We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."On the fly questions can be answered with the "Qlik" of a button and drive forward discussions about policy, mission, and goals."
"It is extremely clean to view, easy to use, and intuitive to develop with. There are a host of online resources to provide assistance to new users."
"It is simple to develop, which is good."
"The flexibility of Qlik Sense and the addition of 3rd party extensions allow us to extend the use of Qlik Sense beyond analytics and bring the platform to the core of our digital workplace, augmenting analytics with workflow, and team collaboration."
"Qlik Sense provides features to manage and govern data, ensuring data security, accuracy, and regulation compliance."
"The extensibility of the Platform with either internally created extensions or the use of third-party provided items really opens the platform up."
"The overall ability to build quick wins with simple data to drive insights."
"It has allowed us to manage our staff more effectively and frees up time for our analysts to analyze new problems and opportunities."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"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."
"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."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"The scalability is good."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness."
"Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want."
"Some of the charts are still a bit basic and screen rendering on different sized monitors can be an issue."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"Reload time is a limit since everyone wants real-time data."
"I would like to have the ability to better customize the visuals including changing fonts, sizing, colors, axes, and titles."
"In my opinion, collaborative development of the Qlik Apps is a bit tricky and difficult in the Qlik Sense Cloud."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 10th in Data Visualization with 8 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". 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". Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Apache Superset. See our Qlik Sense vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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