Adaptive Insights vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

Workday and Salesforce are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #24, while Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2. Workday holds a 1.4% mindshare in RT, compared to Salesforce’s 15.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Salesforce users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 9, 2025

Tableau Enterprise and Adaptive Insights cater to different business functions with Tableau excelling in data visualization and Adaptive Insights in financial planning. For those focusing on data analytics and visualization, Tableau might be preferable, whereas Adaptive Insights suits businesses prioritizing financial planning.

Features: Tableau Enterprise focuses on advanced analytics with interactive dashboards and diverse data connectors. Adaptive Insights provides comprehensive financial modeling and budgeting tools alongside strategic planning capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Tableau could benefit from a simpler deployment process, improved customer support, and optimized cost structure. Adaptive Insights can enhance its data visualization, increase integration capabilities, and refine UX for broader user adoption.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tableau Enterprise requires a complex deployment demanding significant IT resources, sometimes complicating customer support processes. Adaptive Insights stands out with its streamlined deployment and superior customer support and onboarding experience.

Pricing and ROI: Tableau Enterprise involves a high initial investment with ROI dependent on improved data usage and analysis. Conversely, Adaptive Insights offers a cost-effective approach for financial management, ensuring fast ROI through efficient budgeting and forecasting.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Reporting

24th

Ranking in Data Visualization

20th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (4th), ESG Reporting Software (12th)

Tableau Enterprise

Ranking in Reporting

2nd

Ranking in Data Visualization

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

309

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 15.6%, down from 22.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tableau Enterprise	15.6%
Adaptive Insights	1.4%
Other	83.0%

Reporting

Featured Reviews

Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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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

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

"Automated reporting."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"It's very stable."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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"Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good. It is a very good tool, and it basically brings life into data with good design. We have been creating a lot of interactive visualizations and dashboards. It has a public version. There are public communities from where you can get a lot of examples for practice."

"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."

"I have found the solution easy to use and the interface is very good."

"The ability to deploy is the added ability to centralise the Tableau repository for all Tableau Developers."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."

"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the permission management and the user management."

"The most important feature in Tableau is visual analytics."

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Cons

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

More Adaptive Insights cons

"The look and feel of the tool itself, including the dashboard features and data visualization, could be improved. The graphs in Tableau also have room for improvement."

"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."

"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."

"The solution’s pricing could be improved."

"An area for improvement in Tableau is the Explorer license type. It is not as useful, and the product owner should enhance its benefits or clarify its role. Additionally, the frequent updates with many versions available for download can be confusing and could affect stability."

"I find data prepping in Tableau challenging to understand, perhaps because I am new to it. It sometimes requires extensive investigation to determine why the data does not appear correctly."

"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. The other thing that I never liked about Tableau is its ability to handle large sets of data. To present the data in the dashboards, we have to stage it up exactly like it is going to come into the dashboard. We use another tool called Alteryx that does that for us. So, we manipulate the data, get it staged, and then push it into Tableau. Tableau is terrible at handling large data sets, and we knew right away that we couldn't use Tableau to do data manipulation."

"It is not so great when it comes to data exchange/integration, data mining, etc."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"The pricing for Tableau is the same as the other products in the market."

"This license is on a yearly basis."

"The solution is very expensive. If you have many users then it is going to cost your company a lot of money."

"I recommend that you discuss your needs with the salesperson and try to negotiate the price."

"Paying for users you never setup or buying expensive desktop licenses for users who can solve their users with web editing on the server are the two biggest expenses."

"ROI is very high, but it requires a data preparation/blending tool."

"It is expensive when you compare it with Power BI. It should be cheaper."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	117
Midsize Enterprise	67
Large Enterprise	184

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online

Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

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.

Salesforce

Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

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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