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I recently compared Qlik, Power BI and Tableau as a reporting system for our customers. I would say Qlik was the most eager out of the 3. They got me in conta
by karmicthreat 9y ago
I recently compared Qlik, Power BI and Tableau as a reporting system for our customers. I would say Qlik was the most eager out of the 3. They got me in contact with their OEM team and were very forthcoming with information. Microsoft gives you all the information you could want up front. Tableau never responded.
Power BI also has Power BI embedded for Azure services which bills report views on a per session basis. This might be what wins me over to Power BI if it makes financial sense.
R also has https://shiny.rstudio.com/ https://shiny.rstudio.com/ which is pretty neat as well.
In the end we would like our small/medium sized customers to build on top of this platform so we will probably stick to one of the big 3 rather than completely roll our own.
- benlower 9y agoSorry to hear that you didn't get the information you needed from Tableau. If you're still interested in connecting I can make that happen. My team is responsible for Tableau's dev platform and our APIs are used for integrations, customization, and embedding. Email bklower@tableau.com.
- samch 9y agoJust curious why Tibco Spotfire was omitted from your process. If you're looking at Qlik, Spotfire is pretty feature-similar.
- karmicthreat 9y agoBecause I didn't know anyone that had used it. Nor had it come up in other conversations. At 200$/User it is probably going to be out of our price range. Thanks for pointing it out though. I will dig around and see if it is a contender for our use case.
- pinneycolton 9y agoDon't forget that PowerBI also has R embedded/integrated. There are some limitations in how you can use R to produce custom visualizations, but this tight integration is a real plus, in my opinion. Combined with the Excel-like functionality that is also embedded in PowerBI for data reshaping, PowerBI has a clear advantage in terms of flexibility and raw power. I personally can't speak to Qlik, but PowerBI has Tableau beat in this respect. Much of the data reshaping etc. in Tableau happens outside of Tableau. This can introduce some challenges in process.