Qlik Sense vs. QlikView

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Sense
Score 8.1 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.
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
QlikView
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
QlikView® 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
Qlik SenseQlikView
Editions & Modules
Standard
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Premium
$2700
per month unlimited basic users & purchased full users
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Custom Quote
QlikView
Custom
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik SenseQlikView
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsOn an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
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Community Pulse
Qlik SenseQlikView
Considered Both Products
Qlik Sense
Chose Qlik Sense
QlikView is similar to Qlik Sense, it had more flexibility but less intuitive.
Knime is easy to track how the report was set up but the visualization is inferior to Qlik Sense.
Excel was easier to use but fewer capabilities than Qlik Sense.
Chose Qlik Sense
We primarily chose Qlik Sense based on our positive experience with QlikView. Qlik Sense seemed like a promising new direction based on a proven analytics engine.

Tableau was another option available to us but we didn't strongly consider it at the time since it didn't seem to …
Chose Qlik Sense
Having been a huge advocate of QlikView for many years, I was surprised to find how easy the transition to Sense as both a developer and an end-user has been. Improvements in most areas massively outweigh the small things I miss
Chose Qlik Sense
We were already using QlikView so moving to Qlik Sense was the right step. From a development point, this meant the learning was not as steep as when we first started using QlikView. We also use Power BI where the volume of data is a lot less than in the Qlik Sense projects.
Chose Qlik Sense
Choosing Qlik Sense was a no-brainer to our organisation as we had already invested years developing QVD's (Qlik's data sources/structures) with QlikView that could be re-used with Qlik Sense. However we have still watched and explored the other products and although they can …
Chose Qlik Sense
Since we were existing users of QlikView and developed intricate data models over the years, we decided to use what we have in place rather than go through the effort of creating similar data lakes in SQL.
Our company uses multiple systems for different department needs. Qlik …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is much better in the user interface. End users prefer and like to use Qlik Sense faster than with QlikView.
And it is important that people likes the UI to get them to use it.
Chose Qlik Sense
QlikView - more functionality but not so focused on self-service.
SAP BO - another approach in getting data - directly from data source and not in-memory.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is better combined with QlikView. Power BI was not used because the whole stack [was not] from MS.
Chose Qlik Sense
QlikView has many more options for styling within charts and objects - this hurts our ability to style things to our needs within Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense looks more modern, responsive for browser size and visually more appealing.
Chose Qlik Sense
Previously, we used QlikView and it was difficult to modify something in a dashboard that was originally created by other colleagues. I think that QlikView it's a legacy and it will be decommissioned soon. Versus Power BI, I would say that Qlik Sense does a very nice figure in …
Chose Qlik Sense
Kibana is data visualization tool in Elastic Stack to visualize and analyze Real Time Logs Capture.
It captures Live Streaming data and helps to detect any anomalies, error and bugs, monitoring aspects of any service/ IOT Device.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is a fast tool to implement; you can have a functional dashboard in a few days, and the ETL processes are quite easy to build it. You can have the ROI in a short period of time.
Chose Qlik Sense
When it comes to working with large datasets out of the box, Qlik in my opinion is unrivaled amongst the competitor. However, the overall user experience and customization options available to developers require a lot of work. When compared to other options on the market, …
Chose Qlik Sense
[I was not involved in the decision making process for the choice of the reporting tool]
Qlik Sense is - certainly on the front-end side - far more user-friendly than the other tools I've experienced, and allows for more dynamic reporting. It also has obtained a certain …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense has its own set of features and capabilities and is a worthy replacement for all other B.I. tools that I have used.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense, Tableau, Power BI and Looker are all great tools that will cover and add value to virtually every organization. They are a bit different and the decision of selecting one and not other can reside in the particular needs of each case. Qlik Sense integration with …
Chose Qlik Sense
First and foremost, the ability of Qlik to play nice with SAP and utilize SAP Extractor. Second, the Grey-White-Green feature for basic insight is also very useful.
Chose Qlik Sense
Pretty good in performance user-friendliness. When generating insights, Qlik Sense looks at the selections and analyzes the excluded values in the data model, which reduces manual work.
Also, it highlights data that may be of interest for further exploration. That data is …
Chose Qlik Sense
These two options offer a great tool for visualization and customizability in their charts, however, I preferred the default associative model of Qlik where your selections are persistent across multiple pages allowing for more exploration. I also really enjoyed Qlik's ability …
Chose Qlik Sense
PBI has decent dashboarding capabilities, but cannot be compared to Qlik in terms of governance of the self-service. The Associative Experience of Qlik is super valuable for us and Power BI does not have it. Power BI also does not have the powerful backend of Qlik. I would say …
QlikView
Chose QlikView
Tableau and Qlik Sense are a lot prettier and easier to use than QlikView. They also cost a LOT more. If you've got the budget, I'd consider going with one of those solutions. However, departments that don't have the budget to support tools like those need usable solutions as …
Chose QlikView
Each tool has their own pros and cons; QlikView works well for our needs at this time.
Chose QlikView
QlikView has a great capability of handling complicated, heterogeneous and raw data and convert them into consumable form by performing basic ETL operations in comparison to Tableau and Power BI.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Qlik SenseQlikView
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.4
312 Ratings
2% above category average
QlikView
8.3
63 Ratings
1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.3213 Ratings8.847 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.9310 Ratings8.562 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.1225 Ratings7.557 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
323 Ratings
6% above category average
QlikView
8.0
63 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.8319 Ratings8.162 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.2312 Ratings7.563 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.4152 Ratings8.336 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.9296 Ratings8.159 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.7
275 Ratings
4% above category average
QlikView
7.9
58 Ratings
6% below category average
Publish to Web8.7207 Ratings8.447 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.7254 Ratings8.254 Ratings
Report Versioning8.7174 Ratings7.840 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.7180 Ratings7.347 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.7106 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
311 Ratings
6% above category average
QlikView
7.6
54 Ratings
6% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.4304 Ratings8.151 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.7281 Ratings8.044 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.5193 Ratings6.85 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.9
294 Ratings
4% above category average
QlikView
7.8
56 Ratings
10% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.2273 Ratings7.256 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.0270 Ratings8.252 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.7272 Ratings8.151 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.9216 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
7.5
220 Ratings
6% below category average
QlikView
7.4
45 Ratings
7% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.5214 Ratings7.942 Ratings
Mobile Application8.2132 Ratings7.627 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.3184 Ratings7.336 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.5
143 Ratings
7% above category average
QlikView
-
Ratings
REST API8.7123 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.392 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.592 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API8.669 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.695 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.482 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Qlik SenseQlikView
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(327 ratings)
9.0
(83 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
8.8
(29 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(11 ratings)
8.2
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(8 ratings)
3.4
(15 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(5 ratings)
7.4
(13 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik SenseQlikView
Likelihood to Recommend
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
Qlik
Standard user interface and powerful analytic functions is GREAT. As technical person working in the background there are more things to do to make this a completely great tool. Some functions that should be standard requires consult scripting and hours. Now we are using it quite advanced and with many servers and in combination with QlikView. So overall I love the tool. But it could be better and user friendly and powerful in the background
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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
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Qlik
We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs
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Performance
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Qlik
It is not a SAAS product.
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Support Rating
Qlik
Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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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
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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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
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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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
Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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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
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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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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Return on Investment
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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Qlik
  • Generate quick reports for requirements that don't require complex calculations. ROI was fine, but Tableau software was much more intuitive for non-technical users on our team
  • When putting Qlikview reports side by side with Tableau, we ended up delivering Tableau reports since they were quicker to generate and required no technical expertise
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ScreenShots

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

QlikView Screenshots

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