SAP Integrated Business Planning vs. Tableau Desktop

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SAP Integrated Business Planning
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP supports supply chain management with Integrated Business Planning, the company's real-time cloud-based supply chain planning platform supporting demand response, supply planning and inventory management oriented features, with supply chain analytics to support decisioning.N/A
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.2 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
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Tableau Creator
$70.00
Per User / Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually.
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Community Pulse
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Top Pros
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Features
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Supply Chain Planning
Comparison of Supply Chain Planning features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
7.7
32 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Desktop
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Ratings
Custom alerts7.529 Ratings00 Ratings
Scenario-based planning8.431 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource optimization8.327 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply forecasting7.228 Ratings00 Ratings
Capacity estimation7.524 Ratings00 Ratings
Employee allocation7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply network coordination8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Procurement Management
Comparison of Procurement Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
8.4
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Raw material sourcing8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply market analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost analysis7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Logging9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Fulfillment Management
Comparison of Order Fulfillment Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
8.1
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Order fulfillment optimization8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Return services7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Purchase order generation7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Purchase order tracking8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Supplier delivery scheduling8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Pricing and product configurations generation9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics and Transportation Management
Comparison of Logistics and Transportation Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Packaging7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery planning8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Route optimization8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Shipping performance7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Fleet management9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse & Inventory Management
Comparison of Warehouse & Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
8.3
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Automation of warehouse operations8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory storage8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Stock monitoring7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory tracking8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse asset management9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory and price forecasting9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Demand Management
Comparison of Demand Management features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
7.7
32 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Demand signal sensing7.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Demand forecasting8.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer analytics7.824 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory stock optimization8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales and operations planning7.829 Ratings00 Ratings
Pricing and promotion tracking7.021 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.3
167 Ratings
2% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.5139 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.7166 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.8145 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
9.0
164 Ratings
11% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.0159 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.3162 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.3122 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.5157 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.4
158 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.3149 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.8149 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.3123 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.173 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.5
156 Ratings
7% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.4149 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.4126 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
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.7
142 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.1119 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.7129 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.777 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
8.1
135 Ratings
3% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.4124 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.297 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.7117 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
SAP Integrated Business Planning
-
Ratings
Tableau Desktop
9.2
64 Ratings
16% above category average
REST API00 Ratings9.356 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.951 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings9.946 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.653 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.946 Ratings
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User Ratings
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(36 ratings)
8.8
(194 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.9
(39 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(35 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
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SAP Integrated Business PlanningTableau Desktop
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP
One of the best parts is how it is suited to global or multi-site organizations with complex supply chains. It just operates across multiple regions with various manufacturing facilities, and that too with very much ease; it is simple, solid and very reliable in terms of working when the logistics is an issue and fetches data and insights very quickly.
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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
SAP
  • Comfortable database, it adjusts to what we know how to use.
  • The platform acts quickly, and throws metrics and analysis adjusted to the times we need, thus automating the results.
  • Complete and detailed reports, we can dynamically evaluate all the information.
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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
SAP
  • Graphic visualization of high-level supply and demand at the country level, showing planning levels, and major KFs.
  • The platform should be easy to use, such as showing the KF definition as an attribute and enabling trace and tracking of dependencies among KF.
  • We need to enable incremental changes in metrics in different scenarios.
  • Enable new features based on the base module (not newer modules like order-based planning).
  • The optimizer result should show influential drivers in descending orders per metric.
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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
SAP
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
SAP
User experience has various issues, from the way to represent data on the Dashboard to complex graphical interfaces for making the right report of something that is easiest to make on other similar platforms. SAP Integrated Business Planning is difficult to integrate into other operating systems and ecosystems. Activity planning, in some cases, is confused, and access is limited if customers or end-users don´t use the platform over the internet using a desktop computer.
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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
SAP
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
SAP
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
SAP
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
SAP
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
SAP
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
SAP
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
SAP
System integration: CPI DS landscape allowed to integrate with the SAP ECC and SAP S4HANA with ease. Ecosystem: As most of the systema were of SAP landscape, choosing SAP Integrated Business Planning has given a sense of confidence. Higher Futuristic roadmaps: SAP Integrated Business Planning had gen AI and AI incorporated roadmap making it more impressive.
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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
SAP
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
SAP
  • The biggest positive is improved forecast accuracy; now, I can work in a structured manner to reduce my costs and anticipate demand for the products.
  • Now, one certain item is that the Enhanced Data Quality is helping us a lot in making quicker decisions and a faster work life.
  • The sales and operations teams are aligned now in a much better manner, and work is faster.
  • Planning has become easier and smoother.
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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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ScreenShots

SAP Integrated Business Planning Screenshots

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