Adaptive Insights vs QlikView comparison

Workday and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #24, while Qlik is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.3. Workday holds a 1.7% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 3.8% 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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100% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

QlikView and Adaptive Insights are products in the business intelligence and performance management sectors. Adaptive Insights appears to have the upper hand in comprehensive financial planning capabilities, while QlikView is superior in data visualization and analysis.

Features: QlikView provides powerful data visualization tools, an associative data model, and a robust scripting language for data manipulation. Adaptive Insights excels in financial management features such as budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning, offering seamless integration with ERP systems and the ability to manage financial data effectively.

Room for Improvement: QlikView could improve in user-friendliness for non-technical users, reduce initial setup complexity, and offer better out-of-the-box reporting capabilities. Adaptive Insights may enhance data visualization options, expand customization capabilities, and improve offline functionality to support non-cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: QlikView offers a traditional deployment model with robust on-premise capabilities but requires significant IT involvement. Adaptive Insights offers a cloud-based deployment, which simplifies initial setup and reduces IT strain. Customer service feedback indicates more streamlined support with Adaptive Insights, likely due to its SaaS model.

Pricing and ROI: QlikView incurs higher initial setup costs impacting short-term ROI, yet provides long-term analytics benefits across larger datasets. Adaptive Insights offers predictable and scalable pricing, enhancing short-term ROI with its financial planning features. Both provide substantial returns aligned with their core strengths.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Reporting

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (4th), Data Visualization (21st), ESG Reporting Software (13th)

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

163

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 3.8%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
QlikView	3.8%
Adaptive Insights	1.7%
Other	94.5%

Reporting

Featured Reviews

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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Srdjan Grbic

Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Daily invoice analytics has become streamlined and complex data modeling is now simplified

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 tabular presentation of data because that is what we need. Presenting a large volume of data in QlikView with graphics can be overwhelming for the majority of people who want to see a lot of information in one picture. It would be beneficial to have AI or ML features in QlikView. However, I think they will decommission QlikView, and AI features are already available in Qlik Sense, so you would need to migrate to that platform.

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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

"It's very stable."

"Provides ability for business users to directly manage their plans, data, and budgets."

"Our organization is able to use Adaptive to complete a major majority of our monthly management and quarterly Board reports, and by refreshing reports and pages automatically, it creates the monthly report package with little to no manual staff work."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"The system has allowed us to take more than 90 spreadsheets and combine them into one system which automatically calculates based on assumptions, dimensions, etc."

"This solution transformed the way both of my companies did reporting."

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

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

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"Our business finds this tool very impressive, particularly the drill down to nth level is very good."

"I think it's the best data analysis/discovery tool I've ever seen."

"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."

"It is easy and fast to build dashboards."

"We have enabled a user self service reporting capability supported minimally by IT for linking and sourcing of data."

"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."

"Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowing you to see your data in ways never thought possible."

"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."

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Cons

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

"It's complex; thinking about the business models and capabilities in Adaptive."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"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."

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"The tool involves too much programming when compared to other tools."

"The tool is expensive in Turkey."

"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."

"I would like to see improved performance and scalability at high data volumes and high user concurrency."

"Robust Version Control integration, limited in current versions Automated deployment between DEV/UAT/PROD environments, currently these are manual file-based operations More descriptive system metrics and lower-level diagnostic and performance metrics at the application level"

"Qlikview is very intuitive and user friendly compared to other solutions, however I regret that some of their features are not available for Mac users."

"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."

"Right now, we have to build our models from scratch, if we could have access to prebuilt models for our specific industry and line of business it would be very useful and time saving."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"It's affordable."

"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."

"It is expensive for small companies."

"It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market."

"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."

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

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

"It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year."

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

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

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Feb 4, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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

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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 enhances data analysis with its associative data model and rapid in-memory processing, providing dynamic dashboards and robust visualization, while efficient data integration allows connections to multiple sources.

QlikView offers powerful analytics and insight generation capabilities through its integration with Salesforce, enabling real-time sales data access. Its customizable dashboards are complemented by scripting for complex calculations and QVDs for performance optimization. Designed to be user-friendly, it supports ETL processes and diverse data browsing, allowing users to interact with data intuitively. However, there is room for improving licensing complexities, scalability, and self-service functionality. Additional enhancements are desired in visualization, integration with Qlik Sense, and predictive analytics support.

What are QlikView's key features?

Data Integration: Connects seamlessly with multiple data sources for diverse data access.
Associative Data Model: Enhances data discovery and analysis.
In-memory Technology: Offers rapid data processing for efficient analysis.
Customization Options: Allows personalized dashboards and visualizations.
Salesforce Integration: Provides real-time access to sales data.
Scripting Capabilities: Facilitates complex calculations and analytics.
QVD Performance: Optimizes data loading and processing speeds.

What benefits should you look for in QlikView reviews?

Enhanced Data Access: Seamless integration allows widespread data connectivity.
Rapid Insights: In-memory technology speeds up analysis.
Flexible Customization: Tools enable tailored visualizations.
User-friendly Interaction: Non-technical users can navigate data easily.

QlikView finds use in building business intelligence dashboards across sectors, integrating with Salesforce for analytics, supporting financial planning, and tracking sales. Its intuitive interface aids manufacturing companies in KPI monitoring and informs commercial decisions. The tool enhances reporting, ETL processes, and diverse data source integration, facilitating offline data access.

Qlik

Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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