QlikView Other Solutions Considered

Prashant Baste - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect at Team Computers

We evaluated a couple of other platforms before choosing QlikView. So the other ones were Tableau and Power BI.

Speaking about the main differences, along with the pros and cons between these products, I would say that I think the capability of handling a large volume of data is one of the bigger challenges. Also, ETL capabilities are limited with Tableau and Power BI, whereas QlikView is able to handle a large volume of data, and it also has a stronger ETL update.

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DorianS - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Author at SFApps.info

I evaluated Tableau, Conga Grid, and Rollup Helper.

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Martin Goebbels - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst & Researcher (Freelance) at Sonra Intelligence

I've worked with Tableau, and they were different at the beginning, Tableau being at an advantage, but now they're very similar. Both QlikView and Tableau have their strengths and weaknesses. Tableau was a bit easier for creating storytelling, but I don't have any issues with QlikView. Additionally, I'm not a big fan of Microsoft Power BI, but I haven't tried it out, really. It has some interesting features, but sometimes it feels a bit too verbose.

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JH
Director, BI & Analytics at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

Several. If interested see my post http://www.itcentralstation.com/articles/i-evaluat...

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SP
Director of IS at Bennington Marine, LLC

yes - many

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it_user305934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For three months, we evaluated several solutions with installations provided by vendors such as Oracle BI, IBM Cognos, and SAP BusinessObjects.

The main challenge to prove during that phase was the ease of use without professional services support at that stage!!!

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ONUR ÇALISKAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner at INFOLOJIK

Qlik Sense is easier to use than other tools. It is easy to install.

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reviewer1185771 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The biggest comparison was made with Tableau, which ultimately won.

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it_user368133 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I evaluated Tableau. However, we selected Qlikview because:

  • Tableau’s current recommendation is to build dashboards directly on top of the reporting DB (for example – data mart or consumption layer) to avoid doing complex logic or transformation inside the tool and using a hybrid approach of live connection and extract. Tableau is currently not an extract-heavy tool. However, with the recent HyPer acquisition, we are expecting some changes.
  • Incremental loading (updates and deletes) inside Tableau is a challenge, which can be achieved very easily in QlikView.
  • Limitation in Tableau on # of columns and rows in table view
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PE
Commercial Business Analyst at Asilia Africa

I don't know, I was not part of that process and not active within the company.

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it_user157734 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Manager Business Intelligence at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

For my previous company I compared Tibco, QlikView, Tablaeu, and other tools, as indicated in the Gartner Quadrant. We did workshops with them, and were happy with QV because you can build something immediately. In the case of Tablaeu, you need a really well-established ETL and / or views. Otherwise, it is complicated for a normal user to build correct charts. Users have normally very little understanding of the data structure. Other tools need pre-aggregation and a long development process. With QV, it is possible to use views, pre-aggregated or raw data and you can still manipulate the data in the script, i.e. do ETL (see Deployment Framework).

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it_user296565 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

We also looked at Tableau.

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it_user165582 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have evaluated Tableau and Microstrategy. The first one is too basic (wonderful if you are a final user). The second one: extremely complex, just for very large organizations and large IT teams.

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it_user657474 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst - Business Applications at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Some of our users were on Tableau.

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AM
Qlik Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

As a consultant in the area of business intelligence and data analytics I have had to personally evaluate QlikView with other self-service BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI and MicroStrategy.

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it_user175005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a logistics company with 51-200 employees

Cognos was evaluated and Qlikview was highly recommended by one of our customers.

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it_user186759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 501-1,000 employees

During the selection of the local BI tool, the choice was between IBM Cognos and QlikView. We were naturally showcasing to management how easy it is to use the UI, and the latter one was chosen.

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it_user68187 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They did launch a new tool to compete with Tableau, Qlik Sense, which they are trying to push to customers, but it actually falls behind QlikView. (They know that, but they don’t want us to compare Qlik Sense to QlikView, saying they are two entirely different tools.) We still prefer QlikView compared to Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense is incomplete at best.

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it_user97479 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have knowledge of Microsoft Analysis Services, Jaspersoft. We sometimes use Jaspersoft as an embedded reporting tool into application. QlikView was nice and easily to learn, so the evaluation period was short. View full review »
it_user77322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Tableau, Spotfire View full review »
it_user867504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated MS Excel.

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it_user928116 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are features of QlikView that are not available with Power BI or Tableau. There are activities on the back end that work better in QlikView.

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it_user225840 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst ( Marketing BI Analytics) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated Spotfire, Tableau and finally chose QlikView to be deployed for all dashboards in the organizations.

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it_user90651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Data Analytics at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
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it_user422718 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I also looked at Tableau, Sisense, and SAP BusinessObjects. Tableau is a good tool, but has a few drawbacks when your data source is not in the correct format. BusinessObjects is a bit old school (reporting) and SAP HANA is costly to implement. BusinessObjects is also costly and requires a lot of work in the data and business layer.

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it_user416430 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I also tried Tableau. I believe they are targeting a different market, if you compare Tableau with QlikView. The better comparison will be Tableau to Qlik Sense, which is beyond the scope of this review. The reason we selected QlikView is its relatively comprehensive functionality.

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it_user152448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I also use MicroStrategy.

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it_user93909 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner with 51-200 employees

Tableau

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ED
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity

We also evaluated Tableau, which we also use, and Cognos BI.

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it_user377319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analytics Application Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
  • Tableau
  • MicroStrategy
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it_user303567 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP Application Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The DWH of our ERP.

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it_user208263 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, we also looked at BO and Microstrategy.  As Microstrategy is also a good package, we are exploring it further.

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it_user92304 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We looked at doing either an in-house development or an ad-hoc solution from a software provide.

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it_user76272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Manager (Exco level) & Executive Director at a retailer with 51-200 employees
Silver, Spotfire from Tibco, Tableau Public, MicroStrategy’s free Reporting Suite, Roambi Analytics, Webalo, YellowFin, Jaspersoft View full review »
it_user87984 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert with 51-200 employees
In my company we work with many BI tools from different vendors, from SAP and Oracle to Pentaho and Qlikview. View full review »
it_user752142 - PeerSpot reviewer
Board of Management with 501-1,000 employees

At that time, we already had BusinessObjects as a BI tool in our bank, with SAP Crystal Reports, for example, as a part of BusinessObjects. At that time, in the market, there were no alternatives in this respect, so our choice was very precise because already we used this tool and we decided to buy it.

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it_user348648 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use QlikView and Oracle BI, but the productivity-to-cost ratio is much higher with QlikView.

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it_user155814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Tableau

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it_user858876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architecture & Business Analyst - Analytics at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and QlikView, and we decided on Qlik. That was five years ago.

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it_user213993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst Control and Monitoring at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not evaluated any different solution. I´ve always worked with QlikView since I´ve been at my company.

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it_user164442 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Data Engineering at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Yes. SAP BOBJ

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it_user388488 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees

All proof of concepts used trials and it's not easy to buy a specific product for the government, so the management decision was to apply to an on going acquisition process where the product was already chosen. Two other options were Tableau and Infogram.

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it_user86037 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are currently using two different BI solutions for our customers: Business Objects and QlikView.

QlikView lets our customers develop data analysis projects independently with a little initial training.

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