We performed a comparison between Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I am impressed with the product's seamless integration. It can work with different databases like Oracle."
"The tool's valuable features are its drill-down feature, graphs, and charts."
"The solution's features are all just wrapped up in one nice easy package. I don't need a lot of toolsets to get everything I need done."
"It is a stable solution."
"We can create quality reports in real time."
"The stability of SSRS has been reliable, with minimal issues encountered during our usage."
"It is scalable."
"The SQL Server Reporting Services makes it very easy to get the data whenever we need it."
"The most valuable feature is that we can integrate with our own database, and it will displays the KPIs. This is highly required from the business side."
"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 most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."
"The initial setup is simple."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"Tableau will automatically show charts for the related data that I choose making it very easy to use."
"The number one thing was just the ease of getting something up quickly. The other thing that was good about it was that it was fairly fast for decent-sized data sets in terms of performance and run time."
"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."
"In this solution, the cost should be reduced for the enterprise edition."
"I would like the solution to add the scheduling feature for reports."
"It would be really nice to have better integration between the solution and Power BI."
"We encounter some barriers while trying to build a report."
"It is not easy to integrate the product with other tools in the market."
"Sometimes, we need to make sure that the configuration stays consistent across the reporting instances. They all connect to the same database. So, it shares that same backend, but the reporting services itself can also be configured. On the application level, for reporting level. And it is, based on my own experience, it is a manual effort to make sure that the reporting servers are configured the same across the environment."
"The product should improve its performance."
"Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services needs to improve performance."
"It should have more integration with different tools and technologies. Its licensing cost should also be improved."
"The price of Tableau is too high."
"The interface can be improved, in part because there is no indication that something is running or that it's processing."
"Improvements in schema security and row/column security need to be made."
"If you mainly need a tool for BI reporting, it's not the best option. Tableau needs better abilities to generate simple reports, integrate, create databases, and work with data lakes."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"If you wanted to create something without making it an extra column in the data set, you can't just rename it to a more user-friendly short name."
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Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is ranked 7th in Reporting with 16 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is rated 7.8, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services writes "Offers useful templates but needs to improve the connectivity offered". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Jaspersoft, SAP Crystal Reports, Oracle OBIEE and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs. Tableau report.
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