is free."

"Tableau has reasonable pricing."

"The price of this solution could definitely be lower. It's quite expensive."

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

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Educational Organization

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Financial Services Firm

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Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Overview

QBO combines the power of natural language and spontaneous collaboration to deliver on-demand insights to the decision-makers. Winning features of QBO: 1. Easily connect to multiple internal and external datasets 2. Slice-and-diced data in infinite ways using natural language (English) and interactive visualizations 3. Responds easily to descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive questions 4. Native integration with Microsoft Teams 5. Save and share your findings easily on interactive boards URL of the product : https://www.unscrambl.com/qbo-insights/ Powered by Unscrambl, we believe that our increasingly complex world of data can be simplified and transformed into actionable insights, saving valuable time and resources for every business. Unscrambl develops next-generation conversational analytics software that gives business users the power to access and consume data instantly and collaboratively. Unscrambl is headquartered in the United States and has offices in Singapore, Turkey, India, and the Philippines. For more information, please visit www.unscrambl.com

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Tableau is a tool for data visualization and business intelligence that allows businesses to report insights through easy-to-use, customizable visualizations and dashboards. Tableau makes it exceedingly simple for its customers to organize, manage, visualize, and comprehend data. It enables users to dig deep into the data so that they can see patterns and gain meaningful insights.

Make data-driven decisions with confidence thanks to Tableau’s assistance in providing faster answers to queries, solving harder problems more easily, and offering new insights more frequently. Tableau integrates directly to hundreds of data sources, both in the cloud and on premises, making it simpler to begin research. People of various skill levels can quickly find actionable information using Tableau’s natural language queries, interactive dashboards, and drag-and-drop capabilities. By quickly creating strong calculations, adding trend lines to examine statistical summaries, or clustering data to identify relationships, users can ask more in-depth inquiries.

Tableau has many valuable key features:

Tableau dashboards provide a complete view of your data through visualizations, visual objects, text, and more.
Tableau provides convenient, real-time options to collaborate with other users and instantly share data in the form of visualizations, sheets, and dashboards.
Tableau ensures connectivity to both live data sources and data extraction from external data sources as in-memory data. This gives users the flexibility to use data from more than one source without any restrictions.
Tableau gives many data source option, ranging from spreadsheets, big data, on-premise files, relational databases, non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data, to on-cloud data.
Tableau has a lot of pre-installed information on maps, such as cities, postal codes, and administrative boundaries.
Tableau has a foolproof security system based on authentication and permission systems for data connections and user access. Tableau also gives you the freedom to integrate with other security protocols.

Tableau stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its fast data access, easy creation of visualizations, and its stability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Romil S., Deputy General Manager of IT at Nayara Energy, notes, "Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.

Ariful M., Consulting Practice Partner of Data, Analytics & AI at FH, writes, “Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good.”

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Sample Customers

SATS, Celcom, EastWest, DBS, Metrobank, XL-Axiata, Etisalat, UnionBank of the Philippines

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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