We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, Splunk and others in Data Visualization."The changes in a dashboard are very easy."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
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"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"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."
"Qlik Sense is much more user-friendly and easier to read then QlikView."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"It gives you a lot of flexibility in designing your dashboards."
"The solution's user security is extremely effective. You can profile very well. All the users and all the functionality is protected and that includes information and data segregation."
"It is more user-friendly and easier to work with the report creation part, creating reports out of an established universe. Maybe a business person could liberate the existing universe and create a report on top of it, as well. So that's one cool feature."
"The initial setup of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform was easy since the solution is user-friendly."
"The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features."
"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."
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"From the data science point of view, we use it for model building purposes. For example, if we are using it for a bank and we want to understand how much loan the bank can provide, we can use visualization to show the educational qualification, salary, gender, and city of a customer, and by using this information, we can arrive at the loan amount that this person is eligible for. I can also use it to view all prospective customers, so essentially, this is going to help me in model building as well as in understanding and segmenting customers and doing forecasting and predictive analytics. We use model widgets, and we can create thousands of visualizations, such as motion charts and bubble charts. We can also create animated versions of the graphs and view the data from multiple dimensions. These are the features that we typically use and like."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"The ability of filtering and segmentation of the data makes it very flexible compared to other tools."
"The solution has a lot of customization when comparing to Microsoft BI."
"The solution is being delivered to our customer, who appreciates the insights generated from the reports. It is easy for them to drill into the details and use interactive charts."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."
"The solution makes for very productive and really informative decision making. It can lead the whole business and build a strategy across whole working departments."
"More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting."
"I am not really a fan of the set analysis. It's its own language that doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. I wish it were more intuitive."
"There is a direction currently with feature releases within QLik Sense which are focused towards the SaaS or Cloud offerings of Qlik Sense. This leaves those who have invested heavily in on-premise enterprise deployments in a difficult position to gain the benefits of some powerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provides no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options."
"There is no downside."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
"Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great. A basic printing function would also be good. Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice."
"From the initial setup of the product we had some struggles getting connections to some of our databases to function, this indicated that some of the data extract drivers can be improved and addition of some of the older database engines need to be added in Qlik Sense."
"Needs more bookmarking and a data load screen."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"It needs to be more flexible for the end-user."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is an outdated solution that is missing many features."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The solution is not good for self-services, they can improve in this area."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform has to be improved performance-wise. The look and feel of this application, its scalability, setup, and technical support also need improvement."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
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"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"To be the best in the market, Tableau has to improve its user interface and also look into developing implementing the best machine learning algorithms."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"I would like to be able to set the parameters in a more specific manner."
"The setup was easy but we are having some problems with the configuration that is taking a long time. We have done some initial tests and some of the delays could be from bandwidth issues. However, the whole installation process should be simplified."
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