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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Public

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ATableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

    $0

    per month

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
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    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Public and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    12 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports9.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Public and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.7
    12 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.812 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Public and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Public and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Small Businesses
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau PublicVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    Tableau public is the best platform to build dashboards for your personal profile and share with recruiters. It's always good to keep ourselves updated on the latest features, create sample dashboards and save them to a personal profile. Tableau public is free and doesn't need any subscription. anyone can create an account and start building reports.
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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    Tableau
    • Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
    • Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
    • Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)
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    Microsoft
    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    Tableau
    • Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their "for a fee" counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface. That said, with Tableau Public, published workbooks are "disconnected" from the underlying data sources and require periodic updates when the data changes. Users are limited to 1 Gb of storage space per user ID and password as well.
    • I would like to see better options for public sharing of visualizations and data from within the "for a fee" products as more and more organizations are moving in the direction of data sharing with partners and their communities.
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    Microsoft
    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Tableau
    It's free, right? I'll keep using the free version. So the real question to ask is this? Will I pay $999 for the Personal version or $1,999 for the Professional? Yikes! That is a big stretch. I'm not sure about that. The product comparison chart is at: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/comparison
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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Tableau
    Tableau public is a great training tool to understand the basics of Tableau before buying it. A great tool to extend Excel's visualization and to publish data for others. Not useful for anything you need secure. No ability to access databases. Static information only.
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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Support Rating
    Tableau
    I have not yet required to contact support as the documentation and help i found online has always worked so far
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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Tableau
    I found it sufficient, and fast. I could easily "kick the tires" with Tableau on my data so I got up and running fast.
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    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    Start at the end and work backward. Identify the business case / issue and questions the end users have, then identify the data needed, and where to get it.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    Google Charts/Drive is sufficient for simpler data sets, but it does not integrate with other web platforms and the visualization does not look as professional. I'm not aware of any other competitors that offer the same package as Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Return on Investment
    Tableau
    • Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
    • The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients
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    Microsoft
    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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