BIME vs Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited if you need to create multiple reports and send them out easily to multiple clients. It is not well suited if you need a lot of data sources. It slows the product way down and makes reports take forever to load.

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Nick Bare

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

AudigyManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees

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We combine data from various data sets. Most of my files are in flat files and stored by various teams. The data is added daily so we need a fast way to analyze it. Furthermore, we incorporate external data such as statistics Canada and economics. For these, [Tableau Desktop] needs to be responsive. I then use it to analyze the information. Also, the data is visualized by various teams and presented to executives.

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Government Administration Company, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Pixel Perfect reports

BIME

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Easy to create reports
Easy to edit
Easy to customize

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Nick Bare

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

AudigyManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees

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The Visualizations graphics are really good and the color options help in designing attractive charts. They help to convey more information and can be made interactive.
You can add filters with offer you to plug and play with values and understand different outcomes.
You can drag and drop options while creating charts and dashboards. also it is a very fluid layout.

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Analyst in Marketing

Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employees

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Cons

It was SLOW!
Some of the graphs can be confusing
Not really set up for a single vertical company.

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Nick Bare

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

AudigyManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees

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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

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Analyst in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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.

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Manager in Information Technology

Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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Tableau Desktop 8.9

Based on 61 answers

I think it is easy to use and provides beautiful charts. It is easier to do storytelling or to give a quick overview about your work.Tableau also makes it easy to share the dashboards and manage access right to them.I would recommend Tableau as one of the best visualization tools out there.(From my point of view, Tableau is like Apple and Power BI is like Android phone).

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Employee in Finance and Accounting

Chemicals Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 10 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.

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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 6.1

Based on 9 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

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Professional in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

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Tableau Desktop 8.4

Based on 54 answers

Tableau support team took their own time to reach out with their solution. However, Tableau online community forums where many visitors and user are ready to lend a hand to others and share their experiences provide support and help in any issues encounter during the development phase.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

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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.

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Jon Boeckenstedt

Associate Vice President

DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Online Training

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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

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Chandra Bhanu Pratap Singh

BI Developer

CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 36 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.

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David Fickes

Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

BIME was more accurate with sending out reports than RavenTools, and had a lot more customizable options. GDS has suited us well though, because it integrates with a lot of different platforms and allows us to deliver our reporting for no additional cost.

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Nick Bare

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist

AudigyManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees

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If we do not have legacy tools which have already been set up, I would switch the visualization method to open source software via PyCharm, Atom, and Visual Studio IDE. These IDEs cannot directly help you to visualize the data but you can use many python packages to do so through these IDEs.

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Verified User

Analyst in Professional Services

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

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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.

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

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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.

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John Stuchly

Data developer

HKS, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

BIME Editions & Modules

Edition

Base Plan	$490¹
Big Data	$690¹

Per Month (Billed Annually)

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules

Edition

Tableau Creator	$70.00¹

Per User / Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

All pricing plans are billed annually.

Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Pixel Perfect reports

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Versioning

Delivery to Remote Servers

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Cons

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Renew

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Usability

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Reliability and Availability

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Performance

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Support Rating

BIME

Tableau Desktop

In-Person Training

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Online Training

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Implementation Rating

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Alternatives Considered

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Scalability

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Return on Investment

BIME

Tableau Desktop

Screenshots

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Tableau Desktop

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services