Access PeopleXD vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

The compared Access Group and Salesforce solutions aren't in the same category. Access Group is ranked #26 in BA , and holds a 1.5% mindshare in the category. Salesforce is ranked #2 in BIT , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 6.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution.

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We performed a comparison between Access PeopleXD and Tableau Enterprise based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Access PeopleXD

Average Rating

3.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Benefits Administration (26th), Talent Management (36th), Expense Management (14th), HR Analytics Software (14th)

Tableau Enterprise

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

309

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd), Data Visualization (1st), Embedded BI (1st)

Mindshare comparison

Access PeopleXD and Tableau Enterprise aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Access PeopleXD is designed for Benefits Administration and holds a mindshare of 1.5%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
Tableau Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 6.2% mindshare, down 18.1% since last year.

Benefits Administration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Access PeopleXD	1.5%
Workday	12.1%
UKG	7.6%
Other	78.8%

Benefits Administration

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tableau Enterprise	6.2%
Microsoft Power BI	8.9%
Amazon QuickSight	3.7%
Other	81.2%

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

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reviewer951189

IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Has many features in need of improvement, including its monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support

The solution has many areas in need of improvement. I cannot cite just one or two. These include management, monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support, by way of example. A checklist should be included and the user interface should be addressed. The solution has a function which allows one to give feedback for every employee and to do so overall. The visibility, GUI and features involved in the feedback function are not up to snuff. Employee service details are an issue.

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Uzair Faruqi

Head Of Analytics at Mjunction Services

Ease of developing dashboards and receiving strong technical support have enabled efficient data visualization

Introducing custom features, such as NLP-based reports, is not very good in Tableau. My MD has been asking us for a way to write in natural language to request reports that the system should generate, but that isn't very effective with Tableau. As a developer, I can develop an on-demand report in Python quite easily, but exposing a REST API on the Tableau platform is not a very easy task. AI enablement is an area for improvement for Tableau, and that is something they might have to work upon. I have heard that ThoughtSpot is quite better in this regard, but the cost of ThoughtSpot is much higher. ThoughtSpot has lots of natural language-based report generation features that Tableau lacks.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is stable."

"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."

"The most valuable feature is the drag and drop, then the simplicity to build dashboards which allows us to provide more usable data to our customers."

"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."

"You are able to see and follow trends."

"Tableau is extremely good at dashboard creation, providing clear and concise visual presentations."

"The solution is configurable and flexible. We can customize the dashboards and configure the interface the way that we want. The data can be manipulated and arranged in different ways, such as columns."

"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."

"One of the most valuable features of Tableau is that it's a visual analytics solution, not just a dashboarding solution. Compared to Power BI, which is a dashboarding solution, there are no limitations with Tableau. For example, when you add a chart or a map to Power BI, it has a 3,000-point limitation. When you try to track your whole vehicle on the map, you only see the first 3,000 rows on the map, and Power BI doesn't tell you which part of the data is shown on the map. But Tableau doesn't have any limitations, which means that you can see five million data points on a map. It starts the project by creating the visuals that directly converts to SQLs. In that way, all the components have no limitations. When we compared Tableau to Power BI, we also found Tableau to be more fancy. Fancy means you can create more visual graphics and more visual dashboards. With Power BI, this isn't so—it's just some tables and some simple charts together. Tableau is more for business users who want to analyze data. Tableau can directly connect the analytics systems, like R or Titan, and get the results in screen, so it's a good solution for analytics scientists. It has some predefined capabilities to understand the data."

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Cons

"The solution has many areas in need of improvement, including management, monitoring, interface, dashboard and technical support."

"People are migrating to Microsoft BI due to the speed, which is quite slow to load, and the lack of visualization options."

"The performance could be better."

"Maybe the price could be a bit cheaper, especially if you're a personal developer that uses Tableau just to explore smaller data sets and you're not a company or something like that."

"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."

"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."

"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."

"When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers."

"Its documentation can be improved so that a user can get a good hands-on experience. Tableau is well documented, and on their website, there are a lot of tutorials that are available for free. I started my learning process through those tutorials, but there are certain loopholes in those tutorials, which only got filled through a couple of good YouTube channels that talk about Tableau. YouTube helped me a lot. So, the documentation could be better, I understand that it is evolving day by day, and with more usage, there would be more such documentation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Tableau is an expensive solution compared to Power BI."

"The pricing is $70 per month. You have to pay about $800 or something in that ballpark annually for one license."

"This solution is a bit expensive. The pricing options have become more difficult over the years. I think they are bordering on pricing themselves out of the market. They need different pricing options for various-sized businesses. Where my organization is a large organization, we are happy to pay a higher price because we can leverage the products very extensively. For smaller enterprises, different pricing options would be good."

"Deployment of dashboards to viewers and unit supervisors can be prohibitively expensive."

"Be careful with the Tableau Viewer's licenses, and stay with the right number of users."

"In general, if someone is new and wants to learn Tableau, it's around $70 per month."

"I like the payment model. For the people who need to create, they buy their licenses. Everyone else can use the free Tableau Viewer. This is much better than some of the competitor products, which require full licences for everything."

"The initial cost that is set according to CPU cores is expensive."

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May 2, 2013

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Computer Software Company

10%

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Midsize Enterprise	67
Large Enterprise	184

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Comparisons

UKG vs Access PeopleXD

Compared 22% of the time

Workday vs Access PeopleXD

Compared 17% of the time

SAP HCM vs Access PeopleXD

Compared 14% of the time

Oracle Taleo vs Access PeopleXD

Compared 13% of the time

MHR iTrent vs Access PeopleXD

Compared 12% of the time

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Microsoft Power BI vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 17% of the time

Domo vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 7% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 4% of the time

Julius AI vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 3% of the time

Databricks vs Tableau Enterprise

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

CoreTalent, CoreHR Compensation and Benefits, CoreHR CoreExpense

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Overview

Access PeopleXD is an end-to-end HR solution with unified payroll for UK and Irish businesses that can transform your people strategy, while giving you absolute freedom and flexibility to adapt. It provides a fully integrated suite of Payroll, People Management, Workforce Management, Talent, Digital Learning, Recruitment and Analytics Software.

Access PeopleXD is a mobile-first, 100% SaaS platform, delivering access to the latest technology at all times with no manual upgrades required.

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Tableau Enterprise offers powerful features for creating interactive visualizations, dashboards, and maps, including drag-and-drop functionality and easy integration with multiple data sources, promoting real-time collaboration and self-service analysis.

Tableau Enterprise stands out with its ability to create user-friendly, interactive visualizations, making it pivotal for business intelligence applications. Users benefit from its seamless connectivity and advanced analytical functions, facilitating data blending and storytelling. Despite a complex learning curve and high licensing costs, its features like geospatial analysis and efficient content distribution drive its indispensable value for data-driven insights. Enhancements in predictive analytics and support integration with machine learning tools further its capabilities across industries.

What are the most valuable features?

Interactive Visualizations: Enables users to create engaging reports.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Simplifies data analysis processes.
Data Integration: Offers seamless connectivity with multiple sources.
Real-Time Collaboration: Supports synchronous data sharing.
Advanced Analytics: Provides predictive analytics and geospatial analysis.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Informed Decision-Making: Facilitates data-driven insights.
Efficiency in Reporting: Streamlines dashboard and reporting tasks.
Cost-Effectiveness: Despite high licensing, value in robust analytics tools.
Customizable Options: Tailors analytics to specific needs.

Tableau Enterprise is widely used for business intelligence, supporting industries like healthcare, telecommunications, and finance. Organizations utilize it to analyze performance indicators, operational insights, and financial analytics, enhancing decision-making through interactive reports and real-time data integration.

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Bromford, Mercer, Novartis, Liberty Insurance, DCU

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.

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