We performed a comparison between QlikView and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."
"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"The scalability is there."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The scalability is good."
"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."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"The solution is quite costly."
"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."
"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."
"The pricing is high."
"There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns."
"The user interface is old."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
"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."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"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."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"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."
"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."
QlikView is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI with 158 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 7th in Embedded BI with 8 reviews. QlikView is rated 8.2, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". 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". QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and TIBCO Spotfire, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Dremio. See our QlikView vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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