![]() ![]() There is little to no license usage data on Tableau Prep available on Tableau Server or the licensing portal, though you can get license usage data for Tableau Desktop. The “My Keys” report, available for license admins, shows who the key is assigned to in the portal, who has actually registered the key (not today, license thieves!!!), the date it was last registered, and information about license renewals/expiration. ![]() Admins can assign keys to users, who can then access their license key securely in the portal whenever they need it. Prep: If you’ve used Tableau’s customer portal before, you’ll likely know what this looks like. So here’s the skinny on Prep and Alteryx. This makes license management and monitoring crucial, but for some reason, I rarely hear people mention it in product comparisons. No matter how you slice and dice either of these, they’re top of the line analytics products and they don’t come cheap. That said, the client offering is a bit more cut-and-dry: Tableau Prep is already bundled with Tableau Desktop, so if you’re using that, it’s basically a free add-on. Unlike with Alteryx’s solution, you will pay for anyone who views your reporting, not just those building the workflows. However, coming from a person who has been involved with Tableau Servers with over 80,000 users, most of whom are viewers and therefore would not be directly impacted by Prep Conductor, this can be a big financial burden if you want to go for the add-on. Tableau prices by user, which is great for small-to-medium deployments. Pricing by user, on the other hand, allows you to throw as much infrastructure as you want at the system, but only a limited amount of licensed users can have access. So if you’ve got a 16 CPU machine, you’ve got 8 concurrent workflows running, and any excess in queue waiting to be run. To give you a good idea of what this gets you, 4 cores gives you capacity for about 2 workflows running concurrently on Server. If you choose to add another machine to the cluster, there is an additional fee per new worker. However, licensing this way allows you as many users as you want.Īlteryx prices per core, with the first 4-cores at about $78,975, and additional cores being purchased per 2-core add-ons. Pricing by core means that you can only place a specific, licensed amount of infrastructure behind the server. However, it is definitely not that simple because of a key factor: Alteryx Server is priced by core (CPU) while Prep Conductor is priced by user. ![]() I’m also going to assume that you need the ability to schedule workflows… therefore, add Prep Conductor (now the Data Management Add-on) to your Tableau Server or get yourself an Alteryx Server.Īt face value, that looks like an overwhelming “Tableau Prep is cheaper,” and for some organizations that may be true. The answer would be a resounding, definitive, 100% “don’t use Tableau Prep”, as it is specifically built to integrate with the rest of the Tableau offering and really nothing else. Note: I’m going to start this by saying that I will write this from a perspective that assumes you already have Tableau Creator (or Desktop) licenses and a Tableau Server. The reason I’m doing that is because if you aren’t planning on using Tableau for the rest of your reporting needs, we can stop this post right now. So I could talk about this particular topic……. More than half of my career up until this point has been about licensing and governance around Tableau and Alteryx servers. I know what you’re thinking: “Wow, yes Aidan, governance does sound like the most fun part of all!” And to that I say yes, you’re absolutely right. I’d say we have had a lot of fun together with this series these past few weeks!! Now we have the most fun part of all with conclusions, licensing, governance, and some of the extra functionality we may not have covered in basic prep. Part 3: Joining, Transformation, and Output For that reason, I have spent the last few weeks analyzing the two from the lens of what I believe to be the key components of Data Prep: Though Tableau Prep and Alteryx have some differences in breadth and depth of product functionality, many look to the two products for their data prep needs. If you missed the rest of the series, start here! ![]()
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