We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 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."I like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services' automated reporting feature."
"The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"I'm very satisfied with the customer service. And usually, whenever we have any issue or details, we get to the person for the support. I'm really satisfied with the service. Within a few minutes or within a few hours, the support person will be available."
"The stability of SSRS has been reliable, with minimal issues encountered during our usage."
"We can create quality reports in real time."
"It is a stable solution."
"I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"The tool's valuable features are its drill-down feature, graphs, and charts."
"We found Tableau has the quickest learning time out of the few other BI reporting tools that we have used."
"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."
"Partner support is very good."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"The maps and colors and interface are all fantastic."
"The product’s performance is better than other tools."
"It most valuable feature is its ease of developing visualizations, not just charts and graphs."
"It doesn't have quite the flexibility of a Tableau or something like that. Many users are more comfortable with Tableau and I'm not quite sure why that is right now, but it seems to be the case."
"We have had issues with the refresh interval since we have too many reports scheduled. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is also expensive."
"Technical support is in minor need of improvement so that they can solve problems in a more timely manner."
"It is not easy to integrate the product with other tools in the market."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services needs to improve performance."
"Tableau is more user-friendly because it doesn't need to do any extra programming. It has drag-and-drop functionality."
"Lacks customization in some areas."
"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."
"Tableau is an end-to-end analytics platform, and it is doing a pretty good job in terms of connecting to the data and analyzing it. It can, however, do better in terms of data management and the ETL features, which are not on the advanced analytics or machine learning side. Tableau Prep is where users would want to see more advancements. They can improve Tableau Prep, which is an analytic platform tool for data cleansing. People who work with data spend most of their time curating the data. Cleaning up the data and getting it ready for analysis is what takes the most time. If Tableau can invest more time in improving the Tableau Prep platform, it would be great. Previously, Tableau didn't have the functionality for writing to a database. So, you couldn't really alter the database tables and write to your database, but they fixed that in one of the very recent releases. However, it isn't really advanced and should be improved."
"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"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."
"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."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
More Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Pricing and Cost Advice →
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 8th in Reporting with 16 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". 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". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, SAP Crystal Reports, Oracle OBIEE and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs. Tableau report.
See our list of best Reporting vendors.
We monitor all Reporting reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.