Oracle Analytics vs. Tableau Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle Analytics
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A
Tableau Server
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
$12
Per User Per Month
Pricing
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
Editions & Modules
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Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
Considered Both Products
Oracle Analytics
Chose Oracle Analytics
We use Oracle BI and native connection with them. And since it has not been used for a long time, it is very costly to put the reports into a different application.
Chose Oracle Analytics
Oracle BI is similar to MicroStrategy in their difficulty of implementation and need for technical resources for ongoing management and administration. Both are well-suited for very large corporations with extensive data processing requirements. More modern BI tools such as Tabl…
Tableau Server

No answer on this topic

Features
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.1
62 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Server
8.4
95 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.055 Ratings9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.061 Ratings7.094 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.361 Ratings9.081 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.1
66 Ratings
1% above category average
Tableau Server
7.8
95 Ratings
3% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.564 Ratings8.095 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.365 Ratings8.093 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.345 Ratings8.059 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.262 Ratings7.089 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
7.8
63 Ratings
5% below category average
Tableau Server
7.2
91 Ratings
13% below category average
Publish to Web7.755 Ratings8.085 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.762 Ratings7.084 Ratings
Report Versioning7.853 Ratings8.070 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.058 Ratings8.077 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.038 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
7.9
61 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Server
8.3
90 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.759 Ratings9.086 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.752 Ratings8.085 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.747 Ratings8.064 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.73 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.4
61 Ratings
1% below category average
Tableau Server
10.0
95 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.060 Ratings10.093 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.060 Ratings10.090 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.560 Ratings10.092 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.54 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.741 Ratings10.062 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.0
48 Ratings
3% above category average
Tableau Server
8.1
79 Ratings
4% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.046 Ratings10.077 Ratings
Mobile Application8.033 Ratings7.061 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.044 Ratings7.068 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Analytics
8.0
36 Ratings
4% above category average
Tableau Server
6.4
46 Ratings
18% below category average
REST API8.331 Ratings8.040 Ratings
Javascript API8.030 Ratings8.037 Ratings
iFrames8.323 Ratings6.040 Ratings
Java API8.031 Ratings5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.531 Ratings6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.024 Ratings4.67 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(76 ratings)
8.0
(111 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(8 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(6 ratings)
8.0
(17 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
3.0
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(3 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle AnalyticsTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
Oracle Data Visualization is very effective if used in an enterprise context with huge volumes of data coming from different systems. It supports dashboard and reporting capabilities and is easy to scale. It also allows you to leverage machine learning capabilities to extract hidden data trends. Visualization capabilities are powerful but not so various if compared to other solutions on the market. If you want to present a dashboard to an executive audience and you want to make your dashboards beautiful you must adapt them through PowerPoint.
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Tableau
Whole funnel and specific channel performance from upper to lower funnel metrics. The ability to view full channel performance for some time, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, has truly been monumental in how my team optimizes specific channels and campaigns. Daily performance tracking is a bit overwhelming, with load times and having to refresh specific live views over time. It can be challenging to do so at times, as extensive dashboards take much longer to load.
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Pros
Oracle
  • Available without of the box connectors for Salesforce and oracle Saas Cloud. This is a huge plus for our business since we don't need another middleware solution just for this sake.
  • We are able to connect to our on-prem SQL Server database where we have our RMA database and other applications seamlessly without writing custom APIs.
  • OAC writes directly into ADW which is another advantage for loading Excel files into ADW after dataflow transformations.
  • OAC allows replication of the database from fusion ERP and lets us create subject areas using the data modeler.
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Tableau
  • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
  • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
  • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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Cons
Oracle
  • More AI but with human back up.
  • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
  • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
  • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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Tableau
  • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
  • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
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Tableau
It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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Usability
Oracle
Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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Tableau
Tableau Server takes training and experience in order to unlock the application's full potential. This is best handled by a qualified data scientist or data analytics manager. Tableau user interface layout, nomenclature, and command structure take time and training to become proficient with. Integration and connectivity require proper IT developer support.
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Reliability and Availability
Oracle
No problems, it's that simple.
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Tableau
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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Performance
Oracle
Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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Tableau
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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Support Rating
Oracle
Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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Tableau
We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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In-Person Training
Oracle
Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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Tableau
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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Online Training
Oracle
It was a private training site.
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Tableau
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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Implementation Rating
Oracle
A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.
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Tableau
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an organization or industry in any sector.
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Tableau
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Scalability
Oracle
We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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Tableau
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Oracle
  • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
  • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
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Tableau
  • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
  • There are some significant setup for the server product.
  • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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