We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio 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."This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."
"The ability to design complex data models and equations."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."
"From my perspective, it enables clients to better understand our data and make better decisions based on that information."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"It has made the reporting stage simple and enabled us to focus mainly on the ETL part"
"The most valuable feature is the user experience."
"It allows us to basically understand and evaluate our numbers in an expedient manner."
"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."
"We frequently utilize visualizations using maps and different objects, all with rich coloring options. And tooltips are absolutely essential for us. Tooltips, like the pop-up descriptions when you hover over some object or graph. Those tooltips in Tableau are great features."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"When you physically install a product on one machine instead of the cloud, you have a better visibility, best icon quality, etc.. It's more of an issue with how we are adapting to the transition. We are still in the early moments of using this tool, and we need to go deeper to discover some improvements."
"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"I would like Tableau to handle geospatial data better in terms of multiple layers and shapefiles."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"Could have more integrations with different platforms."
"The pricing is high. I'm using a student license, however, I know that even this license is very expensive. I've tried to have this product in our organization, however, it's quite expensive. We don't have the internal budget."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"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."
Google Data Studio is ranked 13th in Reporting with 8 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". 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". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView and Databricks, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics. See our Google Data Studio vs. Tableau report.
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