Chartio (discontinued) vs. Wolfram Mathematica

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chartio (discontinued)
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Chartio is a visualization tool designed to enable anyone to explore, transform and visualize data on the fly through a drag-and-drop interface. Chartio was acquired by Atlassian in February 2021 so that it's capabilities could be integrated into the Atlassian product portfolio's capabilities. Chartio is no longer available to new customers, standalone. Existing customers must migrate to alternatives by March 2022, when the service will be retired.
$40
per user/per month
Mathematica
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Wolfram'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
Chartio (discontinued)Wolfram Mathematica
Editions & Modules
Starter
$40
per user/per month
Professional
$60
per user/per month
Organization
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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
Chartio (discontinued)Mathematica
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo 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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Community Pulse
Chartio (discontinued)Wolfram Mathematica
Considered Both Products
Chartio (discontinued)
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I've honestly never really seen another product like Chartio. The closest I can compare is 6sense, but it's fairly different. I think 6sense and Chartio work well together.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Chartio so far has been the easiest BI tool to setup and has also been the most affordable. There are some other, great, BI tools out there but they were a bit to heavy handed for what we needed. Also - despite the high cost per user in Chartio, the other tools were still more …
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
We used GoodData before Chartio. Our main reason for the change was that GoodData also stored our data and we could not query our own databases. We had to load the data first before creating a new dashboard which made the whole process (and also the maintenance) more difficult. …
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Initially, we selected chartio because it was the easiest to connect to data and get going making visualizations. Ultimately, we moved away from Chartio because we needed a tool that would work as a buffer between our data structure and the visualizations. But majority of BI …
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I haven't really used other similar platforms, but I do find Chartio very easy to use and efficient in regards to our needs.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I did not choose Chartio, but I was very happy in the decision made by my co-worker.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
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Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Again, Chartio provides the best multi-user presentation ability for us. Other tools are great for slicing and dicing the data, but at the end, you still have to spend time trying to find a way to present it. Chartio has that built in.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
The easy of use and the level of busienss value you get from using Chartio next tho the ones with older UX-experiences.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
we have statistics tab on our own platform that requires multi-step functions to access the same data, so Chartio is allot more time efficient
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Simple interface, simple dashboarding (very little ETL or Analysis requirement for our purposes) and ease of self-service and quick support response. The price was right for all of these things.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I find that Chartio has less red tape. It allows endless options.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
We didn't do an exhaustive comparison, but afterwards I have looked at others and still feel confident in Chartio.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
It's so much more customizable and allows you to use any data you could possibly want. The interface is also so much more sensible and allows you to decide how to look at things.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Much cheeper and provides almost all the features that we need.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
We still use Mixpanel because of its funnel feature.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I haven't used any other products. I've built a few myself using statistical software packages (namely, R) and a few graphing libraries (d3.js).
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
N/A - I haven't used any other alternatives in sufficient depth to compare
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
We looked at periscope as well. Ultimately we thought chartio's design was better visually.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
Much more efficient access.
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
We have an older version of Crystal Reports that just hung around as the company grew. Now that we have more users, it's not feasible to continue with the limited Crystal experts that we have in order to get reporting out across the entire company. What we were aiming for was a …
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I wasn't involved in selection/evaluation. The only other tool I've used was Business Objects which was much less intuitive for a basic user
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
none
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I tried a number of competitors before selecting Chartio. Duckboard is a mess. Looker is an exciting product but requires a huge amount of configuration. Most enterprise solutions have been featurecreeped to death and all look like Excel circa 1998. We selected Chartio because …
Chose Chartio (discontinued)
I kind of hit on this earlier, but simply put: Usability. We were given tutorials by our Data Science team using Birst, and even they encountered a few hiccups explaining things: they use this everyday! We trialed Chartio with people having zero BI software experience and they …
Mathematica
Chose Mathematica
There is no other alternative that Maple from Maplesoft all over. There are other systems for mCAx that do not offer the richness and coverage of mathematical features. For example Matlab that restricts inself to matrice calculation and only the the right set of addon library …
Chose Mathematica
Well, Mathematica is free at my university. As a graduate student, you can download and install Mathematica in your device after log in through your university email. Second, it has very nice platform. You can use Mathematica for many data analysis such as plotting, integration …
Chose Mathematica
Matlab is an excellent tool, but it can't handle analytic manipulations in algebra, calculus and differential equations. Matlab is superior when it comes to a less steep learning curve. In terms of using only one tool for analytic and numerical calculations, Mathematica wins. …
Chose Mathematica
Mathematica is good solution in some cases but doesn't perform well in other regions. Mathematica is good in solving mathematical problems but not performs well in machine learning areas. I would suggest to use TensorFlow or Keras for machine learning. Also it performs good for …
Chose Mathematica
The ability to manipulate algebraic expressions, nested lists, and data structures in Mathematica was unequalled when I first did the comparison. Since then, I've stuck with Mathematica mostly because it's "the tool I know."
Chose Mathematica
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 …
Chose Mathematica
We selected Wolfram Mathematica as it offers lot of functionality that other products like MATLAB or sageMath do not have. And it also has advantages on the feature that it does share in common with other tools like sageMath, MATLAB etc. It is more powerful than MATLAB. It …
Chose Mathematica
I think IBM Watson analytics is good alternative to Wolfram Mathematica. A few advantages of Mathematica over IBM Analytics is that Mathematica comes with a lot of inbuilt things like neural networks, predictive analysis geometry. And IBM analytics does not show the step by …
Features
Chartio (discontinued)Wolfram Mathematica
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
6.0
Ratings
29% below category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
Ratings
20% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports3.60 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.70 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.70 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
5.7
Ratings
32% below category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
Ratings
23% above category average
Drill-down analysis6.90 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.10 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages3.10 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.50 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
3.4
Ratings
83% below category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.3
Ratings
13% above category average
Publish to Web2.70 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning2.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling2.70 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
7.5
Ratings
3% below category average
Wolfram Mathematica
9.9
Ratings
24% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.20 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.20 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Chartio (discontinued)Wolfram Mathematica
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
8.0
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Usability
7.6
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Availability
8.6
(0 ratings)
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Performance
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
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Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
This product is well suited for end users that don't want to get too in depth with reporting. The interface is simple and the default filter options are sufficient for a general report.
Example: Total Sum of Net Sales for all products sold in X State between dates X and X. If the need is for a more complex query, then there is the Custom Query option. This would be something that an administrator would have to police as having users writing their own queries could get really messy really fast.
I suppose the key questions to ask would be:
Do you need a product that will... display all relevant charts/reports in one consistent place? ... be simple for an end user to navigate? ...be web-based and remotely accessed?
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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
  • Constantly updating: many of the BI tools we looked at were slow to iterate on their product. This was a main selling point for us.
  • Ease of Use: We have many users that are new to BIs tools and database management in general. BI software as a whole has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, but Chartio does a good job of making things easier all around.
  • Database Support: It seems as though every department insists on storing their information using different databases. Chartio had support for everyone one we needed which was very helpful.
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  • Doing the analysis is very good, plotting the data, getting the insight from data using this is easy and output looks pretty good
  • Solving mathematical problems, with detailed solutions step by step (mainly calculus problems)
  • You can also query this knowledge engine in simple English. It has ability to interpret that and will give you answer accordingly
  • Nowadays, it provides API to use, so you can do image processing, video/audio using this
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Cons
  • The sharing is descent but is a bit lacking. You can embed charts but they're not as nice as when displayed on Chartio dashboards.
  • The pricing model is very competitive, but just to offer embedding puts you in a very high tier.
  • They need a better pricing model for adding users. User licensing is a bit expensive.
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  • 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
It has become a core part of the business in terms of identifying the health of our network. If we grow and there are certain things that might not fit well with Chartio (e.g. we'd want to store snapshots of every single day's dash instead of seeing realtime data), it might make sense to move some of the data analysis tool in-house if resources are available.
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Usability
I really like using Chartio. I use it on a daily basis for pulling data from different sources and combining data (the explore tab was a great idea for this use). I think I would give it 8/10 because there needs to be more documentation or maybe blog posts about things people are doing with it. I only have my own ideas about what to do /how to graph things. I know there are some articles, but it would be awesome to have a section on the neat dashboards people are building or how they show data in different ways. Another complaint is how much time it takes to load. I know our databases aren't set up precisely for Chartio and I have been creating data stores. But the data stores have so many more limitations that adds a whole new layer of frustration. Love the product, keep up the good work and the fast fixes.
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Support Rating
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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
I use self learning materials. Pretty helpful. I find myself having to go back to the "drilldown" instructions though, and have a hard time finding hidden variables on a dashboard, so perhaps there is room for intuitive improvements (or maybe I'm just being lazy)
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Alternatives Considered
Again, Chartio provides the best multi-user presentation ability for us. Other tools are great for slicing and dicing the data, but at the end, you still have to spend time trying to find a way to present it. Chartio has that built in.
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The ability to manipulate algebraic expressions, nested lists, and data structures in Mathematica was unequalled when I first did the comparison. Since then, I've stuck with Mathematica mostly because it's "the tool I know."
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Scalability
Chartio has worked well as our datawarehouse has rapidly expanded, and the usability/performance hasn't seemed to have suffered. What we haven't yet realized is additional savings from additional users. We have some dashboard needs for users who truly just view of a few charts, and the licensing structure hasn't yet been structured in a way that would support that type of approach...having 50 "core" licenses, and then potentially several hundred view only licenses for partners that would use the application infrequently.
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Return on Investment
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  • Mathematica is our "go to" environment for developing solutions for our clients, so I suppose you could say that it is solely responsible for our revenues. On occasion we do use other platforms but Mathematica is a core component of our offer to clients.
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