Here are my notes from the Atlanta BI user group that I attended today:
Topic: Head-to-Head on Maps: Mapping Twitter in Tableau and Power View
Power View | Tableau | |
| Setup/Installation? | Office 2013 [Professional Plus editions], SharePoint 2010 onwards [Enterprise Editions] | Public, Online, Desktop, Server |
| Licensing | Get applicable office/SharePoint license | Tableau Public is Free.Tableau Online is $500 per user/year. Tableau Server has Per-User or Per-Server-Core model *Note that if you’re using Tableau server’s per-user model the cost is $1000 per named user/consumer (min. 10 users) and $2000 seat for 1 developer. **Contact Tableau Sales. Please don’t evaluate the product based on the information provided here as the information might change in future |
| Data Sources | [SharePoint] Power Pivot Model, Analysis Service Cubes[Excel 2013] You can connect to data sources that excel supports and then create power view report on top of it. | Tableau Public Supports Excel, Access & Text filesOther version of Tableau can connect to a variety of data sources. |
| Product Category | Ad-hoc reporting a.k.a Self Service Business Intelligence | Ad-hoc reporting |
| Ease of use | easy | easy |
| Visually Compelling? | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Shape Files | No | Limited |
| Motion effect | No | Yes |
| Product maturity | Power View is new to the game | Tableau is a leader in data visualization space |
| Additional Notes | Power Map is an add-in by Microsoft that focuses on “Mapping”. It’s part of the newly announced Power BI suite. | – |
This week, I got one year license of Tableau Desktop! Totally enjoying the variety of possible data source connections I can have with it, especially Google Analytics! Can see a positive change in E-Commerce and Social Commerce with Tableau / GA mash-up.
Yup! Mashups are really valuable…It would be great to see an example on your blog 🙂