What users are saying about
Top Rated
162 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 8.4 out of 100
Based on 162 reviews and ratings
Top Rated
1644 Ratings
<a href='https://www.trustradius.com/static/about-trustradius-scoring' target='_blank' rel='nofollow noopener noreferrer'>trScore algorithm: Learn more.</a>Score 8.2 out of 100
Based on 1644 reviews and ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM SPSS
SPSS is well suited when you are dealing with respondent level data and need to clean, recode, or make changes. It's one of the only softwares that I always go back to using as it is the foundation of statistical software programs. It might not be very useful when looking at BIG data, but it works for reviewing survey data
Director
Purple StrategiesManagement Consulting, 51-200 employees
Tableau Desktop
It helps us to visualize and understand data. Helps in business analysis, predict market trends. Caters to the needs of an organization. Can be integrated with different kinds of data sources like Excel, CSV, different kinds of databases like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle. On the other hand, need some understanding of statistics to use this software, cannot retrieve previous versions of the same file created. So, version management is a problem. Left joins cannot be created during data loading. These need to be created separately using blends.
Assistant Director, Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
USC Marshall School of BusinessHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Pixel Perfect reports
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
Customizable dashboards
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
9.2
Report Formatting Templates
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
Ad-hoc Reporting
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
Drill-down analysis
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.7
Formatting capabilities
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.4
Integration with R or other statistical packages
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.0
Report sharing and collaboration
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
Report Output and Scheduling
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.7
Publish to Web
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.8
Publish to PDF
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.9
Report Versioning
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Report Delivery Scheduling
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.9
Delivery to Remote Servers
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.4
Data Discovery and Visualization
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.4
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.8
Predictive Analytics
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.2
Access Control and Security
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Multi-User Support (named login)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.7
Role-Based Security Model
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.4
Single Sign-On (SSO)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Mobile Capabilities
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.4
Responsive Design for Web Access
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.5
Dedicated iOS Application
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.2
Dedicated Android Application
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.6
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.2
REST API
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.2
Javascript API
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.3
iFrames
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
7.9
Java API
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.1
Themeable User Interface (UI)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.5
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
IBM SPSS
—
Tableau Desktop
8.1
Pros
IBM SPSS
- SPSS has been around for quite a while and has amassed a large suite of functionality. One of its longest-running features is the ability to automate SPSS via scripting, AKA "syntax." There is a very large community of practice on the internet who can help newbies to quickly scale up their automation abilities with SPSS. And SPSS allows users to save syntax scripting directly from GUI wizards and configuration windows, which can be a real life-saver if one is not an experienced coder.
- Many statistics package users are doing scientific research with an eye to publish reproducible results. SPSS allows you to save datasets and syntax scripting in a common format, facilitating attempts by peer reviewers and other researchers to quickly and easily attempt to reproduce your results. It's very portable!
- SPSS has both legacy and modern visualization suites baked into the base software, giving users an easily mountable learning curve when it comes to outputting charts and graphs. It's very easy to start with a canned look and feel of an exported chart, and then you can tweak a saved copy to change just about everything, from colors, legends, and axis scaling, to orientation, labels, and grid lines. And when you've got a chart or graph set up the way you like, you can export it as an image file, or create a template syntax to apply to new visualizations going forward.
- SPSS makes it easy for even beginner-level users to create statistical coding fields to support multidimensional analysis, ensuring that you never need to destructively modify your dataset.
- In closing, SPSS's long and successful tenure ensures that just about any question a new user may have about it can be answered with a modicum of Google-fu. There are even several fully-fledged tutorial websites out there for newbie perusal.
Technical Project Manager
California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees
Tableau Desktop
- With Tableau you do not need to have technical knowledge to do the data integration and you get a quick response of what you are looking for, being your visualization of high quality.
- We can say that it is free software and it is not a limited version
Analista financiero
BANCA PUBLICABanking, 201-500 employees
Cons
IBM SPSS
- SPSS is not free and is fairly pricey.
- For those requiring advanced procedures not on SPSS, programmable coding, like in R Statistics, may be more limited and not as robust and use of R or other programs might be needed.
- Statistical Package for Social Sciences and can only be used to perform only statistical operations. Further purchases of other packages will be required.
- Default graphics are far from publication quality. Generally, it’s better to use other programs for graphics.
- Information about effect size and confidence intervals is missing for many techniques.
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Psychwest, Clinical & Forensic Psychology, Inc.Mental Health Care, 11-50 employees
Tableau Desktop
- Tableau is ill-suited to work with SSAS cubes, at least when you are used to analysis within Microsoft tools
- Data preparation is not up-to-par with other leading vendor tools (although can be improved through Alteryx if you have access to it)
- The ease-of-use is true for basic analysis, but rapidly gives way to a steep learning curve with more complex queries or when the business context is more mathematics oriented
BI Consultant
Larochelle Groupe ConseilInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 10.0
Based on 16 answers
It's super easy to use for newbies and super powerful for power users! It does EVERYTHING you are usually asked to do analytically. Their Help Desk is PHENOMENAL. And I find the upgrade and renewal price to be a good deal.
Market Research Principal
HussmannSupermarkets, 1001-5000 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.9
Based on 39 answers
Because right now its the best option out there (disclosure: I haven't used Qlikview or some of the other direct competitors of Tableau). The big investment is in Tableau Server not desktop. For the cost of the license of Tableau desktop, its a pretty good deal. You can hook it up to pretty much any data source easily. You can easily share the visualizations with your team/colleagues easily. Tableau Desktop is generally easy to use for business users. But the more advanced stuff is better suited for a analyst or someone with a IT/CS background.
BI Analyst
Kaiser Foundation Health PlanUtilities, 10,001+ employees
Usability
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.0
Based on 9 answers
SPSS is beginner friendly and user-friendly for beginner analysts and simple statistical tests. It's "click and go" interface does take some learning, but overall this is much easier than other programs I have used and seen. Compared to SAS software, SPSS takes a great deal less familiarizing and it not a matter of learning a coding language like SAS and RStudio.
Project Manager
The University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and HumanitiesHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 9.3
Based on 26 answers
I am really a fan of tableau for its quick setup, data connection, dashboard creation time and very easy to use UI.As i have used multiple Bi tools like QlikView and SAP BO, i can say all other tools take really long time in performing above functionalities except QlikView which is really fast in term of performing analysis.
BI Developer
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Reliability and Availability
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.0
Based on 1 answer
SPSS can tend to crash when I am trying to do a lot of data. This can slow me down when I need to do a lot of data

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesTableau Desktop
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.
Associate Data Analytics Consultant
MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Performance
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 6.0
Based on 1 answer
SPSS does the job, but it can be slow. I do have to plan a lot of time to get through a huge amount of data.

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 6.1
Based on 9 answers
Tableau's connections to third-party sources can be somewhat slow due to the time required to speak to a source over a network. However, if you properly utilize Tableau's Data Source Extracts, then the speed is incredible. On the other hand, Tableau makes it very easy for the user to put too much data into one dashboard, which can impact performance. All in all, if you use the tool properly, speed should not be a concern.
Associate Data Analytics Consultant
MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Support Rating
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.0
Based on 5 answers
I have not contacted IBM SPSS for support myself. However, our IT staff has for trying to get SPSS Text Analytics Module to work. The issue was never resolved, but I'm not sure if it was on the IT's end or on SPSS's end

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Research Company, 11-50 employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.7
Based on 19 answers
I still haven't found something that stumped me for long. The company materials are first-rate and their seems to be a natural affinity among the professionals using the product. It seems there are many who want to help those that are following them onto the platform. I've never noticed any condescension to new users or obvious questions in the forums or my personal exchanges.
Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis
San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
In-Person Training
IBM SPSS
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
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.
Associate Vice President
DePaul University, Division of Enrollment Management and MarketingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Online Training
IBM SPSS
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Tableau Desktop
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
BI Developer
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Implementation Rating
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.0
Based on 4 answers
Have a plan for managing the yearly upgrade cycle. Most users work in the desktop version, so there needs to be a mechanism for either pushing out new versions of the software or a key manager to deal with updated licensing keys. If you have a lot of users this needs to be planned for in advance.
Senior Director, Management Analysis
Arizona State UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 8.0
Based on 35 answers
Time needs to be spent ahead of implementation to make sure data sources are set up and ready. Consultants need to understand the data sources and the goals before setting foot on-site. Installation is easy, learning to use it takes time. The training resources available are great.
Sr. Financial Analyst (Finance Manager)
Spring MobileWireless, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
IBM SPSS
Other software that I can compare to SPSS include R, Excel and SAS. Overall, SPSS is easier to get familiar with and more user friendly which is why I can see it as more appropriate for taught courses. The computational capabilities are not similar to R, but on the other hand it is simpler to use. Excel is much more time consuming in any scenario deriving from the very basics of statistical analysis.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employeesTableau Desktop
When we first looked at getting a visualization software for analytics we looked into two options Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop, and even though Power BI is more cost-effective we decided to go with Tableau Desktop as it had more options that we are looking for such as free reader and Tableau Server and offers a very comprehensive and simple interface that is easier to learn for new staff.
Health Information Analytics Analyst
Kings View Community Services, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees
Scalability
IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS 5.0
Based on 1 answer
I am neutral because I have not had to look into scalability since I am using as a student.

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 51-200 employeesTableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop 7.0
Based on 3 answers
Although tableau is highly interactive and fast but with very large dataset its performance degrades heavily. So up to certain extent its really good but after that we have to take care of its performance issues.
BI Developer
CognizantInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
IBM SPSS
- IBM SPSS has allowed me to quickly analyze data for research.
- IBM SPSS has allowed me to complete analyses in order to submit research findings to conferences and complete manuscripts.
- IBM SPSS has enabled me to meet research objectives set out in grant proposals.
Project Coordinator
Tigereye ConsultingResearch, 1-10 employees
Tableau Desktop
- 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.
Innovation Research Manager
Wright Brothers InstituteDefense & Space, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
IBM SPSS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
IBM SPSS Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Tableau Desktop
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