Atlassian Jira vs. Tableau Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Atlassian Jira
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Atlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.
$9
per month per user
Tableau Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.
$15
per month billed annually per user
Pricing
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per user
Premium
$17
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
per year
Tableau Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer
$35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer
$70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator
$75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator
$115
per month billed annually per user
Tableau+
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
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Community Pulse
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Features
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.5
Ratings
22% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Task Management9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
9.8
Ratings
26% above category average
Tableau Cloud
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.0
Ratings
15% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.9
Ratings
15% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.1
Ratings
16% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.8
Ratings
16% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
7.0
Ratings
19% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.4
Ratings
20% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Jira
-
Ratings
Tableau Cloud
6.4
Ratings
20% below category average
REST API00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Atlassian JiraTableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
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Pros
  • As a developer, it is easy to create, track and manage tickets efficiently.
  • Customizable issue types (eg: Bug, Task, Story, Epic) allow teams to categorize and priorizate work.
  • Great text editor and markdown support for detailed issue descriptions.
  • Assign issues to team members, set due dates and define priorities.
  • Integration with Jenkins, GitHub and other CI/CD tools to automate builds and deployments.
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  • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
  • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
  • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
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Cons
  • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
  • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
  • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
  • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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  • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
  • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
  • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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Likelihood to Renew
JIRA is highly integrated into our organization. Nearly every department uses it, and many have multiple JIRA projects set up to track different types of work. We rolled out JIRA in a staged manner, but it continued to be adopted by more and more people and departments because it continues to show results. I expect we will continue to renew our JIRA license for years to come
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The tool's capacity to handle complex data sources.
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Usability
Atlassian Jira is relatively easy to use, but there are several ways to configure it, which can make it more complicated if you configure it incorrectly. Keeping the customizations and complexity limited to being the project would be suggested to ensure you don't lose in-built Atlassian Jira features, then change the configuration as you find things aren't meeting your exact needs.
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From an end user perspective Tableau Online is overall very easy to navigate once you get used to it, my only complaint is that when expanding or contracting a graph, the "plus" and "minus" on the bottom left is sometimes hidden, and should always be visible. From a builder perspective, it can take some getting used to but the sheer depth of customization makes it all worthwhile.
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Reliability and Availability
Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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Performance
Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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Support Rating
I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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I have no had a lot of experience with the support team, but I know that it’s hardly necessary for the end-user to contact. Usually, the main questions I get are on how to read a certain dashboard or how to navigate to a certain place. Overall, the simplicity of the software is what helps out with less need for support.
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In-Person Training
Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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Online Training
One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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Implementation Rating
Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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Alternatives Considered
Jira is more feature-rich than Trello and also has better integration with other tools. Trello is a lot more focused on work tracking, while Jira can do a lot more than that. Both can also be combined, although they're often considered mutually exclusive alternatives—I've seen cases where companies choose to use either one or the other, but I haven't met an actual case of a company using both.
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When weighing the pros and cons of Tableau Online vs. SAP ERP, two key considerations emerged as clear winners. SAP ERP is a powerful data purification tool, but it doesn't measure up to the competition in terms of data presentation. When it came to data visualization and analytics, Tableau was our go-to tool. The price is the second consideration. Tableau, on the other hand, was the more cost-effective option for our requirements.
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Scalability
Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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Return on Investment
  • JIRA has increased the teams' productivity and efficiency; the sprint timelines have improved by 15-20%.
  • JIRA's integration with tools like Bitbucket and Confluence has improved functional collaboration, leading to faster decision-making and issue resolution by approximately 10-15%.
  • Additional functionality requires additional third-party plugins, which require additional costs; the requirements of these plugins increase the costs by approximately 15%.
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  • No need to hire a team of developers to deliver our product, a huge cost savings for a start up company.
  • The ability to work off data extracts allows us to "set in and forget it" so to speak, which allows our customers to use the system during business hours with almost no cost in terms of database usage.
  • It has been a great internal tool for dashboarding company metrics and helping us track goals and implement solutions to meet those goals through efficient data analysis.
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