Tableau Server vs. Unit4 PSA Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Unit4 PSA Suite
Score 5.7 out of 10
N/A
Unit4 PSA Suite (formerly Assistance PSA, acquired with Assistance Software in 2017) is a performance management solution built specifically as a performance management suite for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It contains capabilities such as time management, opportunity management, and revenue forecasting.N/A
Pricing
Tableau ServerUnit4 PSA Suite
Editions & Modules
Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Tableau ServerUnit4 PSA Suite
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Tableau ServerUnit4 PSA Suite
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
9.3
95 Ratings
13% above category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports9.129 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.494 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.381 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
8.9
95 Ratings
9% above category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.795 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.493 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.959 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.489 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
7.9
91 Ratings
6% below category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Publish to Web9.585 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.284 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.477 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers5.19 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
8.4
90 Ratings
4% above category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.886 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.885 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.764 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
7.3
95 Ratings
16% below category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)7.393 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.390 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.392 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.362 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
7.6
79 Ratings
5% below category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.177 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.061 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.768 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Server
7.3
46 Ratings
8% below category average
Unit4 PSA Suite
-
Ratings
REST API9.040 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API9.137 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames9.140 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.19 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)4.67 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Tableau ServerUnit4 PSA Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(111 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(20 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
5.4
(17 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.1
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.4
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Tableau ServerUnit4 PSA Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Unit4
Financial management and budget management
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Pros
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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Unit4
  • Project management
  • In oil industry we use it to have a simple process
  • Provided a better solution for finance management of a company
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Cons
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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Unit4
  • Better integration with database
  • Better integration with business intelligence tool
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Performance
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
In-Person Training
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Online Training
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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Unit4
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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Unit4
Speed and so many options
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Return on Investment
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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Unit4
  • It saved time
  • It saved manual power
  • It saved dollars
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ScreenShots

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.