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 #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Workday holds a 0.8% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 4.7% 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 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 (9th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Data Visualization (15th), ESG Reporting Software (6th)

QlikView

Ranking in Reporting

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

162

Ranking in other categories

Embedded BI (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 4.7%, 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	4.7%
Adaptive Insights	0.8%
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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Arjun Meda

Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Useful for data visualization and business intelligence

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time. Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution. Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.

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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

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

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

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

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

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

"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."

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

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

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"Associative model - no more cubes."

"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."

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

"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."

"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."

"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."

"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."

"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"

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Cons

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

"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."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"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."

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

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

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

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"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."

"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times."

"Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point."

"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."

"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."

"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."

"Error handling."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"It's affordable."

"I rate the product's pricing a three out of ten."

"Its licensing costs are moderate, but it can get expensive due to the numerous add-ons available like those for printing."

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

"It is quite expensive, rating at around nine out of ten on a cost scale."

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

"QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."

"I rate QlikView's pricing a five out of ten."

"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."

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Feb 4, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

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	75

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?

The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually, and since we are South African-based, that needs to be multiplied.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

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 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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