Amazon SageMaker vs Tableau Desktop

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Amazon SageMaker is a great tool for developing machine learning models that take more effort than just point-and-click type of analyses. The software works well with the other tools in the Amazon ecosystem, so if you use Amazon Web Services or are thinking about it, SageMaker would be a great addition. SageMaker is great for consumer insights, predictive analytics, and looking for gems of insight in the massive amounts of data we create. SageMaker is less suitable for analysts who do generally "small" data analyses, and "small" data analyses in today's world can be billions of records.

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Thomas Young

Owner, previous CEO

Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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Great for visualizing basic and complex analytics, can be very useful in a myriad of situations, for example it can be summarized up for grand views for executives and plenty of drill down opportunities for more analyst level staff. This allows the staff to performing the analytics to save time by not having to duplicate reports on different levels for different staff.

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Clinton Shields

Health Information Analytics Analyst

Kings View Community Services, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.3

Pixel Perfect reports

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8.3

Customizable dashboards

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9.1

Report Formatting Templates

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7.6

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.3

Drill-down analysis

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8.6

Formatting capabilities

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8.4

Integration with R or other statistical packages

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8.0

Report sharing and collaboration

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8.3

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.4

Publish to Web

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8.7

Publish to PDF

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8.5

Report Versioning

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8.1

Report Delivery Scheduling

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8.4

Delivery to Remote Servers

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8.3

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.2

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

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8.5

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

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8.6

Predictive Analytics

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7.4

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.3

Multi-User Support (named login)

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8.5

Role-Based Security Model

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8.3

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

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8.4

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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7.9

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

8.0

Responsive Design for Web Access

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8.5

Dedicated iOS Application

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7.7

Dedicated Android Application

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7.4

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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8.4

Amazon SageMaker

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Tableau Desktop

7.4

REST API

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8.0

Javascript API

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7.6

iFrames

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6.9

Java API

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7.4

Themeable User Interface (UI)

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7.7

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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7.1

Pros

Provided an instance of Jupyter notebook for development script, which made it very easy to manage and develop any script.
Our system is cloud-based, and we are charged only for what we use and how long we use it.
We can choose multiple servers for Training, without any headache of distribution.
Most of the libraries are supported.
All training, testing, and models are stored on S3, so it's very easy to access whenever we require it.

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Employee in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Easy to use
Plenty of Customization options
Can be quick to pick up for average users
Supports some complex analytics
Integrates well with other software

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Clinton Shields

Health Information Analytics Analyst

Kings View Community Services, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

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Cons

It's very good for the hardcore programmer, but a little bit complex for a data scientist or new hire who does not have a strong programming background.
Most of the popular library and ML frameworks are there, but we still have to depend on them for new releases.

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Employee in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Improvements in the fast analysis data engine were designed to make queries much faster
We can take more advantage of the capabilities of the source databases to run more queries at the same time; this being a new feature of parallel queries improving the performance of dashboards in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.

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Yusmelys Lopez

Analista financiero

BANCA PUBLICABanking, 201-500 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.9

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Tableau Desktop is a powerful tool with robust product support. Tableau has become a corporate standard for both internal analysis and client deliverables, whether as native Tableau workbooks or as Microsoft Powerpoint slides.

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Judith Breisch

VP Analytics

Citrix Systems, Inc., SaaS DivisionComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

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Tableau Desktop 8.7

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I am really a fan of tableau for its quick setup, data connection, dashboard creation time and very easy to use UI.As i have used multiple Bi tools like QlikView and SAP BO, i can say all other tools take really long time in performing above functionalities except QlikView which is really fast in term of performing analysis.

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

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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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Brad Llewellyn

Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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Tableau Desktop 6.2

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Tableau's connections to third-party sources can be somewhat slow due to the time required to speak to a source over a network. However, if you properly utilize Tableau's Data Source Extracts, then the speed is incredible. On the other hand, Tableau makes it very easy for the user to put too much data into one dashboard, which can impact performance. All in all, if you use the tool properly, speed should not be a concern.

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Brad Llewellyn

Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

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Tableau Desktop 9.0

Based on 16 answers

Because I have never really faced any issue with the support team and they are usually quite active so it's quite helpful.

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

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Tableau Desktop 9.4

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Extensive and beneficial - users have shown great benefit of training and put it to practical use.

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Paul Morgan

Senior Product Manager

Experian5001-10,000 employees

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Online Training

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

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The training for new users are quite good because it covers topic wise training and the best part was that it also had video tutorials which are very helpful

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

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Time needs to be spent ahead of implementation to make sure data sources are set up and ready. Consultants need to understand the data sources and the goals before setting foot on-site. Installation is easy, learning to use it takes time. The training resources available are great.

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Phillip Smith

Sr. Financial Analyst (Finance Manager)

Spring MobileWireless, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Amazon SageMaker comes with other supportive services like S3, SQS, and a vast variety of servers on EC2. It's very comfortable to manage the process and also support the end application by one click hosting option. Also, it charges on the base of what you use and how long you use it, so it becomes less costly compared to others.

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Excel is the ultimate jack-of-all-trades Swiss army knife approach. You can do almost anything but it is missing much of the polish of dedicated applications of Tableau. Great for the initial approach to a new dataset. I have created some custom Excel macros that go in and run calculations on combinations of fields -- mostly to see if there are data relationships. This is hard to do almost anywhere else. D3.js is an incredibly flexible tool if you are willing to deal with the tremendous overhead of the associated programming. It has a huge learning curve and I would never recommend it for the exploratory or initial examination phase. But for incredibly detailed and robust displays, it is terrific. Expect to take a week to get anything done right.Lumira is a nice get started and get something out the door product. It still feels like a beta-level product. This could be useful for departments that don't have specialized people or want something more than what Excel offers but aren't willing to pay for the full Tableau license. Good for SAP houses of course but I wouldn't count out the other two.

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David Fickes

Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

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Tableau Desktop 7.0

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Although tableau is highly interactive and fast but with very large dataset its performance degrades heavily. So up to certain extent its really good but after that we have to take care of its performance issues.

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We have been able to deliver data products more rapidly because we spend less time building data pipelines and model servers.
We can prototype more rapidly because it is easy to configure notebooks to access AWS resources.
For our use-cases, serving models is less expensive with SageMaker than bespoke servers.

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Gavin Hackeling

Data Scientist

Wonder (AskWonder.com)Research, 11-50 employees

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Easily able to create scalable self-service tools for users. In combination with Tableau Server, creating a tool that provides visualization of an entire data set is only slightly more difficult than providing visualization of a single group of records. This enables me to save many hours each month that were previously spent re-generating different cuts of the same report.

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Peter Rigano

Senior Insights Analyst

LinkedIn1001-5000 employees

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