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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

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
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    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.656 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.774 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.663 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.574 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.371 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.147 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.672 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.668 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.567 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.655 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.559 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers6.738 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.267 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.366 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.857 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.26 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.659 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.87 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.754 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.457 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.744 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.851 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API8.136 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API7.534 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames6.833 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API5.829 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.735 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.232 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau CloudZendesk Explore
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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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.
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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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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.
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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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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.
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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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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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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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