We performed a comparison between Board and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."
"It is useful for self-analysis regarding company data and helps to find areas where we can improve."
"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."
"Our data is now more structured. Between our data warehouse and BOARD, which are both brand new, we now have a more structured data view with more accurate, timely data."
"Where it used to take me three days at the beginning of the year to create the new financial statement, now it is a matter of minutes because all the data is in the system."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"Tableau's most valuable features are its ability to summarize data, provide dynamic controls for navigating different charts, and showcase historical data trends. I appreciate the option to colour-code different charts for improved customer experience."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"Tableau's most valuable feature is its ability to connect with various data sources and display real-time data on three different dashboards."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."
"It's very user-friendly. It's not like Power BI, Tableau is very user-friendly. Anybody can use Tableau. It's very easy to adopt things. I can visualize the stats."
"It would be huge in the future if BOARD offered a lot more graphs and presentations, and it was a lot easier to use."
"The one thing that I think we would like to see in terms of improvement of the application is the ability to print. It's fantastic to have all of these graphic visualization of data, but we're not able to very easily just print... From my perspective, if you can have a little "print" button and then you just click it and it would produce what's on the screen, that would be very helpful."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"The product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"The setup was a bit complex."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"I would like to see better relationships with the partners."
"The integration with other program languages, like Python, needs to be better."
"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."
"Firstly, the high cost of Tableau licenses makes it inaccessible for many mid-scale clients. Secondly, the server requires at least 128GB of RAM, which can be impractical for some systems. We need a dedicated system to use Tableau."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"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."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
"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."
"There should be stronger data modules for the platform."
Board is ranked 19th in Reporting with 35 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 292 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". 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". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and OneStream XF, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Board vs. Tableau report.
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