QlikView vs. Roambi (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QlikView
Score 7.8 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
Roambi (discontinued)
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Roambi was a cloud-based solution designed specifically for mobile data consumers, used to create touch-based data visualizations. It was acquired by SAP in 2016 for the SAP Analytics portfolio, and has since been discontinued as a standalone product.
$10
per user per month
Pricing
QlikViewRoambi (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
QlikView
Custom
per user
Starter
$10
per user per month
Business
$39
per user per month
Enterprise
$59
per user per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QlikViewRoambi (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOn an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
QlikView

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Roambi (discontinued)
Chose Roambi (discontinued)
I found that compared to software such as QlikView and Tableau, learning to effectively use Roambi is much simpler as the other two have steep learning curves where Roambi does not. For the purposes I had defined for myself such as quick sharing and visualization of large …
Chose Roambi (discontinued)
Qlikview better on desktop but not as good as Roambi on mobile
Chose Roambi (discontinued)
I have also used Spotfire and QlikView. Of all three, Roambi is the easiest to use and quickest to deploy. Roambi is also one of the easiest to start turning your data into beautiful charts and dashboards. Spotfire is easy to use but requires more time to get used to - but …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
QlikViewRoambi (discontinued)
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.3
63 Ratings
1% above category average
Roambi (discontinued)
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Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.562 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.557 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.0
63 Ratings
1% below category average
Roambi (discontinued)
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Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.162 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.563 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.336 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.159 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.9
58 Ratings
6% below category average
Roambi (discontinued)
9.0
1 Ratings
7% above category average
Publish to Web8.447 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.254 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.840 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.347 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.6
54 Ratings
6% below category average
Roambi (discontinued)
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Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.8
56 Ratings
10% below category average
Roambi (discontinued)
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Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)7.256 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.252 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.151 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.4
45 Ratings
7% below category average
Roambi (discontinued)
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Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.942 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.627 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.336 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 7.8 out of 10
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Reveal
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(83 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(29 ratings)
6.8
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(14 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.8
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.4
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.4
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QlikViewRoambi (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Getting Roambi up to speed in your company certainly is a quick win. After just a few days, several of our reports were mobilized, interactive and automatically updated. Building Roambi reports is not hard to do; the intuitive interface allows virtually any type of user to create his or her own reports.
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Pros
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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  • Report templates that are easy to learn, use, update and maintain.
  • Great looking reports that stay up-to-date with what Apple is producing. When Apple rolled out the new look and feel to their iOS7 release, Roambi created a brand new set of reports within two weeks to go along with the iOS7 changes.
  • Seamless integration with our existing BI environment, SAP Business Objects XI, 3.1. This drastically reduced the time from purchase to client-ready roll out from months to weeks.
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Cons
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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Discontinued Products
  • cardex type of presentation is already innovated in roambi in 2012, even iOS safari browser idea was created from this cardex style
  • blink view is only available for sap and ms sql
  • roambi publisher is very user-friendly and understandable for non technical person as well
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Discontinued Products
I would definitely use Roambi again because of its ease-of-use, but its lack of customization ability makes it difficult to recommend to businesses as business needs are always changing. People are picky, and on the Roambi project, we were not able to fully live up to the customer's expectations, limited by Roambi's preset limitations.
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Usability
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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VERY easy to use. Only limited by how the graphs and data is initially set up.
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Reliability and Availability
Qlik
We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs
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Performance
Qlik
It is not a SAAS product.
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Support Rating
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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Discontinued Products
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In-Person Training
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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Discontinued Products
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Online Training
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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Discontinued Products
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Implementation Rating
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 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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Discontinued Products
We have compared Roambi against Business Objects, Reporting Services (on tablet) and Cubeware Cockpit. All those solutions lack in support of touch capabilities and responsiveness. Roambi "feels" just right. There is no training required and users love to explore the application. Compared to Roambi all other solutions feel very technical and hard to understand.
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Return on Investment
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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Discontinued Products
  • Increased insights on customer success metrics (using a Layers report).
  • Higher motivation of employees, better communication towards employees, tighter bonds with the company - because of Roambi Flow. Periodic Flow magazines with analytic capabilities are sent out to the employees, as we value frequent and meaningful contact - both ways.
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ScreenShots

QlikView Screenshots

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