We performed a comparison between Plotly 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."It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."
"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."
"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"It’s good for quick visualization and being able to quickly consume unstructured data to play around with."
"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."
"This solution has improved insights into quantitative data."
"Better interaction and less time spent with end users."
"The solution allows for the possibility for end-users to do their own reporting."
"Tableau's most valuable features are user-friendliness and have a connection between multiple source systems. You can publish a report by using Tableau Public and there you can make your data online, not only batches of data, you can use it as an online analytical tool."
"Tableau has many good features. It is user-friendly, has a simple-to-use interface, and has a customizable dashboard."
"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."
"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."
"SAP BusinessObjects has some semantic layer designs that give the flexibility to do ad hoc reporting or dashboard designing. If that can be brought into Tableau, it would be great. We have the data in the database, but we should also be able to bring something between the database and the dashboard and do some semantic layer modeling for ad hoc reporting requirements."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"Small multiples (a.k.a. Trellis charts) are possible only through very hacky means. Update: Still remains a challenge."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"There are not enough language options. It needs to be offered in more than just English."
"Formatting controls could use some improvement."
Plotly is ranked 16th in Reporting with 3 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 293 reviews. Plotly is rated 7.6, while Tableau is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Plotly writes "An interactive and easy-to-use solution that can be used to create dashboards". 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". Plotly is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, TIBCO Spotfire, Qlik Sense and RStudio Connect, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Domo, Amazon QuickSight, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks. See our Plotly vs. Tableau report.
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