Hacker News Reader

"it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part"

As a former customer of Tableau, it feels like this has already happened right? I worked at a company where many teams used it, and there were zero defenders of Tableua when it came time to decide whether to renew...it's a mess, especially on Mac.

View on HN

Is there an alternative on Mac?

Any tool that has a purely web based design UI is not limited to an OS, so the alternatives would have to supply a native Mac design tool as Tableau does.

We are working on a cross-platform solution at Chartly. We are still early but can already create dashboards more quickly than what I've seen Tableau do. See https://chart.ly/ for details! :-)

my workplace uses both Cognos and Tableau. compared to cognos, tableau is a dream to use. There's some non overlapping functionality in cognos, but where tableau can be used it is greatly preferred. Coming from that "traditional" enterprise BI, tableau feels anything but stagnant. Spotfire seems like the closest competitor, but its barrier for entry went up sharply after acquisition. Power BI has a ways to go (but I think given the tech stack behind MS is the biggest threat to tableau as it matures long term)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com