Knowage vs QlikView comparison

Knowage and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Knowage is ranked #25, while Qlik is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Knowage holds a 1.0% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Knowage users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

QlikView and Knowage are key competitors in the business intelligence domain. QlikView is favored for its advanced data modeling and rapid exploration capabilities, while Knowage offers cost-effective flexibility with open-source advantages.

Features: QlikView provides rapid performance, set analysis functionality, and intuitive data exploration with its associative model. In contrast, Knowage offers open-source benefits, Community support, and effective integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: QlikView could enhance its visualization options and UX design. Knowage might benefit from improving user interface elements, comprehensive documentation, and smoother integration functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: QlikView supports both on-premises and cloud deployments with robust support. Knowage emphasizes on-premises deployment with community support, lacking extensive enterprise-level assistance.

Pricing and ROI: QlikView's premium pricing offers strong ROI in enterprise settings, while Knowage attracts smaller organizations with its cost-effective open-source model, eliminating initial licensing expenses.

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Categories and Ranking

Knowage

Ranking in Reporting

25th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (34th)

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

162

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Knowage is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 4.4%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
QlikView	4.4%
Knowage	1.0%
Other	94.6%

Reporting

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AbdulshukoorMohammed

General Manager Information Technology & Enterprise Applications Manager at OXFORD HOLDING

Easy to customize, cross-platform capable, and very stable

The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills. When we come to the integration with the single sign-on facilities, that part is very challenging. In Power BI and other tools, it's very easy to integrate with active directory and single sign-on, and identity management is very easy in other business intelligence tools. However, when it comes to Knowage, it's a bit heavy, it's time-consuming sometimes, it's not very fast, and definitely not as fast as other business intelligence tools in terms of getting graphical reports. The solution could be cheaper.

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Arjun Meda

Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Useful for data visualization and business intelligence

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time. 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. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution. Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.

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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

"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."

"The embedding feature is great."

"We can easily do our own customizations."

"I can't name the features the way the Knowage community calls them because I still don't know the lingo. However, I can describe them. I like the ability to join more than one report, set all fields on one end, and replicate that on the other reports. I like that a lot. I think it's one of the features that got me using Knowage. They have tables, and I like that too. They took SQL scripts and many other scripts and enabled them to even correlate with Python. That's also one of the best things about Knowage. You could also decide to get information per user role, and this is also a feature that I like in Knowage."

"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."

"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."

"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."

"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."

"It's pretty easy to deploy."

"QlikView is extremely flexible in terms of visualization tools for communicating complex data insights."

"The user interface and dashboards are very good."

"Easy to analyze data by click-through."

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Cons

"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."

"It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products."

"The dashboard components could be better."

"The only challenge here is that it's a Java-based platform. It requires very high technical skills."

"QlikView is probably on the pricier side than other BI tools."

"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."

"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."

"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."

"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."

"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."

"The tool is expensive in Turkey."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."

"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

"It is quite expensive, rating at around nine out of ten on a cost scale."

"It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market."

"The platform's pricing is considered quite expensive, particularly given the dollar-based pricing."

"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."

"I rate QlikView's pricing a five out of ten."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."

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Comparison Review

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Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

13%

Hospitality Company

13%

Insurance Company

Marketing Services Firm

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	75

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually, and since we are South African-based, that needs to be multiplied.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competitive with Power BI, aiming for at least a 30% reduction to stop the hemorrhaging t...

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Also Known As

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Overview

Knowage (formerly SpagoBI) has a 14-years history. The actual release is the 6.3.

Knowage offers FULL ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES, with a special focus on big data analytics and comprehensive support to rich and multi-source data analysis. Knowage provides different modules, each one focused on a specific domain but mutually combinable (Big Data, Smart Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting, Location Intelligence, Performance Management, Predictive Analysis). Moreover, Knowage is an OPEN SOURCE solution: the source code is freely accessible, everyone is allowed to join the community and build the own business solution to ensure strategic decision-making and improved productivity.

Knowage suite is supported by Engineering Group, the leading Italian software and services company, with about 10,000 people and more than 50 offices worldwide. Maintenance and support services (such as trainings, migration support, proof-of-concepts, etc) are provided by Engineering Group (KNOWAGE Labs) under subscription.

Knowage

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

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Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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