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How does Juicebox compare to visual analytics tools like Tableau and Microsoft PowerBI?
How does Juicebox compare to visual analytics tools like Tableau and Microsoft PowerBI?

To pick the right tool for the job, you'll want to evaluate who's using it, the target audience, and your budget.

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Written by Zach Gemignani
Updated over 2 years ago

Tableau and PowerBI are powerful visual analytics tools for dedicated data analysts. But what about the rest of us? Juicebox focuses on explanatory data presentation instead of exploratory analysis. And you don’t need a training course or certification to present data in powerful ways.

Here are three areas you'll want to evaluate to determine what is the right tool for your job:

Are you exploring data or explaining it to an audience?

  • Juicebox is a solution for explaining. Juicebox’s data stories provide a guided, connected flow that walks your audience through your message and data. It is about communication as much as analysis.

  • Tableau and PowerBI are for data exploration. They improve data analysis efficiency through rapid data manipulation and dashboard publishing. Tableau’s grafted-on “Story Points” feature is a sequence of dashboards on slides — a far cry from a connected narrative.

Who will be the primary user of the tool?

  • Juicebox is for non-technical business users. These are the people who work with Excel rather than SQL — project managers, account managers, business analysts, executives, team leaders. Juicebox is designed to be lightweight and easy to learn, regardless of your technical or design skills.

  • Tableau and PowerBI are for a technical or deeply analytical audience. If you know how to write SQL queries, you’ll be able to learn Tableau. These are powerful, flexible, and complex tools that can do almost anything with data if you put in the time. Tableau and Microsoft have training programs to get your ‘Digital Badge’ or ‘Certification’.

What is your budget?

  • Juicebox is designed to be affordable for any size organization. Our pricing supports the creation of unlimited applications and a per-user model that is affordable whether you are reaching 5 people or 500 people. If you are a small business, non-profit, or small team, we have made Juicebox easy on the wallet.

  • For an existing Tableau or PowerBI customer, the cost may appear to be free to you if your IT department is picking up the bill. On a per-user basis, these solutions are many times as expensive as Juicebox. Sharing reports with dozens or hundreds of users can be prohibitively expensive (unless it is on someone else’s budget 😉).

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