After four months of training our data analysts how to use Tableau Server, I've just now found out Tableau won't let me serve Tableau content from our Tableau server without jumping from a $6k/year spend to a $72k/year spend, just to enable the "guest" viewer account to view the visualisations.<p>Has anyone run into this, or had a good experience with an alternative to provide something similar? Else we will be begrudgingly reverting to Highcharts, Indiemapper and SAS/Graph.
so I hear a few things from you, also based on your comments in the thread so far. You're using Redshift as your DW, and you want to:<p>- find a (cheap) alternative to Tableau for data viz<p>- allow basic self-service analytics for your team<p>- embed charts into applications<p>- provide a professional growth platform for data engineers<p>It sounds a bit like you're trying to build what the folks at Clearbit covered in a blog post:<p><a href="http://blog.clearbit.com/enterprise-grade-analytics-for-startups-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.clearbit.com/enterprise-grade-analytics-for-star...</a><p>Some suggestions (a few of these tools have been mentioned already):<p>Data viz:<p>- Metabase<p>- AirBnB's Superset <a href="http://airbnb.io/projects/superset/" rel="nofollow">http://airbnb.io/projects/superset/</a><p>those two are open source products; not that the PM on superset used to work at Tableau... just sayin'...<p>for data viz & embedding charts:<p>- Mode Analytics<p>- Looker<p>- Periscope Data<p>- grow.com<p>- reflect.io (highly recommended, built just for that purpose, but I think they want $60K / year too...)<p>shoot me a note at lars at intermix dot io - we have a spreadsheet with all the data viz tools out there, a list of some 40+ tools....
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've been loving Metabase, and it's free! <a href="http://www.metabase.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.metabase.com</a>
You can try us out.<p><a href="https://www.holistics.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.holistics.io</a><p>Some benefits:<p>- Designed with the analysts who's comfortable with SQL in mind, thus extremely flexible.<p>- Extra visualizations catered for product/marketing analytics: Conversion Funnel, Cohort Retention<p>- We have in-built ETL that helps analysts load data from Excel, CSV, Google Sheets to your reporting DB without bugging engineers
Give Microsoft Power BI a shot. It has a free desktop tool to explore your data quickly, author reports,visualizations and Models and publish them to powerBI service. But you can also leverage Power BI embedded or Power BI as a service to share your reports. an on-premises version is also introduced recently.
Research the licensing carefully. <a href="https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/</a><p>There is a free course on edx
Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-bi-microsoft-dat207x-6" rel="nofollow">https://www.edx.org/course/analyzing-visualizing-data-power-...</a><p><a href="https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/" rel="nofollow">https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/</a>
Yikes. I have a lot of my clients who are using Tableau, now moving to Power BI. PBI's got all the functionality in one product so no integration issues. It's cheaper than Tableau but cost is only part of the equation. It's the ability to connect to older on-premises systems like SharePoint 2010 is huge for many that aren't in the cloud or are hybrid. Also, the integration with Microsoft Flow is very attractive. You can kick off Flows from Power BI automatically, when a metric crosses a threshold, making BI self-escalating. I think it's easier to learn Power BI if you know Tableau as well. Lastly, Power BI Mobile is included and is the fastest growing area of use. Executives want everything on their phones and Apple watches. Hope this helps.
Using Power BI you can offer BI with rich visualization, mobile enabled with ability to connecf to multiple data sources, enrich your data with 3rd party data, provide row level security and publish the same on pbi.com. Cost USD9.99 per user. We can do embeded analytics, on prem bi, integrate powerbi to your SSRS comes available with ylu sqlserver EA. Need help reach out to us nagarajs@orioninc.com phone 7324220084. Orion systems integrators microsoft Gold Application Development, silver cloud platform, silver data analytics
I'd recommend RStudio. They have a server edition and R is extremely powerful for data crunching. The two downsides are that you'll have to re-code all your dashboards/reports, and R isn't as user friendly as Tableau. This will kill your productivity when switching, unless your analysts are already proficient in R.<p><a href="https://www.rstudio.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.rstudio.com</a>
There's<p><a href="https://spotfire.tibco.com" rel="nofollow">https://spotfire.tibco.com</a><p>They have different licensing prices for the different types of users. For example, the web consumers, that use the templates created by others, are much cheaper than the the full analytics license. Scripting in IronPython, custom visualizations in d3.js and .net extensions. Custom data sources in .net.
My company uses qlikview.<p><a href="http://www.qlik.com/us/" rel="nofollow">http://www.qlik.com/us/</a><p>Not privy to prices but I would be surprised if it's less expensive than tableau.