iCharts vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
iCharts
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
iCharts is a Business Intelligence and Analytics solution for NetSuite. With this solution, users can transform their NetSuite data into interactive, real-time analytics without leaving their NetSuite dashboard. iCharts includes drag-and-drop chart creation and best-practice templates. The vendor’s value proposition is that iCharts accelerates an organization’s analytics strategy by empowering their team with the critical data-driven tools they need.
$10,000
per installation
Tableau Cloud
Score 7.9 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 per user
Pricing
iChartsTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
Professional
$10,000
per installation
Business
15,000
per installation
Elite
$25,000
per installation
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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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
iChartsTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$3,000 per installationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsBased on number of NetSuite licenses
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Community Pulse
iChartsTableau Cloud
Features
iChartsTableau Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
9.0
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
8% below category average
Customizable dashboards10.02 Ratings8.774 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.01 Ratings6.563 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.656 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
9.0
2 Ratings
11% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.6
74 Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis9.02 Ratings8.674 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.02 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.271 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.247 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
10.0
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.8
72 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web10.01 Ratings8.568 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.567 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.655 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
8.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.8
70 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.01 Ratings8.267 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.266 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.757 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
8.7
2 Ratings
2% above category average
Tableau Cloud
8.4
69 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.02 Ratings8.363 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.02 Ratings7.756 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.02 Ratings8.559 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.754 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
10.0
2 Ratings
26% above category average
Tableau Cloud
7.5
59 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access10.01 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.02 Ratings7.851 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.744 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
iCharts
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
41 Ratings
11% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings7.234 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.833 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.629 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.735 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.232 Ratings
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User Ratings
iChartsTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.3
(75 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(28 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(20 ratings)
User Testimonials
iChartsTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
iCharts, Inc.
The iCharts has suited our organization work as it has helped us a lot in our internal and external works. As we use iCharts for the internal team in representing the working reports and data of the business in an accurate manner. It helps in representing the presentation to the client to showcase our work and present him the data and work flow through the iCharts. As I don't found anything missing in this software.
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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
iCharts, Inc.
  • Their new platform is easy to navigate
  • We had a dedicated support person to help set up searches and train in the use of iCharts
  • Separate Dashboards for each group
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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
iCharts, Inc.
  • The new platform has limitations on colors and sizing
  • iCharts seem to have closed its doors without notification and now we have a product with no support
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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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Usability
iCharts, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
iCharts, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
iCharts, Inc.
I haven't experience any other alternative product of this.
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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
iCharts, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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
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