What are some good tools to use to gather and present data / dashboards? Tableau, Power BI, WebFocus? Others?

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Director of Portfolio Marketing in Software2 years ago

I've used Qlik and PowerBI in the past. Both are great dashboard tools!

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Chief Data Officer in Software2 years ago

PowerBI seems to be gaining significant market share over the last few years - we use it internally as well as bundling it as an analytics layer within our product.  

Chief Data Officer in Services (non-Government)2 years ago

We had used Tableau, PowerBI and Apache Superset.

Tableau- Definitely a great tool but check licensing cost if you have too many users

PowerBI- A great tool. Currently we are using this. Cost-effective too. If your management wants excel like functionality like row-wise formatting, it will be helpful.

Superset- Much like Tableau but open source, so free. Had used ~ 4 years back. Scalability was a challenge then. Now heard it has improved. 

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Director in Manufacturing2 years ago

We had a lot of great success with Tableau. If you provide the initial training to business IT and non-IT employees you can get some amazing results providing great insights into the business

The only drawback can be maintenance if the creator leaves the company or changes divisions. The business may expect IT to supply the support and creativity to continue the life of the reports. Set clear written guidelines to ensure the business owns the self developed tools

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Chief Data Officer in Insurance (except health)2 years ago

I've used and implemented many.....the best tool is the right one for your current and expected use cases and fits with your data and stakeholders. There is no such thing as the best one in my view.

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