We performed a comparison between Splunk Enterprise Platform and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution is the analytics part."
"Splunk's real-time processing capability has been pretty good for my use cases."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Splunk Enterprise is a wireless enterprise application that can be customized based on training."
"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to explain the values and provide insights into transactions."
"The product helps monitor and visualize data. It allows you to handle various tasks. You can store, visualize, and analyze data with the Splunk Enterprise Platform. It offers features like virtual folders and heavy folders for filtering data. Additionally, you can create dashboards to showcase data to different teams and stakeholders. The tool also enables the creation of analytics and alerts and sends reports, making it a valuable tool for our system."
"What I find the most valuable about the platform is its DB Connect and its versatility in general. I also like its adaptability to any use case when it comes to collecting and analyzing data."
"The product is very easy to use."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."
"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."
"While using this solution I have found the valuable features to be ease of use and the visualization. It is a complete solution."
"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"The Web Editing capabilities allow us to grant end users enough capabilities for them to do self-serve discovery without the added cost of needing to get everyone desktop licenses."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"It's not easy or feasible to reach out to Splunk directly."
"There is room for improvement in introducing more AI capabilities onto Splunk Enterprise Platform."
"There should be continuous customer engagement and training programs on the new features and capabilities introduced by the solution."
"The support offered by Splunk Enterprise Platform has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The product doesn’t have prebuilt dashboards."
"Splunk is not an out-of-the-box solution like Micro Focus or Zabbix. You have to create your request to collect the data and add crucial components to the software."
"Things have to be managed manually"
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"Many things have to be improved in Tableau. Right now, we make the calculation, and then we get that information. It would be better if business users could do that. I would ask the people at Tableau to provide that option to business users to get that information in one click. It would be better if they automated some calculations. There should be more automation in Tableau. However, there are many things in automation mode, but it is very limited at the moment. We need automation for people who do not know much about Tableau. It would also be better if there were good community support like in Alteryx."
"I have noticed that Tableau is not very compatible with ClickHouse. There's no direct connection to ClickHouse; you have to set up an ODBC connection."
"I don't have the ability in Tableau to create a tooltip and see the picture of a piece of jewelry or watch that is a best seller."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
Splunk Enterprise Platform is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 20 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Data Visualization with 291 reviews. Splunk Enterprise Platform is rated 8.4, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Splunk Enterprise Platform writes "A platform for monitoring storage, CPU, RAM, Windows logs, and Cisco network logs on large machines". 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". Splunk Enterprise Platform is most compared with Apache Superset, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Splunk Enterprise Platform vs. Tableau report.
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