We performed a comparison between QlikView and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
"The language support is very good."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"You can switch views easily."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"You can do a lot of things on the back end which are not possible in the other solutions on the market."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"The scalability is good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"The pricing is high."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
QlikView is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI with 158 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 7th in Embedded BI with 8 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Alteryx. See our QlikView vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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