GoodData vs. Tableau Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoodData
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
GoodData is an analytics platform used by organizations to deliver real-time, governed insights, embedded into products, customized for users, and integrated into any data environment. At the heart of GoodData is a universal semantic layer: a shared, code-defined model that maps raw data into consistent business concepts, metrics, and logic. Metrics are authored once and reused across every dashboard, app, or API, to ensure accuracy, governance, and trust wherever analytics are…N/A
Tableau Server
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
$12
Per User Per Month
Pricing
GoodDataTableau Server
Editions & Modules
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Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoodDataTableau Server
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GoodDataTableau Server
Considered Both Products
GoodData
Chose GoodData
GoodData was more cost effective and did not necessitate additional spend on internal resources. The end user interface was easy to use and did not require additional set up or customization. The clients required little support from the Prometric staff to use the product.
Chose GoodData
I was involved in the decision making but not final decision maker. Ease of implementation for GoodData vs Cognos (used for 15 years in multiple companies). I think Tableau's visualizations are better, but there is much that just can't be done in Tableau that GoodData handles …
Tableau Server

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Features
GoodDataTableau Server
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.9
63 Ratings
12% above category average
Tableau Server
9.5
94 Ratings
15% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.947 Ratings9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.763 Ratings9.793 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.052 Ratings9.780 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.7
62 Ratings
0% below category average
Tableau Server
9.1
94 Ratings
12% above category average
Drill-down analysis7.460 Ratings8.994 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.062 Ratings8.892 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.458 Ratings9.888 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.2
59 Ratings
4% below category average
Tableau Server
8.7
89 Ratings
9% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.057 Ratings8.985 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.948 Ratings8.984 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.735 Ratings8.563 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
7.9
63 Ratings
5% above category average
Tableau Server
8.3
94 Ratings
2% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.363 Ratings8.392 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.856 Ratings8.389 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.061 Ratings8.391 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.739 Ratings8.361 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
8.1
41 Ratings
8% above category average
Tableau Server
7.2
45 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API8.335 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Javascript API8.031 Ratings9.036 Ratings
iFrames8.034 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings4.67 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.4
90 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.884 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.783 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.169 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.376 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
GoodData
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.4
78 Ratings
6% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.276 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.160 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.067 Ratings
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User Ratings
GoodDataTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(91 ratings)
8.1
(110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(15 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
7.9
(70 ratings)
5.2
(16 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(7 ratings)
3.0
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.2
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoodDataTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
GoodData
If you have consistently formatted data, that you want regular reports on, plus flexibility to let end users build their own reports, GoodData is perfect. Especially if your end users are less technical. If you want to be able to embed your reporting into your app, GoodData excels, though the start up process can be involved. If your data structure varies, it could be more challenging to integrate. It may also not be worth the integration if you have people who can already run their own SQL queries.
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Tableau
Whole funnel and specific channel performance from upper to lower funnel metrics. The ability to view full channel performance for some time, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, has truly been monumental in how my team optimizes specific channels and campaigns. Daily performance tracking is a bit overwhelming, with load times and having to refresh specific live views over time. It can be challenging to do so at times, as extensive dashboards take much longer to load.
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Pros
GoodData
  • GoodData provides advanced analytics for predictive modeling. This assists in identifying potential issues before they arise, and making proactive decisions.
  • GoodData prioritizes data security and compliance, providing features that help IT firms like ours adhere to regulatory requirements.
  • GoodData gives high customization dashboards, allows us professionals to create tailored view of KPI.
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Tableau
  • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
  • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
  • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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Cons
GoodData
  • Good Data is already have certain customizable options. However, having more flexibility in customizing reports and dashboards & control over the visual aspects would enhance the overall user experience.
  • To make Good Data even more powerful tool, improving the speed and responsiveness of the tool, especially during data-intensive tasks, would be a significantly helpful.
  • For new users, the interface can be made more user friendly which would promote easy navigation through features of tool.
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Tableau
  • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
  • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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Likelihood to Renew
GoodData
Because gooddata really helps us in processing data to make reports or dashboards. So we are very satisfied when we use it. What we like is the flexible use of charts. We change at will the use of charts to display in reports or dashboards. Thank you Gooddata for helping companies like us who need flexibility in usage
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Tableau
It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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Usability
GoodData
From my experience, overall usability of GoodData platform is great very easy to use, but there is still few features as GoodData platform and interface continuosly evolves, which are not yet available within user interface, but only available via API. For regular users all main and key features and tools are perfect, well defined and very easy to use.
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Tableau
Tableau Server takes training and experience in order to unlock the application's full potential. This is best handled by a qualified data scientist or data analytics manager. Tableau user interface layout, nomenclature, and command structure take time and training to become proficient with. Integration and connectivity require proper IT developer support.
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Reliability and Availability
GoodData
We are approximately one month since go-live. There has been one short outage.
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Tableau
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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Performance
GoodData
Performance on refreshing metrics works well.
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Tableau
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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Support Rating
GoodData
Support team has been highly responsive and helpful from our first initial deployment to present day. They engage and work with us. know when to escalate for more challenging problems. They also follow up. Overall have had a very good experience with support
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Tableau
We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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In-Person Training
GoodData
Petr was a rock star - patient, knowledgeable, clear and easy to work with.
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Tableau
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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Online Training
GoodData
GoodData implementation team was professional and courteous
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Tableau
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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Implementation Rating
GoodData
Thorough, professional and on time.
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Tableau
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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Alternatives Considered
GoodData
GoodData is best among every other platform I used because it's a cloud based platform and way to easy to use. Its robust predictive analytics and unified data view set it way apart. While Power BI and Tableau excel in visualization, GoodData's focus on comprehensive business intelligence, user engagement analytics, and revenue optimization which made it a strong choice for our organization seeking a holistic analytics solution.
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Tableau
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Return on Investment
GoodData
  • We have been able to quickly go to market with a feature-rich version of our application.
  • The licensing costs are manageable but make our offering more expensive than alternatives.
  • The possibility to horizontal scaling with Kubernetes is a bright outlook for our business.
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Tableau
  • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
  • There are some significant setup for the server product.
  • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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Tableau Server Screenshots

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