We performed a comparison between Board and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."A lot of flexibility from the data modeling standpoint. It can add specific line items into our budget, for example, or if we want to make changes to the data model itself, we have that flexibility."
"Our clients have improved a lot in terms of coordination and communication. This has improved their internal performance."
"It has a good set of visual elements that you can use and can explain quite well."
"Now, we have only one version of the truth."
"The ability to create a data model and have it in testing within a week is fantastic."
"The tool seems to have a lot of ways to handle scaling."
"The benefits are getting the data in one spot, the ability to report dynamically, and version control."
"The drill down is good for people who have that high level view, because they can do some analysis based on it."
"Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the UI point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that."
"Leveraging and reusability of already existing QlikView assets and knowledge."
"Qlik Sense is essentially a web-based tool even though it's on-prem – you're working off an HTML page – so it's pretty quick. Your processing speed does not matter because you're using a lot of stuff through the web. That's great because it brings down the cost in regards to hardware."
"The Qlik Sense cloud insights advisor helps our business users to get the answers to their data questions so that they do not have to rely on IT/BI resources every time they have some data request."
"The integration with R & Python for predictive modeling, and possibly machine learning in the future, is very valuable."
"All the visualizations have been so valuable."
"This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers."
"Qlik Sense makes it very easy to build interactive presentations for meetings."
"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."
"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."
"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."
"I'd like to see a more passive report user for enterprise report writers that aren't particularly technical."
"One of the things that I would like to see is the ability to have a rule directly referenced on the cubes."
"It would be nice to be able to host your site and actually have BOARD be the driver of your site. So you could have anybody in your organization go to www.myorg.com, for example, and then go through what you allow them to go through. So rather than having to go through the application, to be able to go to actually host it to a website."
"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."
"The initial setup was very complex for us."
"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."
"We have faced some issues with NPrinting, so I feel there is some improvement needed such that it would allow the use of variables and calculative fields from Qlik."
"Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application."
"Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal."
"If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it."
"Multi-server deployment: not just cloud, but on premise too, and hybrid. Needs lighter protocols to communicate between the different services and with the clients."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups."
Board is ranked 23rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 35 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews. Board is rated 8.6, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Board writes "A stable solution with good user-experience, easy deployment but needs some improvement with engine ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Board is most compared with Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Hyperion and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx. See our Board vs. Qlik Sense report.
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