Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariWhen comparing NextReports vs Tableau, 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 NextReports is ranked 4th. 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.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Cross platform
NextReports Designer is a desktop application written in Java so it can run on any OS with a Java version 7+.
Pro Very stable
Pro Supports exporting reports to different format
With NextReports you can design beautiful reports and you can export them to different formats of your choosing, for example pdf, excel and HTML are supported (there are also many other formats that are available).
Pro Easy to use
Reports can be easily designed using a grid layout similar to excel.
Pro Android app
There's a very good Android application called NextReports Sight which can be connected to the server and you can watch all the real time widgets from your phone.
Pro API which can be used to run Next reports
NextReports Engine is a very simple Java api which can be used to run Next reports.
Pro NextReports Server
NextReports Server brings security, centralization, dashboards, BI features, scheduling, monitoring and many other features.
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.
Cons
Con Suspicious upvotes
Lot's of one-time votes from members that did not vote on anything else.
Con Official website changed
The link http://www.next-reports.com/ leads to a company called "Capone" now (does this sound a little suspicious?).
Con Could use Libreoffice .odt output
Con Stability of the new version 9.1
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.
