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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Varicent

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFrom quotas to sales and compensation, Varicent helps revenue leaders in enterprise organizations chart a more effective, connected path to revenue by providing vital data, insights, and sales go-to-market planning tools.N/A
    Pricing
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Tableau+
    Contact Sales
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    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
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Varicent
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.656 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.774 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.663 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.574 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.668 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.567 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.655 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.559 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers6.738 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.267 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.366 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.659 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.754 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.457 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Varicent
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API5.729 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.232 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Tableau Cloud and Varicent
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Varicent
    6.7
    55 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Sales compensation plan creation00 Ratings7.148 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting00 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation00 Ratings7.452 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance00 Ratings6.546 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting00 Ratings6.447 Ratings
    Incentive modeling00 Ratings6.243 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility00 Ratings6.232 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Everstage
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    7.3
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.8
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    7.0
    (59 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.3
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (58 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau CloudVaricent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    Varicent
    For the use cases we have at the bank, ICM is a perfect solution. For any bank or institution that has similar requirements, ICM would be a perfect solution. But I also think for any use case that has any sort of incentives based on Sales done, this would work amazing, as both Calculations and reports are handled by ICM very well; it's an all-in-one solution, I feel like.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Varicent
    • Flexibility - Varicent is not template based. You can implement the model specifically for your organisation.
    • Scalability - Since it is not stick to templates you are able to expand the model for other domains as well.
    • Reporting - Several ways of reporting are possible and each has their own benefit/purpose.
    • Strong/Powerfull Calculation Engine delivering fast results/speed to insight
    • User Interface is minimized to what you need and is not showing off all the functions it can "also" do
    • Strong audittrail
    • Appears to be almost unlimited in what you are able to create
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    Cons
    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
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    Varicent
    • As [the] model gets more and more transactional data, the calculation time increases. This should/can be handled internally with better model optimization.
    • Migrating from one env to other sometimes is challenging. There can be better 'Alerts' or 'Explanation' provided to handle it or at least to give a hint of the error.
    • For managers viewing their rep's report, the access part can be made easier. It should be linked to Payee hierarchy and access can be done automatically.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    Customer support from IBM is impeccable. They are quick to respond and they don't nickel and dime you for every request you make. Their goal is to ensure your success and as a user, I really feel like they listen to my concerns. That's not to say there are no problems. All software has its issues, but I don't feel like those issues fall on deaf ears.
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    Usability
    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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    Varicent
    Any calculations can be implemented as there are hardly any limitations on complexity. However, online real-time usability is lacking - a simple user enters, and the system calculates work in a way that it is in the browser and hence still needs overnight to be properly reflected in the batch calculations and backend tables.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    Never went down in last 3 years that I worked with it (every hour of the day basically). That is a 10 in my book.
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    Performance
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    All is fast, but with API's it is sometimes slower due to the application we are pulling data from. Reports are loaded directly or within seconds and our reports are very detailed with many columns and rows.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Varicent
    Giving a 10 would suggest there is no room for improvement. I don't feel like their support is perfect. However, I have never met another team that was more dedicated to making sure we get what we want and need.
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    In-Person Training
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    The training was good in general with a nice trainer as well. But, the training could be better if it is more focussed on our process/data etc.
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    Online Training
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    There is a learning portal with many videos about navigation, creating reports and managing your model.
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    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    Test test test. Make sure that the product is calculating everyone 100% correctly. DO NOT accept a 70% pass rate as some companies would like to have you believe is acceptable. This means conducting thorough testing by providing 100% of all expected results, but it will be worth it when you know that the compensation plans are working entirely as expected.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Varicent
    In 2015, we used a scorecard containing 80 attributes in our review of Oracle, Callidus, and Xactly & Varicent. Oracle did not have true self serve capabilities- programming was heavily required, not intuitive, out of the box functionality was limited. Callidus & Xactly could not provide us a demo using our data, statements could not be sent out in bulk form, difficulty in importing/exporting to CRM. Varicent excelled in most areas and was the clear winner.
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    Scalability
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Varicent
    It is very scalable and adaptable to changing complexities of calculations and business rules under a variety of different scenarios. It does not get full points because in large data loads the time needed to calculate and import the data increases exponentially and may cause issues related to timing potentially.
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    Return on Investment
    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
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    Varicent
    • Compliance - with a central system used for calculation incentive payments and commissions, we are able to provide reports and data showing every detail of how payments are calculated and why they are justified. We can also identify anomalies and outliers.
    • Integration with our payroll system is seamless. Except for regular pay, nothing goes to payroll without going through ICM. The process for paying incentives/bonuses/commissions is now very structured and efficient.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Varicent Screenshots

    Screenshot of Varicent providing clarity and transparency to sellers, helping them to find answers faster and have confidence in compensation plans.Screenshot of Tools for sellers that help them align strategic initiatives, and that help them understand which deals will help them win.Screenshot of Varicent ICM model compensation plans that display the financial impact of changes. Its ability to more accurately forecast commission payouts with “what-if” assumptions, users can budget more effectively for sales compensation costs, manage target total compensation for sales representatives and assess plan effectiveness.Screenshot of Shareable information sent to the right people to drive the right results.