Longview Analytics (arcplan) vs. Tableau Desktop

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Longview Analyticsis a reporting tool that doesn’t require additional tools or experts to create custom dashboards to enable teams to monitor company-wide activities and implement performance-enhancing changes. It is designed to empower users to improve resource management and strategic impact through data-driven insights and increased automation.N/A
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling.
$70
per month
Pricing
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
Editions & Modules
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Tableau Creator
$70.00
Per User / Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually.
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Community Pulse
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
Considered Both Products
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
Chose Longview Analytics (arcplan)
acplan beats Qlik on basically everything, including price. It's technically far superior, provides far better security and unlike Qlik does not require coding when things get complex.

arcplan beats Tableau and Yellowfin on capabilities. Tableau and Yellowfin are very good at …
Tableau Desktop

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
7.6
2 Ratings
7% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.4
167 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.42 Ratings8.5139 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.02 Ratings8.7166 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.52 Ratings7.9145 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
7.4
2 Ratings
8% below category average
Tableau Desktop
9.0
164 Ratings
11% above category average
Drill-down analysis5.82 Ratings9.0159 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.32 Ratings9.3162 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.02 Ratings8.3122 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.52 Ratings9.4157 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
8.9
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Tableau Desktop
8.4
158 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web7.82 Ratings8.4149 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.02 Ratings7.9149 Ratings
Report Versioning10.02 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.82 Ratings9.3123 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.273 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
7.1
2 Ratings
12% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.5
156 Ratings
6% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.72 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.72 Ratings8.5149 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.72 Ratings8.5126 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
8.2
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.7
142 Ratings
2% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.02 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.02 Ratings8.1119 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.52 Ratings8.7129 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.877 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
6.7
2 Ratings
17% below category average
Tableau Desktop
8.2
135 Ratings
3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.52 Ratings8.4124 Ratings
Mobile Application5.01 Ratings7.497 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.32 Ratings8.7117 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Longview Analytics (arcplan)
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Ratings
Tableau Desktop
9.1
64 Ratings
15% above category average
REST API00 Ratings9.356 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings9.846 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.653 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.946 Ratings
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User Ratings
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(2 ratings)
8.8
(194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(39 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(63 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(10 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(56 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(34 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Longview Analytics (arcplan)Tableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
Insightsoftware, Inc
It is very suitable for complete corporate BI solutions. If you see BI as embedding information into your organization and business processes, and thus as more than just a few scattered dashboards and reports, arcplan is your platform. It's less suitable for ad-hoc reporting and data discovery. It can do it (everything is possible), but there is strong competition in this area.
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Tableau
Tableau Desktop is one the finest tool available in the market with such a wide range of capabilities in its suite that makes it easy to generate insights. Further, if optimally designed, then its reports are fairly simple to understand, yet capable enough to make changes at the required levels. One can create a variety of visualizations as required by the business or the clients. The data pipelines in the backend are very robust. The tableau desktop also provides options to develop the reports in developer mode, which is one of the finest features to embed and execute even the most complex possible logic. It's easier to operate, simple to navigate, and fluent to understand by the users.
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Pros
Insightsoftware, Inc
  • Excellent dashboard.
  • Well advanced BI metrics.
  • Better interfacing to other DW.
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Tableau
  • 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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Cons
Insightsoftware, Inc
  • Positioning and marketing. Most BI vendors use a non-technical sales strategy and focus on shiny, sexy dashboards to sell the story. In order to position arcplan fairly and correctly, the technical and business advantages need to be part of a sales story. So, it is not really an easy product to sell to customers, if it has to compete with now-to-wow-five-minute products.
  • Learning/training for developers. It's easy to learn the basics of arcplan, because the interface is logical. But nothing prevents a beginning developer from creating a monstrous application, because there is no prescribed architecture. It really takes some experience to become a good arcplan architect. It's a disadvantage resulting from one of arcplan's biggest advantages.
  • Data connectors: arcplan standard comes with a connector of your choice. Additional connectors need to be purchased separately. Many other products come with a full range of connectors.
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Tableau
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Usability
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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Reliability and Availability
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Performance
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Support Rating
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
I have never really used support much, to be honest. I think the support is not as user-friendly to search and use it. I did have an encounter with them once and it required a bit of going back and forth for licensing before reaching a resolution. They did solve my issue though
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In-Person Training
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Online Training
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Implementation Rating
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Alternatives Considered
Insightsoftware, Inc
Personally, I prefer QlikView not because it's more stable but simply just for the looks of the dashboard. One of my clients in Sydney recently moved from arcplan to QlikView. The reason was mainly looks and that QlikView has more training materials for the support users to train with. So in all, it does not really stack well against QlikView.
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Tableau
If we do not have legacy tools which have already been set up, I would switch the visualization method to open source software via PyCharm, Atom, and Visual Studio IDE. These IDEs cannot directly help you to visualize the data but you can use many python packages to do so through these IDEs.
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Scalability
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
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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Return on Investment
Insightsoftware, Inc
No answers on this topic
Tableau
  • 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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