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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SSIS

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data integration solution.N/A

    Tableau Prep

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ATableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a…

    $15

    per month billed annually per user

    Pricing
    SSISTableau Prep
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Viewer
    $15
    per month billed annually per user
    Explorer
    $42
    per month billed annually per user
    Creator
    $70
    per month billed annually per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SSISTableau Prep
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SSISTableau Prep
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    SSISTableau Prep
    Data Source Connection
    Comparison of Data Source Connection features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Tableau Prep
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.0
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    Connect to traditional data sources9.156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL5.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations
    Comparison of Data Transformations features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Tableau Prep
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    6.8
    56 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    Simple transformations8.956 Ratings00 Ratings
    Complex transformations4.755 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Tableau Prep
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    7.5
    54 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    Data model creation9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata management6.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules and workflow7.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration9.140 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and debugging6.451 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Governance
    Comparison of Data Governance features of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Tableau Prep
    Feature
    SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
    5.4
    43 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    Integration with data quality tools6.338 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with MDM tools4.638 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SSISTableau Prep
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (56 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    5.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SSISTableau Prep
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As I mentioned earlier SQL Server Integration Services is suitable if you want to manage data from different applications. It really helps in fetching the data and generating reports. Its automation make it very easy and time efficient. It works well with large database as well. But it doesn't work well with real time data, it will take some time to gather the real time data. I would not recommend using it in a real time/fast-paced environment.
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    Tableau
    If your data sets are coming in without much stewardship then Tableau Prep can help to clean the data before you start trying to create visualizations for your end users. You will save a lot of time this way - rather than seeing problems once you are creating dashboards. If you don't have large data sets or your data is relatively simple, then Tableau Prep may not be needed.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Standard ETL use cases for daily loads
    • Loading incoming data from Vendors which is placed on FTP and adding them to the SQL Warehouse
    • Creating outgoing data files and writing them to Vendor FTPs
    • Easy Active Directory integration for seamless connections to SQL Server
    • CI/CD by hosting the code on visualstudio.com
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    Tableau
    • Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
    • Point out situations that might be erroneous
    • Show the distribution of raw data figures
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Connection managers for online data sources can be tricky to configure.
    • Performance tuning is an art form and trialing different data flow task options can be cumbersome. SSIS can do a better job of providing performance data including historical for monitoring.
    • Mapping destination using OLE DB command is difficult as destination columns are unnamed.
    • Excel or flat file connections are limited by version and type.
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    Tableau
    • Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
    • Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
    • More types of visuals
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Some features should be revised or improved, some tools (using it with Visual Studio) of the toolbox should be less schematic and somewhat more flexible. Using for example, the CSV data import is still very old-fashioned and if the data format changes it requires a bit of manual labor to accept the new data structure
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    Tableau
    It is a valuable tool for generating and cleaning files for multiple purposes.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    SSIS is a great tool for most ETL needs. It has the 90% (or more) use cases covered and even in many of the use cases where it is not ideal SSIS can be extended via a .NET language to do the job well in a supportable way for almost any performance workload.
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    Tableau
    It works well and is user friendly for the basics but needs more options for bring in data (using SQL queries for example) and export format options.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    SQL Server Integration Services performance is dependent directly upon the resources provided to the system. In our environment, we allocated 6 nodes of 4 CPUs, 64GB each, running in parallel. Unfortunately, we had to ramp-up to such a robust environment to get the performance to where we needed it. Most of the reports are completed in a reasonable timeframe. However, in the case of slow running reports, it is often difficult if not impossible to cancel the report without killing the report instance or stopping the service.
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    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    The support, when necessary, is excellent. But beyond that, it is very rarely necessary because the user community is so large, vibrant and knowledgable, a simple Google query or forum question can answer almost everything you want to know. You can also get prewritten script tasks with a variety of functionality that saves a lot of time.
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    Tableau
    I have not really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    The implementation may be different in each case, it is important to properly analyze all the existing infrastructure to understand the kind of work needed, the type of software used and the compatibility between these, the features that you want to exploit, to understand what is possible and which ones require integration with third-party tools
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    Tableau
    Live connections to cloud services (Google Sheets for example) and cloud hosted databases (cloud hosted SIS for example) for scheduled flows are not supported
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    I think SQL Server Integration Services is better suited for on-premises data movement and ADF is more suited for the cloud. Though ADF has more connectors, SQL Server Integration Services is more robust and has better functionality just because it has been around much longer
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    Tableau
    Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were working with the same data. The extracts produced by Prep allow several workbooks to be working from the same data set-up without any additional work, saving time and stress.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Without this, we would have to manually update a spreadsheet of our SQL Server inventory
    • We would also have poor alerting; if an instance was down we wouldn't know until it was reported by a user
    • We only have one other person who uses SQL Server Integration Services , he's the expert. It would fall to me without him and I would not enjoy being responsible for it.
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    Tableau
    • Quicker data sets for online reports
    • More efficient data cleaning Ad Hoc reports
    • Costly if using data management to schedule data pull and cleaning (priced per viewer accounts not creator accounts)
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