QlikView vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
QlikView
Custom
per user
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsOn an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
QlikView
Chose QlikView
Qlikview is great for extracting and cleaning data from ODBC compliant databases and Comma Separated Value (.csv) or excel data files. I think that Qlikview desktop is better than proprietary application's reporting tools since it can gather and compile data from multiple …
Chose QlikView
I have used Eloqua instead or alongside with Qlikview. It allows me to see things like heatmaps and compare data in email campaigns or newsletters. Generally they pull similar information. I do like the layout of Qlikview and find it more user friendly. In Eloqua it is a more …
Chose QlikView
Top data analytics software that will most likely turn into a key asset for any company.
Constantly being selected for its licensing and cost effectiveness, ease of dashboard Implementation, data management and manipulation, presence over web and ease of publishing, performance …
Chose QlikView
I was using COGNOS which is a huge tool compared to QlikView. QlikViewis way easier to use for developers as well a users.
Chose QlikView
I have used Crystal Reports and SSRS at previous organizations. They were not considered here at my current company because we do not have any SQL servers housing any data.
Chose QlikView
L'architecture en mémoire associative de QlikView permet de gérer des jeux de données jusqu'à plusieurs milliards d’enregistrements ou plusieurs milliers d'utilisateurs. L'IT peut fournir une expérience utilisateur
Salesforce Sales Cloud

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.3
63 Ratings
1% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.447 Ratings00 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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.942 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.627 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.336 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
242 Ratings
1% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.6242 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings7.9233 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.5186 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.5236 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.6221 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.2193 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.5176 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.6207 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.7168 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.4
84 Ratings
1% below category average
Case management00 Ratings7.884 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.366 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.268 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.7
221 Ratings
2% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings7.9216 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.5185 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.5
224 Ratings
1% below category average
Task management00 Ratings7.5213 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.260 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings7.9177 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
237 Ratings
2% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.4206 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings7.8225 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.2234 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.1
228 Ratings
7% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.2226 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.1216 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.1160 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.2189 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.7
230 Ratings
5% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.8197 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.6203 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.5
145 Ratings
3% above category average
Social data00 Ratings7.6144 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.5141 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
197 Ratings
9% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings7.8193 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings7.8130 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.2
208 Ratings
4% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.2208 Ratings
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User Ratings
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(83 ratings)
8.4
(374 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(29 ratings)
9.0
(56 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(14 ratings)
7.6
(120 ratings)
Availability
9.8
(4 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(4 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
3.4
(15 ratings)
5.7
(91 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.4
(13 ratings)
1.0
(18 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(2 ratings)
8.7
(33 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
QlikViewSalesforce Sales Cloud
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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Salesforce
Sales Cloud is very well suited for the daily leads and opportunity pipeline management as well as user management. Sales process automation are very helpful for repetitive tasks. It integrates well with other platforms. It's easy to customize and report on data. Sales Cloud can be pricey so is only open to larger org's that need complex CRM. User adoption is slow to any new users that have no prior experience.
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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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Salesforce
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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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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Salesforce
  • I have hard-coded the auto-update of the phone number format and state format from some codes shared by the community, but I do not know where to do it. I cannot reset it either.
  • It is unclear what functionalities each version has. We use the enterprise version, and it seems we can only have one design of the pipeline. But different business segments would have very different sales cycles, and hence, pipeline tracking would be different. It would be nice to have this available in our version.
  • It seems I cannot create a report to pull notes logged at the account levels.
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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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Salesforce
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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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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Salesforce
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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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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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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Performance
Qlik
It is not a SAAS product.
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Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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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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Salesforce
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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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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Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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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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Salesforce
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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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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Salesforce
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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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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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales cloud is well integrated with a lot of other marketing and sales technology SAAS products that we use within our business, which is a big part of why I enjoy using it. Compared to NetSuite, it is a lot more user friendly, a modern platform that provides better visual understanding of sales pipeline and contains more useful data across the customer journey.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I don't think there is a limit to Sales Cloud's scalability; at least, I haven't encountered one or heard of one. My data is not enormous, so perhaps some companies might encounter lags, but nothing from my end. I think I'll be able to use Sales Cloud from now until infinity.
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Professional Services
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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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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Salesforce
  • All tools we've implemented with Salesforce had a pretty quick positive ROI with the exception of CPQ & Billing. That was a very large project that I would only suggest for businesses with many SKUs that tend to be packaged together.
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ScreenShots

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