We performed a comparison between QlikView, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"You can switch views easily."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"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."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is definitely scalable."
"The reports are most valuable. If it is a single-source universe, based on only one database, the performance, and the reporting tool is user-friendly, and users are very familiar with the tool and are comfortable using it."
"It provides flexibility for creating reports. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. Its performance is good. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"The common metadata environment means that the entire organisation has the same definition of core measures rather than these being derived in spreadsheets or specific reports."
"The setup is pretty easy. It's not hard at all."
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"I consider Tableau to be the best analytical tool available. It's really handy to use and can be used by non-technical people."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"You are able to see and follow trends."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"Easy to create graphs and visualizations."
"Tableau has greatly enhanced our organization's data-driven decision-making processes by enabling us to create visually compelling reports and dashboards."
"The use of a storyboard helps the flow of the data visualisation."
"The data blending capabilities is a huge factor for our team."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"It needs work with visualization."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"Error handling."
"SAP BusinessObjects is actually losing popularity within our company because people find the user interface and the way things are set up not to be as easy as many other tools that are on the market, like Qlik and things like that."
"It is not simple to use."
"The performance could be improved, like when we extract a large amount of data."
"The UI could be updated a bit."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"The calculation engine requires some improvement."
"It would be good if they could integrate the possibility for end users to create end models for themselves that they can use, especially for site operators, and if they could provide the end user not only the self-service BI, but also the self-service analytics, based on a predefined model, the same way that Oracle did."
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"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."
"It will be good if the server, could be more stable, and I would like to have the technical service to be more reliable."
"The data entered into Tableau must be clean. Otherwise, it won't work properly."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"Many things have to be improved in Tableau. Right now, we make the calculation, and then we get that information. It would be better if business users could do that. I would ask the people at Tableau to provide that option to business users to get that information in one click. It would be better if they automated some calculations. There should be more automation in Tableau. However, there are many things in automation mode, but it is very limited at the moment. We need automation for people who do not know much about Tableau. It would also be better if there were good community support like in Alteryx."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"I would like Tableau Prep to be integrated with Tableau Desktop. I would also like more customizations for tables."
"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."
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