GoodData vs. Tableau Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is a cloud-based data and analytics platform, bringing AI-fueled data-driven decision-making to organisations across the globe. With a platform that leverages the potential of automation and AI, GoodData empowers its customers to make data analytics available to end users via real-time, self-service data insights right at the point of work. The vendor states that over 140,000 businesses and 3.2 million users rely on GoodData to drive meaningful change and achieve more through…
$30
per month per user
Tableau Server
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
$12
Per User Per Month
Pricing
GoodDataTableau Server
Editions & Modules
Internal Analytics Startup
$30
per month per user
Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataTableau Server
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
GoodDataTableau Server
Considered Both Products
GoodData
Chose GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product.
Chose GoodData
I was involved in the decision making but not final decision maker. Ease of implementation for GoodData vs Cognos (used for 15 years in multiple companies). I think Tableau's visualizations are better, but there is much that just can't be done in Tableau that GoodData handles …
Tableau Server

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
GoodDataTableau Server
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.6
51 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Server
9.3
95 Ratings
13% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.735 Ratings9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.851 Ratings9.494 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.441 Ratings9.381 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.8
50 Ratings
1% above category average
Tableau Server
8.9
95 Ratings
9% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.749 Ratings8.795 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.950 Ratings8.493 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.746 Ratings9.489 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.959 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.1
49 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Server
8.4
90 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.347 Ratings8.886 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.138 Ratings8.885 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.628 Ratings7.764 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.4
51 Ratings
0% below category average
Tableau Server
7.3
95 Ratings
16% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.451 Ratings7.393 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.144 Ratings7.390 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.450 Ratings7.392 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.629 Ratings7.362 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.0
29 Ratings
7% above category average
Tableau Server
7.3
46 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API7.924 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Javascript API8.022 Ratings9.137 Ratings
iFrames8.123 Ratings9.140 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings4.67 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
7.9
91 Ratings
6% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.585 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.070 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.477 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
7.6
79 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.177 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.061 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.768 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(79 ratings)
7.1
(111 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(14 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(58 ratings)
5.4
(17 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(6 ratings)
3.4
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
GoodData excels for my sales team in scenarios such as real-time performance tracking and sales metrics. The customizable dashboards help me to monitor lead conversion, revenue and individual performance. Along with huge data we also have insights. We can get most of our decisions based on it's analysis and optimize our strategies, and enhance overall sales.
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Tableau
Tableau Server is well suited for a data warehouse build and handling big data. Tableau data aggregation, transformation, clustering capability is powerful and easy to implement. The choice of charts and visualisation tools is outstanding. Customisation and dynamic data visualisation capability is superb. The user interface takes some time getting used to.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData helps in simplifying complex data into easy-to-understand visuals. We can create personalized dashboards & tailor them as per requirements. This data can be used from an executive level employee to a team lead employee in the business
  • GoodData is a very user friendly platform. The collaborative features simplify sharing and discussing reports among team members which promotes a culture of data-driven decision-making.
  • GoodData connects with various data sources and consolidate information from multiple platforms. This flexibility proves invaluable for businesses dealing with data spread across different systems as they can access large amount of data on a single platform.
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Tableau
  • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
  • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
  • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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Cons
GoodData
  • Firstly I would like to mention about it's setup which took us more than a month to integrate and get things started.
  • Not that easy for beginner to start using the platform.
  • Some features are hard to find at setup due to it's complexity but later it went well.
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Tableau
  • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
  • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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Likelihood to Renew
GoodData
Each client I have worked with and spoken too has renewed their GoodData subscription. I know of not one to date that has cancelled. The GoodData platform has a very high rate of renewal from the discussions I have had with their internal teams as well
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Tableau
It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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Usability
GoodData
GoodData provided us with strong overall usability and provided us a platform for various business analytics. Its user-friendly and insightful reports and also the dashboards. Me and my team really appreciate the platform's ability to streamline decision-making processes. However, there is a learning curve during initial setup as I mentioned before. Continuous improvements in the onboarding could further enhance GoodData's usability as well.
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Tableau
Tableau Server is unbeatable at creating easy to use, interactive dashboards for busy executives. The software also saves time for the busy analyst that is tired of always using Excel. Tableau Server is a head and shoulders improvement over Excel.
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Reliability and Availability
GoodData
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Tableau
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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Performance
GoodData
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Tableau
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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Support Rating
GoodData
Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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Tableau
We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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In-Person Training
GoodData
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Tableau
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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Online Training
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Tableau
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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Implementation Rating
GoodData
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Tableau
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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Alternatives Considered
GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product
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Tableau
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Return on Investment
GoodData
  • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
  • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
  • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
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Tableau
  • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
  • There are some significant setup for the server product.
  • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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ScreenShots

GoodData Screenshots

Screenshot of GoodData's array of tools and AI features to dig into data for needed insights.Screenshot of GoodData’s AI-powered features (like NLQ) and drag-and-drop UI, used to build and interact with charts and dashboards.Screenshot of GoodData's pro-code, low-code, and no-code interfaces, available so users with all skill levels can collaborate to share insights and findings.Screenshot of forecasting tools that let users predict trends for key business metrics for the next month, quarter, and year.Screenshot of NLQ, used to ask questions of data, automatically create new visualizations, and discover new insights using natural language via an AI chatbot.Screenshot of an AI-powered explanation of what is driving the values, in dashboards and visualizations.

Tableau Server Screenshots

Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 2.Screenshot of Tableau Server permissions view.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 2.