[johntdaly]

At my previous company we used Tableau for a while and I was rather happy with it. I’m not sure what they are using now but I also build an excel exporter for common data and we also produced an excel file by hand for analysis so I would guess they are using excel now.

I honestly would suggest to use a BI tool rather than going with excel but you might be forced in one or the other direction based on what the people in your company are more comfortable with and how good or bad you data is. The quality of our data was bad enough that a manual step was required and more people where comfortable with excel.

I personally would go with BI tool. Like I said, I liked Tableau but from what I’ve seen MS PowerBI is also nice even though you will bind yourself to SQL Server. I would recommend Apache Superset as a no cost/low cost alternative. Tableau was expensive and because of that the people who where most interested in using it didn’t get the licenses and the people that got the licenses where not as interested. Also the licensing structure for Tableau is more suited towards larger companies and I personally think that BI tools are way to useful to limit them to management because of licensing cost.

[anakaine]

My organisation has both Tableau and PowerBI. The only reason I have not dropped Tableau (as the principle account and contract holder) is that PowerBI licensing is restricted by users, whilst Tableau Server has an unlimited model.

[johntdaly]

So you don’t get a licensing key you can reassign to another user for PowerBI? (that the way I read that)