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Add to SafariWhen comparing Tableau vs Datapane, 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 Datapane is ranked 11th. 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 Open source integration
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Pro Flexible report components
Has support for a lot of rich components (pivot table, drilldown, interactive maps, etc.) which allows some much more flexible reports
Pro Good for teams who use Python and SQL
Lets you do the typical BI and reporting bits in Python and SQL in your own environment
Pro API-first
You can use the API from your other data infrastructure (Colab, Jupyter, Sagemaker, etc.)
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.
Con Not for teams who want drag-and-drop
Doesn't have a drag and drop component for building charts etc. - it expects you to do the analysis in Python and SQL.
