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Shiny vs. Tableau Desktop

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Shiny

12 Reviews and Ratings

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2,288 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Shiny

    Score8 out of 10
    		N/AShiny allows users to create data visualization apps, and is designed to be easy to write with. These apps let users interact with data and analyses with R or Python.N/A

    Tableau Desktop

    Score8.1 out of 10
    		N/ATableau 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

    Pricing
    ShinyTableau Desktop
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Tableau
    $75
    per month per user
    Tableau Enterprise
    $115
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ShinyTableau Desktop
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All pricing plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    ShinyTableau Desktop
    Considered Both Products
    Posit (formerly RStudio)
    Kenton Woods
    Research Assistant in Research & Development at Arizona State University (Research, 5001-10,000 employees)
    Chose Shiny
    Shiny is much cheaper to use than Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI. It's not as fancy, and maybe not as effective, but you save lots of money by using Shiny over the previously listed alternatives. The graphs and charts you can make in Shiny are very good for …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Shiny
    Both Tableau and Power BI are easier to learn and allow you to develop dashboards in a faster and more intuitive way, but both have limitations in what you can do with them and if you want to do something more specific it is always more complicated. RStudio is much more …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Shiny
    - Faster response working with a large amount of data.
    - R Studio connection and flexibility.
    - Scenarios modelling.
    Incentivized
    Varun Kumar
    Data Science and Analytics Lead in Information Technology at Apple (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Shiny
    Shiny can be a good tool in academic but its not upto standard of TMT industry but could possibly be useful in life science industry (which is where its more prevalent usually), its good as its mostly free (not including cost of servers and compute). I would rank its …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ShinyTableau Desktop
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.3
    167 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.8139 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.4166 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.8145 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    164 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.6159 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.2162 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.2157 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.1
    158 Ratings
    Publish to Web00 Ratings7.3149 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.9149 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.2116 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.2123 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.4
    156 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.2149 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.6126 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.0119 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.8129 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.877 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    8.0
    135 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.2124 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings7.097 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.8117 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Shiny and Tableau Desktop
    Feature
    Shiny
    -
    Ratings
    Tableau Desktop
    9.0
    64 Ratings
    REST API00 Ratings9.256 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.051 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings9.249 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.046 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.453 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.446 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ShinyTableau Desktop
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.7
    (194 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (39 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (63 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (56 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (115 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (115 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)