We performed a comparison between Tableau and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Partner support is very good."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"The best use case for us is the solution's integration with Salesforce because we are also partners of Salesforce."
"The stability seems to be very reliable."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"It is easy to adapt visualizers to have interactive conversations among decision-makers."
"It is definitely easy to use. It is intuitive, and more or less, everything can be done from the front end. As such, there is no concept of metadata. You can just take data from a database and start building your own stuff, such as OLAP data warehouse. You don't need extensive metadata modeling like Oracle BI."
"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."
"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."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
"There are more than a powerful tool in the market, such as Microsoft BI."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. Tableau is rated 8.4, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI.
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