Dundas Dashboard vs Tableau comparison

Dundas and Salesforce are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Dundas is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.0, while Salesforce is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6. Dundas holds a 0.2% mindshare in DV, compared to Salesforce’s 27.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Dundas users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Tableau and Dundas Dashboard are competing products in the data visualization market. Tableau has the upper hand due to its ease of use and speed in data processing, supported by its robust analytical capabilities and intuitive design.

Features: Tableau offers extensive data connectivity options, high-speed data analysis, and a thriving community that supports integration and learning. Dundas Dashboard provides customizable dashboards, advanced visualization techniques, and the ability to create intricate personalized solutions.

Room for Improvement: Tableau could improve customization options, allowing more flexibility for specific business needs and better handling of extremely large data sets. It might also benefit from enhanced predictive analytics capabilities. Dundas Dashboard needs easier deployment options and a smoother user interface to reduce initial complexity. Its integration with external data sources could also be streamlined for better efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tableau offers a straightforward deployment process with cloud-based solutions and extensive support resources for quick start-ups. Dundas, while offering deep customization, often requires more complex configurations and has a steeper learning curve. It provides specialized customer service for detailed customization assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Tableau's pricing is considered premium, but its comprehensive features and quick deployment contribute to a faster ROI. Dundas Dashboard presents a potentially more cost-effective option, though customization and integration may require additional resources and time, affecting short-term ROI. Despite higher initial costs, Tableau's rapid time-to-value provides compensation, whereas Dundas offers potential cost savings with a more tailored feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

Dundas Dashboard

Ranking in Data Visualization

24th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Tableau

Ranking in Data Visualization

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

295

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd), Embedded BI (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Dundas Dashboard is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau is 27.6%, down from 32.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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it_user238920

Data Warehouse Engineer III at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has significantly increased our productivity but it forces users who are viewing the reports for the first time to install Silverlight which isn't supported by Google Chrome.

Previously, we had five people doing separate reports in Excel. Each report looked different, and every month we would have to recreate them with a different set of data. With Dundas, we can now enforce a standard using themes so that all the reports have the same look and feel no matter who creates it. Also, it now automates our monthly reports so all we need to do is update the data in a database, and the report updates real-time. From an automation standpoint this has significantly increased our productivity and ability to get nice looking reports out with short turn around.

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ROMIL SHAH

Deputy General Manger - Information Technology at Nayara Energy

Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time

When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers. Tableau has recently launched a paid version for the documentation. So, documentation has become a little bit challenging when it comes to Tableau development because we do not have any tool to export the data out of it. It is a license-based feature that you need to purchase to prepare documentation. So, on the documentation front, for preparing clear documentation for any dashboard, it would help if we get an embedded option, rather than buying a license for each user for the documentation. To document anything, if I have to connect to each workbook and see what has been written as a formula and then document in the Word document, it is pretty time-consuming. We have the Microsoft stack, and we are currently evaluating Power BI because Tableau has a limitation of 50 columns for a drill-down report. If we want more than 50 columns, we have found a hack, but there is no ready-made option for doing it. So, we have to use another tool in case we need a drilled report with more than 50 columns. There are many instances where users need 80 or 90 columns for their analysis, and switching between two technologies becomes a challenge. It is not a cost-effective approach for us. Their support should be improved. We are not happy with their support. Whenever we raised queries, we were pointed to a few blogs, and we didn't get a proper solution from them. Their licensing should also be improved. They want us to purchase a Tableau Creator license for business users, whereas Power BI Desktop is free for business users. They should come up with a basic license with one or two connectors that our business users can use for preparing their visualizations. Tableau also charges us per user for users who want the data only through email.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I haven't contacted support, but my colleagues said they were satisfied with the response."

"The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting."

"The solution provides the leverage of having custom visualization and the capability of self-service."

"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."

"It is a very stable product. It doesn't break."

"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."

"Tableau is easy to use."

"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."

"The best thing I like about Tableau is that you don't have to go for creating; it is calculated free."

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Cons

"I was a little disappointed in Dundas. I found other tools like Tableau and Power BI to be more powerful. I intended to use Dundus as an organizational BI tool, but I think there's a significant learning curve with Dundas versus the others."

"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."

"The tool's OpenAI integration was announced last year. However, it is late. Tableau is a good solution for end customers. However, there are some concerns regarding the stability and performance of its server architecture, including SaaS services. The server side appears unstable, and performance issues are noticeable, often accompanied by unclear error messages."

"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."

"Provide additional enhancements in any business process: Operations, Marketing and Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Logistics, etc."

"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."

"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."

"The SQL programming functionality needs to be improved."

"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."

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"Best advice on pricing is to anticipate the desire for more licenses once the results of this product are acknowledged in other parts of your company."

"The price is definitely a point because smaller firms don't use Tableau as it's an expensive tool."

"The licensing model of Tableau has changed since we initially purchased it three years ago and it is more complicated, and I have found it to be more expensive. They have lost market shares to Microsoft BI. My company will probably change solutions this year because of the increased pricing model."

"It is a bit difficult for some people when they hear $70.00 per month, as some solutions are available for less than $10.00 or for free."

"It is fairly expensive. I have no idea what they paid. We were on an enterprise license, so whatever it is they licensed at the enterprise level is what we paid."

"Tableau can be costly (but this can be indefinable, such as user experience vs. cheaper etc.)"

"The license is very expensive."

"The pricing for Tableau is the same as the other products in the market."

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May 2, 2013

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Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Overview

Dashboards provide a central location for users to access, interact and analyze up-to-date information so they can make smarter, data-driven decisions. Good dashboard software enables you to monitor and measure performance and metrics in real-time and on the go. You can visualize and analyze data and focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from across the organization on a dashboard, helping you gain valuable insight and drive quick and accurate decision making.

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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.”

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Sample Customers

Coca Cola, Siemens, HP, Verizon, Microsoft, NHS, Scotiabank, KPMG, Bayer, Schneider Electric, Teck, Pitney Bowes, Amtrak

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.

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