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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    QlikView

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AQlikView® 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

    SAP BW/4HANA

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASAP 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
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    Editions & Modules
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsOn an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    Considered Both Products
    Qlik
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    SAP
    Chose SAP BW/4HANA
    We used to have QlikView reporting some years ago. It was very user-friendly but when you needed some kind of data that was not considered by the solution creator, you needed to pay a developer for that need. SAP BW/4HANA needs very little customisation to offer you new data …
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    Chose SAP BW/4HANA
    We chose SAP BW/4HANA for its out of the box integration and ETL capabilities with our landscape of other SAP solutions in addition to the pre-build SAP delivered business content. Integrated BPC also made it a perfect choice for planning and consolidation in one integrated …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    68 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.766 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.060 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
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    Drill-down analysis8.266 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.867 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.336 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.162 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    62 Ratings
    5% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
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    Publish to Web8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.056 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.542 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    6.7
    60 Ratings
    23% below category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.159 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model5.355 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)5.555 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Location-Based Data Governance00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    4% above category average
    SAP BW/4HANA
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    Responsive Design for Web Access8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.7
    4 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    9.0
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of QlikView and SAP BW/4HANA
    Feature
    QlikView
    -
    Ratings
    SAP BW/4HANA
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    1% below category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (88 ratings)
    9.7
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QlikViewSAP BW/4HANA
    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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    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
    • 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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    SAP
    • With ODP based extraction, SAP BW/4HANA does well to integrate the data from various source systems like S4HANA , S4C.
    • With composite providers having the ability to integrate HANA calculation views, we are able to make the best of use of both application layer and data base layer(HANA) for mixed modelling scenarios.
    • with data tiering optimization higher data volume are effectively handled as we have the option to control the amount of data that is being stored in HOT , Warm and cold storage. With data volume grows over the year, DTO comes in handy solution to automatically move the delta to appropriate area based on temporature.
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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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    SAP
    • Better integration with HANA layer with BW/4HANA application
    • Flexibility to provide more secure API's to interact with non-sap Data bases
    • Integration with Gsheets as well like Excel(AFO) and introduce better reporting integration with various reporting tools.
    • Evolution to provide better data lake , data brick options like in BDC
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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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    SAP
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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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    SAP
    SAP BW/4HANA requires specialized skillsets around data warehouse modeling and the access to data, however the modeling capabilities are intuitive and have now become accessible to both SAP and non-SAP data warehouse specialists. This new model allows for Interchangeable skillsets and access to a broader pool of experts throughout the industry, as well as easier access to data.
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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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    SAP
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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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    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
    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
    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
    "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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    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
    • 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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    SAP
    • SAP BW/4HANA has been immensely helpful in eliminating alternate silos of data creation by business users thereby ensuring data integrity and consistency across the organization. The focus is now more on data analysis as opposed to data preparation in spreadsheets saving users hours of laborious manual work in collating data.
    • We have been able to quickly integrate and leverage data from multiple SAP systems into SAP BW/4HANA to drive holistic decision making within the organization including streamlining the month end close process using BPC.
    • Excel friendly reporting tools such as Analysis for Office have made it much easier for user adoption and training making change management much easier and change the culture within the organization.
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    ScreenShots

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    SAP BW/4HANA Screenshots

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