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Tableau Prep vs. Talend Data Integration

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Tableau Prep
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a…
$15
per month billed annually per user
Talend Data Integration
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
The Talend Integration Suite, from Talend, is a set of tools for data integration.N/A
Pricing
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Editions & Modules
Viewer
$15
per month billed annually per user
Explorer
$42
per month billed annually per user
Creator
$70
per month billed annually per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Considered Both Products
Tableau Prep
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep is a good tool to use in tandem with Tableau. You can use Tableau by just plugging in an excel sheet or other form of dataset, but the tools that Tableau Prep has specifically makes the data set work better with Tableau. The extra time to optimize is worth it.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep is covered in our license whereas Alteryx required additional fees and a separate license. Tableau Prep is similar to Tableau Desktop which a lot of our team is comfortable with so it wasn't difficult to get a feel for Tableau Prep. However, Alteryx would have been …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Tableau Prep
Selected Tableau Prep because it came with out Tableau license.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Tableau Prep
We use both Tableau Prep and Alteryx and, although Tableau Prep integrates better with Tableau desktop, I find that more often then not I open up Alteryx to do most of my data prep prior to bringing my data into analysis as it is just so much more robust. Not that this makes …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Tableau Prep
Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were …
Talend Data Integration
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend has many built-in components that reduce the development work. We were able to complete the project sooner than expected. Easy to on-board resources as it is straightforward to use. We can manage all the pipelines in the cloud with simple alerting. No major downtimes. …
Chose Talend Data Integration
In comparison with the other ETLs I used, Talend is more flexible than Data Services (where you cannot create complex commands). It is similar to Datastage speaking about commands and interfaces. It is more user-friendly than ODI, which has a metadata point of view on its own, …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend can integrate with any source, whereas Jitterbit is better used for APIs.
ND
Nitika Dhingra
Data Modeler
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend Product Intelligence was a easy win because of below reasins
  1. Level of customization that is possible
  2. Ability to create custom queries Richness in feature set
Anjum Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anjum Arora
Group ICT Head - Technology & Applications
Chose Talend Data Integration
Ease of use
Efficient integration interface
Reliable with large datasets
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
I wasn't a part of product evaluation for Talend Product Intelligence.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
SAP Business Object Data Services is another ETL offering that I have used before Talend. The biggest advantage is that Talend is open source and very user-friendly. SAP BODS needs to improve on the user interface. Also, it works well with relational databases but is not very …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Data Preparation is something which can improved and connectivity with more visualization tools are few factors which can be improved.
As Talend Data Integration becomes more cloud focused, the gap in features / functionality widens between on-premise functionality and the …
Rodrigo Pérez Romero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rodrigo Pérez Romero
Profiling Specialist
Chose Talend Data Integration
You have more control on what happens to your data and it still is a visual tool where you can see whats happening when.
Jay Padhya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jay Padhya
Data Scientist
Chose Talend Data Integration
Pros
Custom coding in Java
Easy deployment
Generates a Java code that can then integrate different application
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend is the best for ETL out of all the other products we looked at. Of course, it is not meant for synchronous services. But, batch jobs that we schedule and run on bulk data are the best fit for Talend Data Integration. Though Talend does not provide a preview of …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Most other tools of similar nature work well for small and medium sized data warehouses, but fail to maintain performance for very large data warehouses. However, Talend works decently well on large data as well. On the other hand, there are software tools like Oracle Data …
Sanket Bharaswadkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sanket Bharaswadkar
Process Analyst
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend is much versatile in assimilating various different business use cases. It covers more functionality and is packed with tons of features to explore. It has the ability to fine tune to each project, and not be a one-fits all solution. Problems with Excel, is that it is …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration

There are code building and code conversions internally in most of these ETL tools. The repository is an overhead in the ETL process. There may be a need for a full-time administrator to manage deployments and monitor jobs. With Talend, it seems to be transparent with the pure …

Josep Coves Barreiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Josep Coves Barreiro
Freelance computer engineer
Chose Talend Data Integration
Compared to Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) talend gives developers much more tools and flexibility in order to achieve different ETL processes. For instance, SSIS, separates processing from data management, and Talend mixes both stages so that you can perform …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Talend Data Integration
Talend has all the data integration features needed for an enterprise along with big data integration. It stands tall as a data integration suite and has a low cost as compared to some of its commercial counterparts. Talend does not have reporting tools like Pentaho but its …
Features
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Data Source Connection
Comparison of Data Source Connection features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Prep
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
9.5
Ratings
12% above category average
Connect to traditional data sources00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Connecto to Big Data and NoSQL00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Transformations
Comparison of Data Transformations features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Prep
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Simple transformations00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Complex transformations00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Prep
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
9.0
Ratings
12% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Metadata management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Business rules and workflow00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Collaboration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Testing and debugging00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Governance
Comparison of Data Governance features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Prep
-
Ratings
Talend Data Integration
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Integration with data quality tools00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integration with MDM tools00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Tableau PrepTalend Data Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau Prep is a very powerful tool when it comes to creating workflows to monitor each stage for data analysis and quality issues. Also, it is convenient to explore the data with the wealth of operators and checking work at each stage of the process. Also, some areas that would help is if there are more types of automation provided.
Verified User
Anonymous
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The same way you design data integration job can be used to design services. It is easy to enhance by custom components and can adapt to all requirements. Talend Data Integration connects to [a] multitude of data sources and streaming service. Very easy interface to design complex applications without spending much time on coding. Easy to learn and master. Talend constantly strives to better itself by adding more features and functionalities.
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Anonymous
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Pros
  • Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
  • Point out situations that might be erroneous
  • Show the distribution of raw data figures
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • We used Talend to ETLing the data from myriad sources such Oracle Database, Clarify, Salesforce, Sugar CRM, SQL DB, MQ, Stibo Step, FTP, Netezza, and Files.
  • We leverage Talend transformation capabilities for stitching the data , unions and join
  • We successfully created the final unified set that can be used by business
ND
Nitika Dhingra
Data Modeler
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Cons
  • Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
  • Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
  • More types of visuals
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Pricing for sure can be the area for improvement.
  • Real time processing is slow as compared to other tools like Abinitio.
  • While developing batches, it crashes a lot. It may be the issue with me, but I wanted to highlight it.
Shishir Chadha | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew
It is a valuable tool for generating and cleaning files for multiple purposes.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
It works well and is user friendly for the basics but needs more options for bring in data (using SQL queries for example) and export format options.
Verified User
Anonymous
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We use Talend Data Integration day in and day out. It is the best and easiest tool to jump on to and use. We can build a basic integration super-fast. We could build basic integrations as fast as within the hour. It is also easy to build transformations and use Java to perform some operations.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
I have not really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Good support, specially when it relates to PROD environment. The support team has access to the product development team. Things are internally escalated to development team if there is a bug encountered. This helps the customer to get quick fix or patch designed for problem exceptions. I have also seen support showing their willingness to help develop custom connector for a newly available cloud based big data solution
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Anonymous
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Implementation Rating
Live connections to cloud services (Google Sheets for example) and cloud hosted databases (cloud hosted SIS for example) for scheduled flows are not supported
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Alternatives Considered
Tableau Prep is covered in our license whereas Alteryx required additional fees and a separate license. Tableau Prep is similar to Tableau Desktop which a lot of our team is comfortable with so it wasn't difficult to get a feel for Tableau Prep. However, Alteryx would have been a totally new platform.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Talend has many built-in components that reduce the development work. We were able to complete the project sooner than expected. Easy to on-board resources as it is straightforward to use. We can manage all the pipelines in the cloud with simple alerting. No major downtimes. Connectors to all new applications in the market.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
  • Quicker data sets for online reports
  • More efficient data cleaning Ad Hoc reports
  • Costly if using data management to schedule data pull and cleaning (priced per viewer accounts not creator accounts)
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  • It’s only been a positive RoI with Talend given we’ve interfaced large datasets between critical on-Prem and cloud-native apps to efficiently run our business operations.
  • 40K+ plots data, covering 1K+ crop varieties.
  • 3K+ Customer & their credit data, 3K+ product inventory & pricing.
Anjum Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anjum Arora
Group ICT Head - Technology & Applications
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