QlikView vs. Salesforce CRM Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
QlikView
Score 8.1 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 CRM Analytics
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.
$125
per month
Pricing
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
Editions & Modules
QlikView
Custom
per user
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
Free Trial
YesNo
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
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
Considered Both Products
QlikView
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.
Salesforce CRM Analytics
Chose Salesforce CRM Analytics
Compare to other solutions Tableau CRM provides more attractive GUI and interactive dashboards. Cost and integration are still a challenge as It cost around $150 per user license cost.
Chose Salesforce CRM Analytics
Tableau CRM no doubt has best GUI compare to any other existing BI tools we are currently working on. We are already using Salesforce as a CRM tool for sales/services/marketing and Tableau CRM has easy connectivity and development with Salesforce data. After demo the sample …
Features
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.4
68 Ratings
3% above category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
7.8
48 Ratings
5% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.050 Ratings7.541 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.166 Ratings8.548 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.060 Ratings7.546 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.2
67 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
7.8
49 Ratings
3% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.566 Ratings8.548 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.567 Ratings7.548 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.336 Ratings7.537 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.462 Ratings7.546 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.6
62 Ratings
4% above category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
8.1
47 Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web8.049 Ratings9.037 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.056 Ratings7.044 Ratings
Report Versioning7.542 Ratings8.543 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.048 Ratings8.540 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.534 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.4
58 Ratings
8% below category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
7.4
45 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.855 Ratings8.042 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.546 Ratings6.540 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.85 Ratings7.042 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
7.2
60 Ratings
17% below category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
9.0
48 Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.259 Ratings9.046 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.155 Ratings8.546 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.455 Ratings9.042 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.23 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.541 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
8.0
47 Ratings
3% above category average
Salesforce CRM Analytics
6.8
45 Ratings
13% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.044 Ratings7.543 Ratings
Mobile Application9.028 Ratings7.034 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.038 Ratings6.539 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
QlikView
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Ratings
Salesforce CRM Analytics
8.3
33 Ratings
7% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.529 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.525 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.528 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.527 Ratings
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User Ratings
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(88 ratings)
9.0
(51 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(15 ratings)
8.5
(10 ratings)
Availability
9.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.3
(15 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.4
(13 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QlikViewSalesforce CRM Analytics
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
For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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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
  • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
  • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
  • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
  • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
  • Almost everything can be done from configuration
  • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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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
  • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
  • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
  • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
  • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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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
No answers on this topic
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
For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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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
No answers on this topic
Performance
Qlik
It is not a SAAS product.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
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
I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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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
No answers on this topic
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
No answers on this topic
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
An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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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
Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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Return on Investment
Qlik
  • You can use the free desktop version to do a lot of reporting and analysis work more quickly so the ROI is huge
  • QlikView is great at finding outliers such as data entry errors
  • QlikView is great at helping you quickly discover new insights about your business that can prompt you to take action that can immediately affect your cash flow.
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Salesforce
  • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
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