We performed a comparison between QlikView and SAS Visual Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"It excels in supporting database connections and various database types."
"The most solution's notable aspect, in my view, is the ability to integrate various data sources and harness advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps with quality assurance processes."
"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."
"Simplifies report designs and quickly displays tables and graphs."
"The flexibility of the configuration is valuable to me."
"The product is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"We've found the product to be stable and reliable."
"Data handling is one of the best features of SAS Visual Analytics."
"I believe that the possibilities for exploring data and formulating visual results are quite good because it allows the business analyst to have different perspectives on the data."
"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."
"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."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"It needs work with visualization."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"There are scalability issues. It depends on the data volume and number of end-users. VA requires a lot of hardware resources to move volumes of data."
"It is not as mature as competitors such as Tableau and QlikView."
"Better connectivity with other data origins, better visualization, and the ability to create KPIs directly would all help."
"The licensing ends up being more expensive than other options."
"In Brazil, there are few documents, courses, and other resources for studying and implementing the tool."
"There is a need for coding when it comes to digital reporting which can be intimidating."
"The product is expensive and needs the integration of more languages."
"The solution is a little weak at the front end."
QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 21 reviews while SAS Visual Analytics is ranked 7th in Data Visualization with 9 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while SAS Visual Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Snapshots are helpful for having a view of the data at a point in time and comparing changes, but it is expensive and far behind other modern tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAS Visual Analytics writes "Single environment for multiple phases saves us time, and has good visualizations". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas SAS Visual Analytics is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dataiku Data Science Studio.
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