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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Phocas Business Intelligence

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/APhocas helps users discover data and provides results in real time.  It is designed for non-technical users and delivers a simple yet powerful analytical capability that quickly turns data into a chart, graph or map.  It brings up data on local, regional or global sales, inventory, forecasts, prices, profit margins, budgets and more. Phocas, based in the United Kingdom, is a business intelligence firm with offices in…N/A

    Qlik Replicate

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AQlik Replicate enables organizations to accelerate data real-time replication, ingestion and streaming via change data capture, across a wide range of heterogeneous databases, data warehouses and data lake platforms.N/A
    Pricing
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsPhocas has built its business model on exceeding customer expectations. We’ve operated on a subscription basis from the start and in the words of Phocas Group chairman and co-founder Paul Magee: ‘That puts the onus on us to perform’. And we like that. In fact, our whole company ecosystem is built around that ‘light bulb moment’ when customers achieve a breakthrough by seeing their business through fresh eyes.—
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    Community Pulse
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    Considered Both Products
    Phocas
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Customizable dashboards9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Drill-down analysis10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    9.3
    4 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
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    Publish to PDF10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    9.9
    4 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Multi-User Support (named login)9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Phocas Business Intelligence and Qlik Replicate
    Feature
    Phocas Business Intelligence
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Qlik Replicate
    -
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    Responsive Design for Web Access9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    OpenText Availability
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (32 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Phocas Business IntelligenceQlik Replicate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Phocas
    If you would like your data in one place with easy access, this is the software for you. You can have data from multiple systems and bring it into one view so that you have a quick and easily visible dashboard for the data you wish to see.
    Incentivized
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    Qlik
    Qlik Replicate works very well with relational data platforms, both on premise and in the cloud, for example Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and others, it also works very well with DB2. If the data source is MongoDB, it is more complicated and currently there is no possibility of sending data to MongoDB.
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    Pros
    Phocas
    • Custom reports are simple to create.
    • The ability to manage users and their dashboards is solid.
    • Easy to navigate web interface makes the software accessible from anywhere.
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    Qlik
    • Replicate is extremely stable and does not generate a lot of alerts/failures/issues that take up time to troubleshoot.
    • It is very easy to add new source tables to a Replicate task so that we're always in sync with new data available from the CRM.
    • It's nice that Qlik Replicate also allows you to create a job to stop and then restart your tasks during maintenance windows that occur on both the source and target systems.
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    Cons
    Phocas
    • Phocas needs to make it easier to connect to different types of databases.
    • The data in Phocas needs to be updated faster in some cases.
    • It needs to provide functions to create better charts and graphs.
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    Qlik
    • The base Replicate web GUI is lacking. If you have dozens or more tasks, it's hard to get a sense of how they're performing. Enterprise Manager solves all of these problems but is a separate install.
    • The support portal is extremely difficult to navigate. It's hard to track down exactly what you're looking for.
    • It would be helpful to have better documentation and example queries for the tables in the Enterprise Manager analytics database.
    • Destination databases that don't support common DDL commands behave unpredictably. And the replication of schema changes isn't consistent.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Phocas
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    The availability of the replicated data in disparate environments has is now crucial. Replacing a product like Qlik Replicate would require significant time, investments, and work. In addition, Qlik Replicate is reasonably reliable with few failures.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Phocas
    It is a very user-friendly product and is easy to understand. You can get your data from just a quick click and the dashboard loads. You can take the data and drill down easy to find what you are looking for.
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    Qlik
    We now have greater business flexibility and scalability, and our big data integration projects have a quick rate of growth, which has been profitable for us. Independent of the sources involved, maintaining data consistency between sources is easy. One of my favorite features is the way it lets owners of the source system start and stop processes from updating their system windows.
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    Support Rating
    Phocas
    Support is responsive. You log a call and they will respond quickly and resolve your issues. We have only had great experiences with the support team.
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    Qlik
    The issue I've had is that Qlik does an awful job of keeping their customers informed when new versions of the software are available. We found that we were using a version that was no longer supported and could never get help. When it came time to get us upgraded so that we were on a current version, no one knew how to help get us to where we needed to be. We had to purchased professional services time and even then I was basically on my own to get everything built out and set up. Qlik needs to be more proactive with communicating about new releases and how to get your version upgraded in the most secure, safe way possible.
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    Implementation Rating
    Phocas
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    Follow the directions from the Qlik documentation. They are pretty straight forward and easy enough to follow. If you follow these, then you are not likely to have issues on implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Phocas
    Phocas is easy to use for end users and can be used on desktops, laptops, and phones.
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    Qlik
    Great tool for data replication solution for Oracle/SQLServers/etc. Real easy to get it set up and start realizing business value. Getting the PoC accomplished in a short window. Product costing and easy to start small and scale as needed. It helped cover most of our ask compared to other solutions.
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    Return on Investment
    Phocas
    • It has given our business a view on data
    • We can access it from anywhere
    • You can have multiple dashboards for different information
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    Qlik
    • Prior to using Qlik Replicate, we used an ETL solution to copy data from the Oracle ERP system to the Microsoft SQL Server BI system at a 15-minute interval. It was very tedious to maintain. Qlik Replicate is much easier to use and we replicate data near real-time now.
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