ClicData vs Tableau Desktop | TrustRadius

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Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 1727 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

Integration with R or other statistical packages

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Multi-User Support (named login)

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Role-Based Security Model

Single Sign-On (SSO)

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Dedicated Android Application

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

iFrames

Themeable User Interface (UI)

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Ease of use, I can put together a dashboard in about an hour that is used by daily.
Support, their support team is super helpful and always has detailed insight.
Connectors, they have a huge number of connectors that allow easy integration of your data sources.

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Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 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

More widgets.
Sometimes it takes a while to refresh.

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C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Once getting past the basics, creating more complex structures and calculations can be more challenging and less intuitive than other reporting tools.
Maintaining version synchronization between server and desktop is annoying. Would be better if the server compatibility could be specified in the desktop.
Support for 3rd party olap technologies could be better.

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Data developer

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

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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

ClicData 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Like I mentioned before, the ease of use means we not only get very quick results and beautiful dashboards in minutes, it means my team is actually using it because they aren't frustrated in the learning curve or wasting time trying to accomplish simple tasks.

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Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.9

Based on 55 answers

Overall, I would say Tableau Desktop could be a very useful tool in some situations like what I mentioned in my case but it could also be no that useful and unnecessary expensive option in some other situations. It boiled down what skillsets and legacy tools that you already have before this decision.

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Analyst in Professional Services

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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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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Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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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

ClicData 10.0

Based on 1 answer

We've only needed support a couple times in the beginning as we were learning the system and how to display our data in interesting ways. Every time we reached out we got very detailed responses and were connected to someone that you could tell was very interested in making sure we were happy with how things were going.

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Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.3

Based on 48 answers

We have required almost zero technical support over the entire duration of using Tableau. On the very few occasions that we did have to engage support teams, the responses were very fast, professional, and helpful. Tableau uses a Salesforce Customer Community to serve as the primary support / case management platform, empowering users with an ability to quickly submit new support tickets and check the status of existing tickets.

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Chief Financial Officer

Clinical Management Concepts, Inc.Pharmaceuticals, 51-200 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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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

No score

No answers yet

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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

No score

No answers yet

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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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Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

ClicData was the most flexible. It is cloud-based and even has WebService access. You can publish your data for access from other applications. The sheer number of data connectors is amazing. The ability to not only create dashboards, but you can schedule them to be delivered to specific recipients on a scheduled basis via PDF or a static HTML page.

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Operations Manager Service USA

Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees

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Excel is the main one I've used and it seems pretty weak stacked against Tableau. However Excel is a pretty cheap option. If you want advanced analytics, prediction, tabular and visual reporting, simple import vs export, and interactive reporting, Tableau is the way to go. It's strong.

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Verified User

Account Manager in Sales

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

ClicData was by far the most reasonable cost-wise, and we were able to get ROI within just minutes of using it.

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Verified User

Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Tableau has provided my clients with the information necessary to allocate multi-million dollar research budgets effectively, ensuring the company is getting the most bang for its buck.
Tableau has given my office the ability to present data quickly and easily in a professional format that customers can understand, and has them returning frequently for additional analysis and projects.

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Innovation Research Manager

Wright Brothers InstituteDefense & Space, 11-50 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?

Optional

$71*

* data volume, type of data source and level of automation

ClicData Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$79¹
Team	$259¹
Enterprise	$499¹
Dedicated	$890¹

per month

Additional Pricing Details

All plans include multiple users licenses but dashboards can be shared with external users via live links, no license needed. Plans and pricing vary based on the data connectors, refreshes, and the level of automation needed. A few hours of Expert Service are including in all plans but more hours can be purchased. A white label option is also available for consultants and agencies.

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Tableau Desktop Editions & Modules

Edition

Tableau Viewer	$12¹
Tableau Explorer	$35¹
Tableau Creator	$70¹

Per User / Per Month

Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

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