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Director of Development at Strat-Wise Consulting
Consultant
Top 5Leaderboard
Very intuitive to business users and executives
Pros and Cons
  • "On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."
  • "If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."

I do use both Tableau and QlikView. Although very different, I really like both solutions. They belong to the new BI generation known as Interactive Visual Analytics.

In my opinion, QlikView has a more intuitive interface for regular users or executives that are not technical experts but the development side is a little more complex. Up to version 12 QlikView did not provide drag & drop features.

If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlikview's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve.

On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL allowing the integration of hundreds of different data sources into the same visual app.

Another feature that’s extremely useful is Qlik’s proprietary Associative Model that allows the users to visualize data relationships that exist as well as those that do not.

Tableau on the other hand is a lot easier to use for developers, analysts or power users who need to connect, manipulate and visualize data rather quickly. While this makes Tableau a better fit for the more analytical crowd, it may not be as appealing or intuitive to the regular or casual business users as QlikView is.

Tableau has full pivot, drag & drop and drill down capabilities that are great for developers or power users. They can rotate measures and dimensions and graph them instantly using visualization best practices as suggested by the "show-me" feature.

Tableau’s provides a forecasting function and the capability to connect with the open source statistical program R to include predictive modeling.

Tableau includes a Data Interpreter that makes data cleansing, column splitting and crosstab pivoting very intuitive. Tableau’s latest versions allow joining tables from different data bases and have included the hyper data engine that provides 5 times faster query speeds.

The latest version includes "relationships" with an algorithm that makes
the necessary data connections automatically with no need to perform joins or add Level of Detail scripts (LOD) to eliminate duplicates. However one can still create joins to override relationships if for some reason it was necessary.

Also when opening older files containing joins they are kept under a
"migrated data base" or the migrated joins can be deleted to be replaced with simpler automatic relationships.  Tableau releases updated versions once a quarter.

Both Tableau and Qlik continue to be excellent. They are positioned at the top of the leader's quadrant in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant report for BI and Analytics platforms. 

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In my experience the choice depends on the fit with the company culture and the users' profile.

Qlik introduction of their new platform called “Qlik Sense” provides intuitive drag & drop functionality to create visualizations. At this point Qlik Sense Desktop is free for personal and small group of cloud business users that need to easily develop analytic applications on their own - with virtually no IT intervention.

Recently Tableau has moved to a subscription based model but still offers free products: Tableau Public and Tableau Reader to ease the user entry process.

It certainly seems like Qlik Sense is an attempt to regain some of the impressive growth Tableau has enjoyed during the last few years playing in the truly self-service visual BI segment.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Qlik Questions

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot
Nov 20 2024

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot
Nov 20 2024

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Nov 20 2024

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Qlik Replicate.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Nov 20 2024

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Qlik Replicate, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot
Nov 11 2024

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot
Nov 11 2024

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with QlikView.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot
Nov 11 2024

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Nov 11 2024

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering QlikView, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Aug 29 2024

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Qlik Sense, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Aug 29 2024

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Aug 29 2024

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Qlik Sense.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot
Aug 29 2024

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Qlik Replicate?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about QlikView?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Qlik Sense?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Qlik Compose.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Qlik Compose?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Qlik Compose, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Qlik Analytics Platform?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Qlik Analytics Platform.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Qlik Analytics Platform, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Dawn Fenstermacher - PeerSpot reviewer
Dawn Fenstermacher
Director Business Intelligence at J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.
Hello community, I am in search of a Business Intelligence solution - defined as near real-time operational reporting, ad-hoc reporting, analytics, and insights. Data & Analytics platforms seem to fall short on reporting. Can anyone speak to their experience with Qlik Sense as a BI platform...
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Wiboon Thabsuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Wiboon ThabsuwanWhat do you want for reporting reasons must be the starting point? And if you… more »
Mogle - PeerSpot reviewer
Mogle I have been impressed by Northcraft Analytics. Their technology is based on MS… more »
5 Answers
Romin Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Romin Singh
Research Lead at Evalueserve

Hello peers, 

I am a Research Lead at a medium-sized company. I am currently researching Data Visualization tools.

Which solution do you prefer: Tableau, Qlik Sense, Amazon QuickSight, or Looker?

Thank you for your help.

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Julia Miller
PeerSpot

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Hi Everyone,

What do you like most about Qlik Gold Client?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with the community!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Hi,

We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.

Please share what you can so you can help your peers.

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

Please share with the community what you think needs improvement with Qlik Gold Client.

What are its weaknesses? What would you like to see changed in a future version?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
Miriam Tover
Senior Delivery Ops Manager
PeerSpot

If you were talking to someone whose organization is considering Qlik Gold Client, what would you say?

How would you rate it and why? Any other tips or advice?

Sreekumar MP - PeerSpot reviewer
Sreekumar MP
Works at NTT Security
Hi peers, We're facing an issue while connecting Qlik Sense with ServiceNow.  At the moment, we're managing it as follows: by pulling the data from ServiceNow and storing it in an on-premise database. Then, Qlik Sense is using the on-premise database as a source. Can you ...
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it_user177480 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst with 501-1,000 employees
Good morning,My name is Robert Berkman, and I am co-editor of The Information Advisor's Guide to Internet Research, a monthly international journal for business researchers such as corporate librarians and market researchers. We provide sources and strategies for conducting effective business res...
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it_user148668 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user148668I work in the area of data analytics and data management from a solutions… more »
9 Answers
it_user578397 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 10,001+ employees
We are looking to replace our ad hoc reporting capabilities that we currently do with MainFrame Focus (not WebFocus!) with the more modern QlikView product.   We are creating a Pros and Cons list for QlikView, but I'd also like to hear from anyone who may have gone ...
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it_user580422 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user580422With regards to your question....replacing an your current adhoc reporting… more »
it_user580332 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user580332If you ar planning to use QlikView for ad hoc reports I suggests the following… more »
it_user3996 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user3996Keep in mind that the FOCUS language has full application development… more »
19 Answers
Michael Roytman, MBA Global Management - PeerSpot reviewer
Michael Roytman, MBA Global Management
Senior Enterprise Architect at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has anyone done a comparison of capabilities among Tibco Spotfire, Tableau and Qlik?

If so, what did you learn? What's your opinion about these solutions?

Avigail Sugarman - PeerSpot reviewer
Avigail Sugarman
Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
He wrote: "Seems like all of them have pros/cons. Tableau won in my mind but PowerView is brand new, its integrated with Sharepoint (if you're running SSRS 2012 in Sharepoint) and is of course free for the Excel version." Do you agree with this analysis? See full comment at http://...
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it_user145524 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I currently use Panorama Necto as an OLAP Viewer on a SQL Analyis services cube, Panorama offers a good solution but I was wondering what other products where available?I noticed Qlikview and Tableau are high on Gartner's magic quadrant but I understand these are complete solution...
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it_user99264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Knowledge & Insights at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I am really confused about the main differences between Qlikview and Tablaeu. I've read many blogs and I still have some questions. From what I've read, some users prefer QlikView while others prefer Tableau. So my question still remains – which one is better?When people say that QlikView has ...
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it_user88872 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user88872Dear Sir Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire,... are all front end tools which replace… more »
36 Answers
Avigail Sugarman - PeerSpot reviewer
Avigail Sugarman
Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

What are your experiences with these solutions? How do they compare to other solutions? Pros and Cons?

it_user78792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm currently evaluating Qlikview and Spotfire. I'm running a real scenario to determine which one gives me a faster, better and more manageable solution which is also adaptable. If anyone can share any information about these solutions compared to each other, it will be very helpful.My main ques...
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it_user110916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I'm looking into implementing QlikView and need to know if it meets my requirements. My requirements are: IT User Requirements Meta data - the setup should be easy and easy to maintain. Security - The security should link to Window's AD (Active Domain) and the security setting in BI tool sh...
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it_user100164 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I would like to see a comparison by experienced users between Tableau and QlikView. 

On top of functionality and technical features please refer also to pricing schemes.

Is one better than the other?

Ariel Lindenfeld - PeerSpot reviewer
Ariel Lindenfeld
Sr. Director of Community
PeerSpot