We performed a comparison between Google Data Studio and Qlik Sense 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."The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources."
"The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. We observed the progress of our portfolio from last week to the current week, allowing us to compare revenues."
"The solution is free so that is a good feature."
"This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves."
"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."
"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."
"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."
"The ability to design complex data models and equations."
"This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers."
"The drag and drop functionality provides an easy and fast development approach."
"We can easily and quickly deploy new dashboards that reach a wide audience and any changes get reflected almost instantaneously for the users."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"All the necessary information is available to everyone in real time."
"It connects very simply to data sources."
"The ETL component allows us to pull from many different sources, making pulling data in easy."
"We have had an easy time supplying content to our customers."
"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."
"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."
"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."
"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size."
"Panels are not as easy to use as other data extraction UIs."
"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."
"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."
"Other tools might be worth considering if you need more advanced features or support for a larger user base."
"More options for the layout."
"A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers."
"Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups."
"There are occasional stability problems, but Qlik support is excellent at correcting anything that arises."
"The management console appearance needs improvement to its look."
"Possibly offering some more basic, simpler templates."
"The product could be less expensive."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
Google Data Studio is ranked 12th in Reporting with 8 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Google Data Studio is rated 7.6, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Data Studio writes "The cloud environment makes it easier to use large volumes of data and collaborate with coworkers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Google Data Studio is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx. See our Google Data Studio vs. Qlik Sense report.
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