We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and ThoughtSpot 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."It connects very simply to data sources."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"We can bring data from multiple sources and easily blend it in Qlik and create a data model (star schema)."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"You can build a very nice dashboard and/or report very quickly."
"The most valuable feature is the mobile platform."
"Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data."
"The Nprinting is useful."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"The scalability is good."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"My advice to others is to make sure they have a good technical team. We have found that a lot of the consultants go in and out of the business and sometimes you are left alone without assistance."
"Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great. A basic printing function would also be good. Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice."
"More options for the layout."
"There is a direction currently with feature releases within QLik Sense which are focused towards the SaaS or Cloud offerings of Qlik Sense. This leaves those who have invested heavily in on-premise enterprise deployments in a difficult position to gain the benefits of some powerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provides no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options."
"There are occasional stability problems, but Qlik support is excellent at correcting anything that arises."
"I would like to see Qlik add more DevOps functionality to their product. Currently, we have to turn to 3rd party products to handle things like Source Control, Code Deployment through environments, etc."
"The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools."
"Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 114 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 10th in Data Visualization with 8 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". Qlik Sense is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Apache Superset, Microsoft Power BI and Alteryx, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Apache Superset. See our Qlik Sense vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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