Tableau Desktop vs. Xactly Forecasting

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.2 out of 10
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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
Xactly Forecasting
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Xactly Forecasting enables users to tackle the toughest pipeline challenges and deliver the results that matter to everyone from the CRO to Finance. Xactly Forecasting helps to improve sales and revenue forecasting accuracy using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, consolidated performance metrics, and quick insights to understand the health of a revenue engine.N/A
Pricing
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
Editions & Modules
Tableau Creator
$70.00
Per User / Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually.
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Community Pulse
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
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Features
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.5
166 Ratings
4% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Pixel Perfect reports8.3138 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.0165 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.3144 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.9
163 Ratings
9% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Drill-down analysis9.2158 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.9161 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.3121 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.3156 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.8
157 Ratings
5% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Publish to Web9.2148 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.4148 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.6115 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.1122 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.572 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.6
155 Ratings
6% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.9153 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.8148 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.7125 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.7
141 Ratings
1% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Multi-User Support (named login)8.8138 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.4118 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.7128 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.976 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.4
134 Ratings
5% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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Responsive Design for Web Access8.6123 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.396 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.7116 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.6
63 Ratings
8% above category average
Xactly Forecasting
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REST API8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.350 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.848 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API8.745 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.452 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.845 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(193 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(39 ratings)
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Usability
8.6
(63 ratings)
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Availability
8.0
(10 ratings)
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Performance
6.1
(9 ratings)
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Support Rating
6.9
(56 ratings)
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In-Person Training
9.4
(4 ratings)
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Online Training
8.0
(4 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.0
(34 ratings)
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Configurability
8.1
(2 ratings)
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Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Product Scalability
7.0
(3 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
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User Testimonials
Tableau DesktopXactly Forecasting
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Xactly Corp
I think TopOPPS is better suited for the larger sales team with shorter sales cycles. We have very long sales cycles and we have not truly seen it impact how we do business in terms of sales. I also think it's better suited for teams that have a true sales manager monitoring the reps and opps.
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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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Xactly Corp
  • Clean UI to make data more digestable
  • Health Scoring
  • Forecasting
  • Milestone Tracking on Opportunities
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Cons
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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Xactly Corp
  • Wasn't super sticky for our team
  • Is not compatible with our main sales outreach tool
  • Initial onboarding was challenging
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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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
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Support Rating
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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
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Online Training
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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
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Alternatives Considered
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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Xactly Corp
The tool was way [more]cost effective than something like Wave which is crazy expensive and not worth it. The other tools we evaluated were: 1. Salesforce's Wave Analytics - Too Expensive 2. Tableau - Not very user-friendly at the time and too expensive 3. Excel solutions - the data would become stale as soon as the Excel was exported.
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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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Xactly Corp
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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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Xactly Corp
  • Honestly, we cannot put a value on it. It's hard to know if it helped or hurt, but don't think it has helped.
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