We performed a comparison between QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's pretty easy to deploy."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions."
"It's scalable."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"R and automation services."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"The solution is quite costly."
"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"The solution might be generic."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and IBM Cognos, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO Jaspersoft. See our QlikView vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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I kinda agree with the below assessment with the following additions:
Graphics: Qliksense: Good, Tableau Excellent
Ease of use: QlikSense: Good, Tableau: Good
Hope this helps!
Thanks
Ed
Criteria
1.)Implementation Speed-- High (Qlikview) Good (Tableau)
2.)Scalability-- Limited by RAM (Qlikview) Very Good (Tableau)
3.)Drill Down-- Excellent(Associative Search) (Qlikview) Good (Tableau)
4.)Dashboard Support-- Good (Qlikview) Excellent (Tableau)
5.)Big Data Support-- Good (Qlikview) Above Average (Tableau)
Thank you, Everyone. All of your point are valid and well taken.
Greatly appreciate your time and insight!
We thought Tibco's Spotfire was the best of the three BI tools you've asked about in terms of:
1) its end user experience,
2) their engineering receptivity to questions and suggestions, and
3) its' overall functionality for the money.
As previously mentioned by another reviewer, scale (in terms of the size of your company/IT department/budget) and leadership buy-in are critical factors to consider in making such a decision. In other words, you can't/shouldn't buy what you can't afford, ... and if your company's leaders aren't interested/won't listen once you stand up whatever BI.data visualization solution you choose, what's the point?
With those considerations in mind, it may be best to clarify that our company wasn't willing to settle for the functionality that such traditional BI vendors as those three had to offer.
Here's why ...
To suggest that any of those three business intelligence tools actually accomplishes true 'data visualization,' or even more interestingly its most intriguing cousin, data animation (a la Edward Tufte and Hans Rosling) would be a real stretch.
www.edwardtufte.com
www.ted.com
Alternatively, we would highly recommend Information Builders' (IBI's) solution, and especially the newly emerging data visualization/animation functionality that is being offered by IBI through their new and improved InfoDiscovery tool this Spring (2015).
Watch out for it :)
We believe that IBI's solution is head and shoulders above those three other BI tools, as well as all of the other myriad of BI tools we evaluated in terms of:
1) end user experience/intuitiveness of design and handling,
2) drag and drop capabilities, and in essence
3) cutting IT out of the BI hand holding/red headed step child syndrome that has plagued the IT industry for far too long.
We were fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to preview what the IBI engineers have been able to accomplish in this regard so far, and quite honestly, they knocked our socks off!
In our collective opinion, IBI's solution is the most complete BI tool out there (especially relative to its' data visualization/animation functionality) as far as we have seen.
And the kicker is:
1) they listened intently to our request for this sort of data visualization/animation functionality (voice of the customer),
2) brought their programming whizzes to meet with us to best understand what we were after,
3) engaged the leadership of their company in our ideas and recommendations,
4) met with us periodically along the way to keep us abreast of their progress,
5) built the program to in fact achieve that vision as we had requested,
6) asked for and received our input recently to make the prototype even better prior to launch, and
7) are in the process of demo'ing it now yet further to other IBI super-users to both show it off and to secure yet further improvement ideas.
That's what makes IBI the sort of IT business partner/company we truly enjoy and appreciate doing business with!
John Becker
Chief Governance Officer
Phenix Energy Group
727-735-1407
Love the site. We are doing a comparison with the same data set at the moment will give you my personal feedback once completed.
Regards,
Pieter
This is a great question!
I am not confident enough of answering it though I will be much interested to read if someone else manage to complete such a review.
Regards,
Hristo
This is not a trivial question for anyone to tackle openly and objectively
I would respond to the person requesting a free Gartner report on DV leaders with the following questions:
· Is your firm committed to selecting one of these vendors?
· Is the question based on 2 or 4 developer's licenses or an enterprise system?
· Would this be a tactical decision or strategic?
Each product serves the purpose of aggregating data and providing visual display of the data depending on the enhancements configured for data visualization (i.e. geospatial map viewer). Tableau is the less costly and easy to use like Qlik of the three products with Spotfire being the most costly and complicated to configure and generally used by companies with larger IT budgets. There is a report comparing these BI products. apandre.wordpress.com
Carolyn French