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Dundas Dashboard vs Tableau comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.3
Dundas Dashboard enhanced collaboration and transparency, proving cost-effective with $0.50/hour usage and positive user feedback.
Sentiment score
7.2
Tableau offers rapid insights and cost reductions, enabling users to recoup investments quickly despite some viewing it as costly.
This saves a significant amount of time, particularly for reports that would have needed around fifty people.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.4
Dundas Dashboard customer service is praised for prompt and effective support, though some report limited out-of-hours assistance.
Sentiment score
7.0
Tableau's customer service is responsive and professional, with praised technical support, though some note wait time concerns.
The technical support for Tableau is quite good.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Dundas Dashboard reliably scales for numerous users and markets, maintaining performance, especially with SSAS, despite multi-server implementation challenges.
Sentiment score
6.7
Tableau effectively scales with optimized configurations, but performance may decline with extremely large datasets, impacting scalability and cost.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
Dundas Dashboard generally stable but can slow under heavy loads; occasional crashes and obscure errors hinder reliability.
Sentiment score
7.4
Tableau is generally stable, efficient with varying data sizes, but may struggle with complex datasets or insufficient infrastructure.
 

Room For Improvement

Dundas Dashboard needs better parameters, alternative to Silverlight, expanded visualizations, enhanced UI, easier installation, and improved documentation.
Tableau users seek faster data processing, better customization, machine learning integration, and affordable pricing, plus enhanced support and training.
We cannot send the entire Excel file reports via email within Tableau.
 

Setup Cost

Tableau's licensing is costly but offers valuable functionality, yet smaller firms find its pricing prohibitive and complex based on roles.
The cost for viewer rights is around $60, but it can vary based on the business and is usually for a year.
 

Valuable Features

Dundas Dashboard excels in customization, ease of data integration, and offers interactive features, creative design, and helpful resources.
Tableau excels with interactive visuals, diverse data connections, and user-friendly interface, driving efficiency and insights alongside strong community support.
Tableau efficiently handles large amounts of data and automates processes, reducing the need for manual work.
 

Categories and Ranking

Dundas Dashboard
Ranking in Data Visualization
51st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tableau
Ranking in Data Visualization
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
296
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd), Embedded BI (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Dundas Dashboard is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau is 25.9%, down from 31.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

it_user238920 - PeerSpot reviewer
It has significantly increased our productivity but it forces users who are viewing the reports for the first time to install Silverlight which isn't supported by Google Chrome.
Previously, we had five people doing separate reports in Excel. Each report looked different, and every month we would have to recreate them with a different set of data. With Dundas, we can now enforce a standard using themes so that all the reports have the same look and feel no matter who creates it. Also, it now automates our monthly reports so all we need to do is update the data in a database, and the report updates real-time. From an automation standpoint this has significantly increased our productivity and ability to get nice looking reports out with short turn around.
ROMIL SHAH - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time
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. Tableau has recently launched a paid version for the documentation. So, documentation has become a little bit challenging when it comes to Tableau development because we do not have any tool to export the data out of it. It is a license-based feature that you need to purchase to prepare documentation. So, on the documentation front, for preparing clear documentation for any dashboard, it would help if we get an embedded option, rather than buying a license for each user for the documentation. To document anything, if I have to connect to each workbook and see what has been written as a formula and then document in the Word document, it is pretty time-consuming. We have the Microsoft stack, and we are currently evaluating Power BI because Tableau has a limitation of 50 columns for a drill-down report. If we want more than 50 columns, we have found a hack, but there is no ready-made option for doing it. So, we have to use another tool in case we need a drilled report with more than 50 columns. There are many instances where users need 80 or 90 columns for their analysis, and switching between two technologies becomes a challenge. It is not a cost-effective approach for us. Their support should be improved. We are not happy with their support. Whenever we raised queries, we were pointed to a few blogs, and we didn't get a proper solution from them. Their licensing should also be improved. They want us to purchase a Tableau Creator license for business users, whereas Power BI Desktop is free for business users. They should come up with a basic license with one or two connectors that our business users can use for preparing their visualizations. Tableau also charges us per user for users who want the data only through email.
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Comparison Review

it_user6330 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 2, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Educational Organization
44%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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Also Known As

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Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Tableau Online
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Coca Cola, Siemens, HP, Verizon, Microsoft, NHS, Scotiabank, KPMG, Bayer, Schneider Electric, Teck, Pitney Bowes, Amtrak
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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