We performed a comparison between Board and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All the reports are prepared automatically."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."
"A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."
"The aesthetics of it are really nice. That is what attracted us to BOARD: the ease and functionality of it."
"We have better reporting and have been able to better track performance."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"I work for clients. That is my business model. Business people really like to see Tableau. They love Tableau because it is very user-friendly. The platform provides an easy to use interface, which is what most people like about it."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"Since Tableau is on the cloud, we haven't faced any challenges around scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"We are looking at ways to improve how we deal with security in BOARD and other similar things. "
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"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 product can be improved by making it possible to know where cubes are used."
"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."
"One thing that I personally would like to see is additional visualization tools for visuals."
"It can have more functionality for narrative reporting. They should also improve their training courses, which are currently very lightweight. When you get into more complex things, it is quite difficult to figure out what you're supposed to do, and you have to look at a lot of videos before you actually understand, which is a bit frustrating. Their training can be more comprehensive."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."
"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
"Small multiples (a.k.a. Trellis charts) are possible only through very hacky means. Update: Still remains a challenge."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"The user story model is the most deceptive part of Tableau. It is a big marketing option, however, the reality is that it is not enough."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 293 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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