Microsoft Azure vs. Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Azure
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
$29
per month
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Score 8.3 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.
$200
per month
Pricing
Microsoft AzureQlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Editions & Modules
Developer
$29
per month
Standard
$100
per month
Professional Direct
$1000
per month
Basic
Free
per month
Starter
$200
per month
Standard
$825
per month
Premium
$2750
per month
Qlik Sense (On-Premise)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft AzureQlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe free tier lets users have access to a variety of services free for 12 months with limited usage after making an Azure account.
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Microsoft Azure

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Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Chose Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
We started with Qlik Sense, but we have analyzed other solutions, e.g., SAS. Qlik Sense stands up a very open environment and has very experienced and clever consultants. Now, they're almost friends of the company.
Chose Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Qlik Sense is just easier to use. We can spin up dashboards in minutes rather than hours or days.
Chose Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Against Power BI, I feel Qlik Sense is both easier to use and has much more powerful features. The script editor in Qlik Sense allows me with few lines of code to perform transformations that takes a lot of clicks in Power BI's Query Editor. The visualizations are also more …
Features
Microsoft AzureQlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
8.5
27 Ratings
3% above category average
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
-
Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.126 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
Elastic load balancing8.624 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-configured templates8.225 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.326 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
Operating system support9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Security controls8.626 Ratings00 Ratings
Automation8.224 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.9
315 Ratings
4% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.3216 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.0313 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.4228 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.0
326 Ratings
14% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.0322 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.0315 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.1154 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.9299 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.8
278 Ratings
5% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings6.3210 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings7.3257 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.9176 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.9183 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.4108 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
6.7
314 Ratings
18% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings6.7307 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.4283 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.1195 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings5.62 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.8
297 Ratings
8% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings6.7276 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.5272 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.4275 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.9218 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.5
221 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.0215 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.0133 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Azure
-
Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
8.4
145 Ratings
8% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.0125 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.594 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.094 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.571 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.597 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.984 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft AzureQlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(96 ratings)
8.3
(331 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(17 ratings)
8.4
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(36 ratings)
8.3
(14 ratings)
Availability
6.8
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(27 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
7.3
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft AzureQlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure is particularly well suited for enterprise environments with existing Microsoft investments, those that require robust compliance features, and organizations that need hybrid cloud capabilities that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure. In my opinion, Azure is less appropriate for cost-sensitive startups or small businesses without dedicated cloud expertise and scenarios requiring edge computing use cases with limited connectivity. Azure offers comprehensive solutions for most business needs but can feel like there is a higher learning curve than other cloud-based providers, depending on the product and use case.
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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
Microsoft
  • Microsoft Azure is highly scalable and flexible. You can quickly scale up or down additional resources and computing power.
  • You have no longer upfront investments for hardware. You only pay for the use of your computing power, storage space, or services.
  • The uptime that can be achieved and guaranteed is very important for our company. This includes the rapid maintenance for security updates that are mostly carried out by Microsoft.
  • The wide range of capabilities of services that are possible in Microsoft Azure. You can practically put or create anything in Microsoft Azure.
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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
Microsoft
  • The cost of resources is difficult to determine, technical documentation is frequently out of date, and documentation and mapping capabilities are lacking.
  • The documentation needs to be improved, and some advanced configuration options require research and experimentation.
  • Microsoft's licensing scheme is too complex for the average user, and Azure SQL syntax is too different from traditional SQL.
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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
Microsoft
Moving to Azure was and still is an organizational strategy and not simply changing vendors. Our product roadmap revolved around Azure as we are in the business of humanitarian relief and Azure and Microsoft play an important part in quickly and efficiently serving all of the world. Migration and investment in Azure should be considered as an overall strategy of an organization and communicated companywide.
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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
Microsoft
As Microsoft Azure is [doing a] really good with PaaS. The need of a market is to have [a] combo of PaaS and IaaS. While AWS is making [an] exceptionally well blend of both of them, Azure needs to work more on DevOps and Automation stuff. Apart from that, I would recommend Azure as a great platform for cloud services as scale.
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Qlik
Qlik Sense has a better and easy to learn user interface compared with other analytics tool which always help us to create regular and adhoc reports within the stipulated time frame and can be easily refreshed at a scheduled time and sent to multiple stakeholders for timely update regarding the Key metrics indicator.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
It has proven to be unreliable in our production environment and services become unavailable without proper notification to system administrators
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Qlik
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
We were running Windows Server and Active Directory, so [Microsoft] Azure was a seamless transition. We ran into a few, if any support issues, however, the availability of Microsoft Azure's support team was more than willing and able to guide us through the process. They even proposed solutions to issues we had not even thought of!
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Qlik
Qlik is great for companies with lots of business domains and departments because it scales well, especially if data that is reported is saved in SQL and similar structures. Its ease of use and good UI enables business units to create and manage their own reports. That removes a great burden of creating and managing/modifying these pages from the IT team. Overall, it's a win-win for both IT and business units.
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Online Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
As I have mentioned before the issue with my Oracle Mismatch Version issues that have put a delay on moving one of my platforms will justify my 7 rating.
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Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
As I continue to evaluate the "big three" cloud providers for our clients, I make the following distinctions, though this gap continues to close. AWS is more granular, and inherently powerful in the configuration options compared to [Microsoft] Azure. It is a "developer" platform for cloud. However, Azure PowerShell is helping close this gap. Google Cloud is the leading containerization platform, largely thanks to it building kubernetes from the ground up. Azure containerization is getting better at having the same storage/deployment options.
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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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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • For about 2 years we didn't have to do anything with our production VMs, the system ran without a hitch, which meant our engineers could focus on features rather than infrastructure.
  • DNS management was very easy in Azure, which made it easy to upgrade our cluster with zero downtime.
  • Azure Web UI was easy to work with and navigate, which meant our senior engineers and DevOps team could work with Azure without formal training.
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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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ScreenShots

Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense) Screenshots

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization Bundle