Desktop and Server Tableau Alternatives 2015
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SiSense majors on ease-of-use and performance. It is capable of handling very large data volumes at speed, and provides powerful data visualization capabilities. Sisense also supports good extensibility, and version 6 improves on this and adds support for advanced analytics via R. Read Review
QlikView BI platform has the ability to be all things to all people, and will satisfy business users, developers and enterprise needs. It sets the right balance between ease-of-use and sophistication in our opinion – something that very few other BI platforms achieve. We particularly like its extensibility and the ability to create new chart types and BI apps – there should be no running up against the buffers. Read Review
Yellowfin BI provides a powerful BI environment, which is also easy to use. This is a rare combination and probably accounts for the various accolades it has acquired in recent years. It provides dashboards, reporting, data discovery and visualization tools, storyboarding and collaborative BI as well as providing good mobile BI support. Read Review
Spotfire from TIBCO occupies a fairly unique position in the BI landscape, addressing both BI and predictive analytics needs. This makes the platform very powerful in our opinion since it becomes possible to display predictive models in a graphical environment. The recent acquisition of JasperSoft shows that TIBCO feels it needs to pitch at the less sophisticated end of the market too. Spotfire should be considered as a platform for a broad range of analytics actvities, and not simply a BI visualization platform. Read Review
MicroStrategy is in many ways a meeting of the old and new in business intelligence, and takes the positives from both. It is truly an enterprise solution meeting the less glamorous demands for regular reporting, complex dashboards and extensive admin, while offering up the sexier self-service BI users now expect from a BI solution. It is expensive, and for organizations with less demanding requirements other options will be more economical. Read Review
Pentaho often delivers everything an organization might need, and goes beyond the classical role of BI by also offering predictive analytics capability. This unglamorous technology stack with an open source heritage is designed to get the job done – and with the least possible fuss. Read Review