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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

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    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
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Qlik
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is more powerful of a tool than something like QlikView or QlikSense with the correct training.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot has more possibilities, is easier to use and can combine much more info to get the report you want.
    Also, because you can replace other software, it's cheaper.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    68 Ratings
    5% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.050 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.766 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.060 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.4
    91 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.166 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.967 Ratings6.890 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.336 Ratings5.849 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.162 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    62 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Publish to Web8.049 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.056 Ratings8.378 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.542 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.048 Ratings8.264 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.835 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.1
    86 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.055 Ratings7.485 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.546 Ratings6.879 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.85 Ratings7.465 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    6.7
    60 Ratings
    24% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.0
    86 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.059 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model5.355 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)5.455 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.03 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    4% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    53 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.044 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.028 Ratings6.634 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.038 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of QlikView and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    QlikView
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    51 Ratings
    6% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.442 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.935 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    QlikViewThoughtSpot
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    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (88 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.1
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (13 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    QlikViewThoughtSpot
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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    Performance
    Qlik
    It is not a SAAS product.
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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Scalability
    Qlik
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    ScreenShots

    QlikView Screenshots

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

    ThoughtSpot Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics