We performed a comparison between QlikView and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface and dashboards are very good."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"The solution is fast."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"The scalability is good."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
QlikView is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI with 158 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 7th in Embedded BI with 8 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Dremio. See our QlikView vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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