Qlik Sense and Pyramid Analytics compete in the business intelligence tools category. Qlik Sense appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced data profiling and user-friendly interface, while Pyramid Analytics excels with its DAX query support and customization capabilities.
Features: Qlik Sense provides advanced data profiling, powerful data preparation, and intuitive drag-and-drop capabilities, facilitating quick visualization without coding. Its associative engine allows for flexible and user-driven data exploration. Pyramid Analytics is recognized for robust DAX query support, enabling complex data analysis. It offers innovative features like 'swapping' for rapid column-row adjustments and caters to users requiring detailed data customization.
Room for Improvement: Qlik Sense users highlight the need for improved data handling, better integration tools, and reduced technical skill demands, especially for set analysis. Enhancing visualization customization, simplifying the interface, and addressing performance issues are also suggested. Pyramid Analytics users mention a steep learning curve, requesting more intuitive interfaces and better documentation. Improvements could include streamlining data connections and augmenting reporting formats.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qlik Sense supports multiple deployment options, including on-premises and private cloud, with generally positive feedback on flexibility. While its community support is strong, direct technical assistance can be frustrating for some users. Pyramid Analytics offers similar adaptability, including hybrid and public cloud options, with favorable technical support ratings. However, users note needs for improvements in customer service responsiveness, particularly during onboarding and training.
Pricing and ROI: Qlik Sense is perceived as expensive but justified by its features and rapid ROI due to quick adoption. It employs a licensing model based on enterprise needs, often starting with trials before scaling. Pyramid Analytics is similarly seen as reasonably priced, suitable for larger organizations, with moderate initial costs and an accessible pricing structure, offering ROI through streamlined processes.
The BI Office from Pyramid Analytics is a web-based governed data discovery and analytics platform. It integrates the four principal functions of any comprehensive BI strategy into a single, seamless application. Users can now analyze, present, report and predict on their data in a single application. Pyramid Analytics has native apps to cover the entire mobile spectrum, iOS, Android and Windows. With BI Office users can integrate SAP data with data from other sources giving them the right tools and better data to make data-driven decisions.
Qlik Sense is a visual analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform that gives users full control over their system’s data. From this platform they can control every aspect of their system data. It maximizes an organization’s ability to make decisions driven by their data.
Benefits of Qlik Sense
Some of the benefits of using Qlik Sense include:
Reviews from Real Users
Qlik Sense stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its associative analytics technology and its remote access capability. Qlik Sense employs an associative analytics engine that gives users the ability to take their data analytics to the next level. Users can create visual connections between different datasets spread across their network, creating deep insights that enable users to gain a full understanding of their data. This engine is easily scaled up to allow a large number of users to benefit from the deep insights that it provides. Users can access Qlik Sense from anywhere in the world. Qlik Sense has an online portal that can be used consistently from anywhere at all. Having the ability to remotely analyze data gives users flexibility when it comes to choosing how to deploy their manpower.
Jarno L., the managing director of B2IT, writes, “The associative technology features are the solution's most valuable aspects. 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 user interface 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.”
Tami S., the senior business intelligence analyst at the La Jolla Group, writes, “With the changing business landscape, it is nice to access Qlik Sense through an external website. As an organization when we use QlikView Desktop, we need to connect to our internal network. We can access QlikView through the QlikView access point but the website has a little different look and feel than the desktop application. We appreciate that Qlik Sense is browser-based and the user experience is the same whether at home, in the office or on a boat. As long as the user has internet access, performance is the same.”
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