arcplan vs ClicData | TrustRadius

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Erik Jansma

arcplan BI architect

AccelerationInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Ben Warren

Operations Manager Service USA

Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

arcplan

ClicData

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

arcplan

ClicData

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

arcplan

ClicData

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

arcplan

ClicData

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

arcplan

ClicData

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

arcplan

ClicData

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Pros

Excellent dashboard.
Well advanced BI metrics.
Better interfacing to other DW.

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Chin Uba (MBA, MSc, MCITP, MCSE)

IT Division Manager

Melbourne IT SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Ease of use when developing new dashboards.
Easy to customize.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

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.

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Erik Jansma

arcplan BI architect

AccelerationInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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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.

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Ben Warren

Operations Manager Service USA

Atlas Copco USAMachinery, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Chin Uba (MBA, MSc, MCITP, MCSE)

IT Division Manager

Melbourne IT SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Finance and Accounting

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

arcplan

ClicData

Feature Rating Comparison

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Pros

arcplan

ClicData

Cons

arcplan

ClicData

Alternatives Considered

arcplan

ClicData

Screenshots

arcplan

ClicData

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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