Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Commerce Intelligence (formerly Magento BI) is an ecommerce analytics solution that provides data pipeline, warehouse and visualization capabilities. It was acquired by Magento, and is now owned and supported by Adobe.N/A
Tableau Cloud
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month per user
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
$1,380
per year (purchased via a Creator license)
Pricing
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
Tableau+
Contact Sales
Tableau Creator License
$115
per month (billed annually) per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually. A Creator license includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Pulse. Discounts sometimes available for volume.
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Community Pulse
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
Considered Multiple Products
Adobe Commerce Intelligence

No answer on this topic

Tableau Cloud
Chose Tableau Cloud
I feel like Tableau is easier to use compared with the SAP Business Objects. Both have a bit of a learning curve but I felt that Tableau Online was still more intuitive and user friendly. Tableau Desktop is a powerhouse. It has a very steep learning curve but once you master …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Online is much simpler than other Business Intelligence tools such as SAS and SAP Lumira. While SAS allows you to create algorithms to display a set, Tableau Online provides a more friendly user interface for ease of access. Although it does not stack up too well with …
Chose Tableau Cloud
From an analyst point of view, Tableau is the most intuitive tool and it's really easy to use. It's simply the most convenient product and gives the biggest possibilities. Of course, it's more expensive and not all features are necessary for some users. I have chosen Tableau
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Online is much better at presenting and visualizing and manipulating your data. While Host Analytics is second to none in data consolidation, Tableau has much greater flexibility in exploring that data.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Desktop is great because it has much more extensive capabilities. Tableau Prep is great for ETL. It makes it easy to aggregate multiple data sources, union, clean, etc. It is easy to QA within Prep, and takes a lot of the guesswork out of troubleshooting issues with …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Like previously mentioned, Online and Desktop were eventually rolled together to be one offering the last time I checked. If you'll be sharing reports with other Tableau users then Desktop would be just fine.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Looker ended up as the winning product due to its easy to use and flexibility. It's easy for nontechnical stakeholders to learn how to create their Explores. But Tableau gives us more flexibility in creating highly customized visualizations so analysts still rely on it.
Chose Tableau Cloud
When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Sisense offers a powerful backend database, Elasticube that integrates well with Web Service data sources. Tableau enables better visualization flexibility and functionality without having to write javascript.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Both Tableau Online and BI solutions provide visualizations. In Power BI we choose the visualization first, then drag the data into it. In Tableau, we select the data and switch between visualizations on the fly. It’s easier to jump between visualizations in Tableau. Power BI …
Chose Tableau Cloud
I think Tableau is better for a bigger firm with more data than MicroStrategy is. While MicroStrategy seems to be more user-friendly in terms of customization on the fly, and I find it a bit better organized - which is simply my preference of organizational style - my …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Birst seems very good at getting data aggregated into the tool (ETL), but weaker at the front end visualizations.
Tableau Desktop
Chose Tableau Desktop
With Tableau Desktop, it's easy to create a report in the context quickly. It allows for the seamless management of the data sources, which is convenient for the data users. Because it is simple to use, it is
Chose Tableau Desktop
The online and public versions are only good for the hobbyist because they are not secure enough for most business applications. Dapresy is a marketing tool that is supposed to give executives a snapshot of marketing results. It's not very customizable and the results are …
Chose Tableau Desktop
We were interested in expedience at reasonable cost and so didn't do any sort of bakeoff, but tried Tableau first as a potential solution for moving beyond Excel for large scale data analytics. We picked it because it more than met our functional needs at a very reasonable …
Chose Tableau Desktop
I feel like Tableau is easier to use and offers a greater selection of visualizations. I feel that the dashboards are easier to put together and offer a great amount of flexibility for the end-user. Tableau has an excellent user support group. I find the community to be …
Chose Tableau Desktop
My current work environment uses both Tableau Online, MicroStrategy & SSRS in parallel. Tableau is much closer to the SSRS in terms of visualization tool where as MicroStrategy is an enterprise data modeling and reporting tool.

Based on the use case we use different tools. Here …
Chose Tableau Desktop
Cass evaluated Domo, QlikView and Birst prior to selecting Tableau. It came down to cost (and by a significant margin); the others have relatively high implementation, hosting and other costs. Additionally, based on a recent Gartner "Magic Quadrant", Tableau exceeds all others …
Features
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
7% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.4
175 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.756 Ratings8.0145 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.774 Ratings9.1174 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.563 Ratings8.1151 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
6% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.3
172 Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.674 Ratings8.5167 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.271 Ratings8.4170 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.247 Ratings8.0126 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.672 Ratings8.5165 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.3
166 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.568 Ratings8.0155 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.567 Ratings8.0154 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.655 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.559 Ratings8.5128 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.538 Ratings8.878 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.8
70 Ratings
2% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.3
164 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.267 Ratings8.5162 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.266 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.757 Ratings8.6131 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.26 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
8.4
69 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Desktop
9.0
149 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.363 Ratings9.0145 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.756 Ratings9.0125 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.559 Ratings8.7136 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.77 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.654 Ratings9.283 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.5
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Tableau Desktop
7.9
141 Ratings
2% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.457 Ratings8.7130 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.744 Ratings7.3101 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.851 Ratings7.4122 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce Intelligence
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Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
41 Ratings
11% below category average
Tableau Desktop
7.7
67 Ratings
1% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.836 Ratings8.259 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.234 Ratings7.753 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.833 Ratings6.851 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.629 Ratings8.248 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.735 Ratings7.354 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.232 Ratings8.148 Ratings
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Looker
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Score 8.4 out of 10
Reveal
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Looker
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.3
(75 ratings)
8.8
(203 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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7.5
(41 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
8.3
(73 ratings)
Availability
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10.0
(11 ratings)
Performance
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8.0
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
1.0
(57 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
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9.4
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
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8.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
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8.0
(34 ratings)
Configurability
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7.0
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
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10.0
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Product Scalability
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9.0
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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10.0
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Commerce IntelligenceTableau CloudTableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
A company or organization that is in contact with the customer and wants to examine customer behavior in the purchase and selection of products and services should use this platform. It does not matter how many advertising tools and referral links or social media campaigns you use to attract customers. In any case, Magento BI integrates all the information and DB as a single platform and provides you with the best reports. Potential customers can be positioned according to location, city, country. Now we know exactly which product is most popular and where to put our advertising costs on which site or social network has the most audience.
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Tableau
If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Tableau
The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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Pros
Adobe
  • It is relatively easy to manipulate the time period in which you want to see your report. This is important for our business because we are constantly analyzing sales month over month, quarter over quarter, and year over year. RJ makes it easy to toggle between these time ranges on the same report.
  • The visualizers available for reports are what you would expect out of a product like this. You have the ability to view your results in tables and a multitude of charts.
  • The ability to customize dashboards and rearrange reports quickly is great and intuitive!
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Tableau
  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Tableau
  • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
  • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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Cons
Adobe
  • Educational videos and tutorials must be more simpler and more understandable language with subtitles
  • There should be the ability to select graphic diagrams with different shapes and graphs
  • The basic features of the Essential Paln can be increased with the current price so that startup companies can better use the features of this platform.
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Tableau
  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Tableau
  • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
  • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
  • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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Usability
Adobe
In addition to its features, it has made the Magento Commerce platform much better, more functional, and smarter, and through Magento BI dashboard they know very well what reports have been sent and all our business tools are summarized in one business platform. The ability to share report results is very popular and useful, and you can share content with anyone anywhere in the world.
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Tableau
Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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Tableau
Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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Performance
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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Support Rating
Adobe
The very strong and knowledgeable support team and great help forums and documents, any questions and cases will be answered immediately or checked through tickets and resolved quickly. It is also possible to send comments and changes. Or our team , fast response and after-sales cooperation of the service company is always more than the product itself and its quality, and we want the service and support to support our interests.
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Tableau
I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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Tableau
Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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In-Person Training
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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Online Training
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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Implementation Rating
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
The advantage of Magento BI is easier compatibility and adaptation with Adobe platforms and easier installation, configuration and customization with Mojto Store Builder and its various caskets, and I am very satisfied with it now and in every way I think it is a very good platform for integration in reporting.
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Tableau
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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Tableau
I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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Scalability
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Tableau
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Very comprehensive and complete reports that give us a lot of information about the customer
  • Easy integration and features of pulling data directly from our recorded customer database
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Tableau
  • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
  • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
  • Data can be shared across many different device types
  • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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Tableau
  • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
  • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
  • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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