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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BrightGauge

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ABrightGauge is a BI tool from ConnectWise that puts essential information in one place, providing visibility for more informed decisions. The user can customize BrightGauge dashboards and sync other business tools in its BI dashboard software for ultimate visibility. Users can also display data with embeddable gauges on public sites.

    $325

    per month

    Tableau Cloud

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ATableau 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 per user

    Pricing
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $325
    per month
    Enterprise
    $449
    per month
    Enterprise+
    $635
    per month
    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+
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    Pricing Offerings
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$499 one-time feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSet up fee is waived for Enterprise+ customers. A discount is offered for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    ConnectWise
    No answer on this topic
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    8.1
    14 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    69 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.210 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.814 Ratings8.069 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.113 Ratings6.058 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.7
    14 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    6.9
    69 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.414 Ratings8.069 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.513 Ratings6.066 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages4.67 Ratings6.043 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.213 Ratings7.567 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.9
    14 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.1
    67 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Publish to Web9.410 Ratings7.063 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.414 Ratings7.562 Ratings
    Report Versioning5.07 Ratings7.050 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.214 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.44 Ratings6.034 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    5.9
    12 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    6.8
    65 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.012 Ratings7.562 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.26 Ratings6.561 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.06 Ratings6.553 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining2.52 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    8.7
    14 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    64 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.614 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.313 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.313 Ratings7.054 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.34 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.35 Ratings7.549 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    6.8
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    6.4
    54 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.56 Ratings5.552 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.01 Ratings6.039 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.86 Ratings7.046 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of BrightGauge and Tableau Cloud
    Feature
    BrightGauge
    7.4
    8 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tableau Cloud
    6.4
    36 Ratings
    20% below category average
    REST API8.26 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Javascript API9.62 Ratings6.529 Ratings
    iFrames10.02 Ratings6.529 Ratings
    Java API6.01 Ratings6.026 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)3.53 Ratings6.530 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.03 Ratings7.029 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (70 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.3
    (49 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BrightGaugeTableau Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ConnectWise
    BrightGauge lets us know when we have critical issues that need solving. A massive influx of tickets all at the same time triggers an investigation. Usually, it is tied to a server going down, which we can address. It would not be helpful for a small MSP or IT department with just a few daily tickets. The stats are better used to track a large amount of clients.
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    Tableau
    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
    ConnectWise
    • SQL queries can be presented in many different ways to illustrate the data. They can be used in lists, graphs, meter, etc.
    • The datasets frequency of updates can be customized to from 5 minutes to annually. It's very granular in this respect.
    • It allows dashboards to be shared outside your organization with clients, partners, and vendors to maximize collaboration and reporting.
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    Tableau
    • 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
    ConnectWise
    • Annual or more than annualized data is desperately needed for MSPs to show trends, current limitation is previous 240 days for ConnectWise tickets
    • Alerts when datasets do not sync properly, I have to rely on my team to notice vs get an automated alert from BrightGauge
    • Small thing, but it would be nice to have more options on the report scheduler to enable a start date. If you wish to do it quarterly, you have to start the schedule exactly 3 months from the next run.
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    Tableau
    • 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
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    The tool's capacity to handle complex data sources.
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    Usability
    ConnectWise
    Usability is BrightGauge's strength. Granting the ability of virtually any user to be able to create a dashboard is incredibly valuable. If an organization very simple and straight forward reporting needs then BrightGauge is a perfect fit for them. Connecting to the dataset we used was very quick and easy and I imagine it would be the same for any major data source you would like to pull from.
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    Tableau
    Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
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    Support Rating
    ConnectWise
    Anytime I have reached out to the BrightGauge support team they have been quick, responsive, and solved my issue. They go out of their way to be helpful!
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    Tableau
    I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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    Implementation Rating
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    I wasn't part of the implementation team
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectWise
    I'm not aware of any other competitors to Bright Gauge that we selected. They seem to be very close to managed IT service providers and have been great at tailoring their support to the PSAs like ConnectWise, AutoTask, etc. I can see Bright Gauge getting more and more popular as time goes by
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    Tableau
    In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectWise
    • We were purchased by a large PE firm because we could easily show CSAT ratings.
    • The easily trackable stats are suitable for the C-Suite to see which division is the most profitable.
    • We won 60,000 MRR by displaying to potential customers how we track important issues with the gauges.
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    Tableau
    • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
    • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
    • Data can be shared across many different device types
    • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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