Adaptive Insights vs QlikView comparison

Workday and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0, while Qlik is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Workday holds a 1.1% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

QlikView and Adaptive Insights are data-driven decision-making tools. QlikView has an edge with its analytics capabilities, while Adaptive Insights stands out in financial planning and management.

Features: QlikView provides powerful data integration, dynamic dashboards, and an intuitive interface enabling self-service reporting. Adaptive Insights offers strong financial planning tools, seamless budgeting, and comprehensive reporting capabilities.

Room for Improvement: QlikView would benefit from simplifying its learning curve and reducing setup complexities. It could also improve in offering more straightforward customization. Adaptive Insights could enhance integration capabilities, offer more pricing transparency, and expand its predictive analytics functions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: QlikView supports both on-premises and cloud solutions, offering flexible integration but often requiring more technical expertise. Adaptive Insights, cloud-based, allows for easy updates and is supported by strong customer service.

Pricing and ROI: QlikView may involve higher setup costs due to customization, with potential for a scalable ROI for analytics-focused enterprises. Adaptive Insights offers more predictable costs, delivering quick ROI through efficient financial planning processes.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Data Visualization (15th), ESG Reporting Software (4th)

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

163

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.1%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 4.4%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
QlikView	4.4%
Adaptive Insights	1.1%
Other	94.5%

Reporting

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Morne Ayres

Managing Director at Hurricnae

Rapid development and flexibility transform commercial decision-making processes

In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competitive with Power BI, aiming for at least a 30% reduction to stop the hemorrhaging to Power BI, considering that you're losing a lot of customers to Power BI. Reducing costs is the main improvement needed, as this is the biggest burden currently faced in the South African market, with Microsoft converting QlikView customers due to the perceived cost reduction. I am aware of several big corporations, such as Sanofi and Aspen Pharmacare, which have left QlikView due to cost issues.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"Automated reporting."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

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"You can switch views easily."

"The search feature: ability to see the related data."

"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."

"The platform's most valuable feature is its associative data model. It allows me to discover hidden data and gain insights that are not immediately visible."

"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."

"It's pretty easy to deploy."

"QlikView is an excellent tool, though expensive compared to other BI tools, it provides ETL capability allowing the building of a complete data warehouse within Qlik Sense."

"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."

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Cons

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

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"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."

"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."

"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."

"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."

"I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase."

"If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlik view's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve."

"Needs improvement with UI transparency."

"QlikView is probably on the pricier side than other BI tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's affordable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Pricing is a bit too high and I think licenses should be unlimited."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly."

"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."

"QlikView is more expensive than one of its competitors."

"The platform's pricing is considered quite expensive, particularly given the dollar-based pricing."

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Comparison Review

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Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	76

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

I would rate the pricing for QlikView as not cheap, but it is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

We are not using analytics features and possibly predictive analytics and forecasting features in QlikView, although they are available. QlikView is very flexible, but we are currently using only t...

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

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Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

Qlik

Sample Customers

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