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Add to SafariWhen comparing Tableau vs ReportServer, the Slant community recommends Tableau for most people. In the question“What are the best reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools?” Tableau is ranked 3rd while ReportServer is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Tableau is:
If you want to start using Tableau at your company, you don't need huge IT resources or start a big BI deployment. Just purchase the software, install, and you're ready to go. Maybe you don't need ANY IT help at all.
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Pros
Pro No complex installations / IT approvals needed
If you want to start using Tableau at your company, you don't need huge IT resources or start a big BI deployment. Just purchase the software, install, and you're ready to go. Maybe you don't need ANY IT help at all.
Pro Powerful
Tableau makes it easy to SEE your data and make business decisions based on it.
Pro Appealing visualizations
Hard to compare with what you have to code by hand (Shiny)
Pro Great support
Both Tableau's support team AND the user community are super helpful and enthusiastic about the product.
Pro Easy to learn
You don't have to be super techy to understand it. You can learn how to use Desktop over the course of two days.
Pro Active community
Questions on the community forum are usually answered very quickly. Developers are active there.
Pro Easy to use dashboards
Integrates user centric Dashboard components that allows for easy set up of Dashboards that highlighting the most important KPIs and reports.
Pro Powerful scheduler
ReportServer has a powerful built-in scheduler to run reports at recurring intervals. Custom scheduler targets (e.g. webservices or SFTP uploads) can be specified via scripting.
Pro Cross platform and web-based
ReportServer is a Java web application and can thus be installed on any OS supporting java. Being a web-app allows access to it from anywhere without the need to install additional client software
Pro Enterprise version with support available
Besides the open source version, there is also the commercial ReportServer Enterprise edition which adds additional functionality, in particular, support for scripting and Crystal.
Pro Provides intuitive ad-hoc reporting component
ReportServer's Dynamic List provides a very intuitive, yet powerful ad-hoc reporting component.
Pro Supports multiple reorting engines including JasperReports and Eclipse BIRT
ReportServer integrates several reporting engines including the popular JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT and Crystal.
Cons
Con Some simple tasks are sometimes not easy to calculate.
Con Addictive
Once you start using Tableau you don't want to use any other software anymore. So if your manager is obsessed with e.g. Excel, you may have issues.
