Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense) vs. SAP BW/4HANA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Score 8.2 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
SAP BW/4HANA
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SAP BW/4HANA is a next-generation data warehouse solution. It is specifically designed to use the advanced in-memory capabilities of the SAP HANA platform. For example, SAP BW/HANA can integrate many different data sources to provide a single, logical view of all the data. This could include data contained in SAP and non-SAP applications running on-premise or in the cloud, and data lakes, such as those contained in the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework. With SAP BW/4HANA,…N/A
Pricing
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
Editions & Modules
Starter
$200
per month
Standard
$825
per month
Premium
$2750
per month
Qlik Sense (On-Premise)
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
Considered Both Products
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Chose Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Visualizations, the ability to combine data from many sources and associative analysis puts Qlik Sensee several levels higher.
Chose Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
Qlik Sense is very user-friendly and, at the same time, powerful.
SAP BW/4HANA

No answer on this topic

Features
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.9
315 Ratings
4% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports8.3216 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.0313 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.3228 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.0
326 Ratings
14% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.0322 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.0315 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.0154 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.0299 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.8
278 Ratings
5% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
Publish to Web6.3210 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.3257 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.0176 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.0183 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.5108 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
6.7
314 Ratings
18% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.7307 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.5283 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.0195 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining5.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.8
297 Ratings
9% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
9.2
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)6.7276 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.5272 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.4275 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.0218 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
7.5
221 Ratings
3% below category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access8.0215 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application8.0133 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
8.4
145 Ratings
8% above category average
SAP BW/4HANA
-
Ratings
REST API8.0125 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.094 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API8.571 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.597 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.084 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Modeling
Comparison of Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
-
Ratings
SAP BW/4HANA
9.6
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Data model creation00 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
-
Ratings
SAP BW/4HANA
9.2
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Visualization00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Data Warehouse
Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
-
Ratings
SAP BW/4HANA
7.7
2 Ratings
5% below category average
High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings9.72 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings9.72 Ratings
Administrative Automation00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Self-Optimization00 Ratings6.42 Ratings
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User Ratings
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(332 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(14 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(9 ratings)
9.7
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)SAP BW/4HANA
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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SAP
SAP BW/4HANA is certainly an excellent choice when it comes to setting up a data warehousing platform within a landscape of existing SAP systems ecosystem for realizing quick time to value and ROI over the long term. Many non-SAP analytics tools such as Power BI , Qlik also now offer connectors to leverage SAP BW/4HANA data as additional options to deploy third party visualization tools which make it a more open ended platform of choice. But with the future roadmap of SAP and industry in general being focused towards cloud based offerings (SAC and Datasphere) infused with AI capabilities one has to make a judicious choice among these depending on the use case, capabilities of platforms and existing systems landscape and the overall long term IT strategy. SAP BW/4HANA may not be a good platform of choice if starting a native greenfield data warehousing implementation with cloud first approach which would require data integration across SAP and Non-SAP sources and one should consider other SAP cloud offerings which however still have some time to reach a level of maturity as SAP BW/4HANA has reached over the years.
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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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SAP
  • High speed data warehouse regardless of data volumes.
  • Excellent integration with SAP systems and Data sets.
  • Simplified data modelling due to columnar data base.
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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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SAP
  • Enterprise license pricing is very expensive and run-time license limits the usefulness of the tool.
  • Integration with SAP Analytics cloud for write-back to BW/4HANA. Live connection is only read from SAC.
  • Make run-time licenses more useful.
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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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SAP
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Usability
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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SAP
SAP BW/4HANA is a well-designed data warehousing solution that has matured over the years with even more capabilities esp. on the HANA platform making it a compelling choice for SAP customers. It is very well thought out both in design and development aspects from an IT standpoint as well as usability from a business user standpoint with excellent performance driven by HANA. It also goes beyond just analytics and offers data mining and planning capabilities that make it even more compelling.
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Support Rating
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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SAP
SAP Max Attention and general support for SAP BW/4HANA is broadly available. Truth to be told, MaxAttention has a premium cost but brings great engineers. So this being an enterprise capability and extremely critical, we did not consider cost as the main factor since support works well. Just keep that in mind when making your selection.
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In-Person Training
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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SAP
No answers on this topic
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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SAP
SAP BW / 4HANA and SAP IQ are both used for warehouse; with quick consultations for business analysis and that allows us to obtain dashboards and KPIs efficiently. SAP IQ is columnar and SAP BW / 4HANA immemorial. SAP BW / 4HANA was selected for the response speed of the queries since it saves the information in cache.
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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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SAP
  • Positive impact on the availability of information for decision making.
  • Avoid the need for multiple databases for isolated data warehouses within the organization.
  • Immediate availability of information for managers and business users.
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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

SAP BW/4HANA Screenshots

Screenshot of Next generation data warehousing with SAP BW/4HANA.Screenshot of SAP BW/4HANA user cockpit.Screenshot of Geolocation analytics in SAP BW/4HANA.Screenshot of Data modeling in SAP BW/4HANA.Screenshot of Modern user experience in SAP BW/4HANA.Screenshot of Monitor the performance of your business in real-time with SAP BW/4HANA.