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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

    Rational BI

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…

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    Pricing
    QlikViewRational BI
    Editions & Modules
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    Free
    $0
    single user
    Professional
    $129
    single user
    Enterprise
    Varies
    single user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    QlikViewRational BI
    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.Additional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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    Community Pulse
    QlikViewRational BI
    Considered Both Products
    Qlik
    No answer on this topic
    Rational BI
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    QlikViewRational BI
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    68 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Rational BI
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.050 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.766 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.060 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Rational BI
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.266 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.867 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.336 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.162 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.6
    62 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Rational BI
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web8.049 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.056 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.542 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.048 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    7.4
    58 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Rational BI
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.955 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.546 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.85 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    6.7
    60 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Rational BI
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.159 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model5.355 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)5.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of QlikView and Rational BI
    Feature
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Rational BI
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    QlikViewRational BI
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    QlikViewRational BI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (88 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 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
    QlikViewRational BI
    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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    Rational BI
    Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Arrange data.
    • Dashboard.
    • Automatic reports.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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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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    Rational BI
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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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    Rational BI
    Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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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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    Rational BI
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    Performance
    Qlik
    It is not a SAAS product.
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    Rational BI
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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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    Rational BI
    I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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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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    Rational BI
    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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    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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    Rational BI
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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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    Rational BI
    Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
    • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
    • Single pane of management.
    • Ease of use.
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    ScreenShots

    QlikView Screenshots

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

    Rational BI Screenshots

    Screenshot of Modern Business IntelligenceScreenshot of Drag-and-drop InsightsScreenshot of Accessible for everyone, power when you need itScreenshot of Beautiful analytics on every screen and deviceScreenshot of Scheduled reporting: Broadcast your findings to everyoneScreenshot of Connect all your data no matter where it lives