GoodData vs Tableau comparison

GoodData provides cloud-based big data solutions to companies in any industry. GoodData's platform is a scalable, reliable and secure method of analyzing large data sets. It is specifically useful for companies seeking to gain insights into marketing, sales and customer service performance. GoodData's platform works with any data source and is able to load, store, analyze, visualize and share data sets. This business intelligence (BI) platform is able to access existing data from any source including SaaS, on premise, structured, and unstructured. It allows companies to monitor and manage multiple load processes from its data integration service console. GoodData's big data analysis uses Multidimensional Analytics Query Language (MAQL) and the Extensible Analytics Engine. The combination of these two features results in enhanced multi-level caching, increased performance and the option to include advanced metrics. The platform's data reporting and visualization features are user-friendly, customizable and are cross-platform compatible. GoodData improves collaboration among teams with advanced exporting and sharing capabilities via branded dashboards and offers 24/7 customer support. GoodData's platform has been implemented by many enterprises to improve and optimize services. Switchfly, a company that provides technology solutions aimed at increasing customer engagement, needed a big data platform that was able to efficiently analyze over 60 billion customer impressions made each year. After implementing GoodData's platform, Switchfly was able to provide their clients with relevant insights into customer behavior and accurately measure market impact. GoodData is just one of many SaaS business intelligence products reviewed in our SmartAdvisor; click the link to see more solutions.

Tableau is a tool for data visualization and business intelligence that allows businesses to report insights through easy-to-use, customizable visualizations and dashboards. Tableau makes it exceedingly simple for its customers to organize, manage, visualize, and comprehend data. It enables users to dig deep into the data so that they can see patterns and gain meaningful insights. 

Make data-driven decisions with confidence thanks to Tableau’s assistance in providing faster answers to queries, solving harder problems more easily, and offering new insights more frequently. Tableau integrates directly to hundreds of data sources, both in the cloud and on premises, making it simpler to begin research. People of various skill levels can quickly find actionable information using Tableau’s natural language queries, interactive dashboards, and drag-and-drop capabilities. By quickly creating strong calculations, adding trend lines to examine statistical summaries, or clustering data to identify relationships, users can ask more in-depth inquiries.

Tableau has many valuable key features:

• Tableau dashboards provide a complete view of your data through visualizations, visual objects, text, and more.
• Tableau provides convenient, real-time options to collaborate with other users and instantly share data in the form of visualizations, sheets, and dashboards. 
  
• Tableau ensures connectivity to both live data sources and data extraction from external data sources as in-memory data. This gives users the flexibility to use data from more than one source without any restrictions. 
  
• Tableau gives many data source option, ranging from spreadsheets, big data, on-premise files, relational databases, non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data, to on-cloud data. 
• Tableau has a lot of pre-installed information on maps, such as cities, postal codes, and administrative boundaries. 
  
• Tableau has a foolproof security system based on authentication and permission systems for data connections and user access. Tableau also gives you the freedom to integrate with other security protocols.

Tableau stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its fast data access, easy creation of visualizations, and its stability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Romil S., Deputy General Manager of IT at Nayara Energy, notes, "Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.

Ariful M., Consulting Practice Partner of Data, Analytics & AI at FH, writes, “Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good.”