NetApp FAS series vs Tableau Desktop | TrustRadius

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Score 8 out of 10

Based on 43 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 1897 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

NetApp FAS series

Tableau Desktop

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Backups are a piece of cake with Snapshot technology.
Disaster recovery plans are made much easier with SnapMirroring to remote locations.
The support is incredible. Auto Support makes it incredibly easy. The Auto Support website also gives you a great view of your NetApp deployment.
Redundant paths make updating and maintenance much easier with no downtime.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 201-500 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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Information Technology Business Consultant

Alfa NET+Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Deduplication job runs at certain times and creates a large CPU overhead for the system
Management of a volumes, disk groups, LUNs, etc. is a burden to manage and is not efficient with storage capacity
Upgrades are complicated and not "non-disruptive"

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Lead System Engineer

Azusa Pacific UniversityHigher Education, 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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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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

NetApp FAS series 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It does have a really nice and easy to use web interface to do pretty much anything you need with it. It was very simple to configure our volumes and luns and connect them to our VMWare environment using the interface. It has options to rename, shrink, grow, and other things with our luns and volumes. It was nice and easy to read graphs to see where you stand on your storage usage at a glance.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Restaurants Company, 10,001+ employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.9

Based on 62 answers

I personally that Tableau Desktop is very easy to learn. Especially the basics are quite easy and one can master the skills in no time. Once you go beyond the basics, there is a learning curve and can be climbed with practice. For doing complex and incorporated tasks, i recommend getting help -- books, tutorials, blogs, youtube videos etc. I do that it will perform great and with ease for simpler and complex projects

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Manager in Finance and Accounting

Government Administration Company, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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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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Associate Data Analytics Consultant

MarinerInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Performance

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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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Professional in Research & Development

Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

NetApp FAS series 9.7

Based on 5 answers

NetApp support in Brazil is managed by its partners. We know in other countries, such as the US and NO, they have support directly from Netapp. We have a very good NetApp partner working with us since the beginning, on both the implementation and daily support. Very few cases needed to be escalated to NetApp support, most of the cases are handled and satisfyingly closed by the partner.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Tableau Desktop 8.5

Based on 71 answers

Tableau support team took their own time to reach out with their solution. However, Tableau online community forums where many visitors and user are ready to lend a hand to others and share their experiences provide support and help in any issues encounter during the development phase.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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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

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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

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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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Decision Sciences - Modeling, Simulation & Analysis

San Francisco State UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Removing PureStorage, which I consider to be ahead of the rest, NetApp FAS series does its job very well and it is not necessary to pay a lifetime support.

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Storage Admin

despegar.comTranslation & Localization, 1001-5000 employees

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I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.

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Verified User

Analyst in Marketing

Apparel & Fashion Company, 1-10 employees

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Scalability

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No answers yet

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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

This device took the place of 6 full servers initially, then 6 or more virtual ones were added later. Enough said.
Support -- I can't say enough about this. Having that hard drive arrive, without me asking for it, was awesome. Having the tech arrive without me asking for him was priceless.
For the initial outlay, we spent a lot, but I'd say we got most of the ROI back within the first year on this device.
Really nothing negative to say from an ROI perspective.

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IT Director

Sahadi Fine FoodsRetail, 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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Data developer

HKS, Inc.Architecture & Planning, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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NetApp FAS series Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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.

Rating Summary

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