ClicData vs Tableau Desktop

What users are saying about

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 9 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 1995 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

ClicData ranks higher in 5 feature sets: BI Standard Reporting, Ad-hoc Reporting, Report Output and Scheduling, Access Control and Security, Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 1 feature set: Mobile Capabilities
ClicData and Tableau Desktop are tied in 1 feature set: Data Discovery and Visualization

BI Standard Reporting

10.0

ClicData

100%

8.1

Tableau Desktop

81%

ClicData ranks higher in 2/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

10.0

100%

1 Rating

8.0

80%

136 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

9.9

99%

3 Ratings

8.5

85%

162 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

141 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

8.9

ClicData

89%

8.1

Tableau Desktop

81%

ClicData ranks higher in 2/4 features

Drill-down analysis

8.0

80%

3 Ratings

8.1

81%

155 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

8.9

89%

3 Ratings

8.1

81%

158 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

9.9

99%

2 Ratings

8.6

86%

154 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

119 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

8.5

ClicData

85%

8.2

Tableau Desktop

82%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 3/5 features

Publish to Web

10.0

100%

2 Ratings

8.7

87%

145 Ratings

Publish to PDF

9.0

90%

2 Ratings

8.5

85%

145 Ratings

Report Versioning

7.0

70%

2 Ratings

8.1

81%

111 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

8.0

80%

1 Rating

8.2

82%

118 Ratings

Delivery to Remote Servers

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

69 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

8.5

ClicData

85%

8.5

Tableau Desktop

85%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features

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

9.9

99%

3 Ratings

8.7

87%

150 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

7.0

70%

2 Ratings

8.8

88%

145 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

122 Ratings

Access Control and Security

10.0

ClicData

100%

8.5

Tableau Desktop

85%

ClicData ranks higher in 2/4 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

10.0

100%

2 Ratings

8.5

85%

135 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

10.0

100%

2 Ratings

8.7

87%

125 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

114 Ratings

Single Sign-On (SSO)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

73 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

5.9

ClicData

59%

7.9

Tableau Desktop

79%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 2/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

6.9

69%

2 Ratings

7.9

79%

120 Ratings

Mobile Application

1.0

10%

1 Rating

7.9

79%

178 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

9.9

99%

2 Ratings

8.0

80%

112 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

10.0

ClicData

100%

7.8

Tableau Desktop

78%

Tableau Desktop ranks higher in 4/6 features

iFrames

10.0

100%

1 Rating

7.7

77%

47 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

10.0

100%

1 Rating

7.8

78%

49 Ratings

REST API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.8

78%

54 Ratings

Javascript API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

48 Ratings

Java API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

44 Ratings

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

43 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

ClicData is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Support Rating

ClicData

100%

3 Ratings

8.6

Tableau Desktop

86%

190 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

8.9

Tableau Desktop

89%

39 Ratings

ClicData

100%

1 Rating

8.8

Tableau Desktop

88%

65 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

20 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

6.1

Tableau Desktop

61%

18 Ratings

ClicData

100%

1 Rating

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

73 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

9.4

Tableau Desktop

94%

4 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

4 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

Tableau Desktop

80%

68 Ratings

ClicData

N/A

0 Ratings

7.0

Tableau Desktop

70%

3 Ratings

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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Verified User

Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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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.

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Afia Tamanna

Information Technology Business Consultant

Alfa NET+Information Technology & Services, 11-50 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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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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$71

Starting Price

$79 per month

ClicData Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$79¹
Team	$269¹
Enterprise	Custom Quote
Business	$525³

per month
none
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

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

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

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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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Verified User

Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.8

Based on 65 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.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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.

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Brad Llewellyn

Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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

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Verified User

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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Verified User

Executive in Product Management

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.0

Based on 73 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.

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Verified User

Analyst in Professional Services

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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

No answers on this topic

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

No answers on this topic

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.

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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

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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Ben Warren

Operations Manager Service USA

Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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Jason Guinn

Chief Financial Officer

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

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

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 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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Screenshots

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ClicData

Tableau Desktop

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

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

iFrames

Themeable User Interface (UI)

REST API

Javascript API

Java API

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Recommend

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Pros

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Cons

ClicData

Tableau Desktop

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price