We performed a comparison between QlikView and Tableau 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."One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards."
"Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space."
"Tableau has many different connectors for different databases. It's very easy to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, Amazon EMR, Presto, Redshift, BigQuery, and so on."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"I like the visualization component."
"Gradual scalability from simple to complex situations"
"Tableau is an advanced specialized tool. One of the best features I've seen is the lack of an intermediate semantic layer. I think that's an advantage compared to any other tool like BusinessObjects or Power BI, which are Tableau's biggest competitors."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"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."
"They could improve the update time."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Better source data connectors."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."
"What is happening, with so many tools coming up in the market, is that people have to continuously get educated in order to use some of the more advanced features."
"The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great."
"When there are millions of records, scaling up is quite difficult."
"I am a BI consultant. I have worked on different reporting tools, such as Power BI and MicroStrategy. As compared to other tools, Tableau lags behind in handling huge enterprise-level data in terms of robust security and the single integrated metadata concept. When we connect to large or very big databases, then performance-wise, I sometimes found Tableau a little bit slow. It can have the single metadata concept like other tools for the reusability of the objects in multiple reports."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"In the cloud sometimes the performance is a little bit slow."
"When you're working on a dashboard, you can't select multiple components at a time and align them, so you have to go one by one. This is very cumbersome."
QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews while Tableau is ranked 2nd in Reporting with 290 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while Tableau 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". QlikView is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server, TIBCO Spotfire and IBM Cognos, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Google Data Studio. See our QlikView vs. Tableau 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