We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Unique data visualizations created based on - among others - customer reviews and hands-on experience. Qlik is an experienced company in the Business Intelligence / Data visualization area, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the best solution, however, based on my personal experience it is much more complex than Power BI and Tableau as I've had some things to do with these two concurrent softwares."
"The ability to access data from multiple sources in one application. This has been invaluable."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"Qlik Sense is a very powerful and useful tool."
"Qlik Sense makes it very easy to build interactive presentations for meetings."
"Placing buttons on my sheets creates a unique user experience and clears up clutter at the same time."
"Time-saving efficiencies have translated into genuine bottom-line improvements via the reduction in FTE."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard."
"R and automation services."
"It's scalable."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"The SaaS offering is being enriched quickly in order to attract new customers to that space and encouraging existing customers to make the switch. The Enterprise solution is therefore lagging behind SaaS in features."
"Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement."
"Areas for improvement include user-friendliness, self-service, and some of the visualization options for generating reports."
"The QMC needs more work. Some of the features should be available directly from the hub. Too many duplicates/publish. Intelli-sense when loading a stored qvd would help so much with remembering column names. The pop-up windows are too small when working in the QMC."
"What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support."
"The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools."
"The only thing I would like to see is the ability to create a master app that opens when a user creates a new app that has all the master items, colors, logos, etc., that my organization uses. This would help with keeping master items the same across the apps and would make development a little quicker."
"Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups."
"We would like to see some development in the visualization aspect of this solution, as they can currently only be configured in the cloud, which limits us to one endpoint. It would be helpful if this could be integrated with other tools."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"The handling and consumption of realtime data could be improved."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and SAS Visual Analytics, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, TIBCO Jaspersoft and Amazon QuickSight. See our Qlik Sense vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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