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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pigment

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/APigment is an enterprise-grade business planning platform that provides users with a 360° view of the business, updates its financial models in real-time, and allows users to run what-if scenarios at the click of a button. Pigment aims to enable FP&A and revenue teams to improve cross-functional collaboration, increase internal efficiency, and align financial and operational plans, all while scaling reporting and data management.N/A

    Tableau Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau 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
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Pricing Offerings
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    Pigment
    Chose Pigment
    Has the flexibility of Excel with the ability to handle more data.
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    8.4
    5 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.65 Ratings7.656 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.64 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.05 Ratings6.663 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.7
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Drill-down analysis7.96 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.56 Ratings7.371 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.54 Ratings6.147 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.96 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.8
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.05 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.26 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.15 Ratings7.655 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.05 Ratings8.559 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.738 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.5
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.95 Ratings8.267 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.05 Ratings8.366 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.95 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.15 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.95 Ratings8.363 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.15 Ratings7.756 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.85 Ratings8.659 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.95 Ratings8.87 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.05 Ratings8.754 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.25 Ratings7.457 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.95 Ratings7.744 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.85 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    8.2
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting7.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    6.8
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation6.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    7.9
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources7.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Pigment and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    Pigment
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.136 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings7.534 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.833 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.729 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.735 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.232 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Planning Analytics
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PigmentTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pigment
    Planning, financials, and even sales tracking are greatly helpful for project planning. This makes product planning easy; you can simply see what the industry is demanding and what should be produced more in coming quarters. If you have really huge data, then this sometimes crashes.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Pigment
    • Helping organizations assess the impacts of various business decisions effectively​
    • Seamlessly integrates with multiple data sources
    • Collaboration with other teams and teammates
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Pigment
    • Its not that stable, need some improvements in stability of the product. Gets crashed sometimes
    • There is learning curv for script as pigment have its own logic things
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Pigment
    Overall most of Pigment is self-service and meant to be used by the business users. It usually doesn't require reaching out to a technical or IT resource to make changes to reports or the models we have setup.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Pigment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Pigment
    Pigment has a lot of the same self-service capabilities but offers a more robust infrastructure to plan and report on more than just the financial data. It allows for more extended planning and the reporting and dashboard capabilities are very strong.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Pigment
    • Capacity to anticipate better (forecasting accuracy improved)
    • Single source of truth for internal and external financial KPIs
    • Agility to compare scenarios and making decisions based on that
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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