Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Tableau VS Power BI

Tableau and Power BI both are great BI tool that are used for Data visualization.

Tableau :

Tableau offers 5 main product:
  1. Tableau Desktop
  2. Tableau Server
  3. Tableau online
  4. Tableau Reader (Free)
  5. Tableau Public (Free) 
Tableau Desktop

This tool is common for everyone. With this tool we can create stories, dashboard, workbooks and visualization but can not publish and share for other users.

This tool will not secure visualizing data and this come into two versions:
1) Personal & 2) Professional.
Personal : can not connect with all listed Data Sources 
Professional : can connect with all the listed Data Sources

Tableau Server

It is a secured internet portal where users can easily publish and share their Tableau workbooks by simply providing a link to a work book. This does not required Tableau desktop to consume the information it is just a browser. 

Tableau Online

It is hosted in cloud version of SaaS. It is secure but limited for editing of workbook, dashboard etc. It is cloud based Tableau server solution 

Tableau Public

It is a free tool offered by Tableau organization. It is mainly used for publishing interactive data in online which can be accessible by everyone. This in not secure one as anyone can access the data and download.

Tableau Reader

A free tool that allows you to open but not edit tableau workbook. You can only read what others have created.

Power BI :

Power BI come into 3 Elements
  1. Desktop (Free)
  2. Services 
  3. Mobile
Power BI Desktop

It a window desktop application that is used to only create the Report & Visualization but you can not publish and share those for other users.

Power BI Service

This is SaaS Application hosted in cloud you can create the Report & Visualization on Power BI Desktop and publish and share those into Power BI Service.

Power BI Mobile

Using this Power BI Mobile Service you can create the Report & Visualization for windows phone/ Tablets as well as IOS and Android devices

Tableau VS Power BI
  • Power BI is a Microsoft Tool and Table develop by Tableau organization
  • Power BI is easy to learn than Tableau
  • Tableau has more features and graphics than Power BI.
  • Power BI is more compatible to work with MS Share Point and Azure Services.
  • Tableau is more powerful to work for big data analytics.
  • Power BI service is a shared service hosted on cloud and tableau also have dedicated server (Tableau Server) product.
There are others good BI tool like (Qlikview, SAS, Looker & more ) available in the market that can be use for a BI application dependent on organization requirement/deal/cost. 


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