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."Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the geographic data analysis."
"The solution deployment was straightforward."
"Any feature I am looking for usually is part of the next upgrade within a few months. They have a very good dynamic evolution."
"It is an excellent tool for data capture, processing, and visualization."
"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."
"The UI part is the best. The end-users can easily get started with Tableau Desktop or Tableau Online because of its user-friendliness."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"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."
"With performance tuning, it generates a pretty complex query when it is not required."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"Its integration with Microsoft products such as Teams should be improved."
"When I've done presentations in the past, I've had issues with uploading the cartography."
"Implementation requires a technical background."
"There should be more GIS features, such as location analysis, which is quite limited. There are very few location-based functionalities."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"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."
"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 293 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, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI.
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