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GoodData vs Tableau Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

GoodData
Ranking in Data Visualization
22nd
Ranking in Embedded BI
15th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tableau Enterprise
Ranking in Data Visualization
1st
Ranking in Embedded BI
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
309
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (2nd), Reporting (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of GoodData is 1.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tableau Enterprise is 11.0%, down from 27.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tableau Enterprise11.0%
GoodData1.5%
Other87.5%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

it_user241098 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
​Setup is straightforward from a business user standpoint but MAQL needs to be easier.
Cloud connect Report generator MAQL needs to be easier Better row-level security for end-users I've used it for nine months, mainly for implementation and delivery to customers. No issues encountered. No issues encountered. When the source is big and/or the source is Netsuite there are…
Uzair Faruqi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Data Science 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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a good product for your end to end BI needs when its all on the cloud."
"We have managed to automate reports that previously took up to 10 days to produce, and now we can deliver these reports in a day, including updating databases."
"The platform's most important feature is predictive analysis."
"Overall, in my short time using the product, I've been largely happy with the results."
"The most valuable feature is that we can integrate with our own database, and it will displays the KPIs. This is highly required from the business side."
"It provides supporting data for critical policy and operational changes"
"The ability to have a question and be able to quickly find the answer without having to reconfigure the data like you would have to using Excel."
"It is helping to make Makerbot a data-driven company."
"It's very easy to visualize data with this product."
 

Cons

"When the source is big and/or the source is Netsuite there are issues."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"Most of the problems in Tableau Online that I have noticed have to do with performance or weird, inexplicable bugs that I can't pin down. For example, you might try unloading some data, and you'll be waiting for a long time without anything happening."
"Our local vendor support (in México) was so bad!!!"
"Tableau is not scalable on the desktop version."
"If they could add global filters in the stories, more chart types, and default colours, it would help."
"This is because we are using it and it has a steep learning curve. It's not user-friendly."
"The process of embedding the dashboards on external portals and websites could be improved."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a license required, we pay an annual license which is priced fair."
"I downloaded the solution online for free."
"Be careful with the Tableau Viewer's licenses, and stay with the right number of users."
"The price of this solution could definitely be lower. It's quite expensive."
"I rate the product price in the Indian region a seven to eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"It's an annual fee with everything included but it's quite expensive."
"At $70 per month, I think the price is a bit scary. I have a small consulting firm in Ghana, working in about 15 different African countries, and when it comes to our part of the world, $70 a month is a lot of money for software."
"Tableau is a little cheaper as compared to Power BI and other technologies that we have used in the past. However, if the business users in our organization want to make presentations, Tableau has been asking us to purchase a Tableau Creator license, and $35 per month is expensive for business users. Power BI is giving a free desktop version for business users to connect to any data source and build their own dashboards. That's why we have proposed to use Power BI for most of the business users in our organization."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
6%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business117
Midsize Enterprise67
Large Enterprise184
 

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