6/17/2023 0 Comments Tableau prep vs alteryxNow on the negative side, I chuckled in disbelief quite a few times playing with Tableau Prep. I have come across that need only once in the past, and I wished then I had that feature in Alteryx, but really, I have been living fine without it. Hopefully there will soon be the addition of custom rules, with Regex or simplified.Īnother positively distinctive feature came to me as a surprise: Tableau Prep accepts TDEs as input data source. ![]() That is elegant, efficient, intuitive and covers 80% of the needs, no Regex required. Here is an illustration of that well polished UI with the Clean Feature: Nevertheless, I would argue that that UI was table stake for the product. It is a blessing for analysts who are expected to be familiar with the quality of their data source and can assess their progress in almost real time. Unions Aggregates and Pivot steps also benefit from that slick interface which offers almost instant visualization of the results. Try to beat that efficiency with a coding type of interface! Even the best context-sensitive code completion engines can’t touch that… With only one click on the mouse on the Join Type, user can not only set the type of Join, but also see immediately the results. For instance, here is the screen to design and maintain a join: The few functions offered are also highly polished, with a user experience reaching the high level of expectations set by Tableau UI. It looks very polished, has a slick minimalist interface, which looks derived from the Data Source screen of Tableau Desktop. I have been kicking the tires and will share my first impressions and hopefully justify my assessment.įirst impression of Tableau Prep is that, that product firmly belongs to the Tableau software family. ![]() It will eventually mature into a solution worth paying for, but today, it is still too limited. Why is Tableau bundling a separate product for essentially free? Why not incorporating the Prep features into the core Tableau Desktop experience, if Prep is not intended to generate a new line of revenue? My pure speculation is that at that stage, Prep as a V1 is not ready to stand on his own, and is still too weak to prevail in competitive situation. ![]() The twist with the launch of Tableau Prep is the pricing strategy: it looks like Prep is bundled with existing Tableau Desktop & Server licenses and subscriptions. That puts Tableau Prep squarely in the same category as Alteryx, whose core functionality is data prep. Tableau Prep is positioned as a standalone tool to “combine, shape, and clean data for analysis”. A year and a half after the first demo of Project Maestro, Tableau has finally released his latest product: Tableau Prep.
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