We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and TIBCO Spotfire 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."Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop reporting."
"This tool not only allows for consumption of the data in a visual way, but also allows the user to modify the question to get new answers."
"The most valuable feature is the interface for the end-user."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"Faster time to delivery utilizing useful charts and graphs, which allows for on-demand generation of analytical data in tables, graphs, and charts."
"On the fly questions can be answered with the "Qlik" of a button and drive forward discussions about policy, mission, and goals."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"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."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"Better searching capabilities would be a nice addition."
"The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system."
"Needs more bookmarking and a data load screen."
"Qlik has a fast learning curve due to great online training resources (Qlik continuous classroom), but those are lacking the advance features like building extensions and using the API."
"Qlik dashboards are not friendly with end-users, but they have been enhancing this shorted in some recent releases and next releases hopefully."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the learning curve when getting started, but training resources have been growing."
"The product could be less expensive."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"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 way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"The solution might be generic."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". 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". Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO Jaspersoft. See our Qlik Sense vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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