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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Altair SLC

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AAltair SLC (formerly the WPS industrial analytics platform, acquired by Altair in late 2021) is designed for data science and heavyweight data processing with the languages of SAS and R. Best known for its SAS language compiler, the software includes advanced graphical user interfaces, robust, high-performance data processing and production-ready application frameworks.N/A

    Tableau Public

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ATableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

    $0

    per month

    Mathematica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AWolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.

    $1,520

    per year

    Pricing
    Altair SLCTableau PublicMathematica
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Standard Cloud
    $1,520
    per year
    Standard Desktop
    $3,040
    one-time fee
    Standard Desktop & Cloud
    $3,344
    one-time fee
    Mathematica Enterprise Edition
    $8,150.00
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Altair SLCTableau PublicMathematica
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
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    Features
    Altair SLCTableau PublicMathematica
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Altair SLC and Tableau Public and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Altair SLC
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    12 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Customizable dashboards8.64 Ratings10.012 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.710 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.712 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Altair SLC and Tableau Public and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Altair SLC
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Tableau Public
    9.7
    12 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.64 Ratings9.812 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.64 Ratings9.712 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.64 Ratings9.59 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.811 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Altair SLC and Tableau Public and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Altair SLC
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Tableau Public
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Publish to Web8.64 Ratings10.011 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.64 Ratings10.09 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.34 Ratings9.69 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.89 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.17 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Altair SLC and Tableau Public and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Altair SLC
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.64 Ratings9.811 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.34 Ratings9.79 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.811 Ratings9.98 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Altair SLCTableau PublicMathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Altair SLCTableau PublicMathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    WPS Analytics allowed our company's business users to keep using their existing programs while getting similar results with much less learning time. It's a great accomplishment when software for business users is changed—excellent relationships with providers and other salespeople. As a SAS user, I needed an interpreter for the SAS language, and WPS has more packages and a lower price than any other company I could find, so I decided to go with
    it.
    Incentivized
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    Tableau
    Tableau public is the best platform to build dashboards for your personal profile and share with recruiters. It's always good to keep ourselves updated on the latest features, create sample dashboards and save them to a personal profile. Tableau public is free and doesn't need any subscription. anyone can create an account and start building reports.
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    Wolfram
    We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
    Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
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    Pros
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • WPS Analytics is powered with high performance data processing engine.
    • Reusable data models save finances and time.
    • Self-service data analyzation portals.
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    Tableau
    • Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
    • Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
    • Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)
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    Wolfram
    • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
    • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
    • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.
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    Cons
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • Currently, I barely encounter challenges when using WPS Analytics although I don't use it on a daily basis. There's no functionality or feature that needs more improvement.
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    Tableau
    • Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their "for a fee" counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface. That said, with Tableau Public, published workbooks are "disconnected" from the underlying data sources and require periodic updates when the data changes. Users are limited to 1 Gb of storage space per user ID and password as well.
    • I would like to see better options for public sharing of visualizations and data from within the "for a fee" products as more and more organizations are moving in the direction of data sharing with partners and their communities.
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    Wolfram
    • Should include more libraries and functions.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Machine Learning.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Data Science.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    It's free, right? I'll keep using the free version. So the real question to ask is this? Will I pay $999 for the Personal version or $1,999 for the Professional? Yikes! That is a big stretch. I'm not sure about that. The product comparison chart is at: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/comparison
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    Tableau public is a great training tool to understand the basics of Tableau before buying it. A great tool to extend Excel's visualization and to publish data for others. Not useful for anything you need secure. No ability to access databases. Static information only.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    I have not yet required to contact support as the documentation and help i found online has always worked so far
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    Wolfram
    Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
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    Online Training
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    I found it sufficient, and fast. I could easily "kick the tires" with Tableau on my data so I got up and running fast.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    Start at the end and work backward. Identify the business case / issue and questions the end users have, then identify the data needed, and where to get it.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    I use a lot of data discovery and visualization tools at workstations to help me gain deep insights into data. WPS Analytics doesn't vary much from all the DVD tools that I have listed, I always go for the best.
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    Tableau
    Google Charts/Drive is sufficient for simpler data sets, but it does not integrate with other web platforms and the visualization does not look as professional. I'm not aware of any other competitors that offer the same package as Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    We have evaluated and are using in some cases the Python language in concert with the Jupyter notebook interface. For UI, we using libraries like React to create visually stunning visualizations of such models. Mathematica compares favorably to this alternative in terms of speed of development. Mathematica compares unfavorably to this alternative in terms of license costs.
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    Return on Investment
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • Using machine learning and natural language to analyze data saves time and effort.
    • Standard reporting and business intelligence help us reduce workload and make data-driven decisions.
    • Drag-and-drop workflow saves time when different languages like SQL and SAS make it easier to code and prepare data.
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    Tableau
    • Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
    • The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients
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    Wolfram
    • Easy to solve huge mathematical equations, so it saved time there
    • Doing analysis and plotting graphs is also another plus point
    • Learning is very slow, and it took lot of time to learn its scripting language
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