Causal vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Causal
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Causal, from the company of the same name in London, presents a way to perform calculations, visualise data, and communicate with numbers. It helps build models faster, connect them directly to data, and share them with interactive dashboards and visuals. Suggested use cases are financial planning, planning CPC campaigns, track KPIs, or determine employee compensation.
$50
per user, per month
Tableau Cloud
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month billed annually per user
Pricing
CausalTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
Pro
$50
per user, per month
Business
Contact Sales
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
Tableau+
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CausalTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CausalTableau Cloud
Considered Both Products
Causal

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Tableau Cloud
Chose Tableau Cloud
We formally used Microsoft Power BI as our reporting software throughout our organization. I believe Tableau Cloud is a step above Power BI and is our preferred program. The end reports are look cleaner and are easier to work with than Power BI. There are more options and …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau CLoud is much more user friendly and easy to use.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Cloud offers easier ways to make the content browsable by users. It also offers more flexible ways to set up self-service governance. Standard filtering functionalities are easier to use.
Chose Tableau Cloud
It seems more robust then the other platforms. There is a lot you can do from merging many different data sets together by joining them at like points, to creating visualizations of the data, or by showcasing some important data to any number of people within your organization. …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau has a way easier Intuitive UI compare to Power BI or Amplitude. AMplitude is great since anyone could create their own dashboard, but building it it's a different thing.
Chose Tableau Cloud
When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and …
Chose Tableau Cloud
In my opinion, while Microsoft Power BI is a bit easier to build reports and dashboards with in part to its shared traits and connectivity with other Microsoft products, Tableau Online allows for a greater depth of customization, data sourcing, and most of all the sharing of …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Google Analytics is better for ad-hoc reporting but it's easier to create a uniform, standardized portfolio of reports in Tableau Online. We still use Google Analytics from time to time for quicker data requests.
Chose Tableau Cloud
In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Compared to SPSS, the report visualization and output far exceeds what SPSS offers, as well as R. We typically find that while there is a bit of a steep learning curve to get the formulas and modelling correct, once done, it's easy to maintain and adjust as needed to …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Googles dashboard suite is very user-friendly and anyone can edit and make changes with very little knowledge or practice. But nothing I’ve worked with compares to the customization and multi streams of data in a user-friendly package like tableau does. It’s a really cool piece …
Chose Tableau Cloud
Prior to Tableau [Online], we were using complicated excel formulas and reports that were prone to break or were not easy to format. We used a few free tools before moving forward with Tableau. The free tools also had limitations but we found that the reports, ease of use …
Chose Tableau Cloud
We selected Tableau Online as it was more easy to integrate it with our SaaS platform and get going in no time. It is much more intuitive, easy, and quick to create dashboards using Tableau than other competitors. Also the pricing provided by Tableau to us was very competitive …
Chose Tableau Cloud
I do like to still use Google Analytics for certain things, because its faster to do it in Google Analytics rather than build the report I need in Tableau. While it's helpful, we just don't have the bandwidth as an organization to be able to create every report we would need on …
Chose Tableau Cloud
  • Breadth of services offered is good with Tableau Online
  • Tableau Online offers advanced analytics and visualisations with easy implementation
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau Online provides better data visualizations (especially when comparing out of the box visualizations that are available) than MS Power BI and historically we have connected more of our data sources to Tableau vs. other platforms like Google analytics.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Microsoft Dynamics is the only other product I have interacted with that is similar to Tableau Online. I receive reports from Microsoft Dynamics on a weekly basis. I receive really valuable statistics that help me realize how I am interacting through email. Dynamics send me …
Chose Tableau Cloud
[My selection was more determined] by the legacy files from the previous data scientists who build the dashboard with Tableau rather than I decided to choose Tableau from all other options.
Chose Tableau Cloud
Tableau provides more robust system to perform data analytics as compared to the alternatives like Power BI and Qlik. Moreover, Tableaus is super simple to use and is very reliable in terms of its connection with databases. The ability to manipulate data is another big reason …
Chose Tableau Cloud
We used to use an internal tracking platform, and it wasn't nearly as reliable or accurate as Tableau Online. Tableau Online has way more functionality and is able to report on so many more metrics that our old platform was unable to.
Chose Tableau Cloud
There are lots of excellent products are available in market for data analysis like SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, Microstrategy Analytics, Microsoft Power BI, etc. I found other products are specific to their tools like SAP BusinessObjects suits great with SAP Products …
Features
CausalTableau Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Causal
9.3
Ratings
14% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates10.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Causal
8.3
Ratings
6% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis9.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Causal
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Tableau Cloud
7.8
Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Report Versioning8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Causal
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Predictive Analytics8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Causal
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
8.4
Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Causal
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.5
Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Causal
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
Ratings
11% below category average
REST API00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
CausalTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CausalTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Definitely suited best for B2B / B2B2C product modelling. We used this for B2B / B2B2C / C2C and the C2C side of things was always more complex to model out due to this being dependent on marketing spend (CAC) and factors around virality which really cannot be forecasted (not a shortcoming of Causal, just implied by the mechanics of modelling)
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If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
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  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
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  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Usability
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From an end user perspective Tableau Online is overall very easy to navigate once you get used to it, my only complaint is that when expanding or contracting a graph, the "plus" and "minus" on the bottom left is sometimes hidden, and should always be visible. From a builder perspective, it can take some getting used to but the sheer depth of customization makes it all worthwhile.
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Support Rating
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I have no had a lot of experience with the support team, but I know that it’s hardly necessary for the end-user to contact. Usually, the main questions I get are on how to read a certain dashboard or how to navigate to a certain place. Overall, the simplicity of the software is what helps out with less need for support.
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Alternatives Considered
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When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and analytics, Tableau was our go-to tool. The price is the second consideration. Tableau, on the other hand, was the more cost-effective option for our requirements.
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Return on Investment
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  • No need to hire a team of developers to deliver our product, a huge cost savings for a start up company.
  • The ability to work off data extracts allows us to "set in and forget it" so to speak, which allows our customers to use the system during business hours with almost no cost in terms of database usage.
  • It has been a great internal tool for dashboarding company metrics and helping us track goals and implement solutions to meet those goals through efficient data analysis.
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