Rational BI vs. Tableau Desktop
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Rational BI | Score7.7 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network… | $0 single user |
 Tableau Desktop | Score8.1 out of 10 | N/A | Tableau Desktop is a data visualization product from Tableau. It connects to a variety of data sources for combining disparate data sources without coding. It provides tools for discovering patterns and insights, data calculations, forecasts, and statistical summaries and visual storytelling. | $75 per month |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.7 | 8.7 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 8.9 |
| Usability | 8.7 | 8.6 |
| Availability | - | 8.0 |
| Performance | - | 6.1 |
| Support Rating | 7.7 | 7.0 |
| In-Person Training | - | 9.4 |
| Online Training | - | 8.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 8.0 |
| Configurability | - | 8.1 |
| Data Sharing and Collaboration | - | 8.4 |
| Data Sources | - | 7.9 |
| Ease of integration | - | 10.0 |
| Product Scalability | - | 7.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor pre-sale | - | 10.0 |