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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Geckoboard

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.

    $35

    per month

    Tableau Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau 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 per user

    Pricing
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $35
    per month
    Team
    $159
    per month
    Team Plus
    $275
    per month
    Company
    $599
    per month
    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
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    Pricing Offerings
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Geckoboard
    No answer on this topic
    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.3
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.03 Ratings7.656 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.05 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.04 Ratings6.663 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.04 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.03 Ratings7.371 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.02 Ratings6.147 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.05 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web10.05 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.02 Ratings7.655 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.03 Ratings8.559 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.03 Ratings6.738 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.05 Ratings8.267 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.05 Ratings8.366 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.05 Ratings8.363 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.03 Ratings7.756 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.03 Ratings8.659 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)6.12 Ratings8.754 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.87 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    9.5
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.05 Ratings7.457 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.03 Ratings7.744 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.04 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Geckoboard and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Geckoboard
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    REST API10.02 Ratings8.136 Ratings
    Javascript API10.02 Ratings7.534 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings6.833 Ratings
    Java API10.02 Ratings5.729 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.02 Ratings6.735 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.02 Ratings7.232 Ratings
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    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GeckoboardTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Geckoboard
    Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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    Tableau
    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
    Geckoboard
    • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
    • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
    • Sleek, dark UI.
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    Tableau
    • 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
    Geckoboard
    • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
    • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
    • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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    Tableau
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Geckoboard
    My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Geckoboard
    With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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    Tableau
    Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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    Support Rating
    Geckoboard
    The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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    Tableau
    I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Geckoboard
    Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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    Tableau
    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 other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    Geckoboard
    • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
    • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
    • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
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    Tableau
    • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
    • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
    • Data can be shared across many different device types
    • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Geckoboard Screenshots

    Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.