IBM Cloud Pak for Data vs Qlik Compose comparison

IBM and Qlik are both solutions in the Data Integration category. IBM is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.3, while Qlik is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.9. IBM holds a 1.7% mindshare in DI, compared to Qlik’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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81% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Qlik Compose based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Ranking in Data Integration

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Virtualization (3rd)

Qlik Compose

Ranking in Data Integration

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of IBM Cloud Pak for Data is 1.7%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qlik Compose is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Murali B

Associate Manager at Ernst & Young

Jul 12, 2024

Provides IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines, but catalog searching needs to be improved

If people are with the existing stuff, I would definitely suggest they go with IBM Cloud Pak for Data. I usually recommend the solution for the financial sector, where I worked for about ten years. I worked with IBM for almost eight years. Unless they want to migrate to a new product completely, I recommend IBM Cloud Pak for Data to explore current business. It is easy to integrate the tool with other solutions. Except for metadata queries, metadata validations, and metadata integrations, I don't see any issues with the solution. I would recommend the solution to other users if it supports their existing infrastructure. Some people don't want to put their data in the cloud because they are concerned about how the data is secured with encryption and decryption. For such cases, we have listed out all the pros and cons of the solution to suggest them to users. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Sahil Taneja

Principal Consultant/Manager at Tenzing

May 5, 2023

Easy matching and reconciliation of data

The initial setup was easy for the data warehousing concept. But for a person who is new to ETL and warehousing concepts, it may take some time. If someone is familiar with these concepts, they could understand and learn the tool quickly. However, compared to other tools, the UI is complex. It would be helpful to have a better UI and documentation for new users. As of now, there is a challenge in learning the Compose tool for new users altogether. Qlik Compose was deployed on-premises. But the servers, like the SQL servers were maintained on the cloud—the managed instances.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources."

"Cloud Pak's most valuable features are IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, IBM API Connect, and ISPF."

"The most valuable features are data virtualization and reporting."

"The most valuable features of IBM Cloud Pak for Data are the Watson Studio, where we can initiate more groups and write code. Additionally, Watson Machine Learning is available with many other services, such as APIs which you can plug the machine learning models."

"You can model the data there, connect the data models with the business processes and create data lineage processes."

"What I found most helpful in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is containerization, which means it's easy to shift and leave in terms of moving to other clouds. That's an advantage of IBM Cloud Pak for Data."

"It is a scalable solution, and we have had no issues with its scalability in our company. I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten."

"IBM Watson Catalog and data pipelines are the most valuable features of the solution."

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"The technical support is very good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."

"As long as you pick the solution that best fits with your requirements, you won't find that performance is a problem. It's good."

"I have found it to be a very good, stable, and strong product."

"The most valuable is its excellence as a graphical data representation tool and the versatility it offers, especially with drill-down capabilities."

"Qlik Compose is good enough. It is user-friendly and intuitive."

"One of the most valuable features of this tool is its automation capabilities, allowing us to design the warehouse in an automated manner. Additionally, we can generate Data Lifecycle Policies (DLP) reports and efficiently implement updates and best practices based on proven design patterns."

"One of the most valuable features was the ability to integrate multiple source systems that mainly used structured IDBMS versions."

"It's a stable solution."

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Cons

"The product must improve its performance."

"The technical support could be a little better."

"Cloud Pak would be improved with integration with cloud service providers like Cloudera."

"The solution could have more connectors."

"The interface could improve because sometimes it becomes slow. Sometimes there is a delay between clicks when using the software, which can make the development process slow. It can take a few seconds to complete one action, and then a few more seconds to do the next one."

"One challenge I'm facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my company has around one hundred thousand mappings, so my team has been putting more effort into alternative ways to do things. Another area for improvement in IBM Cloud Pak for Data is that it's more complicated to shift from on-premise to the cloud. Other vendors provide secure agents that easily connect with your existing setup. Still, with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you have to perform connection migration steps, upgrade to the latest version, etc., which makes it more complicated, especially as my company has XML-based mappings. Still, the XML input and output capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Data have been discontinued, so I'd like IBM to bring that back."

"The solution's user experience is an area that has room for improvement."

"There is a solution that is part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data called Watson OpenScale. It is used to monitor the deployed models for the quality and fairness of the results. This is one area that needs a lot of improvement."

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"For more complex work, we are not using Qlik Compose because it cannot handle very high volumes at the moment. It needs the same batching capabilities that other ETL tools have. We can't batch the data into small chunks when transforming large amounts of data. It tries to do everything in one shot and that's where it fails."

"There is some scope for improvement around the documentation, and a better UI would definitely help."

"I'd like to have access to more developer training materials."

"There could be more customization options."

"I believe that visual data flow management and the transformation function should be improved."

"My issues with the solution's stability are owing to the fact that it has certain bugs causing issues in some functionalities that should be working."

"There should be proper documentation available for the implementation process."

"The solution has room for improvement in the ETL. They have an ETL, but when it comes to the monitoring portion, Qlik Compose doesn't provide a feature for monitoring."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the licensing of the solution, there is a yearly payment that needs to be made. Also, since it is expensive, cost-wise, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten."

"The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors."

"I don't have the exact licensing cost for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, as my company is still finalizing requirements, including monthly, yearly, and three-year licensing fees. Still, on a scale of one to five, I'd rate it a three because, compared to other vendors, it's more complicated."

"Cloud Pak's cost is a little high."

"The solution is expensive."

"IBM Cloud Pak for Data is expensive. If we include the training time and the machine learning, it's expensive. The cost of the execution is more reasonable."

"I think that this product is too expensive for smaller companies."

"It's quite expensive."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive, I rate the solution a six."

"While they outperform Tableau, there's room for improvement in Qlik's pricing structures, especially for corporate clients like us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

DataStage allows me to connect to different data sources.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

The solution's pricing is competitive with that of other vendors. The pricing also depends on the number of users.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud Pak for Data?

Previously, we used to extract the information in the DSX and the XML formats. IBM Cloud Pak for Data exports information mostly on the ISX, which is an encrypted format. The only challenge with th...

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Which ETL tool would you recommend to populate data from OLTP to OLAP?

There are two products I know about * TimeXtender : Microsoft based, Transformation logic is quiet good and can easily be extended with T-SQL , Has a semantic layer that generates metat data for cu...

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What do you like most about Qlik Compose?

The most valuable is its excellence as a graphical data representation tool and the versatility it offers, especially with drill-down capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qlik Compose?

While they outperform Tableau, there's room for improvement in Qlik's pricing structures, especially for corporate clients like us.

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Overview

IBM Cloud Pak® for Data is a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data to infuse AI throughout their organizations. Cloud-native by design, the platform unifies market-leading services spanning the entire analytics lifecycle. From data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data helps eliminate the need for costly, and often competing, point solutions while providing the information architecture you need to implement AI successfully.

Building on the streamlined hybrid-cloud foundation of Red Hat® OpenShift®, IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes advantage of the underlying resource and infrastructure optimization and management. The solution fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private cloud deployments. Find out how IBM Cloud Pak for Data can lower your total cost of ownership and accelerate innovation.

Qlik Sense is a powerful business intelligence tool that offers a range of features to help organizations make faster and more informed decisions. Its primary use cases include operational and financial dashboards, self-service reporting, and centralized access to cross-functional reports. The solution is praised for its mobile platform, ease of use, data-sharing capabilities, and extensibility.

Qlik Sense has helped organizations improve data literacy, reduce time consumed in complex reports, and provide widely available MI to senior stakeholders. It also enables self-service analytics, improves data quality and governance, enhances collaboration, and reduces costs.

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