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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloudability

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloudability is a cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their cloud spend across all cost sources, all maturity levels, and for all stakeholders.N/A

    QlikView

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AQlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—On an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Considered Both Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Qlik
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    145 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    107 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    139 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    98 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    8.6
    68 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.766 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.060 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.266 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.867 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.336 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.162 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    8.6
    62 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.542 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.048 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.955 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    6.7
    60 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.159 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings5.355 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings5.555 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.13 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cloudability and QlikView
    Feature
    IBM Cloudability
    -
    Ratings
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.044 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Small Businesses
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (147 ratings)
    7.6
    (88 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (147 ratings)
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.3
    (3 ratings)
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM CloudabilityQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I don't have much exposure to the tool. I mean, I'm relatively new to using it as a platform, but I haven't really seen the benefit, especially with the actual renewal talks at the company. I'm not seeing what AWS native solutions are, how probability improves on that as opposed to just using AWS and just, I don't know. I'm not seeing the benefit, at least in my eyes.
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    Qlik
    Sales data validations have helped manage our justifications in the past, especially with regard to new product development and new business introduction. It has also been helpful in identifying trends with business impact and direction specific to quarter and monthly sales from ERP data as well as decisions to purchase equipment of staffing based on run rates and product demand.
    One thing that can get out of hand is data output - if you aren't careful in your query, you may be overloaded with data dumps and drown in the amount of info you have to filter through. This is a user caution, not a comment on the software itself.
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • We are able to integrate multiple sources of data to have a comprehensive view of our spend.
    • We are able to get more detailed insights via container dashboard for kubernetes spend
    • A unified platform to manage overall cloud spend along with related FinOps spend
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    Qlik
    • QlikView has a simple, relational data model that's REALLY fast. Filtering and changing data is dead simple results are almost immediately available.
    • The free version of Qlikview is almost completely featured, so you roll a pro-level product out to an entire department for really cheap.
    • QlikView is really flexible--if you can imagine it, you can build it.
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • For me, it is a lot of anomaly detection and I think there's a lot of improvement that can be made to show anomalies that happen over time because if it's just day to day or week to week, you may not see the change. But if you see the trend over a period of time, show me something that has grown 40%, 50% over the past three months and maybe you can do those things and we just haven't figured them out yet. So we are very new to the product, but I think anomaly detection for me is one of the bigger things.
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    Qlik
    • We found that QlikView can be a bit slow in supporting some forms of encryption. It is web-based and we needed to upgrade all of our server to not support the older SSL and TLS 1 protocols, only support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. However, QlikView could not run with TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. We had to wait over six months to get a version that would handle the newer TLS versions.
    • There are so many options with QlikView that you can get lost when developing a visualization. There are still items I have not yet figured out, such as labeling a graph with the name of a selected detail item.
    • QlikView works by pulling the data it is going to use for visualization into its database. I am a security reviewer and I need to make certain that PII and PHI is not pulled by QlikView for a visualization, otherwise this could become a reportable indecent.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Cloudability has been one solution for almost all of our FinOps needs. Except for Data transfer costs, we have covered all use cases and have made significant savings across our cloud infrastructure. Reporting has provided management a deeper analysis into their spending and helped them forecast their budgets for next year
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    Qlik
    Ease of use, ability to load from pretty much any data source. today I created an application that loaded time sheets from excel that are not in a table format. With Qlik's "enable transformation steps" I was able to automate loads of multiple spreadsheets and multiple tabs easily. Could not do that with any other tool.
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I gave the IBM Cloudability a 7/10 because it is good, but it could improve in some places. It is easy to get data uploaded and ready to view, but it is only up to a certain point in time, and not live data. As for how it looks, the interface is good for viewing, however navigation could be a little better, maybe supported with a roadmap.
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    Qlik
    QlikView is very easy to implement. The installation is very straight forward. QlikView has several different data connectors that can connect to different data sources very smoothly. The user interface to build the reports is very easy to understand. This helps to have a smaller learning curve. Something very helpful is that QlikView is a browser application for the end users. So, you don't need to install any applications on the user's computer.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Only been 1 or 2 occaisions when not available, in 3 years
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    Qlik
    We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs
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    Performance
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Afternoons tend to be a little slower, due to US traffic I assume
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    Qlik
    It is not a SAAS product.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    While there have been few support cases where the experience was good. But in multiple support cases it's firstly delayed and even after weeks or months of time, team is not able to provide us with the RCA of the issue. All they are claiming is the issue is now fixed which I still see coming back after few days or weeks as we've never identified and addressed the root cause.
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    Qlik
    My experience with the Qlik support team has been somewhat limited, but every interaction I have had with them has been very professional and I received a response quickly. Typically if there is a technical issue, our IT team will follow up. My inquiries are specific to product functionality, and Qlik has been very helpful in clarifying any questions I might have.
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    In-Person Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    My team attended, but I cannot myself rate, but I think it was good as they've successfully launched a training program at our company themselves for users. It was 3-4 day training.
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    Online Training
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Training was adequate, but the real learning begins when you start using the product, like most things. All major functions were covered so as an entry point, was a good introduction to the product. The training pace was good as well, the areas were covered in decent depth, without being too much of an information overload.
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    Qlik
    Training was as expected. The demo environments tend to be more fully featured that our own environment, but the training was clear and well delivered.
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    Implementation Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Within months
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    Qlik
    "Implementation" can mean a few things... so I'm not sure that this is the answer you want.... but here it goes: To me, implementation means: "Is the user interface intuitive and can I produce meaningful reports with ease?" On that score, I'd say YES. The amount of training required was minimal and the results were powerful. The desktop implementation is a simple, "blank" interface just waiting for your creativity. The pre-populated templates give you a reasonable start to any project -- and a good set of objects to "play around with" if you're just getting started. Finally, note that the "implementation" I used was baked into QuickBooks 2016 Enterprise -- called "Advanced Reporting"..... That integration makes it ultra useful and simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Before Apptio we extensively used the cloud native and in house automated and developed cost optimization tool using python , powershell and leveraging the various cloud native services like AWS systems manager , Azure Functions and Azure automation run books.
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    Qlik
    The only other vendor product that I have worked with that provides a similar experience to Qlikview is Tableau. I would recommend Tableau if your use case is to build a fixed dashboard. You can share reports for free without needing to buy additional licenses. I would recommend Qlikview if your users are looking for a more interactive experience. They can create new objects to represent the data which can't be accomplished as easily in Tableau
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Apptio an IBM Company
    I wasn't personally involved, but all dealings with Apptio have been easy
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    Qlik
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    Scalability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Works as designed
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    Qlik
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Apptio Cloudability has enabled us to charge back 100% of our cloud spend to our business users and on an automated basis through the use of ApptioOne
    • Apptio Cloudability's transparency and metrics have enabled us to save millions of dollars in cloud spend across our user base.
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    Qlik
    • You can use the free desktop version to do a lot of reporting and analysis work more quickly so the ROI is huge
    • QlikView is great at finding outliers such as data entry errors
    • QlikView is great at helping you quickly discover new insights about your business that can prompt you to take action that can immediately affect your cash flow.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Cloudability Screenshots

    Screenshot of ML backed rightsizing recommendations surfacing multiple scenarios with tools to help sort those that can me realistically actioned on, with Jira and ServiceNowScreenshot of an allocation of cloud viewed through the enterprise grade tools to tailor data for chargeback/showback across an organizationScreenshot of intelligent forecasting including seasonality, cost drivers and net new spendScreenshot of anomaly detection capabilities to stop issues in their tracks via the right people for the job

    QlikView Screenshots

    Screenshot of QlikView Sales DashboardScreenshot of QlikView on all devicesScreenshot of QlikView using mobile touch screen