Tableau, Qlikview & Excel. Model T (Excel) meets a Mercedes S Class.
Excel, Tableau, Qlikview. The Model T (Excel)meets the S Class Merecedes.
In the IT world like anything else it comes down to only a couple of things when you buy something. Ease of use and functionality. In terms of cost MS Excel scores great, it’s free in reality to most users which is Microsoft’s good luck and why they sit on a pile of cash similar to that of a small oil producing nation. All of the products makes nice little business dashboards or
executive dashboards as some call them. Excel is easy to use, charts data. MS Excel has millions of users. However its limitations are where the real Business Intelligence systems come in including some of Excel’s sister products. But using Excel for business intelligence instead of
Tableau BI is like comparing a Model T to a Mercedes S Class.
What you will find on the web search
Quick search on the net and you are going to come across several products including IBM COGNOS. And Cognos was a substantial company before IBM acquired them. Lower cost alternatives for most organisations include Qlikview or Tableau Software business intelligence platform for desktop and Servers Tableau data analytics and visualisation software.
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Qlikview Versus Tableau Software
Qlikview is a great product, hails from Sweden, enjoys huge sales success around the world and is a public company. They are the mid-market leaders in both number of users and total sales. And the new kid on the block making all the noise at the moment is Tableau BI for visual analytics, astonishingly easy to use and wonderful graphics which is business analysts and management want these days. Easy to comprehend data, quickly produced that tells the story. Tableau is from Seattle in the American North West, it intentionally has a user interface just like Outlook. Tableau could well be the next really big thing from American IT Industry.
Gartner Report - Tableau is Number 1
Most importantly for Tableau right now is that
Gartner rates Tableau as the Industry darling. Tableau Business Intelligence software is Ranked No. 1 for the “Ease of Use” and “company with brightest future”