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5 Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
arcplan
It is very suitable for complete corporate BI solutions. If you see BI as embedding information into your organization and business processes, and thus as more than just a few scattered dashboards and reports, arcplan is your platform. It's less suitable for ad-hoc reporting and data discovery. It can do it (everything is possible), but there is strong competition in this area.
arcplan BI architect
AccelerationInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
ClicData
We used ClicData dashboards in a somewhat unorthodox way: we used "Indicators", or icons within tables to represent data, and the results looked great. The ability to integrate 3rd party HTML into dashboards was valuable (although Clic Data correctly warns that response time may suffer).The ability to start small and release dashboards incrementally suited our needs very well. We also valued the responsive account team getting us quickly pointed in the right direction.
Operations Manager Service USA
Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
BI Standard Reporting
arcplan
7.6
ClicData
6.3
Pixel Perfect reports
arcplan
6.4
ClicData
—
Customizable dashboards
arcplan
8.0
ClicData
6.3
Report Formatting Templates
arcplan
8.5
ClicData
—
Ad-hoc Reporting
arcplan
7.4
ClicData
4.3
Drill-down analysis
arcplan
5.8
ClicData
6.3
Formatting capabilities
arcplan
6.3
ClicData
5.6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
arcplan
9.0
ClicData
—
Report sharing and collaboration
arcplan
8.5
ClicData
1.0
Report Output and Scheduling
arcplan
8.9
ClicData
6.7
Publish to Web
arcplan
7.8
ClicData
7.0
Publish to PDF
arcplan
10.0
ClicData
6.0
Report Versioning
arcplan
10.0
ClicData
7.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
arcplan
7.8
ClicData
—
Data Discovery and Visualization
arcplan
7.1
ClicData
6.1
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
arcplan
6.7
ClicData
5.2
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
arcplan
6.7
ClicData
7.0
Predictive Analytics
arcplan
7.7
ClicData
—
Access Control and Security
arcplan
8.2
ClicData
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
arcplan
9.0
ClicData
7.0
Role-Based Security Model
arcplan
8.0
ClicData
—
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
arcplan
7.5
ClicData
9.0
Mobile Capabilities
arcplan
6.7
ClicData
1.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
arcplan
8.5
ClicData
1.0
Dedicated iOS Application
arcplan
5.0
ClicData
1.0
Dedicated Android Application
arcplan
5.0
ClicData
—
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
arcplan
8.3
ClicData
1.0
Pros
arcplan
- Excellent dashboard.
- Well advanced BI metrics.
- Better interfacing to other DW.
IT Division Manager
Melbourne IT SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
ClicData
- Ease of use when developing new dashboards.
- Easy to customize.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesCons
arcplan
- Positioning and marketing. Most BI vendors use a non-technical sales strategy and focus on shiny, sexy dashboards to sell the story. In order to position arcplan fairly and correctly, the technical and business advantages need to be part of a sales story. So, it is not really an easy product to sell to customers, if it has to compete with now-to-wow-five-minute products.
- Learning/training for developers. It's easy to learn the basics of arcplan, because the interface is logical. But nothing prevents a beginning developer from creating a monstrous application, because there is no prescribed architecture. It really takes some experience to become a good arcplan architect. It's a disadvantage resulting from one of arcplan's biggest advantages.
- Data connectors: arcplan standard comes with a connector of your choice. Additional connectors need to be purchased separately. Many other products come with a full range of connectors.
arcplan BI architect
AccelerationInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
ClicData
- I wish there were even more widgets for the dashboards such as calendar layouts.
- It would also be nice to be able to query the back-end data using SQL Studio.
- It would be nice to change data connections from the dashboard to dashboard even though they have the same fields and schema.
Operations Manager Service USA
Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
arcplan
Personally, I prefer QlikView not because it's more stable but simply just for the looks of the dashboard. One of my clients in Sydney recently moved from arcplan to QlikView. The reason was mainly looks and that QlikView has more training materials for the support users to train with. So in all, it does not really stack well against QlikView.
IT Division Manager
Melbourne IT SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
ClicData
We chose ClicData over some other options because it was cost-effective and relatively easy to implement. It didn't require a server to set-up or manage which was nice.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting
Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employeesScreenshots
arcplan
—Pricing Details
arcplan
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
ClicData
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
$20*
* data volume, type of data source and level of automation