Qlik view vs. tableau report from it central station 2016 01 04

User Reviews of QlikView
and Tableau
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QlikView Tableau
Vendor: QlikView Tableau
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.
Tableau is a BI-focused software company that
produces a wide range of interactive visualization
tools that help businesses analyze large
quantities of data in a quick, intuitive, and user-
friendly way.
Sample
Customers:
Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila,
Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail
Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo
Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.
Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of
America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-
Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte,
Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae,
Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs,
Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York
Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force,
Skype, and Walmart.
Pricing
Information:
Personal Edition - This is for a single user only
to input and access data indiscriminately.
Free
Named User License - This allows you to
connect as many individual users as you like to
the network.
$1350 USD/user
Document License - This allows one named
user to access one document.
$350 USD/name used, per document
Concurrent License - This license allows
multiple users to access the information.
$15000 USD/concurrent user
Tableau features five major products, each with
its own pricing solution.
Tableau Desktop- : - A drag-and-drop desktop
program that allows users to quickly analyze,
sort, and visualize big data in record time.
(Pricing: Professional edition - $1,999 per user,
first year; $399 per year thereafter. Personal
edition - $999 per user, first year; $199 per year
thereafter)
Tableau Server: - Browser-based analytics with
an interactive dashboard. Sharable, usable BI
available for desktop and mobile use.
Tableau Online: - The hosted version of
Tableau Server, enabling users to share live,
interactive dashboards within the company as
well as with partners and customers. (Pricing:
$500-$1,000 per user, per year)
Tableau Reader: - A free PC app that enables
sharing of data visualization created with
Tableau Desktop. (Pricing: Free)

Pricing
Information:
Tableau Public: - Website enhancement with
interactive data storytelling. No programming
necessary to create, publish, or share
visualizations. (Pricing: Free)
Top
Comparisons:*
Tableau vs. QlikView:
Compared 11% of the time.
Microsoft BI Stack vs. QlikView:
Oracle OBIEE vs. QlikView:
SAS Visual Analytics vs. Tableau:
Oracle OBIEE vs. Tableau:
QlikView vs. Tableau:
Top Industries:* Financial Services Firm
Manufacturing Company
Transportation Company
Media Company
18%
8%
7%
7%
Financial Services Firm
Manufacturing Company
Healthcare Company
Energy/Utilities Company
18%
7%
6%
6%
Company Size:* 1-100 Employees
100-1000 Employees
1000+ Employees
36%
25%
39%
1-100 Employees
100-1000 Employees
1000+ Employees
35%
21%
45%
* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of IT Central Station Users researching this solution.

Deep Dive: Valuable Features
QlikView Tableau
Pablo Parnisari, BI Expert at a tech services company
with 1-100 employees:
As a BI professional sometimes you have to
tackle projects with poor or no documentation at
all, just the datasources and some vague
requirements. In QlikView it is quite easy build
up a first data model (dimensional or not) and
use the first stage to understand the entities and
relations between it and the business. From
there you can explore the business, understand
the users real requirements and needs and
improve the model with a few changes, without
much effort. This is because Qlikview has a very
flexible and short cycle of development in each
iteration. For the user QlikView is a wonderful
tool of data discovery, providing powerful tools
to navigate easily between a sea of data in an
intuitive, easy, and clear way, allowing them
to go from facts to KPI and vice versa.
Erin Dettrey, Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a
healthcare company with 1-100 employees:
KPI's Dashboard creation
BIExpert221, BI Expert at a financial services firm with
100-1000 employees:
Extraordinary ease of use, easier to use than
any competitor product I’ve used in 15 years or
so I’ve worked on MI/BI. Since I originally wrote
this, I have found the mapping on Tableau has
been extremely useful and easy to use,
particularly that it includes very good geocoding
for the UK.
BIAnalyst885, Business Intelligence Analyst at a
It is very powerful Flexibility

Jhornber, BI Expert at a leisure / travel company with
1000+ employees:
1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time to
learn, but it is quite powerful. Not as a total ETL
replacement tool necessarily, but as a
supplement to load and join data sources, and
perform additional transformations. I've
combined as many as a half dozen data sources
including data from multiple SQL Data Marts,
Source System DBs, XLS, CSV, and Google Big
Query. 2. Design Flexibility - While other
products may do drag and drop, ad-hoc
analytics better. (Including Tableau, and Qlik's
new product QlikSense) I've not come across
one that better supports the creation of a
polished, packaged, custom dashboard, that
supports what I'd consider "guided exploration",
and best meets the needs of our user base. The
customization can be taken even further through
in-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g.
Custom D3 Visualizations).
SAPSpecialist189, SAP Application Specialist at a
comms service provider with 100-1000 employees:
It produces reports quickly.
Ed Dallal, Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) &
President at a software R&D company with 1-100
employees:
Ease of use Implementation Processing speed
GP Nath, Lead Technical at a comms service provider with
1000+ employees:
Amazing performance Easy to use self service
Extremely powerful for data analysis
Larry Keller, CEO at a tech consulting company with
1000+ employees:
Data Preparation - This is a huge plus for
Tableau as so many users have to spend time
preparing the data before using Tableau Data
Interpreter Splits - Really helps the
average user Drag and drop analytics:
Tableau 9.0 has a new Analytics pane that
provides quick and easy access to common
analytic features in Tableau. You can drag
reference lines, forecasts, trend lines, and other
objects into your view from the Analytics panel.
It is now easy to edit, format, and remove the
analytic items that you have added, so you can
experiment with different techniques as you
explore the insights your data has to offer.
Ad--‐hoc calculations: Ad--‐hoc calculations
make it easy to add and edit calculated fields for
your analysis. Double--‐click an existing field on
the Rows, Columns, Marks, or Measure Values
shelf to begin editing, or double-click an empty
area on a shelf to create a new calculation. As
you type, a list of auto--‐complete options
appears in a dropdown list, making it easier to
find and pick the right elements. Instant
analytics: Instant analytics provides an
interactive experience for comparing summary
information about a subset of marks to all the
marks in your view.

AssociateDir223, Associate Director at a consultancy with
1000+ employees:
Relationship based data modelling Flexible
charting
Guilherme Yoshikazu Saito Machado, BI Analyst at a
manufacturing company with 100-1000 employees:
Integrated ETL In-memory data QlikView
Management Console Front-end design.
Marco Casalino, Consulting Manager at a consultancy
Fast access to data Rapid development Rich
graphic interface
1000+ employees:
For example, you can compare the average for a
few marks to the average for all the marks. After
you’ve added trend lines, reference lines,
reference bands, or distribution bands to your
view, select one or more marks to see the new
analytical indicators appear for the selection in
addition to the analytical indicators for the whole
view. Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions: New
expression syntax in the Tableau calculation
language lets you quickly create calculated
fields that compute at the specified levels of
detail. LOD calculations help you compute at
multiple levels of aggregation and make it easier
to create fields for analytical comparison (such
as cohort analysis and totals or Average across
segments), simplifying calculations that
previously took several steps.
Andreas Demetriou Pompatzis, Web Administrator at a
retailer with 1000+ employees:
Ease of data visualization Ease of dashboard
creation Ease of dashboard sharing
employees:
Rich graphics Dashboard
Pylot539, Senior BI Architect at a tech services company
It has ease-of-use features that make it a good
data discovery tool for use with our clients.
Additionally, the ability to rapidly mine data and
visualize data issues for clients is valuable.

Analyst220, Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financial
services firm with 1000+ employees:
All the features are valuable.
Jake Edward Ronay, Business Consultant at a
consultancy with 1-100 employees:
For both Tableau Public and Desktop, the ability
to quickly pull together data sources into a
meaningful (visual) display. Also, the intuitive
design and ability to work with increasingly large
and real-time data sets.
Jonathan Friesen, User at a energy/utilities company with
1000+ employees:
Easily visualize data.

Deep Dive: Room for Improvement
QlikView Tableau
It is well know that the ETL is quite far away
from leading products like Data Stagem
Informatica and others. Currently Qliktech is
working on this problem with Expressor, a
powerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area is
the licensing scheme, which leaves out many
SMO. To remedy this and try to stop the
eruption of third parties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTech
launched Qlik Sense, although the future
is unclear and there may be a possible merge of
the two branches (Qlik Sense + QlikView).
Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves the
development of new graphic charts to the
community with mixed results.
Online education, but they are revamping.
100-1000 employees:
Expansion of number of visualisations, as well
as potential for straight to dashboard function,
rather than design individual visualisation –
these are, however, genuinely not priority to
amend.
BIAnalyst885, Business Intelligence Analyst at a
Minor issues only. My biggest one is control
over the order in which filters and sorts are
applied. There is some control of this but not
enough.

1000+ employees:
No out of the box mapping capabilities
(Extensions/Plugins available). No auto-scale for
different display resolutions/dimensions, but the
trade-off here is the much greater design
flexibility than one gets with a Grid based
product. Would like to see a few more
visualizations available out of the box (e..g Bullet
Graph) Very rudimentary report creation
capabilities. No scheduling or distribution
without Publisher product.
Henrik Wickström, IT Project Manager at a
energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:
Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.
Complicated license management.
Job scheduler needs work.
employees:
More graphics Dashboard support
1000+ employees:
More flexibility to alter auto association in the
data model. Support for collaboration.
1000+ employees:
Macro Editing It should have an HTML text box
control Presentation on smart device The
performance of the Qlikview website is poor as it
takes three minutes to open a page The SME
server edition does not include a deploy tool,
and we have to copy updated document to the
server manually which seems ridiculous
1000+ employees:
The basic design of Tableau has some features
that could be modified. * There is no need to
have five (5) ways to add a new worksheet.
Brevity is rewarded - new users have so much to
learn that 2 ways would do the job * How to
render time - When performing analysis, no
single issue is more important than time series
data. Tableau uses visual clues in many places -
When one uses the pull down option for time that
could be visualized better as a continuum. those
selections should be presented in green to be
visually consistent. Those above in blue.
The integration and usage of multiple data
sources is sometimes not that straightforward.
employees:
Faster implementation Processing speed
The integration of multiple data sources has
sometimes been difficult and the size limitations
are sometimes an issue.
It's hard to say right now but I can see
challenges ahead as the market share and
common standards become an issue - if the goal
is to replace Excel, then it will be a winner-takes-
all type of battle. For clients this may make them
delay purchase and adoption.

Marco Casalino, Consulting Manager at a consultancy
Licensing costs Cloud solution Less monolithic
approach
1000+ employees:
Needs a metadata solution plus some enhanced
ETL functionality. Edit: v9 has some light
metadata solutions that are helpful from Excel.

Deep Dive: Improvements to My Organization
QlikView Tableau
Qlikview can be used both as an advanced
reporting tool as well as an BI KPI tool,
becoming the base for continuous process
improvements. In general the benefits of the tool
become clear at the early development stage
when the user is challenged to input clearly his
ideas, problems and needs and that will affect
the process in which he participates. Typically in
a second iteration the key user will ask for a new
release more oriented to advanced KPIs rather
than just reports. This is a direct consequence
of the process making things clearer and
evolving. So the main value supplied by
Qlikview is to reduce uncertainty, make the
participants question, discover, interact with
each other, and eventually improve the process.
Properly used should function as an
improvement catalyst for the processes
involved.
100-1000 employees:
Speed of data discovery and accelerated our
ability to remodel our data and improve our
existing ETL processes.
1000+ employees:
It's both intuitive and complex/deep. For our
organization, it's given us opportunities to
provide both on-sight and on-line training. We
now have an online training product that more
than offsets the expense associated with days of
training. With Tableau, our customers more
analytical. It even has a connection to R and
SAS for advanced users. Also, it has given us
the ability to collaborate with the Tableau
servers, which is robust and can handle tens of
thousands of users. Tableau Server can now
scale for unlimited users Enterprise scale brings
with it the need for Governance. Data sources
and workbooks must be vetted before they are
"out there" to see except for the intended content
consumers

Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowing
you to "see" your data in ways never thought
possible. We can now take medical stats
presented in an academic journal and applying
them to community-based medicine. This
literally changes physician behavior like no other
tool. We were struggling with running
application reports, and were spending
substantial time, and high-end resources to
deliver the basics. Implementing QlikView for
our clients also allowed us to aggregate our
client-based data and see "What type of reports
are they running" "What time of day" "Which
users". This data alone allowed us to
immediately focus on the points of user
experience which would impact the users the
most.
1000+ employees:
We have gradually reduced laborious manual
reporting in Business Units and "spreadmarts".
We now have some executive using
QV dashboards in weekly review meetings, in
place of spreadsheets and PowerPoints. While it
does take some time and IT involvement to
initially develop and deploy a solution, the
payback is immediate. In one particular case we
were able to eliminate a days worth of manual
work each week with a QlikView solution that
required a few days of development effort. We
also previously had no way for end users to
routinely and easily analyze larger (100 Million+
rows) data sets, which now can be done through
QlikView.
The data was made clearer for us through
visualization. In addition, it allowed us to
automate result monitoring.
employees:
Trends Opportunities Automated reporting
Jose Godoy, Assistant Manager Infrastructure at a tech
services company with 100-1000 employees:
The use is only academic, for the moment.
We can use this tool with our internal data as
well as on client sites to rapidly evaluate data
sets and gain understanding of patterns rapidly.
Analyst220, Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financial
services firm with 1000+ employees:
We plan to empower users with Enterprise BI
and Self Service BI by Tableau.
Mostly, I focus on the management and
operational reporting aspects, enabling
businesses to make better decisions at all levels
through improved access to data.

Henrik Wickström, IT Project Manager at a
energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:
It provides information all in one place for our
users. It saves us time.
We're able to get faster KPI's in many
departments.
employees:
Trends Opportunities Automated reporting
1000+ employees:
It has dramatically improved development time
for BI reports. Using traditional tools like OBIEE
or SAP BO, BI was more like an IT dependent
work stream. Now it has reached the business
side, who can do their own analysis. Users can
drill data without much IT help.
1000+ employees:
It speeds up my clients capability to prepare
various non-standard management reports.
Guilherme Yoshikazu Saito Machado, BI Analyst at a
manufacturing company with 100-1000 employees:
Implemented some visualizations for: Orders
Management Sales Dashboard Contribution
Margin Dashboard Budget x Real Expenses
Management So now we have better control in
some areas, like Sales, Logistics and
Financials. Sales, Marketing, Internal Controls,
Factory, HR, Logistics, etc. all still have room for
improvement.
1000+ employees:
I'm able to prototype charts/dashboards in hours
vs days or weeks with other tools (mainly Excel).
Doesn't require me to think about the level of
aggregation that I'm going to need as it deals
with large data sets. Blends disparate datasets
together which is awesome for plan vs actual
reports where the data is a two different levels of
granularity.

WHAT REAL USERS
ARE SAYING...
"Advanced information
applications can be built,
not only simple ones."
"It's helped us aggregate
our client-based data, but
it is a very heavy RAM
utilizer."
"I would never propose
QlikView, or any other
single tool, as THE
definitive data visualization
and dashboard tool for
every organization, but it
did best meet our
particular needs."
"It saves us time by
providing information all in
one place for our users.
However, it has a
complicated license
management."
"It's helped us get faster
KPI's in many departments
and it produces reports
quickly."
"It's easy to use but more
graphics and dashboard
support would be an
improvement."
QLIKVIEW REVIEW BY A REAL USER
Pablo Parnisari Verified by IT Central Station
BI Expert at a tech services company with 1-100
employees
Valuable Features:
As a BI professional sometimes you have to tackle projects with poor or no
documentation at all, just the datasources and some vague requirements. In
QlikView it is quite easy build up a first data model (dimensional or not) and use the
first stage to understand the entities and relations between it and the business.
From there you can explore the business, understand the users real requirements
and needs and improve the model with a few changes, without much effort. This is
because Qlikview has a very flexible and short cycle of development in each
iteration.
For the user QlikView is a wonderful tool of data discovery, providing powerful tools
to navigate easily between a sea of data in an intuitive, easy, and clear way,
allowing them to go from facts to KPI and vice versa.
Improvements to My Organization:
Qlikview can be used both as an advanced reporting tool as well as an BI KPI tool,
becoming the base for continuous process improvements. In general the benefits of
the tool become clear at the early development stage when the user is challenged
to input clearly his ideas, problems and needs and that will affect the process in
which he participates. Typically in a second iteration the key user will ask for a new
release more oriented to advanced KPIs rather than just reports. This is a direct
consequence of the process making things clearer and evolving. So the main value
supplied by Qlikview is to reduce uncertainty, make the participants question,
discover, interact with each other, and eventually improve the process. Properly
used should function as an improvement catalyst for the processes involved.
Room for Improvement:
It is well know that the ETL is quite far away from leading products like Data
Stagem Informatica and others. Currently Qliktech is working on this problem with
Expressor, a powerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area is the licensing scheme,
which leaves out many SMO. To remedy this and try to stop the eruption of third
parties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTech launched Qlik Sense, although the future
is unclear and there may be a possible merge of the two branches (Qlik Sense +
QlikView). Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves the development of new
graphic charts to the community with mixed results.
Use of Solution:
I have using it for the last five years, since 2010 at least.

Deployment Issues:
The deployment of the dashbords, in the simplest scenario, is so easy you just drop
a unique file (qvw extension) in the published folder and the solution appears into
the main web page that works like an index of all solutions: the access point.
Stability Issues:
The product has great stability although in some circumstances, especially if it is
low in resources or the reload process encounters some kind of dead lock while
extracting the data from the DB, it could/will result in the shutdown of the service.
The good news is the automatic behavior: I never saw corrupted data or unstable
behavior, just restart the service / reload and all works well again.
Scalability Issues:
The product is designed to scale both horizontally and vertically. Some
organizatations which have servers and dashboards that handle until 30 Tb of data
have had some issues that finally have been addressed by the support service of
QlikTech.
Customer Service:
The customer service is provided by the local reseller and is fine. We
have mainly used it to get the new releases and some support during the
installation.
Technical Support:
The technical support in my country is provided by the master reseller and it looks
good even when they have to pass the case to Qliktech to figure-out the problem
and find a solution. In this last case it can be somewhat delayed because these
cases needed to reach the top levels of the service.
Previous Solutions:
I have used (and still use) Microsoft BI: SSISm SSAS and SSRS. The productivity
level of QlikView is quite superior, whilst Microsoft licensing scheme is really better,
specially when there are large number of users and a lot of SQL licences deployed
making it (MS) much cheaper.
Initial Setup:
The initial setup was absolutely seamless and the only requirement for a successful
deploy is a little training to the users, not only about how to use QlikView, but what
can be done with QlikView, giving them the initial spark.

Implementation Team:
In general the vendors which I have worked with were very well qualified, although
not very inclined to share information easily.
ROI:
This question is hard to answer because except for a few cases its impossible to
measure how the project (not the tool) improves the results of the organization.
Such measures are available at the organizational level, but it is difficult to quantify
the proportion of the contribution from one tool to a whole process.
Cost and Licensing Advice:
The start cost is around of US $25.000 and the annual royalties are around 20%
that includes customer and technical support and upgrades.
Other Solutions Considered:
I have evaluated Tableau and Microstrategy. The first one is too basic (wonderful if
you are a final user). The second one: extremely complex, just for very large
organizations and large IT teams.
Other Advice:
Think seriously about the possible population of users, how it will grow-up, and
check the licensing cost and its limitations.

Erin Dettrey Verified by IT Central Station
Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a healthcare
company with 1-100 employees
Valuable Features:
KPI's
Dashboard creation
Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowing you to "see" your data in ways
never thought possible. We can now take medical stats presented in an academic
journal and applying them to community-based medicine. This literally changes
physician behavior like no other tool.
We were struggling with running application reports, and were spending substantial
time, and high-end resources to deliver the basics. Implementing QlikView for our
clients also allowed us to aggregate our client-based data and see "What type of
reports are they running" "What time of day" "Which users". This data alone allowed
us to immediately focus on the points of user experience which would impact the
users the most.
Online education, but they are revamping.
Use of Solution:
I've used it for two years.
Deployment Issues:
No issues encountered.
Stability Issues:
Scalability Issues:
QlikView is a very heavy RAM utilizer (all strong BI tools are). When we hit around
20 concurrent users, the user experience began to suffer. We contacted Qlik
Support and they assisted us with a review of our infrastructure. We followed their
suggestions to the tee, and were back with great speed!

Customer Service:
It's excellent, and very responsive.
Technical Support:
It's excellent.
Initial Setup:
Simple, low level learning curve.
We did it in-house.
ROI:
Currently $1 spent = $3 recouped (including labor/support/Infrastructure).
Push for more services in your installation (consulting, IT, Development, Design).
Sales can be very creative.
We also looked at Tableau.
Other Advice:
Review your end-goals, internally and externally. This can be a powerful tool for
your clients but also for internal decision making.

Jhornber Verified by IT Central Station
BI Expert at a leisure / travel company with 1000+
employees
Valuable Features:
1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time to learn, but it is quite powerful. Not as a
total ETL replacement tool necessarily, but as a supplement to load and join data
sources, and perform additional transformations. I've combined as many as a half
dozen data sources including data from multiple SQL Data Marts, Source System
DBs, XLS, CSV, and Google Big Query.
2. Design Flexibility - While other products may do drag and drop, ad-hoc analytics
better. (Including Tableau, and Qlik's new product QlikSense) I've not come
across one that better supports the creation of a polished, packaged, custom
dashboard, that supports what I'd consider "guided exploration", and best meets
the needs of our user base. The customization can be taken even further through
in-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g. Custom D3 Visualizations).
We have gradually reduced laborious manual reporting in Business Units and
"spreadmarts". We now have some executive using QV dashboards in weekly
review meetings, in place of spreadsheets and PowerPoints. While it does take
some time and IT involvement to initially develop and deploy a solution, the
payback is immediate. In one particular case we were able to eliminate a days
worth of manual work
each week
with a QlikView solution that required a few days of development effort. We also
previously had no way for end users to routinely and easily analyze larger (100
Million+ rows) data sets, which now can be done through QlikView.
No out of the box mapping capabilities (Extensions/Plugins available).
No auto-scale for different display resolutions/dimensions, but the trade-off here is
the much greater design flexibility than one gets with a Grid based product.
Would like to see a few more visualizations available out of the box (e..g Bullet
Graph)
Very rudimentary report creation capabilities. No scheduling or distribution without
Publisher product.

Use of Solution:
1 1/2 years
Deployment Issues:
None.
Stability Issues:
None thus far, but have a relatively small scale implementation (30-40 Users to
date), on a single server (196GB RAM, 15 Core). Our largest data sets are in the
100-200 Million rows. Dashboards deployed to the server perform very well, but
working with data sets that large locally (on QlikView desktop) may start to lag,
depending on your hardware. Being a in-memory tool, desktops and laptops should
have at least 8GB RAM, though even more is preferable if working with very large
data sets.
Customer Service:
Customer service was/is excellent.
Technical Support:
Our need for technical support has been minimal, but when needed it has been
great. The overall Qlik Community is phenomenal. Many problems can be
resolved through the community channel. Users often provide example files one
can reference or reverse engineer.
Previous Solutions:
Previously used an older Domo product (Centerview). The product was no longer
supported. It was very flexible, but also very labor intensive. Data had to be fully
prepared outside of the tool ,and every interaction had to be defined. Development
time was weeks vs days in QlikView.
Initial Setup:
Straightforward setup. Connected to Active Directory to manage users.
In-house with some set up assistance provided by the Qlik sales support team.
Server is Apprx $35K initial cost, plus 20% annual maintenance/support cost

User licenses are $350 or $1500 depending on license type(plus 20% annual
maintenance/support). This can get costly if you have a very large user base.
Several. If interested see my post
http://www.itcentralstation.com/articles/i-evaluat...
Other Advice:
I would never propose QlikView, or any other single tool, as THE definitive data
visualization and dashboard tool for every organization, but it did best meet our
particular needs. Organizations with more data-savvy, self-sufficient business
users may find a product like Tableau, or Qlik's other product, QlikSense, to be a
better option.

Henrik Wickström Verified by IT Central Station
IT Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 100-
1000 employees
It provides information all in one place for our users.
It saves us time.
Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.
Complicated license management.

WHAT REAL USERS
ARE SAYING...
"Easily the most user-
friendly (particularly for
non-technical users) BI
Tool I’ve ever used."
"It is a very powerful tool,
but there is not enough
control over the order in
which filters and sorts are
applied. "
"It's an intuitive tool for the
average user, yet provides
complex and deep
analytics for the advanced
user. There are, however,
some unnecessary
redundancies for certain
functions. "
"It allows you to manipulate
and depict data in various
ways, but the integration of
multiple data sources is
sometimes not that
straightforward."
"It has rich graphics but the
processing speed could be
improved."
"We've had no problems
with deployment or stability
and have had no need to
contact customer or
technical support, but our
use has been only
academic over the past 6
months."
TABLEAU REVIEW BY A REAL USER
BIExpert221 Verified by IT Central Station
BI Expert at a financial services firm with 100-1000
employees
Valuable Features:
Extraordinary ease of use, easier to use than any competitor product I’ve used in 15
years or so I’ve worked on MI/BI.
Since I originally wrote this, I have found the mapping on Tableau has been
extremely useful and easy to use, particularly that it includes very good geocoding
for the UK.
Speed of data discovery and accelerated our ability to remodel our data and
improve our existing ETL processes.
Expansion of number of visualisations, as well as potential for straight to dashboard
function, rather than design individual visualisation – these are, however, genuinely
not priority to amend.
Use of Solution:
~2 years
Deployment Issues:
This was a Proof of Concept rather than full roll-out.
Stability Issues:
No, but important to note it was PoC.
Scalability Issues:
No, but important to note it was PoC.
Customer Service:
Excellent.

Technical Support:
Exceptional, probably the best user community I’ve ever seen in nearly 15 years of
working in MI/BI/Analytical roles.
Previous Solutions:
Currently use an alternative provider, looking to switch to a newer more
empowering piece of software, an alternative to Tableau was selected at a Global
CIO level.
Initial Setup:
Extremely simple. Download a package, enter a key post purchase and that’s it.
Very easy.
Vendor team – they had (and indeed have) significant knowledge of the product
and continue to share best practice tips and knowledge through their e-
publications.
Standard software license cost to setup initially and an optional maintenance fee
which include version upgrades. On balance, the costs of software balance nicely
against the user experience because you probably wouldn’t need to spend a great
deal on training as the product is straightforward to use.
Evaluated numerous different BI tools, including but not restricted to Cognos,
Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Tibco Spotfire.
Other Advice:
Assess the scalability using the Server set up, engage users of the tool
independently through the Tableau Community for their ideas and advice on the
pro’s and con’s of the tool. Even the biggest evangelists will be honest enough to
tell you where it doesn’t meet their expectations.

BIAnalyst885 Verified by IT Central Station
Business Intelligence Analyst at a healthcare company with
100-1000 employees
Valuable Features:
It is very powerful
Flexibility
Minor issues only. My biggest one is control over the order in which filters and sorts
are applied. There is some control of this but not enough.
Use of Solution:
I've used it for seven months.
Deployment Issues:
Stability Issues:
Scalability Issues:
Customer Service:
It's very good.
Technical Support:
Our parent company has its own internal Tableau support team so I have had no
contact with Tableau’s own technical support
Previous Solutions:
No previous solution was used in this company, but I do have experience of Domo.

Initial Setup:
It was complex. We have a complex situation with extensive data security set up at
three and a half levels across over 100 active users with most of the users not only
controlled by level but also having access to very specific sets of data only.
Inevitably the setup for this in Tableau was complex. This is not a criticism of
Tableau however – just the opposite, the impressive thing is that it had the flexibility
to achieve it at all
I implemented it myself.
Other Advice:
Tableau is a very powerful and flexible product, it also demands some level of skill
on the part of the user. When compared with Domo for example, the end result in
its standard form is more flexible, is able to put more information in a single view,
and offers more user interactivity. However the other side of this coin is that in its
standard form, it is much less accessible to less skilled users. We have managed to
develop an interface that is as accessible as Domo, but this has been quite a
complex and time-consuming task.

Larry Keller Verified by IT Central Station
CEO at a tech consulting company with 1000+ employees
Valuable Features:
Data Preparation - This is a huge plus for Tableau as so many users have to spend
time preparing the data before using Tableau
Data Interpreter
Splits -
Really helps the average user
Drag and drop analytics:
Tableau 9.0 has a new Analytics pane that provides quick and easy access to
common analytic features in Tableau.
You can drag reference lines, forecasts, trend lines, and other objects into your
view from the Analytics panel. It is now easy to edit, format, and remove the
analytic items that you have added, so you can experiment with different
techniques as you explore the insights your data has to offer.
Ad--‐hoc calculations:
Ad--‐hoc calculations make it easy to add and edit calculated fields for your
analysis. Double--‐click an existing field on the Rows, Columns, Marks, or Measure
Values shelf to begin editing, or
double-click an empty area on a shelf to create a new calculation. As you type, a list
of auto--‐complete options appears in a dropdown list, making it easier to find and
pick the right elements.
Instant analytics:
Instant analytics provides an interactive experience for comparing summary
information about a subset of marks to all the marks in your view. For example, you
can compare the average for a few marks to the average for all the marks.
After you’ve added trend lines, reference lines, reference bands, or distribution
bands to your view, select one or more marks to see the new analytical indicators
appear for the selection in addition to the analytical indicators for the whole view.
Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions:
New expression syntax in the Tableau calculation language lets you quickly create
calculated fields that compute at the specified levels of detail. LOD calculations
help you compute at multiple levels of aggregation and make it easier to create
fields for analytical comparison (such as cohort analysis and totals or Average
across segments), simplifying calculations that previously took several steps.

It's both intuitive and complex/deep. For our organization, it's given us opportunities
to provide both on-sight and on-line training. We now have an online training
product that more than offsets the expense associated with days of
training. With Tableau, our customers more analytical.
It even has a connection to R and SAS for advanced users.
Also, it has given us the ability to collaborate with the Tableau
servers, which is robust and can handle tens of thousands of users.
Tableau Server can now scale for unlimited users Enterprise scale brings with it the
need for Governance. Data sources and workbooks must be vetted before they are
"out there" to see except for the intended content consumers
The basic design of Tableau has some features that could be modified.
* There is no need to have five (5) ways to add a new worksheet. Brevity is
rewarded - new users have so much to learn that 2 ways would do the job
* How to render time - When performing analysis, no single issue is more important
than time series data. Tableau uses visual clues in many places - When one uses
the pull down option for time that could be visualized better as a continuum. those
selections should be presented in green to be visually consistent. Those above in
blue.
If
you're making a structured, strategic purchase, make sure that you have a plan for
professional training.
Other Advice:
Go
slow and methodically
You must consider size of the company and types of users
Desktop Plus server users - understand the constraints on the backend, and make
sure you

have enough CPU power
There's lots of free stuff on their website that's great for the average user.

Andreas Demetriou Pompatzis Verified by IT Central
Station
Web Administrator at a retailer with 1000+ employees
Valuable Features:
Ease of data visualization
Ease of dashboard creation
Ease of dashboard sharing
The data was made clearer for us through visualization. In addition, it allowed us to
automate result monitoring.
The integration and usage of multiple data sources is sometimes not that
straightforward.
Use of Solution:
I've used it for six months.
Deployment Issues:
All connections were to a SQL Database, and there were no issues with
deployment.
Stability Issues:
No issues with stability.
Scalability Issues:
No issues with scalability.
Customer Service:
Did not need it.
Technical Support:
Did not need it.

Previous Solutions:
We already had OLAP Cubes in place, but we haven't switched and are currently
using both.
Initial Setup:
It was straightforward.
ROI:
It has given us faster reporting, resulting in better management of the information,
and better usage of information in decision making.
Other Advice:
Definitely understand your data structure before using Tableau. Tableau allows you
to manipulate and depict data in various ways, as long as you have proper, well
structured input.

QlikView and Tableau Alternatives
VENDOR (BY RANKING) SOLUTION
Panorama Software Panorama Necto
Rating: 8.34
(50 reviews)
QlikView QlikView
Rating: 8.66
(40 reviews)
Tableau Tableau
Rating: 8.88
(45 reviews)
Microsoft Microsoft BI Stack
Rating: 8.34
(17 reviews)
Oracle Oracle OBIEE
Rating: 8.06
(29 reviews)
IBM IBM Cognos
Rating: 8.32
(20 reviews)
MicroStrategy MicroStrategy
Rating: 8.6
(21 reviews)
SAP SAP Business Objects
Rating: 7.34
(24 reviews)
Sisense Sisense
Rating: 8.88
(13 reviews)
Pentaho Pentaho
Rating: 8.0
(19 reviews)
Entrinsik Entrinsik Informer
Rating: 8.94
(18 reviews)
Domo Domo
Rating: 5.0
(8 reviews)
Dundas Data Visualization Dundas Dashboard
Rating: 7.76
(8 reviews)
SAP SAP Crystal Reports
Rating: 8.16
(6 reviews)
SAS SAS Visual Analytics
Rating: 7.5
(7 reviews)
TIBCO TIBCO Spotfire
Rating: 8.26
(10 reviews)
Windward Windward
Rating: 8.14
(7 reviews)
Zoho Zoho Reports
Rating: 9.0
(7 reviews)
BIME Analytics BIME Analytics
Rating: 10.0
(5 reviews)
IBM IBM Cognos TM1
Rating: 9.0
(2 reviews)

Logi Analytics Logi Analytics (1 review)
Verix Verix
Rating: 10.0
(6 reviews)
BOARD International BOARD
Rating: 9.5
(5 reviews)
Information Builders Information Builders WebFOCUS
Rating: 10.0
(3 reviews)
TIBCO TIBCO Jaspersoft
Rating: 8.0
(4 reviews)
ClicData ClicData
Rating: 8.5
(2 reviews)
GoodData GoodData
Rating: 7.0
(3 reviews)
IBM IBM Cognos Express
Rating: 9.0
(2 reviews)
SpagoBI SpagoBI
Rating: 8.0
(1 review)
Actuate Actuate e.Report
Bitam Bitam Artus
Rating: 9.0
(1 review)
icCube icCube
Rating: 10.0
(1 review)
Oracle Oracle Essbase
Rating: 8.0
(1 review)
QlikView Qlik Sense
Rating: 9.0
(1 review)
Targit Targit BI Suite
Rating: 8.0
(1 review)
Teradata Teradata Data Lab
Yellowfin Yellowfin
Rating: 9.0
(1 review)
7Park Data 7Park Data
Actuate Actuate BIRT
adjust adjust BI
Continuum Analytics Anaconda
Arcadia Data Arcadia Data
arcplan arcplan

Atigeo Atigeo
Ayasdi Ayasdi
BellaDati BellaDati
Birst Birst (2 reviews)
Bottlenose Bottlenose
Chartio Chartio
ClearStory Data ClearStory Data
ColdLight ColdLight
Microsoft Cortana Analytics
CSC CSC Infochimps
DataBricks DataBricks
DataHero DataHero
DataRPM DataRPM
Decisyon Decisyon
eMite eMite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP Haven
Insightsquared InsightSquared
Interana Interana
iVEDiX iVEDiX
Izenda Izenda
Jinfonet Software Jinfonet JReport
Klipfolio Klipfolio
Lavastorm Analytics Lavastorm Analytics Platform

Magnitude Software Magnitude Noetix
MID GmbH MID Innovator
Mode Mode
Opera Solutions Opera Solutions
Platfora Platfora
Roambi Roambi
Rocket Software Rocket Software Rocket
Rosslyn Analystics Rosslyn Analytics
Salesforce Salesforce Wave Analytics
Salient Management Company Salient Management Company Salient
ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot
Viewics Viewics
XLCubed XLCubed
Zoomdata Zoomdata

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Over 119,336 professionals have used IT Central Station research on enterprise tech. Here are the top
Business Intelligence Tools vendors based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons. All reviews
and ratings are from real users, validated by our triple authentication process.
1. Tableau
99842 Views
105031 Comparisons
26 Reviews
6499 Followers
Average Rating: 8.6
2. QlikView
80097 Views
73266 Comparisons
25 Reviews
6719 Followers
Average Rating: 8.6
3. Microsoft BI Stack
70916 Views
64008 Comparisons
9 Reviews
6690 Followers
Average Rating: 8.8
4. MicroStrategy
48284 Views
33635 Comparisons
18 Reviews
6486 Followers
Average Rating: 8.8
5. Oracle OBIEE
47651 Views
43317 Comparisons
26 Reviews
5548 Followers
Average Rating: 8.0
6. IBM Cognos
30772 Views
36429 Comparisons
19 Reviews
5600 Followers
Average Rating: 8.4

7. Panorama Necto
6496 Views
7794 Comparisons
48 Reviews
4916 Followers
Average Rating: 8.4
8. Pentaho
38242 Views
40282 Comparisons
12 Reviews
5681 Followers
Average Rating: 8.2
9. Sisense
28319 Views
13445 Comparisons
10 Reviews
5626 Followers
Average Rating: 9.2
10. SAP Business Objects
34638 Views
30885 Comparisons
15 Reviews
5546 Followers
Average Rating: 7.2
11. Windward
73231 Views
7889 Comparisons
7 Reviews
4260 Followers
Average Rating: 8.2
12. SAS Visual Analytics
30552 Views
39938 Comparisons
4 Reviews
5290 Followers
Average Rating: 7.6
13. Entrinsik Informer
3337 Views
5627 Comparisons
18 Reviews
4801 Followers
Average Rating: 9.0

14. BIME Analytics
7082 Views
7574 Comparisons
5 Reviews
4914 Followers
Average Rating: 10.0
15. TIBCO Spotfire
21033 Views
16787 Comparisons
4 Reviews
5562 Followers
Average Rating: 8.2
16. Verix
5509 Views
5810 Comparisons
5 Reviews
4861 Followers
Average Rating: 10.0
17. SAP Crystal Reports
12949 Views
17297 Comparisons
6 Reviews
5154 Followers
Average Rating: 8.2
18. BOARD
3134 Views
8334 Comparisons
4 Reviews
5022 Followers
Average Rating: 9.6
19. Zoho Reports
4693 Views
9224 Comparisons
7 Reviews
4754 Followers
Average Rating: 9.0
20. Logi Analytics
5449 Views
8609 Comparisons
0 Reviews
5052 Followers
Average Rating: 9.0

21. Dundas Dashboard
4115 Views
8180 Comparisons
8 Reviews
4886 Followers
Average Rating: 7.8
22. Domo
7559 Views
13211 Comparisons
8 Reviews
4993 Followers
Average Rating: 5.0
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Comparisons: Number of times compared to another product
Reviews: Total number of reviews on IT Central Station
Followers: Number of followers on IT Central Station
Average Rating: Average rating based on reviews
The total ranking of a product (i.e. bar length) is based on a weighted aggregate ranking of that product's Views (weighting
factor = 17.5%), Comparisons (17.5%), Reviews (17.5%), Followers (17.5%), and Average Rating (30%).

TOP 5
Based on Views
99842 Tableau
80097 QlikView
73231 Windward
70916 Microsoft BI Stack
48284 MicroStrategy
TOP 5
Based on Views of Comparisons
105031 Tableau
73266 QlikView
43317 Oracle OBIEE
40282 Pentaho
TOP 5
Based on Followers
6719 QlikView
6499 Tableau
6486 MicroStrategy
6290 MID Innovator
TOP 5
Based on Rating
10.0 Information Builders WebFOCUS
10.0 icCube
10.0 Verix
10.0 BIME Analytics
9.6 BOARD

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