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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATableau 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.

    $1,380

    per year (purchased via a Creator license)

    UiPath Automation Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AUiPath's agentic platform combines the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution for automating repetitive tasks with agentic automation. By unifying agentic AI, automation, BPM, and process intelligence, the platform gives organizations control to design, run, and optimize new agentic processes.

    $25

    per month (for 1 user with basic tier features)

    Pricing
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Tableau Creator License
    $115
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Automation Cloud Basic
    $25
    per month 1 user, 1 basic platform tier
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    Automation Cloud Standard
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    Automation Cloud Basic
    starting at $25
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    Automation Suite
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually. A Creator license includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep Builder, and Tableau Pulse. Discounts sometimes available for volume.—
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
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    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    91 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    97 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    78 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    95 Answers
    Features
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    175 Ratings
    4% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.0145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.2174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.1151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    172 Ratings
    6% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.6167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.6170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.1126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.6165 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    8.5
    166 Ratings
    3% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.1155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.2154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.6120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.6128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.978 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    164 Ratings
    5% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.7162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.6156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.7131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    9.1
    149 Ratings
    7% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.1145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.1125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.9136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.383 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    7.9
    141 Ratings
    2% above category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.6130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.5101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.5122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Desktop and UiPath Automation Platform
    Feature
    Tableau Desktop
    7.7
    67 Ratings
    1% below category average
    UiPath Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.459 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.653 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.751 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    IBM Robotic Process Automation
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Automation Anywhere
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (204 ratings)
    8.8
    (195 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (41 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (73 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (57 ratings)
    8.0
    (82 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau DesktopUiPath Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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    UiPath
    UiPath Automation Platform is well-suited for automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as invoice processing, data entry, and report generation. By using UiPath Automation Platform, employees can focus on more strategic tasks, which leads to increased efficiency. Additionally, UiPath Automation Platform is highly effective at automating rule-based processes, such as financial processes like bank statement reconciliation, account payable, and account receivable processes that follow a set of predetermined rules.
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    Pros
    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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    UiPath
    • UiPath is very simple to learn.
    • Any type of application can be automated (Desktop Application, Web Application and also applications reachable only via remote technologies such as Citrix, Remote Desktop and so on).
    • The writing of a process code takes place entirely through the use of objects. In the event that there were no objects capable of solving a particular problem, it is possible to use some languages of the .net platform such as: VB.net, C#.
    • It is easy to scale the solution by adding more robots to run a process in case the solution requires more performance in the future.
    • It can also be used by functional analysts to design the flow to be automated.
    • An academy is available online where basic and advanced courses can be taken. It is also possible to take a completely free basic certification.
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    Cons
    Tableau
    • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
    • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
    • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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    UiPath
    • As I mentioned, Excel automation is not very effective, there are a number of packages to add, but there is nothing as smooth as a good macro.
    • Working with selectors is certainly challenging and UiPath does a good job with that, but there is room for improvement since the interface could be smarter in selecting the right attributes and warn the user if something is not properly setup.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    UiPath
    This platform has so much potential and have been garnering a lot of attention by proving benefits in terms of saving operational and manpower costs. I am sure with minute efforts we were able to achieve our ROI and the same is the case with many of our customers whom we have been working around Digital Automation initiatives.
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    Usability
    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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    UiPath
    There are two main reasons with this rating 1. UiPath Automation Platform requires the old school type of Change Weather management, Which actually eats a lot of time to manage and roll out the recent changes. There is not something kind of CI/CD when you are developing the things With UiPath Automation Platform. 2. Very high development and maintenance cost, which actually decrease its usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    UiPath
    Its a cloud based platform which is easily available and used
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    Performance
    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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    UiPath
    It has proved and provided good performance across platforms and technologies.
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    Support Rating
    Tableau
    Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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    UiPath
    UiPath RPA has an exceptional studio interface. It has been a year and so since I am using UiPath RPA. Whether it is some my personal task to scrape information & links from the Journal or find a specific character string from multiple PDF collection using OCR, UiPath RPA has made its roots to our technological ecosystem
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    In-Person Training
    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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    UiPath
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    Online Training
    Tableau
    I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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    UiPath
    Video material supported by text. The training has evolved a lot in the past 3 years to become more attractive. Specific training tracks exist for the different roles in RPA development, where everyone is expected to learn basic development.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    UiPath
    The implementation was quick and practical
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    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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    UiPath
    As compared to other products, we require programming knowledge and concepts to work but UiPath is for everyone. It provides us extensive event logging at various stages and effective exception handling for applications and business. It increases our agility and enhances the overall productivity further by using the source control SVC. The solution that we implemented is also very scalable in terms of incorporating new requirements.
    The open source tools require lots of IT effort in order to set up and maintain over time. UiPath is like a complete package and customer service is also active in terms of solving issues arising while automating procession on a day to day basis.
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    Scalability
    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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    UiPath
    It can be widely used across various departments regardless of platform the product,processes, use cases are build on.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    UiPath
    • We are well on our way to automating our expenses, saving so many hours for project managers and engagement managers.
    • Proofs-of-concept excite our clients, though we are yet to make a sale on a project.
    • UiPath specifically has incited interest with our apprentices and has led them to join the RPA team.
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