Tableau Desktop vs. Tricentis Tosca

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Tableau Desktop
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Tableau 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
Tricentis Tosca
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Tricentis Tosca provides an approach to test automation that is AI-powered, codeless, and end-to-end so it can test everything in a complex IT landscape, to ensure business processes work flawlessly no matter where changes occurs. Its 160+ technology support helps users test everything at the UI, API and data layer, including virtually any enterprise, custom, homegrown and mobile application. With its model-based approach, Tosca enables business, QA and IT teams to…N/A
Pricing
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
Editions & Modules
Tableau
$75
per month per user
Tableau Enterprise
$115
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAll pricing plans are billed annually.
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Community Pulse
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
Features
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.4
175 Ratings
3% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports8.1145 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.1174 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.1151 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.3
172 Ratings
4% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.5167 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.4170 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.0126 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.5165 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.3
166 Ratings
1% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.0155 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.3120 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.6128 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.778 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.3
164 Ratings
4% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.5162 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.5156 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.6131 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
8.9
149 Ratings
5% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)9.0145 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.9125 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.7136 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.283 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
7.9
141 Ratings
2% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.7130 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.3101 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.5122 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
7.9
67 Ratings
3% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
-
Ratings
REST API8.259 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API7.853 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames7.151 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API8.448 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.654 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.148 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
Tableau Desktop
-
Ratings
Tricentis Tosca
8.0
17 Ratings
6% below category average
Record and Automate00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Multi-Browser Testing00 Ratings8.417 Ratings
Mobile Testing00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
Test Scheduling00 Ratings7.817 Ratings
Test Management00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
CI/CD Tool Integration00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Parallel Testing00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Object Recognition00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing00 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Real Device Testing00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics00 Ratings8.117 Ratings
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User Ratings
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(204 ratings)
9.7
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.5
(41 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(73 ratings)
8.7
(26 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(11 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(10 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(57 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.4
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(34 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Tableau DesktopTricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend
Tableau
The best scenario is definitely to collect data from several sources and create dedicated dashboards for specific recipients. However, I miss the possibility of explaining these reports in more detail. Sometimes, we order a report, and after half a year, we don't remember the meaning of some data (I know it's our fault as an organization, but the tool could force better practices).
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Tricentis
For projects having huge set of test cases to be automated can be accommodated by Tricentis Tosca with proper folder structure and best practices implementations. Tosca will be less appropriate for organizations where the number of automation scripts are limited with hardly any scope of increasing the script count or the cost of automation will be more than the cost of having manual resources as Tosca is a licensed tool.
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Pros
Tableau
  • An excellent tool for data visualization, it presents information in an appealing visual format—an exceptional platform for storing and analyzing data in any size organization.
  • Through interactive parameters, it enables real-time interaction with the user and is easy to learn and get support from the community.
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Tricentis
  • Codeless - Easy to learn, Users can be trained quickly.
  • Modular approach - Reusable test step blocks can be created and used across multiple test cases.
  • Multiuser repository - Seamless collaboration between multiple team members in real-time.
  • Supports high number of technologies.
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Cons
Tableau
  • Pricing should be more user-friendly and usage-driven
  • Making edits to the production reports is fairly tough and has a vast scope of additional capabilities
  • Tableau Desktop should be able to differentiate itself from the Tableau server else there is no major meaning of two different products being offered
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Tricentis
  • Documentation - struggled multiple times with features not explained very well, or not explained at all
  • The only support is on Tricentis Forums, where, sometimes, based on 'luck' - you will open a support case, and wait few days until you get the chance to speak with someone from Tricentis and show case your issue
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Likelihood to Renew
Tableau
Our use of Tableau Desktop is still fairly low, and will continue over time. The only real concern is around cost of the licenses, and I have mentioned this to Tableau and fully expect the development of more sensible models for our industry. This will remove any impediment to expansion of our use.
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Tricentis
We aim to renew Tosca for our organization. What we lose in license cost is gained by having employee that do not need programming background. We also recoup a lot of the cost on the rapidity of automation. Only the support we might not use as much. I believe Tosca is here to stay at our organization
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Usability
Tableau
Tableau Desktop has proven to be a lifesaver in many situations. Once we've completed the initial setup, it's simple to use. It has all of the features we need to quickly and efficiently synthesize our data. Tableau Desktop has advanced capabilities to improve our company's data structure and enable self-service for our employees.
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Tricentis
It can be a challenge for new users who have never used an automation tool. For example, it is hard to understand the layout of the screen and where to find how to update the data. The interface can be overwhelming at first.
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Reliability and Availability
Tableau
When used as a stand-alone tool, Tableau Desktop has unlimited uptime, which is always nice. When used in conjunction with Tableau Server, this tool has as much uptime as your server admins are willing to give it. All in all, I've never had an issue with Tableau's availability.
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Tricentis
No answers on this topic
Performance
Tableau
Tableau Desktop's performance is solid. You can really dig into a large dataset in the form of a spreadsheet, and it exhibits similarly good performance when accessing a moderately sized Oracle database. I noticed that with Tableau Desktop 9.3, the performance using a spreadsheet started to slow around 75K rows by about 60 columns. This was easily remedied by creating an extract and pushing it to Tableau Server, where performance went to lightning fast
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Tricentis
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Tableau
Tableau support has been extremely responsive and willing to help with all of our requests. They have assisted with creating advanced analysis and many different types of custom icons, data formatting, formulas, and actions embedded into graphs. Tableau offers a weekly presentation of features and assists with internal company projects.
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Tricentis
Tricentis team was very supportive. Support is expensive but they helped us at many level. Setting up timeline, implementation, precise questions on automation challenges. We had an account manager and technical people we could as to talk to. Support was generally timely and helping. They often proposed to come on site to help us which would cost more but could be helpful
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In-Person Training
Tableau
It is admittedly hard to train a group of people with disparate levels of ability coming in, but the software is so easy to use that this is not a huge problem; anyone who can follow simple instructions can catch up pretty quickly.
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Tricentis
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Online Training
Tableau
I think the training was good overall, but it was maybe stating the obvious things that a tech savvy young engineer would be able to pick up themselves too. However, the example work books were good and Tableau web community has helped me with many problems
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Tricentis
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Implementation Rating
Tableau
Again, training is the key and the company provides a lot of example videos that will help users discover use cases that will greatly assist their creation of original visualizations. As with any new software tool, productivity will decline for a period. In the case of Tableau, the decline period is short and the later gains are well worth it.
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Tricentis
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Tableau
I have used Power BI as well, the pricing is better, and also training costs or certifications are not that high. Since there is python integration in Power BI where I can use data cleaning and visualizing libraries and also some machine learning models. I can import my python scripts and create a visualization on processed data.
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Tricentis
Tricentis Tosca is codeless and therefore easier to use. It's a great tool for people that would start doing automation and have no coding background. It seems like it has the same capabilities as other test automation suites but I felt it lacked a bit of capabilities on the test management suite such as defects test suites organizations etc
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Scalability
Tableau
Tableau Desktop's scaleability is really limited to the scale of your back-end data systems. If you want to pull down an extract and work quickly in-memory, in my application it scaled to a few tens of millions of rows using the in-memory engine. But it's really only limited by your back-end data store if you have or are willing to invest in an optimized SQL store or purpose-built query engine like Veritca or Netezza or something similar.
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Tricentis
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Tableau
  • Tableau was acquired years ago, and has provided good value with the content created.
  • Ongoing maintenance costs for the platform, both to maintain desktop and server licensing has made the continuing value questionable when compared to other offerings in the marketplace.
  • Users have largely been satisfied with the content, but not with the overall performance. This is due to a combination of factors including the performance of the Tableau engines as well as development deficiencies.
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Tricentis
  • It really had a very good impact on our ROI. We were able to automate most of the apps and layers with in it and get a very short execution time which led to increased releases with in short span of time.
  • Time to market really improved and efficiency of developing scripts was not too bad.
  • With built in test dashboards, it was easy to pull metrics and share the insights with management.
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ScreenShots

Tricentis Tosca Screenshots

Screenshot of where no-code, model-based test automation separates the technical information of an application into reusable, no-code modules that can be updated as applications change, which auto-updates test cases.Screenshot of a test case design for risk optimization - this displays a flexible testing model that enables fast, easy test case creation and maintenance and reduces risk in app releases.Screenshot of requirements coverage for risk optimization - this enables users to prioritize requirements by business risk/ impact, understand what is needed to test, and gain business insight on defects to ensure smarter and faster release decisions.Screenshot of Vision AI - AI powered test automation using patented neural network technology to deliver resilient UI automation. Includes self-healing AI capabilities.Screenshot of service virtualization, which enables users to build realistic, simulated services in minutes to remove bottlenecks and run end-to-end tests faster in the software development lifecycle.Screenshot of test data management. This offers test data when it is needed and helps keep track of the data as it gets consumed across end-to-end business processes.