We performed a comparison between QlikView, SAS Visual Analytics, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"It is a stable product."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"It's pretty easy to deploy."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"I use Visual Analytics for enterprise reporting."
"The technical support services are good."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"What I really love about the software is that I have never struggled in implementing it for complex business requirements. It is good for highly sophisticated and specialized statistics in the areas that some people tend to call artificial intelligence. It is used for everything that involves visual presentation and analysis of highly sophisticated statistics for forecasting and other purposes."
"The speed to display charts and react to users' choices is great."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"Visual Analytics is very easy to use. I use Visual Analytics for all the typical use cases except text mining. I used it to analyze data and monitor statistics, not text mining. I also use it for data visualization as well as creating interactive dashboards and infographics."
"The alert generation feature also helps in sending out ad hoc messages to the business users if business thresholds have been crossed."
"Compared to other products, visualization features are really good."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"Data handling, visualizations, and aesthetics of it are the most valuable features."
"Tableau is very good in the front-end visualization compared to Power BI."
"Its dashboarding is the most valuable. It is easy to create visualizations and dashboards and import Excel sheets and ESP files in Tableau as compared to other tools."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"Tableau is good for routine dashboards, and it has integration with Slack, through which it can send you daily updates."
"It provides business users with a tool, so they are not dependent on IT."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."
"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"They could improve the update time."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The reason we haven't rolled it out across the board is due to the fact that the licensing is so expensive."
"There are a few little things that are predefined and can be done out of the box immediately. There is no business intelligence application that is predefined, which is something some customers or prospects would love to have. Small and mid-sized companies would struggle with it because they prefer something standard that has been predefined by somebody else."
"The charts and tables could use better sorting, primarily using other variables than the ones on the figure. If they could implement views like in the older version (previous to Viya), it would be very nice."
"The deployment isn't smooth. Deploying Visual Analytics on the cloud takes a lot of work, or you can use some providers that give you SAS as a service. For example, there is a provider called SaasNow. They host SAS Visual Analytics and the license. You can buy the license and deploy it there without the hassle of installation because deploying the software isn't easy."
"A bit more flexibility in the temperatization will be helpful."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"I haven't come across any missing features."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"It would be nice to include more features on each dashboard."
"It's not an aesthetic platform at the moment."
"It's already using 32 gigabytes of memory, but the performance is not so good. It's very heavy."
"Overall, the only major frustration that I have had so far is with Tableau Public. I first used Tableau Public when I was building capacity, and when there was a later release to download and you wanted to upgrade, all your work would have to be manually re-entered."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"In the next release, I would like to be able to have the option to see more raw data that I'm converting on the dashboard."
