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.
Tableau prep workflow series#
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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