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Grow vs Tableau In Brief Grow BI is an ideal BI solution for small to medium size businesses whose analysis needs are quite straightforward (no requirement for advanced analytics for example). Tableau is better suited to medium to large businesses with needs that range from simple to moderately complex. In…

ClicData vs Tableau 2017 In brief: ClicData will be more than adequate for many people’s needs, particularly if they simply want to create dashboards of varying degrees of complexity. The cost of ClicData may also be an order of magnitude lower than Tableau for many configurations. Tableau, on the other…

Tableau has become the most widely used visual analytics platform thanks to its relentless focus on the visual paradigm, excellent sales and marketing, and significant ongoing investment in product development. This focus on visual analytics means there is no scripting language in Tableau, and every effort has been made to…

Your CEO asks for a status update, and so you present her with a dashboard containing fifteen charts, tables and graphs. If your CEO is polite (unlikely) she will take a look, pretend to understand, and quickly move on. What is more likely, is that she will become a little…

Human beings like categorizing things, and categories are so fundamental to the way we process information that the world would be largely incomprehensible without them. So it would make sense for our business analytics toolsets to support categories. In fact we employ elementary forms of categorizing almost every time we…

The things we do with business analytics technology right now do not represent the ultimate purpose for these technologies. It is all very immature, and so it may be useful to some to understand where this current fascination with business analytics is headed. But first of all let me give…

Information Builders vs Tableau Summary The only similarity between Information Builders and Tableau is that their respective platforms support the creation of charts and dashboards. Tableau is highly focused on a purely visual analytics environment, and its whole architecture is geared around the creation and sharing of visual artifacts. It…

Looker vs Tableau 2016 Looker and Tableau have taken almost diametrically opposed approaches to business analytics. Looker has a powerful language at its heart and Tableau relies almost entirely on visual constructs. Both support a rich visual environment, but Looker adds its powerful LookML language, capable of performing complex functions…

Domo vs Tableau Summary Domo can be characterized as an executive information system. It offers limited capability, comes with ‘executive pricing’ and what it lacks in functionality and sophistication it makes up for with eye candy. Tableau on the other hand is a general purpose visual analytics platform, quite capable…