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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Server

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    Mathematica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AWolfram's flagship product Mathematica is a modern technical computing application featuring a flexible symbolic coding language and a wide array of graphing and data visualization capabilities.

    $1,520

    per year

    Pricing
    Tableau ServerMathematica
    Editions & Modules
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    Standard Cloud
    $1,520
    per year
    Standard Desktop
    $3,040
    one-time fee
    Standard Desktop & Cloud
    $3,344
    one-time fee
    Mathematica Enterprise Edition
    $8,150.00
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau ServerMathematica
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts available for students and educational institutions. The Network Edition reduce per-user license costs through shared deployment across any number of machines on a local-area network.
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau ServerMathematica
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    Tableau
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    Wolfram
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Tableau ServerMathematica
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    95 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports9.129 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.094 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.081 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    7.8
    95 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.095 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.093 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.059 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.089 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    91 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Publish to Web8.085 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.084 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.070 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.077 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers5.19 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    90 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    9.9
    9 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.086 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.085 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.064 Ratings9.98 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    10.0
    95 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model10.090 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.092 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.062 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.1
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.068 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Server and Wolfram Mathematica
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    6.4
    46 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Wolfram Mathematica
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)4.67 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Tableau ServerMathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    6.6
    (82 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau ServerMathematica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    Whole funnel and specific channel performance from upper to lower funnel metrics. The ability to view full channel performance for some time, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, has truly been monumental in how my team optimizes specific channels and campaigns. Daily performance tracking is a bit overwhelming, with load times and having to refresh specific live views over time. It can be challenging to do so at times, as extensive dashboards take much longer to load.
    Incentivized
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    Wolfram
    We are the judgement that Wolfram Mathematica is despite many critics based on the paradigms selected a mark in the fields of the markets for computations of all kind. Wolfram Mathematica is even a choice in fields where other bolide systems reign most of the market. Wolfram Mathematica offers rich flexibility and internally standardizes the right methodologies for his user community. Wolfram Mathematica is not cheap and in need of a hard an long learner journey. That makes it weak in comparison with of-the-shelf-solution packages or even other programming languages. But for systematization of methods Wolfram Mathematica is far in front of almost all the other. Scientist and interested people are able to develop themself further and Wolfram Matheamatica users are a human variant for themself. The reach out for modern mathematics based science is deep and a unique unified framework makes the whole field of mathematics accessable comparable to the brain of Albert Einstein. The paradigms incorporated are the most efficients and consist in assembly on the market. The mathematics is covering and fullfills not just education requirements but the demands and needs of experts.
    Mathematica is incompatible with other systems for mCAx and therefore the borders between the systems are hard to overcome. Wolfram Mathematica should be consider one of the more open systems because other code can be imported and run but on the export side it is rathe incompatible by design purposes. A better standard for all that might solve the crisis but there is none in sight. Selection of knowledge of what works will be in the future even more focussed and general system might be one the lossy side. Knowledge of esthetics of what will be in the highest demand in necessary and Wolfram is not a leader in this field of science. Mathematics leves from gathering problems from application fields and less from the glory of itself and the formalization of this.
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    Pros
    Tableau
    • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
    • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
    • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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    Wolfram
    • It allows straightforward integration of analytic analysis of algebraic expressions and their numerical implemented.
    • Supports varying programmatic paradigms, so one can choose what best fits the problem or task: pure functions, procedural programming, list processing, and even (with a bit of setup) object-oriented programming.
    • The extensive and rich tools for graphical rendering make it very easy to not just get 2D and 3D renderings of final output, but also to do quick-and-dirty 2D and 3D rendering of intermediate results and/or debugging results.
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    Cons
    Tableau
    • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
    • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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    Wolfram
    • Should include more libraries and functions.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Machine Learning.
    • Should include more functions that can be used in Data Science.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Tableau
    It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Tableau
    Tableau Server takes training and experience in order to unlock the application's full potential. This is best handled by a qualified data scientist or data analytics manager. Tableau user interface layout, nomenclature, and command structure take time and training to become proficient with. Integration and connectivity require proper IT developer support.
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    Wolfram
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    Reliability and Availability
    Tableau
    Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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    Wolfram
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    Performance
    Tableau
    While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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    Wolfram
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    Support Rating
    Tableau
    We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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    Wolfram
    Wolfram Mathematica is a nice software package. It has very nice features and easy to install and use in your machine. Besides this, there is a nice support from Wolfram. They come to the university frequently to give seminars in Mathematica. I think this is the best thing they are doing. That is very helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are using Mathematica in their research.
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    In-Person Training
    Tableau
    In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Tableau
    The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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    Wolfram
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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    Wolfram
    We have evaluated and are using in some cases the Python language in concert with the Jupyter notebook interface. For UI, we using libraries like React to create visually stunning visualizations of such models. Mathematica compares favorably to this alternative in terms of speed of development. Mathematica compares unfavorably to this alternative in terms of license costs.
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    Return on Investment
    Tableau
    • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
    • There are some significant setup for the server product.
    • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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    Wolfram
    • Easy to solve huge mathematical equations, so it saved time there
    • Doing analysis and plotting graphs is also another plus point
    • Learning is very slow, and it took lot of time to learn its scripting language
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    Tableau Server Screenshots

    Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 2.Screenshot of Tableau Server permissions view.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 2.