ClicData Reviews

• Dashboarding with maps, charts and pivottable.
• The only 3 things that you need for a simple fast but VERY EFFECTIVE sales tool

Changed sales force behavior.

Moved from 0% mobile solutions on Android to the following:

• Marking all customer locations on GPS map apps (using smartphones and apps)
• Updated Customer address database with GPS coordinates (from data collected by sales reps on their smartphones)
• Implemented Click map dashboard with customer locations by sales rep

1 month evaluation

No. Accessible anywhere since it is Saas via www. Could use it immediately on existing smartphones (no extra cost, no hardware delays, no connectivity issues – just UP and GO).

No

No, we handle small datasets as well as several daily loads of >50,000 records per load into multiple dashboards and it works every time like clock-work.

10 out of 10. Got the necessary phone calls when I responded to automatic emails

Did not need any technical support – neither will you even if you are not very computer literate or BI experienced.

• Qlikview. Changed because of affordability vs Qlikview, without losing any significant functionality.
• Changed because it was Saas and does not require any additional infrastructure and/or server investment.

• It is SAAS, just sign on and go.
• Load data
• Up and running with 1 LIVE functional dashboard in less than 45 minutes
• Multiple dashboards covering 80% of business needs in < 3days
• Distributed daily dashboards with sales results to 30 sales employees after just 1 day.

• No vendor team required, since no installation (because it is Saas)
• Training yourself as an administrator takes +/- 1 hour to view all the youtube video’s, which jumpstarts you from 0% to working solution in less than 2 hours, which includes dashboard distribution via email to users in pdf or jpg.

Payback period less than 1 month in our case (and I would be very surprised if anyone else cannot achieve the same very high ROI’s)

• Zero setup cost since it is Saas.
• Usage options available for less than 50 USD per month – extremely affordable. This is one of the reasons why there is such a quick payback period / high ROI

• Yes, many many of them. I went through nearly every one of the 58 BI solutions in the review list to find a simple affordable solution.
• Pentaho (the Saas scenario of Clic was much preferred over a physical installation of Pentaho, in real sales jargon – “the time to market” was sooo much better with Clic),
• Qlikview, (too expensive for our SME size)
• Microstrategy (too complex for our users and “semi-skilled” IT workforce)
• SAP Lumira (although it is not reviewed on IT Central Station – the Clic learning curve was just much simpler and therefore much better for our specific situation)
• Logianalytics (the whole dotnet interface was “too much IT jargon” for a true self service BI aimed at really really lay persons)
• IdealAnalytics (another similar Saas solution) – the setting up of the connector, then dataset etc was also “too much IT jargon” for a true self service BI
• ... and the list of other products evaluated goes on and on and on ...

• As long as it stays this simple, it will be more than good enough for a very large number of small businesses.
• Ask yourself this - if it can do more things, will it really still effectively serve this particular market segment.
• Most business users (not the IT staff) want exactly what this product offers SIMPLICITY, something which requires no more than just a notch or 2 above excel skills on the part of the user, because that is what the average self service BI user in a SME have time for