IBM SPSS Statistics vs. Qlik Sense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM SPSS Statistics
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics". Companion products in the same family are used for survey authoring and deployment (IBM SPSS Data Collection), data mining (IBM SPSS Modeler), text analytics, and collaboration and deployment (batch and automated scoring services).
$99
per month
Qlik Sense
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Pricing
IBM SPSS StatisticsQlik Sense
Editions & Modules
Subscription
$99.00
per month
Base
$3,610
one-time fee per user
Standard
$7,960
one-time fee per user
Professional
$15,900
one-time fee per user
Premium
$23,800
one-time fee per user
Standard
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Premium
$2700
per month unlimited basic users & purchased full users
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
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IBM SPSS StatisticsQlik Sense
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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IBM SPSS Statistics

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Qlik Sense
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Tableau is too expensive. Microsoft BI is what we might switch to in terms of our department's skill set, available (free) training resources through forums and youtube, and pricepoint for a nonprofit.
Chose Qlik Sense

I have worked on IBM Cognos , Power BI for reporting and Dashboards in different organisations.

I can say the Cognos is for standard reporting with inbuilt scheduling and mail delivery services, Power BI is a bit more user friendly unlike Cognos and QlikSense.

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Features
IBM SPSS StatisticsQlik Sense
BI Standard Reporting
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IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.4
312 Ratings
3% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.3213 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.9310 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.1225 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.6
323 Ratings
6% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.8319 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.2312 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.4152 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.0296 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.7
275 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.7207 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.7254 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.7174 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.7180 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.8106 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.6
311 Ratings
7% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.5304 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.7281 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.6193 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
9.0
294 Ratings
5% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.2273 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.0270 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.8272 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.9216 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
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IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
7.5
220 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.5214 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.2132 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.3184 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
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IBM SPSS Statistics
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Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.5
143 Ratings
7% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.7123 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.392 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.592 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.669 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.695 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.482 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM SPSS StatisticsQlik Sense
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(84 ratings)
8.5
(327 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(22 ratings)
8.4
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(14 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Availability
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(12 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(7 ratings)
7.3
(5 ratings)
Configurability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM SPSS StatisticsQlik Sense
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
SPSS is well-suited for the following: 1) User Behavior Analysis: SPSS handles large datasets to analyze user behavior data. 2) Customer Satisfaction / Foundational Surveys: SPSS facilitates analysis of quant data from satisfaction surveys, keeping us informed about customer needs and preferences. 3) A/B test analysis: SPSS statistical tools for A/B test analysis, which helps optimize user experience of our products. Scenarios where SPSS are less appropriate: 1) Qualitative Data Analysis: I do not use SPSS for open-ended survey responses/qual data. 2) Live/in-vivo data analysis: SPSS is not ideal for real-time data processing. 3) Complex Data Integration: SPSS isn’t the best fit for complex data integration tasks
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Qlik
Qlik Sense is a program whose purpose is to greatly improve all your operations and use of all data in an organic way. The mission will always be to increase the economic and commercial processes of the company in a short time. I recommended it for its high technology, which was Created for this area, the results are successful. We have noticed how it has increased relationships with our clients thanks to the credibility and security that we provide.
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Pros
IBM
  • SPSS has been around for quite a while and has amassed a large suite of functionality. One of its longest-running features is the ability to automate SPSS via scripting, AKA "syntax." There is a very large community of practice on the internet who can help newbies to quickly scale up their automation abilities with SPSS. And SPSS allows users to save syntax scripting directly from GUI wizards and configuration windows, which can be a real life-saver if one is not an experienced coder.
  • Many statistics package users are doing scientific research with an eye to publish reproducible results. SPSS allows you to save datasets and syntax scripting in a common format, facilitating attempts by peer reviewers and other researchers to quickly and easily attempt to reproduce your results. It's very portable!
  • SPSS has both legacy and modern visualization suites baked into the base software, giving users an easily mountable learning curve when it comes to outputting charts and graphs. It's very easy to start with a canned look and feel of an exported chart, and then you can tweak a saved copy to change just about everything, from colors, legends, and axis scaling, to orientation, labels, and grid lines. And when you've got a chart or graph set up the way you like, you can export it as an image file, or create a template syntax to apply to new visualizations going forward.
  • SPSS makes it easy for even beginner-level users to create statistical coding fields to support multidimensional analysis, ensuring that you never need to destructively modify your dataset.
  • In closing, SPSS's long and successful tenure ensures that just about any question a new user may have about it can be answered with a modicum of Google-fu. There are even several fully-fledged tutorial websites out there for newbie perusal.
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Qlik
  • Flexibility in data recording, from the app, as well as in handling them. Allowing you to view reports quickly and effectively.
  • Easy to generate dynamic graphics according to our needs.
  • It is very easy to use, intuitive, so it does not generate costs in the learning process compared to the tool with collaborators
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Cons
IBM
  • It would be beneficial to have AMOS as part of the SPSS package instead of purchasing it separately.
  • It would be beneficial to have other statistical tests, such as PROCESS, be part of the standard SPSS tests instead of having the need to run a syntax to have it installed.
  • My dataset tends to be smaller, and I have never had any issues with using SPSS. I heard that SPSS may not be optimal when handling large datasets.
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Qlik
  • Scalability is RAM limited, all data is associative and in-memory so server's RAM is directly proportional to performance
  • Limitation on advanced analytics capabilities in the form of R integration to perform complex statistical and analytical calculations
  • Can have more intuitive interface
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Both
money and time are essential for success in terms of return on investment for any kind of research based project work. Using a Likert-scale questionnaire is very easy for data entry and analysis
using IBM SPSS. With the help of IBM SPSS, I found very fast and reliable data
entry and data analysis for my research. Output from SPSS is very easy to
interpret for data analysis and findings
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Qlik
Qlik Sense is a constantly improving it's software and working with its' users to make it better. They are great at keeping their users informed of progress and care about delivering a quality product
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Usability
IBM
Probably because I have been using it for so long that I have used all of the modules, or at least almost all of the modules, and the way SPSS works is second nature to me, like fish to swimming.
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Qlik
Standard user interface and powerful analytic functions is GREAT. As technical person working in the background there are more things to do to make this a completely great tool. Some functions that should be standard requires consult scripting and hours. Now we are using it quite advanced and with many servers and in combination with QlikView. So overall I love the tool. But it could be better and user friendly and powerful in the background
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
SPSS can tend to crash when I am trying to do a lot of data. This can slow me down when I need to do a lot of data
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Qlik
No answers on this topic
Performance
IBM
SPSS does the job, but it can be slow. I do have to plan a lot of time to get through a huge amount of data.
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Qlik
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
IBM
I have not contacted IBM SPSS for support myself. However, our IT staff has for trying to get SPSS Text Analytics Module to work. The issue was never resolved, but I'm not sure if it was on the IT's end or on SPSS's end
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Qlik
Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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In-Person Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Online Training
IBM
No answers on this topic
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
Have a plan for managing the yearly upgrade cycle. Most users work in the desktop version, so there needs to be a mechanism for either pushing out new versions of the software or a key manager to deal with updated licensing keys. If you have a lot of users this needs to be planned for in advance.
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Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
I have used R when I didn't have access to SPSS. It takes me longer because I'm terrible at syntax but it is powerful and it can be enjoyable to only have to wrestle with syntax and not a difficult UI.
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Qlik
The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community made up of professionals. Qlik Sense has introduces artificial Intelligence into my data visualization and reporting activity.
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Scalability
IBM
I am neutral because I have not had to look into scalability since I am using as a student.
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Qlik
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
IBM
  • IBM SPSS has allowed me to quickly analyze data for research.
  • IBM SPSS has allowed me to complete analyses in order to submit research findings to conferences and complete manuscripts.
  • IBM SPSS has enabled me to meet research objectives set out in grant proposals.
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Qlik
  • Once an app is published and running good, we can quickly see the time we save to analyze data.
  • It's hard sometimes to realize the money we save by using this system.
  • People start understanding the power of data and asking more questions.
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