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2039 Ratings
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Based on 2039 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 5 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Data Discovery and Visualization, Access Control and Security
BI Standard Reporting

7.3
Ayasdi Core
73%

8.1
Tableau Desktop
81%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features
Pixel Perfect reports

9.0
90%
1 Rating

8.0
80%
137 Ratings
Customizable dashboards

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.5
85%
163 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates

6.0
60%
1 Rating

7.9
79%
142 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting

7.0
Ayasdi Core
70%

8.1
Tableau Desktop
81%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/4 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/4 features
Drill-down analysis

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.1
81%
156 Ratings
Formatting capabilities

6.0
60%
1 Rating

8.1
81%
159 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages

8.0
80%
1 Rating

7.6
76%
120 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.5
85%
155 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling

7.6
Ayasdi Core
76%

8.2
Tableau Desktop
82%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/5 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/5 features
Publish to Web

9.0
90%
1 Rating

8.6
86%
146 Ratings
Publish to PDF

8.0
80%
1 Rating

8.4
84%
146 Ratings
Report Versioning

7.0
70%
1 Rating

7.9
79%
112 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.2
82%
119 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers

7.0
70%
1 Rating

7.8
78%
70 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization

7.3
Ayasdi Core
73%

8.4
Tableau Desktop
84%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

10.0
100%
1 Rating

8.7
87%
151 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.7
87%
146 Ratings
Predictive Analytics

5.0
50%
1 Rating

7.9
79%
123 Ratings
Access Control and Security

7.5
Ayasdi Core
75%

8.4
Tableau Desktop
84%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/4 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/4 features
Multi-User Support (named login)

8.0
80%
1 Rating

8.4
84%
136 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.3
83%
115 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.6
86%
126 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)

8.0
80%
1 Rating

8.5
85%
74 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities

Ayasdi Core
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

7.9
Tableau Desktop
79%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/3 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/3 features
Responsive Design for Web Access

N/A
0 Ratings

7.9
79%
121 Ratings
Mobile Application

N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
179 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
113 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Ayasdi Core
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

7.7
Tableau Desktop
77%
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 6/6 features
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 6/6 features
REST API

N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
55 Ratings
Javascript API

N/A
0 Ratings

7.8
78%
49 Ratings
iFrames

N/A
0 Ratings

7.6
76%
47 Ratings
Java API

N/A
0 Ratings

7.3
73%
44 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A
0 Ratings

7.7
77%
50 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A
0 Ratings

8.1
81%
44 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Tableau Desktop is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

7.0
Ayasdi Core
70%
1 Rating

8.6
Tableau Desktop
86%
191 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
Tableau Desktop
89%
39 Ratings
Usability

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.8
Tableau Desktop
88%
66 Ratings
Availability

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
20 Ratings
Performance

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

6.1
Tableau Desktop
61%
18 Ratings
Support Rating

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
74 Ratings
In-Person Training

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

9.4
Tableau Desktop
94%
4 Ratings
Online Training

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
4 Ratings
Implementation Rating

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Tableau Desktop
80%
68 Ratings
Product Scalability

Ayasdi Core
N/A
0 Ratings

7.0
Tableau Desktop
70%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Ayasdi Core
Well suited: 1. If data set is not yet well organized.2. Hypothesis is not yet established.3. Need to visually explore to find patterns of data (often when analysts have no good understanding of data)4. When [you need] to analyze events with a timeframe (specifically a sequence of events as a transaction)Less appropriate1. If a data set is very large, such as Hadoop data, it becomes hard to manage data pipeline and process to feed the data into Ayasdi. To be feed into Ayasdi, data should be aggregated or organized to some level.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop is better for data analysis and visualization. Its advanced visualization features helped us better understand our business and customer demographics. We use Tableau Desktop to track our team’s progress. Real-time analyses and interactive dashboards are helpful for monitoring data. We can now create and share insights in ways we couldn’t before. It’s easy to put faith in and use these insights. Tableau Desktop can compare data from previous years with weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual comparisons. It assists businesses in identifying the best and least-sold products. However, this requires expensive licenses and skilled personnel, which small businesses cannot afford.
Software Engineer
Prime Tech Solutions Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees
Pros
Ayasdi Core
- Ayasdi Core provides an easy way to get some insight on data. Typically analytics may require having a model or hypothesis before starting to look into the data, but Ayasdi lets you just feed the data first then start seeing what the data looks like.
- Ayasdi Core's topological network visualization is quite unique. It allows you to explore patterns and potential relations between multiple data elements. A user can also dynamically navigate data with different aspects on the web.
- The Web version of Ayasdi is easy to use, stable, and fast. It hasn't crashed even when we feed it a lot of data sets, although it took time.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Desktop
- 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.
Information Technology Business Consultant
Alfa NET+Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees
Cons
Ayasdi Core
- Use of Python SDK is required to feed data into Ayasdi, but it lacks training materials or sample codes for a novice to get started.
- Although Web UI of Ayasdi is looking good, often it freezes when the user runs an analysis. It doesn't crash but the web page needs to be refreshed to see the progress of analysis.
- Algorithms provided by Ayasdi, such as metrics types, lens types need to be explained (what they are and what their strengths and weaknesses are). We had to Google or do research on our own to understand what they are.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Desktop
- Formatting the data to work correctly in graphical presentations can be time consuming
- Daily data extracts can run slowly depending on how much data is required and the source of the data
- The desktop version is required for advanced functionality, editing on [the] Tableau server allows only limited features

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Ayasdi Core
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Ayasdi Core Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Tableau Desktop
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$70 per month
Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules
Edition
Tableau Creator | $70.001 |
---|
- Per User / Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
All pricing plans are billed annually.Likelihood to Renew
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.9
Based on 39 answers
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.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.8
Based on 66 answers
It is a good tool for creating beautiful visualizations and sharing dashboards. It does offer a variety of features and also making interactive dashboards. It is easy to learn and create custom visualizations really fast. It does offer good API connectivity to gather data. But it lacks the structure for data cleaning and processing.

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employeesReliability and Availability
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 20 answers
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.
Associate Data Analytics Consultant
MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Performance
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 6.1
Based on 18 answers
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

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 74 answers
The Tableau Desktop's support team has been very helpful and tend to response very quickly. After all you have paid very premium price for the product and it goes to the services. This makes using the tool much easier for these who doesn't have such experience to get help quickly.

Verified User
Analyst in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesIn-Person Training
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 9.4
Based on 4 answers
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.
Associate Vice President
DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Online Training
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 4 answers
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
BI Developer
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Implementation Rating
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 68 answers
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.
Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Ayasdi Core
We had a working group that has been using R studio for the general purpose of statistical analysis in our organization. Although it is a great tool that provides enriched function sets, it is time-consuming for our clinical analysts to learn the tool to see the first result. R is somewhat of a developer-oriented/friendly tool. Ayasdi is friendly to a domain analyst or end users. Plus, support and consulting from Ayasdi were excellent so that we could get knowledge from them immediately whenever we needed.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau hands-down wins based upon functionality, interoperability with a wide variety of enterprise-class data connections, end-user support, and quality of visualizations. Tableau Desktop offers a substantially more robust, refined, and mature product. It became quickly apparent that there was no real comparison. For applications that need fast, accurate analytics using a wide portfolio of underlying data sources, Tableau Desktop is the clear winner.
Chief Financial Officer
Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees
Scalability
Ayasdi Core
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 7.0
Based on 3 answers
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.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Ayasdi Core
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
- 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.
Data developer
HKS, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees