We recently completed our first Wave Analytics project for a leading financial institution in North America. Here is a tabular comparison of key features in OBIEE, Tableau and Salesforce Wave Analytics.

	OBIEE	Tableau	Salesforce Wave Analytics
Report	Analysis	Sheet/Analysis	Lens
Data Snapshot	View	View/Query	Dataset
Dashboard	Dashboard/Page	Story/ Dashboard	App/Dashboard
Guided Navigation	Yes	Limited	Yes
Prompts	Supported	Supported	Supported
Caching	Yes	Yes	No
Parallelism	No	Yes	Yes
Aggregate Aware	Yes	No	n/a
Report Alerts	Yes	Yes	Yes
Supported Data types	Several	Several	CSV and JSON
Built in ETL tool	None	None	None
Security	Row Level	Row Level	Row Level
Parameters	Yes	Yes	Yes
Variables	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cloud	Yes	Yes	Yes
On Premise	Yes	Yes	No