QlikView vs TIBCO Spotfire comparison

The compared Qlik and TIBCO solutions aren't in the same category. Qlik is ranked #5 in RT , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 3.3% mindshare in the category. TIBCO is ranked #14 in BIT , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

QlikView

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92% willing to recommend

TIBCO Spotfire

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1,401 Views
1,020 Comparison Views

96% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between QlikView and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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

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QlikView vs. TIBCO Spotfire

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

QlikView

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

161

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (5th), Embedded BI (4th)

TIBCO Spotfire

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (14th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. QlikView is designed for Reporting and holds a mindshare of 3.3%, up 3.2% compared to last year.
TIBCO Spotfire, on the other hand, focuses on BI (Business Intelligence) Tools, holds 1.1% mindshare, down 1.2% since last year.

Reporting

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Q&A Highlights

Michael Roytman, MBA Global Management

Senior Enterprise Architect at Vertex Inc.

May 08, 2015

What's your experience or opinion about Spotfire vs. Tableau vs. Qlik?

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Featured Reviews

Arjun Meda

Assistant Vice President at HSBC India

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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Mohsin Pathan

Associate Vice President - Solutions, presales & services at Bahwan CyberTek

Flexible, offers a single pane of glass, and is highly customizable

There's one area I see that specifically needs improvement. That is when you do the data loading. It is slow. For historical data, when you talk about gigabytes of data, terabytes of data, then it becomes prolonged. Loading could be improved. That's one part. That is actually there with every tool. I would not say that this is a specific problem with Spotfire. However, it is a problem with all the BI tools. That is one area which can be improved. When you are doing analytics, you see that the value has to come perfect. There was a missing feature of alerting out of the box within Spotfire. However, they have released this in version 12.

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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

"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."

"QlikView is an excellent tool, though expensive compared to other BI tools, it provides ETL capability allowing the building of a complete data warehouse within Qlik Sense."

"The initial setup is not very complex."

"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."

"The search feature: ability to see the related data."

"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."

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

"Easy to analyze data by click-through."

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"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."

"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."

"It's scalable."

"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."

"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."

"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."

"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."

"The flexibility, data preparation, and data wrangling abilities of the platform are exceptional."

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Cons

"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."

"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."

"The product's visual capabilities could be improved. The graphs and visualizations are not as aesthetic or easy to create."

"Error handling."

"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."

"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."

"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."

"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."

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"Print capability and trigger-based events."

"The design of the UI could be improved."

"The solution might be generic."

"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."

"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."

"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."

"When you do the data loading, it is slow."

"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It is expensive for small companies."

"My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly."

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

"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."

"Its licensing costs are moderate, but it can get expensive due to the numerous add-ons available like those for printing."

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

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

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"The ROI is nearly impossible to calculate."

"The pricing seems competitive and reasonable. The value delivered by the product far exceeds the cost."

"The solution is affordable one."

"The price-point for this solution is negotiable depending on usage levels."

"The cost of TIBCO Spotfire could improve. It should be less expensive. It's the most expensive visualization tool in our company."

"I would describe TIBCO Spotfire as an averagely-priced product."

"In comparison to other solutions such as IBM Cognos, TIBCO Spotfire is more affordable."

"The cost is a few hundred dollars per user per year."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

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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Answers from the Community

Michael Roytman, MBA Global Management

Senior Enterprise Architect at Vertex Inc.

May 8, 2015

What's your experience or opinion about Spotfire vs. Tableau vs. Qlik?

If you want real world proof. Have a bake off or POC with a real world set of criteria: 4 or more data sources, 100M or more records and mobile, etc. You'll be glad that you did!

2 out of 26 answers

it_user89001

Works

Mar 5, 2015

Each of these DV providers have a strong offering but subltle differentiators: Tableau is your general purpose BI tool-great visuals and user friendly UI. Spotfire is geared more towards the data scientist and incorporates more statistical analysis functions. Qlik excels at reporting and their data association model. Excuse the shameless self-promotion but If you are interested in unique capabilities like connecting to real time streaming data sources and/or semi/un structured data for more sophisticated analysis, I’d recommend also taking a look at Datawatch.

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it_user168912

Works

Mar 5, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Energy/Utilities Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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?

Qlik Sense's licensing metrics are flexible. They provide packages based on needs, like named licenses, developer licenses, or shared pool licenses. There is also a core-based license option for or...

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

QlikView lacks self-service capabilities, which means users depend on the IT team to make changes. Qlik Sense offers a more modern approach with self-service features, allowing users to build dashb...

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What do you like most about TIBCO Spotfire?

TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Spotfire?

Compared to other tools, Spotfire's pricing is competitive, especially with its enterprise licensing.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Spotfire?

Spotfire requires better documentation. Unlike competitors like Power BI and Tableau, Spotfire lacks comprehensive metadata dictionaries. This makes it difficult to generate usage metrics, which ar...

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Overview

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.

Qlik

TIBCO Spotfire is a versatile data analytics platform that can handle large datasets and be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Its dynamic reporting, easy creation of dynamic dashboards, and highly customizable tool make it a valuable asset for process data analysis, industrial performance dashboards, problem root cause analysis, business intelligence, and real-time analytics for IoT devices in the energy sector.

The solution also offers data science functions, map visuals, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas. Spotfire has helped organizations deliver projects more efficiently and cost-effectively, allowing for faster data analysis.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

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

Allergan, ASSS de Montreal, Avantium, Blue River, Bank of Montreal, Citibank, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Merck, Novartis

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