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According to the IT Central Station community, the most important buying criteria for BI tools arescalability and performance, usability and UI, ease of development, and mobile/cloud basedcustomization. An effective BI solution should be able to access any data source and providecapabilities for internal and external users from the same platform, as well as provide better integrationwith other systems (e.g. CRM, ERP). Read more »




QlikView TableauVendor: QlikView Tableau

Overview: QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool thatallows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy toaccess database that is intuitive to build andsimple to navigate. It is ideal for business ownerswho wish to improve overall output by creating themost productive system possible.

Tableau is a BI-focused software company thatproduces a wide range of interactive visualizationtools that help businesses analyze largequantities of data in a quick, intuitive, and user-friendly way.

SampleCustomers:

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila,Cambridge University Hospitals, Global RetailBank, North Yorkshire Police department, LanooGroup Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank ofAmerica, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte,Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae,Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs,Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, JohnsHopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New YorkTimes, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force,Skype, and Walmart.

PricingInformation:

Personal Edition - This is for a single user onlyto input and access data indiscriminately.

Free

Named User License - This allows you toconnect as many individual users as you like tothe network.

$1350 USD/user

Document License - This allows one nameduser to access one document.

$350 USD/name used, per document

Concurrent License - This license allowsmultiple users to access the information.

$15000 USD/concurrent user

Tableau features five major products, each withits own pricing solution.

Tableau Desktop- : - A drag-and-drop desktopprogram that allows users to quickly analyze,sort, and visualize big data in record time.(Pricing: Professional edition - $1,999 per user,first year; $399 per year thereafter. Personaledition - $999 per user, first year; $199 per yearthereafter)

Tableau Server: - Browser-based analytics withan interactive dashboard. Sharable, usable BIavailable for desktop and mobile use.

Tableau Online: - The hosted version ofTableau Server, enabling users to share live,interactive dashboards within the company aswell as with partners and customers. (Pricing:$500-$1,000 per user, per year)

Tableau Reader: - A free PC app that enablessharing of data visualization created withTableau Desktop. (Pricing: Free)




PricingInformation:

Tableau Public: - Website enhancement withinteractive data storytelling. No programmingnecessary to create, publish, or sharevisualizations. (Pricing: Free)

TopComparisons:*

Tableau vs. QlikView:Compared 11% of the time.

Microsoft BI Stack vs. QlikView:Compared 9% of the time.

Oracle OBIEE vs. QlikView:Compared 7% of the time.

SAS Visual Analytics vs. Tableau:Compared 12% of the time.

Oracle OBIEE vs. Tableau:Compared 8% of the time.

QlikView vs. Tableau:Compared 7% of the time.

Top Industries:* Financial Services FirmManufacturing CompanyTransportation CompanyMedia Company

18%8%7%7%

Financial Services FirmManufacturing CompanyHealthcare CompanyEnergy/Utilities Company

18%7%6%6%

Company Size:* 1-100 Employees100-1000 Employees1000+ Employees

36%25%39%

1-100 Employees100-1000 Employees1000+ Employees

35%21%45%

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Deep Dive: Valuable Features

QlikView Tableau

Pablo Parnisari, BI Expert at a tech services companywith 1-100 employees:

As a BI professional sometimes you have totackle projects with poor or no documentation atall, just the datasources and some vaguerequirements. In QlikView it is quite easy buildup a first data model (dimensional or not) anduse the first stage to understand the entities andrelations between it and the business. Fromthere you can explore the business, understandthe users real requirements and needs andimprove the model with a few changes, withoutmuch effort. This is because Qlikview has a veryflexible and short cycle of development in eachiteration. For the user QlikView is a wonderfultool of data discovery, providing powerful toolsto navigate easily between a sea of data in anintuitive, easy, and clear way, allowing themto go from facts to KPI and vice versa.

Erin Dettrey, Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at ahealthcare company with 1-100 employees:

KPI's Dashboard creation

BIExpert221, BI Expert at a financial services firm with100-1000 employees:

Extraordinary ease of use, easier to use thanany competitor product I’ve used in 15 years orso I’ve worked on MI/BI. Since I originally wrotethis, I have found the mapping on Tableau hasbeen extremely useful and easy to use,particularly that it includes very good geocodingfor the UK.

BIAnalyst885, Business Intelligence Analyst at ahealthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

It is very powerful Flexibility




Jhornber, BI Expert at a leisure / travel company with1000+ employees:

1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time tolearn, but it is quite powerful. Not as a total ETLreplacement tool necessarily, but as asupplement to load and join data sources, andperform additional transformations. I'vecombined as many as a half dozen data sourcesincluding data from multiple SQL Data Marts,Source System DBs, XLS, CSV, and Google BigQuery. 2. Design Flexibility - While otherproducts may do drag and drop, ad-hocanalytics better. (Including Tableau, and Qlik'snew product QlikSense) I've not come acrossone that better supports the creation of apolished, packaged, custom dashboard, thatsupports what I'd consider "guided exploration",and best meets the needs of our user base. Thecustomization can be taken even further throughin-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g.Custom D3 Visualizations).

SAPSpecialist189, SAP Application Specialist at acomms service provider with 100-1000 employees:

It produces reports quickly.

Ed Dallal, Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) &President at a software R&D company with 1-100employees:

Ease of use Implementation Processing speed

GP Nath, Lead Technical at a comms service provider with1000+ employees:

Amazing performance Easy to use self serviceExtremely powerful for data analysis

Larry Keller, CEO at a tech consulting company with1000+ employees:

Data Preparation - This is a huge plus forTableau as so many users have to spend timepreparing the data before using Tableau DataInterpreter Splits - Really helps theaverage user Drag and drop analytics:Tableau 9.0 has a new Analytics pane thatprovides quick and easy access to commonanalytic features in Tableau. You can dragreference lines, forecasts, trend lines, and otherobjects into your view from the Analytics panel.It is now easy to edit, format, and remove theanalytic items that you have added, so you canexperiment with different techniques as youexplore the insights your data has to offer.Ad--‐hoc calculations: Ad--‐hoc calculationsmake it easy to add and edit calculated fields foryour analysis. Double--‐click an existing field onthe Rows, Columns, Marks, or Measure Valuesshelf to begin editing, or double-click an emptyarea on a shelf to create a new calculation. Asyou type, a list of auto--‐complete optionsappears in a dropdown list, making it easier tofind and pick the right elements. Instantanalytics: Instant analytics provides aninteractive experience for comparing summaryinformation about a subset of marks to all themarks in your view.




AssociateDir223, Associate Director at a consultancy with1000+ employees:

Relationship based data modelling Flexiblecharting

Guilherme Yoshikazu Saito Machado, BI Analyst at amanufacturing company with 100-1000 employees:

Integrated ETL In-memory data QlikViewManagement Console Front-end design.

Marco Casalino, Consulting Manager at a consultancywith 1-100 employees:

Fast access to data Rapid development Richgraphic interface


For example, you can compare the average for afew marks to the average for all the marks. Afteryou’ve added trend lines, reference lines,reference bands, or distribution bands to yourview, select one or more marks to see the newanalytical indicators appear for the selection inaddition to the analytical indicators for the wholeview. Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions: Newexpression syntax in the Tableau calculationlanguage lets you quickly create calculatedfields that compute at the specified levels ofdetail. LOD calculations help you compute atmultiple levels of aggregation and make it easierto create fields for analytical comparison (suchas cohort analysis and totals or Average acrosssegments), simplifying calculations thatpreviously took several steps.

Andreas Demetriou Pompatzis, Web Administrator at aretailer with 1000+ employees:

Ease of data visualization Ease of dashboardcreation Ease of dashboard sharing


Rich graphics Dashboard

Pylot539, Senior BI Architect at a tech services companywith 100-1000 employees:

It has ease-of-use features that make it a gooddata discovery tool for use with our clients.Additionally, the ability to rapidly mine data andvisualize data issues for clients is valuable.




Analyst220, Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financialservices firm with 1000+ employees:

All the features are valuable.

Jake Edward Ronay, Business Consultant at aconsultancy with 1-100 employees:

For both Tableau Public and Desktop, the abilityto quickly pull together data sources into ameaningful (visual) display. Also, the intuitivedesign and ability to work with increasingly largeand real-time data sets.

Jonathan Friesen, User at a energy/utilities company with1000+ employees:

Easily visualize data.




Deep Dive: Room for Improvement

QlikView Tableau


It is well know that the ETL is quite far awayfrom leading products like Data StagemInformatica and others. Currently Qliktech isworking on this problem with Expressor, apowerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area isthe licensing scheme, which leaves out manySMO. To remedy this and try to stop theeruption of third parties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTechlaunched Qlik Sense, although the futureis unclear and there may be a possible merge ofthe two branches (Qlik Sense + QlikView).Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves thedevelopment of new graphic charts to thecommunity with mixed results.


Online education, but they are revamping.


Expansion of number of visualisations, as wellas potential for straight to dashboard function,rather than design individual visualisation –these are, however, genuinely not priority toamend.

BIAnalyst885, Business Intelligence Analyst at ahealthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

Minor issues only. My biggest one is controlover the order in which filters and sorts areapplied. There is some control of this but notenough.





No out of the box mapping capabilities(Extensions/Plugins available). No auto-scale fordifferent display resolutions/dimensions, but thetrade-off here is the much greater designflexibility than one gets with a Grid basedproduct. Would like to see a few morevisualizations available out of the box (e..g BulletGraph) Very rudimentary report creationcapabilities. No scheduling or distributionwithout Publisher product.

Henrik Wickström, IT Project Manager at aenergy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:

Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.Complicated license management.


Job scheduler needs work.


More graphics Dashboard support


More flexibility to alter auto association in thedata model. Support for collaboration.


Macro Editing It should have an HTML text boxcontrol Presentation on smart device Theperformance of the Qlikview website is poor as ittakes three minutes to open a page The SMEserver edition does not include a deploy tool,and we have to copy updated document to theserver manually which seems ridiculous


The basic design of Tableau has some featuresthat could be modified. * There is no need tohave five (5) ways to add a new worksheet.Brevity is rewarded - new users have so much tolearn that 2 ways would do the job * How torender time - When performing analysis, nosingle issue is more important than time seriesdata. Tableau uses visual clues in many places -When one uses the pull down option for time thatcould be visualized better as a continuum. thoseselections should be presented in green to bevisually consistent. Those above in blue.


The integration and usage of multiple datasources is sometimes not that straightforward.


Faster implementation Processing speed


The integration of multiple data sources hassometimes been difficult and the size limitationsare sometimes an issue.


It's hard to say right now but I can seechallenges ahead as the market share andcommon standards become an issue - if the goalis to replace Excel, then it will be a winner-takes-all type of battle. For clients this may make themdelay purchase and adoption.




Marco Casalino, Consulting Manager at a consultancywith 1-100 employees:

Licensing costs Cloud solution Less monolithicapproach


Needs a metadata solution plus some enhancedETL functionality. Edit: v9 has some lightmetadata solutions that are helpful from Excel.




Deep Dive: Improvements to My Organization

QlikView Tableau


Qlikview can be used both as an advancedreporting tool as well as an BI KPI tool,becoming the base for continuous processimprovements. In general the benefits of the toolbecome clear at the early development stagewhen the user is challenged to input clearly hisideas, problems and needs and that will affectthe process in which he participates. Typically ina second iteration the key user will ask for a newrelease more oriented to advanced KPIs ratherthan just reports. This is a direct consequenceof the process making things clearer andevolving. So the main value supplied byQlikview is to reduce uncertainty, make theparticipants question, discover, interact witheach other, and eventually improve the process.Properly used should function as animprovement catalyst for the processesinvolved.


Speed of data discovery and accelerated ourability to remodel our data and improve ourexisting ETL processes.


It's both intuitive and complex/deep. For ourorganization, it's given us opportunities toprovide both on-sight and on-line training. Wenow have an online training product that morethan offsets the expense associated with days oftraining. With Tableau, our customers moreanalytical. It even has a connection to R andSAS for advanced users. Also, it has given usthe ability to collaborate with the Tableauservers, which is robust and can handle tens ofthousands of users. Tableau Server can nowscale for unlimited users Enterprise scale bringswith it the need for Governance. Data sourcesand workbooks must be vetted before they are"out there" to see except for the intended contentconsumers





Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowingyou to "see" your data in ways never thoughtpossible. We can now take medical statspresented in an academic journal and applyingthem to community-based medicine. Thisliterally changes physician behavior like no othertool. We were struggling with runningapplication reports, and were spendingsubstantial time, and high-end resources todeliver the basics. Implementing QlikView forour clients also allowed us to aggregate ourclient-based data and see "What type of reportsare they running" "What time of day" "Whichusers". This data alone allowed us toimmediately focus on the points of userexperience which would impact the users themost.


We have gradually reduced laborious manualreporting in Business Units and "spreadmarts". We now have some executive usingQV dashboards in weekly review meetings, inplace of spreadsheets and PowerPoints. While itdoes take some time and IT involvement toinitially develop and deploy a solution, thepayback is immediate. In one particular case wewere able to eliminate a days worth of manualwork each week with a QlikView solution thatrequired a few days of development effort. Wealso previously had no way for end users toroutinely and easily analyze larger (100 Million+rows) data sets, which now can be done throughQlikView.


The data was made clearer for us throughvisualization. In addition, it allowed us toautomate result monitoring.


Trends Opportunities Automated reporting

Jose Godoy, Assistant Manager Infrastructure at a techservices company with 100-1000 employees:

The use is only academic, for the moment.


We can use this tool with our internal data aswell as on client sites to rapidly evaluate datasets and gain understanding of patterns rapidly.

Analyst220, Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financialservices firm with 1000+ employees:

We plan to empower users with Enterprise BIand Self Service BI by Tableau.


Mostly, I focus on the management andoperational reporting aspects, enablingbusinesses to make better decisions at all levelsthrough improved access to data.




Henrik Wickström, IT Project Manager at aenergy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:

It provides information all in one place for ourusers. It saves us time.


We're able to get faster KPI's in manydepartments.


Trends Opportunities Automated reporting


It has dramatically improved development timefor BI reports. Using traditional tools like OBIEEor SAP BO, BI was more like an IT dependentwork stream. Now it has reached the businessside, who can do their own analysis. Users candrill data without much IT help.


It speeds up my clients capability to preparevarious non-standard management reports.

Guilherme Yoshikazu Saito Machado, BI Analyst at amanufacturing company with 100-1000 employees:

Implemented some visualizations for: OrdersManagement Sales Dashboard ContributionMargin Dashboard Budget x Real ExpensesManagement So now we have better control insome areas, like Sales, Logistics andFinancials. Sales, Marketing, Internal Controls,Factory, HR, Logistics, etc. all still have room forimprovement.


I'm able to prototype charts/dashboards in hoursvs days or weeks with other tools (mainly Excel).Doesn't require me to think about the level ofaggregation that I'm going to need as it dealswith large data sets. Blends disparate datasetstogether which is awesome for plan vs actualreports where the data is a two different levels ofgranularity.




WHAT REAL USERSARE SAYING...

"Advanced informationapplications can be built,not only simple ones."

"It's helped us aggregateour client-based data, butit is a very heavy RAMutilizer."

"I would never proposeQlikView, or any othersingle tool, as THEdefinitive data visualizationand dashboard tool forevery organization, but itdid best meet ourparticular needs."

"It saves us time byproviding information all inone place for our users.However, it has acomplicated licensemanagement."

"It's helped us get fasterKPI's in many departmentsand it produces reportsquickly."

"It's easy to use but moregraphics and dashboardsupport would be animprovement."

QLIKVIEW REVIEW BY A REAL USERPablo Parnisari Verified by IT Central StationBI Expert at a tech services company with 1-100employees

Valuable Features:

As a BI professional sometimes you have to tackle projects with poor or nodocumentation at all, just the datasources and some vague requirements. InQlikView it is quite easy build up a first data model (dimensional or not) and use thefirst stage to understand the entities and relations between it and the business.From there you can explore the business, understand the users real requirementsand needs and improve the model with a few changes, without much effort. This isbecause Qlikview has a very flexible and short cycle of development in eachiteration.

For the user QlikView is a wonderful tool of data discovery, providing powerful toolsto navigate easily between a sea of data in an intuitive, easy, and clear way,allowing them to go from facts to KPI and vice versa.

Improvements to My Organization:

Qlikview can be used both as an advanced reporting tool as well as an BI KPI tool,becoming the base for continuous process improvements. In general the benefits ofthe tool become clear at the early development stage when the user is challengedto input clearly his ideas, problems and needs and that will affect the process inwhich he participates. Typically in a second iteration the key user will ask for a newrelease more oriented to advanced KPIs rather than just reports. This is a directconsequence of the process making things clearer and evolving. So the main valuesupplied by Qlikview is to reduce uncertainty, make the participants question,discover, interact with each other, and eventually improve the process. Properlyused should function as an improvement catalyst for the processes involved.

Room for Improvement:

It is well know that the ETL is quite far away from leading products like DataStagem Informatica and others. Currently Qliktech is working on this problem withExpressor, a powerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area is the licensing scheme,which leaves out many SMO. To remedy this and try to stop the eruption of thirdparties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTech launched Qlik Sense, although the futureis unclear and there may be a possible merge of the two branches (Qlik Sense +QlikView). Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves the development of newgraphic charts to the community with mixed results.

Use of Solution:

I have using it for the last five years, since 2010 at least.




Deployment Issues:

The deployment of the dashbords, in the simplest scenario, is so easy you just dropa unique file (qvw extension) in the published folder and the solution appears intothe main web page that works like an index of all solutions: the access point.

Stability Issues:

The product has great stability although in some circumstances, especially if it islow in resources or the reload process encounters some kind of dead lock whileextracting the data from the DB, it could/will result in the shutdown of the service.The good news is the automatic behavior: I never saw corrupted data or unstablebehavior, just restart the service / reload and all works well again.

Scalability Issues:

The product is designed to scale both horizontally and vertically. Someorganizatations which have servers and dashboards that handle until 30 Tb of datahave had some issues that finally have been addressed by the support service ofQlikTech.

Customer Service:

The customer service is provided by the local reseller and is fine. Wehave mainly used it to get the new releases and some support during theinstallation.

Technical Support:

The technical support in my country is provided by the master reseller and it looksgood even when they have to pass the case to Qliktech to figure-out the problemand find a solution. In this last case it can be somewhat delayed because thesecases needed to reach the top levels of the service.

Previous Solutions:

I have used (and still use) Microsoft BI: SSISm SSAS and SSRS. The productivitylevel of QlikView is quite superior, whilst Microsoft licensing scheme is really better,specially when there are large number of users and a lot of SQL licences deployedmaking it (MS) much cheaper.

Initial Setup:

The initial setup was absolutely seamless and the only requirement for a successfuldeploy is a little training to the users, not only about how to use QlikView, but whatcan be done with QlikView, giving them the initial spark.




Implementation Team:

In general the vendors which I have worked with were very well qualified, althoughnot very inclined to share information easily.

ROI:

This question is hard to answer because except for a few cases its impossible tomeasure how the project (not the tool) improves the results of the organization.Such measures are available at the organizational level, but it is difficult to quantifythe proportion of the contribution from one tool to a whole process.

Cost and Licensing Advice:

The start cost is around of US $25.000 and the annual royalties are around 20%that includes customer and technical support and upgrades.

Other Solutions Considered:

I have evaluated Tableau and Microstrategy. The first one is too basic (wonderful ifyou are a final user). The second one: extremely complex, just for very largeorganizations and large IT teams.

Other Advice:

Think seriously about the possible population of users, how it will grow-up, andcheck the licensing cost and its limitations.




QLIKVIEW REVIEW BY A REAL USERErin Dettrey Verified by IT Central StationProduct Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a healthcarecompany with 1-100 employees

Valuable Features:

KPI's

Dashboard creation


Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowing you to "see" your data in waysnever thought possible. We can now take medical stats presented in an academicjournal and applying them to community-based medicine. This literally changesphysician behavior like no other tool.

We were struggling with running application reports, and were spending substantialtime, and high-end resources to deliver the basics. Implementing QlikView for ourclients also allowed us to aggregate our client-based data and see "What type ofreports are they running" "What time of day" "Which users". This data alone allowedus to immediately focus on the points of user experience which would impact theusers the most.


Online education, but they are revamping.

Use of Solution:

I've used it for two years.

Deployment Issues:

No issues encountered.

Stability Issues:


Scalability Issues:

QlikView is a very heavy RAM utilizer (all strong BI tools are). When we hit around20 concurrent users, the user experience began to suffer. We contacted QlikSupport and they assisted us with a review of our infrastructure. We followed theirsuggestions to the tee, and were back with great speed!




Customer Service:

It's excellent, and very responsive.

Technical Support:

It's excellent.

Initial Setup:

Simple, low level learning curve.


We did it in-house.

ROI:

Currently $1 spent = $3 recouped (including labor/support/Infrastructure).


Push for more services in your installation (consulting, IT, Development, Design).Sales can be very creative.


We also looked at Tableau.

Other Advice:

Review your end-goals, internally and externally. This can be a powerful tool foryour clients but also for internal decision making.




QLIKVIEW REVIEW BY A REAL USERJhornber Verified by IT Central StationBI Expert at a leisure / travel company with 1000+employees

Valuable Features:

1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time to learn, but it is quite powerful. Not as atotal ETL replacement tool necessarily, but as a supplement to load and join datasources, and perform additional transformations. I've combined as many as a halfdozen data sources including data from multiple SQL Data Marts, Source SystemDBs, XLS, CSV, and Google Big Query.

2. Design Flexibility - While other products may do drag and drop, ad-hoc analyticsbetter. (Including Tableau, and Qlik's new product QlikSense) I've not comeacross one that better supports the creation of a polished, packaged, customdashboard, that supports what I'd consider "guided exploration", and best meetsthe needs of our user base. The customization can be taken even further throughin-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g. Custom D3 Visualizations).


We have gradually reduced laborious manual reporting in Business Units and"spreadmarts". We now have some executive using QV dashboards in weeklyreview meetings, in place of spreadsheets and PowerPoints. While it does takesome time and IT involvement to initially develop and deploy a solution, thepayback is immediate. In one particular case we were able to eliminate a daysworth of manual work

each week

with a QlikView solution that required a few days of development effort. We alsopreviously had no way for end users to routinely and easily analyze larger (100Million+ rows) data sets, which now can be done through QlikView.


No out of the box mapping capabilities (Extensions/Plugins available).

No auto-scale for different display resolutions/dimensions, but the trade-off here isthe much greater design flexibility than one gets with a Grid based product.

Would like to see a few more visualizations available out of the box (e..g BulletGraph)

Very rudimentary report creation capabilities. No scheduling or distribution withoutPublisher product.




Use of Solution:

1 1/2 years

Deployment Issues:

None.

Stability Issues:

None thus far, but have a relatively small scale implementation (30-40 Users todate), on a single server (196GB RAM, 15 Core). Our largest data sets are in the100-200 Million rows. Dashboards deployed to the server perform very well, butworking with data sets that large locally (on QlikView desktop) may start to lag,depending on your hardware. Being a in-memory tool, desktops and laptops shouldhave at least 8GB RAM, though even more is preferable if working with very largedata sets.

Customer Service:

Customer service was/is excellent.

Technical Support:

Our need for technical support has been minimal, but when needed it has beengreat. The overall Qlik Community is phenomenal. Many problems can beresolved through the community channel. Users often provide example files onecan reference or reverse engineer.

Previous Solutions:

Previously used an older Domo product (Centerview). The product was no longersupported. It was very flexible, but also very labor intensive. Data had to be fullyprepared outside of the tool ,and every interaction had to be defined. Developmenttime was weeks vs days in QlikView.

Initial Setup:

Straightforward setup. Connected to Active Directory to manage users.


In-house with some set up assistance provided by the Qlik sales support team.


Server is Apprx $35K initial cost, plus 20% annual maintenance/support cost




User licenses are $350 or $1500 depending on license type(plus 20% annualmaintenance/support). This can get costly if you have a very large user base.


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Other Advice:

I would never propose QlikView, or any other single tool, as THE definitive datavisualization and dashboard tool for every organization, but it did best meet ourparticular needs. Organizations with more data-savvy, self-sufficient businessusers may find a product like Tableau, or Qlik's other product, QlikSense, to be abetter option.




QLIKVIEW REVIEW BY A REAL USERHenrik Wickström Verified by IT Central StationIT Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees


It provides information all in one place for our users.

It saves us time.


Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.

Complicated license management.




WHAT REAL USERSARE SAYING...

"Easily the most user-friendly (particularly fornon-technical users) BITool I’ve ever used."

"It is a very powerful tool,but there is not enoughcontrol over the order inwhich filters and sorts areapplied. "

"It's an intuitive tool for theaverage user, yet providescomplex and deepanalytics for the advanceduser. There are, however,some unnecessaryredundancies for certainfunctions. "

"It allows you to manipulateand depict data in variousways, but the integration ofmultiple data sources issometimes not thatstraightforward."

"It has rich graphics but theprocessing speed could beimproved."

"We've had no problemswith deployment or stabilityand have had no need tocontact customer ortechnical support, but ouruse has been onlyacademic over the past 6months."

TABLEAU REVIEW BY A REAL USERBIExpert221 Verified by IT Central StationBI Expert at a financial services firm with 100-1000employees

Valuable Features:

Extraordinary ease of use, easier to use than any competitor product I’ve used in 15years or so I’ve worked on MI/BI.

Since I originally wrote this, I have found the mapping on Tableau has beenextremely useful and easy to use, particularly that it includes very good geocodingfor the UK.


Speed of data discovery and accelerated our ability to remodel our data andimprove our existing ETL processes.


Expansion of number of visualisations, as well as potential for straight to dashboardfunction, rather than design individual visualisation – these are, however, genuinelynot priority to amend.

Use of Solution:

~2 years

Deployment Issues:

This was a Proof of Concept rather than full roll-out.

Stability Issues:

No, but important to note it was PoC.

Scalability Issues:

No, but important to note it was PoC.

Customer Service:

Excellent.




Technical Support:

Exceptional, probably the best user community I’ve ever seen in nearly 15 years ofworking in MI/BI/Analytical roles.

Previous Solutions:

Currently use an alternative provider, looking to switch to a newer moreempowering piece of software, an alternative to Tableau was selected at a GlobalCIO level.

Initial Setup:

Extremely simple. Download a package, enter a key post purchase and that’s it.Very easy.


Vendor team – they had (and indeed have) significant knowledge of the productand continue to share best practice tips and knowledge through their e-publications.


Standard software license cost to setup initially and an optional maintenance feewhich include version upgrades. On balance, the costs of software balance nicelyagainst the user experience because you probably wouldn’t need to spend a greatdeal on training as the product is straightforward to use.


Evaluated numerous different BI tools, including but not restricted to Cognos,Jaspersoft, Pentaho, Tibco Spotfire.

Other Advice:

Assess the scalability using the Server set up, engage users of the toolindependently through the Tableau Community for their ideas and advice on thepro’s and con’s of the tool. Even the biggest evangelists will be honest enough totell you where it doesn’t meet their expectations.




TABLEAU REVIEW BY A REAL USERBIAnalyst885 Verified by IT Central StationBusiness Intelligence Analyst at a healthcare company with100-1000 employees

Valuable Features:

It is very powerful

Flexibility


Minor issues only. My biggest one is control over the order in which filters and sortsare applied. There is some control of this but not enough.

Use of Solution:

I've used it for seven months.

Deployment Issues:


Stability Issues:


Scalability Issues:


Customer Service:

It's very good.

Technical Support:

Our parent company has its own internal Tableau support team so I have had nocontact with Tableau’s own technical support

Previous Solutions:

No previous solution was used in this company, but I do have experience of Domo.




Initial Setup:

It was complex. We have a complex situation with extensive data security set up atthree and a half levels across over 100 active users with most of the users not onlycontrolled by level but also having access to very specific sets of data only.

Inevitably the setup for this in Tableau was complex. This is not a criticism ofTableau however – just the opposite, the impressive thing is that it had the flexibilityto achieve it at all


I implemented it myself.

Other Advice:

Tableau is a very powerful and flexible product, it also demands some level of skillon the part of the user. When compared with Domo for example, the end result inits standard form is more flexible, is able to put more information in a single view,and offers more user interactivity. However the other side of this coin is that in itsstandard form, it is much less accessible to less skilled users. We have managed todevelop an interface that is as accessible as Domo, but this has been quite acomplex and time-consuming task.




TABLEAU REVIEW BY A REAL USERLarry Keller Verified by IT Central StationCEO at a tech consulting company with 1000+ employees

Valuable Features:

Data Preparation - This is a huge plus for Tableau as so many users have to spendtime preparing the data before using Tableau

Data Interpreter

Splits -

Really helps the average user

Drag and drop analytics:

Tableau 9.0 has a new Analytics pane that provides quick and easy access tocommon analytic features in Tableau.

You can drag reference lines, forecasts, trend lines, and other objects into yourview from the Analytics panel. It is now easy to edit, format, and remove theanalytic items that you have added, so you can experiment with differenttechniques as you explore the insights your data has to offer.

Ad--‐hoc calculations:

Ad--‐hoc calculations make it easy to add and edit calculated fields for youranalysis. Double--‐click an existing field on the Rows, Columns, Marks, or MeasureValues shelf to begin editing, or

double-click an empty area on a shelf to create a new calculation. As you type, a listof auto--‐complete options appears in a dropdown list, making it easier to find andpick the right elements.

Instant analytics:

Instant analytics provides an interactive experience for comparing summaryinformation about a subset of marks to all the marks in your view. For example, youcan compare the average for a few marks to the average for all the marks.

After you’ve added trend lines, reference lines, reference bands, or distributionbands to your view, select one or more marks to see the new analytical indicatorsappear for the selection in addition to the analytical indicators for the whole view.

Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions:

New expression syntax in the Tableau calculation language lets you quickly createcalculated fields that compute at the specified levels of detail. LOD calculationshelp you compute at multiple levels of aggregation and make it easier to createfields for analytical comparison (such as cohort analysis and totals or Averageacross segments), simplifying calculations that previously took several steps.





It's both intuitive and complex/deep. For our organization, it's given us opportunitiesto provide both on-sight and on-line training. We now have an online trainingproduct that more than offsets the expense associated with days of

training. With Tableau, our customers more analytical.

It even has a connection to R and SAS for advanced users.

Also, it has given us the ability to collaborate with the Tableau

servers, which is robust and can handle tens of thousands of users.

Tableau Server can now scale for unlimited users Enterprise scale brings with it theneed for Governance. Data sources and workbooks must be vetted before they are"out there" to see except for the intended content consumers


The basic design of Tableau has some features that could be modified.

* There is no need to have five (5) ways to add a new worksheet. Brevity isrewarded - new users have so much to learn that 2 ways would do the job

* How to render time - When performing analysis, no single issue is more importantthan time series data. Tableau uses visual clues in many places - When one usesthe pull down option for time that could be visualized better as a continuum. thoseselections should be presented in green to be visually consistent. Those above inblue.


If

you're making a structured, strategic purchase, make sure that you have a plan forprofessional training.

Other Advice:

Go

slow and methodically

You must consider size of the company and types of users

Desktop Plus server users - understand the constraints on the backend, and makesure you




have enough CPU power

There's lots of free stuff on their website that's great for the average user.




TABLEAU REVIEW BY A REAL USERAndreas Demetriou Pompatzis Verified by IT CentralStationWeb Administrator at a retailer with 1000+ employees

Valuable Features:

Ease of data visualization

Ease of dashboard creation

Ease of dashboard sharing


The data was made clearer for us through visualization. In addition, it allowed us toautomate result monitoring.


The integration and usage of multiple data sources is sometimes not thatstraightforward.

Use of Solution:

I've used it for six months.

Deployment Issues:

All connections were to a SQL Database, and there were no issues withdeployment.

Stability Issues:

No issues with stability.

Scalability Issues:

No issues with scalability.

Customer Service:

Did not need it.

Technical Support:

Did not need it.




Previous Solutions:

We already had OLAP Cubes in place, but we haven't switched and are currentlyusing both.

Initial Setup:

It was straightforward.

ROI:

It has given us faster reporting, resulting in better management of the information,and better usage of information in decision making.

Other Advice:

Definitely understand your data structure before using Tableau. Tableau allows youto manipulate and depict data in various ways, as long as you have proper, wellstructured input.




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1. Tableau 99842 Views105031 Comparisons

26 Reviews6499 Followers

Average Rating: 8.6

2. QlikView 80097 Views73266 Comparisons


Average Rating: 8.6

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Average Rating: 8.8

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Average Rating: 8.8

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Average Rating: 9.2

10. SAP Business Objects 34638 Views30885 Comparisons


Average Rating: 7.2

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Average Rating: 10.0

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Average Rating: 8.2

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