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Key advantages of Dash Enterprise compared to BI:
💸 Reduce the cost of large Tableau deployments
🤛 Unlock Python's AI & ML capabilities for business users
🔮 Understand & customize the Python analytics behind your dashboards

Key advantages of Dash Enterprise compared to BI:

Dash Enterprise for Python vs Common BI Software

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Self Service Deployment|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️

Deploy as a Standalone Application|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️

No Additional Cost Embeddable Apps with Private Data|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️|⚪

Multi-page Dashboards|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️

Python Native|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Works with All Operating Systems|✔️|✔️|✔️|✔️|⚪|✔️|✔️

Easy to Create Custom Visualizations|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Pixel-perfect Reports without CSS and JavaScript|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️

Dynamic and printable responsive PDF reports|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️

SSO Authentication|✔️|⚪|⚪|✔️|✔️|✔️|✔️

Keeps Data in Its Native Location|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️|⚪

Secure Web Server|✔️|⚪|⚪|✔️|✔️|✔️|✔️

Open-Source Code Base|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Simple, Robust Authentication Mechanisms and Management|✔️|⚪|⚪|✔️|⚪|✔️|⚪

Support Included in License|✔️|⚪|⚪|✔️|✔️|✔️|✔️

Training Included in License|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

AI/ML Ready-to-Use Templates|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Natively Supports Big Data Applications with User-Friendly Response Time|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️|✔️

Deploy with Jupyter Notebooks|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|✔️|⚪|✔️

Supports Vaex Natively|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Supports Dask Natively|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Supports Holoviews Datashader Natively|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Ability to handle large complex datasets without paying anything extra|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Simple Data Preparation & Wrangling |✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

No Additional Cost for White labeling|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|✔️|⚪

Native Dashboard Version Control|✔️|✔️|⚪|✔️|⚪|✔️|⚪

ChatGPT API Integration|✔️|✔️|⚪|✔️|✔️|✔️|⚪

Leverage the creativity/flexibility of coded options available via Python|✔️|✔️|⚪|✔️|✔️|✔️|⚪

Data Inputs from End Users -  Adding and Modification of Data|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

Free Unlimited Dashboard Viewers|✔️|✔️|✔️|⚪|⚪|⚪|⚪

I would view Plotly as the functional leader in the space rather than just an alternative to Tableau, PowerBI, and other traditional BI tools.

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Dash helps data scientist & quants operationalize Python models

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Learn how using Snowflake and Dash together ensures the delivery of production-grade delivery apps that use real-time machine learning and AI processes.

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Rapidly build, deploy, and scale data apps from your Jupyter Notebooks, Python scripts, or other notebook solutions with Plotly App Studio.

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Use Plotly's new Chatbot Builder to deliver fast, easy AI-generated insights from within your data apps.

With Persistent Filesystems, simplify your data science workflow and avoid network delays. Large data can be uploaded, updated, and cached in Dash Enterprise.

Deploy, manage, and share data apps. | With the App Manager from Dash Enterprise, ensure a standard, well-documented, and reproducible workflow.

Easily style and customize data apps with Design Kit, a low-code framework from Dash Enterprise. Production ready — no JavaScript, HTML, or CSS required.

Access a GUI for easy and secure authentication. With App Manager from Dash Enterprise, choose from LDAP, AD, PingFederate, Okta, SAML, SSO, and more.

Dash Enterprise supports turnkey connections to popular backends in Python – Vaex, Dask, Datashader, RAPIDS, Databricks (PySpark), Snowflake, and Postgres.

Dash Enterprise seamlessly integrates CI/CD for streamlined app deployment. Git-based workflow, automated QA, version control, and more included.

Provide data app end users with a powerful, drag-and-drop UI. Dashboard Engine from Dash Enterprise is Python ETL meeds BI — no callbacks or layout required.

Workspaces is an onboard code editor from Dash Enterprise. Easily write and execute code for data apps. No additional downloads or installation needed.

Dash Enterprise lets you centralize data app development under a single platform to manage and deploy Dash, Streamlit, and Django data apps.

Dash Enterprise Embedding Middleware enables seamless embedding without the use of iframes. It also offers single sign-on for easy authentication that scales.

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	Dash Enterprise	Dash Open Source	Tableau Public	Tableau	Power BI	Looker	Cognos Analytics
Self Service Deployment
Deploy as a Standalone Application
No Additional Cost Embeddable Apps with Private Data

Dash Enterprise for Python vs Common BI Software

Dash helps data scientist & quants operationalize Python models

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