Celonis vs Qlik Sense comparison

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Celonis and Qlik are both solutions in the AI Data Analysis category. Celonis is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.1, while Qlik is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.8. Celonis holds a 0.4% mindshare in ADA, compared to Qlik’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Celonis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Celonis

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100% willing to recommend

Qlik Sense

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96% willing to recommend

Celonis

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We performed a comparison between Celonis and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AI Data Analysis solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Celonis vs. Qlik Sense

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.0

Celonis drives substantial ROI through cost savings, efficiency, process improvements, and business transformation, with multimillion-dollar financial impacts.

Sentiment score

6.1

Qlik Sense quickly enhances ROI through automation, cost savings, and improved business performance, relations, and operational efficiency.

In the first couple of years, I would not expect a return on investment because the initial setup will take more than a year if the process requires significant customization.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Automated exception handling cut manual process touchpoints by approximately 30 to 40%, saving approximately 15,000 to 20,000 operational labor hours annually.

Prateek Rao

PARTNER & MANAGING DIRECTOR at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

In my opinion, there's a positive return on investment.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

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In my organization, we moved from OBI to Qlik Sense due to limitations with OBI, resulting in very high ROI.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.8

Celonis offers responsive support through various channels, though some users face delays and varying help based on contract size.

Sentiment score

5.3

Qlik Sense's community and customer service are appreciated, but technical support quality, response times, and costs receive mixed reviews.

It took more than two weeks to receive a response.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Celonis customer support is really good; they investigate concerns thoroughly and provide solutions or troubleshooting steps, which I find helpful.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Other times I do not get much clarity on the support from the team.

reviewer2797770

Data Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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While tech support is comprehensive, the stability of Qlik Sense means I generally do not need it.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Technical support requires improvement.

reviewer1586415

Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In Turkey, the consultant firms are very professional, and they support you.

Hasan ÖZ

Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Celonis is highly scalable, with strong integration capabilities, preferred over Tableau and Power BI for process mining.

Sentiment score

7.6

Qlik Sense is scalable, managing large data volumes effectively, though costs rise with user licenses and resource requirements.

I recall that when we started using Celonis, we had a space of five terabytes and around one thousand users, and Celonis managed all of that easily.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I recommend focusing on recent data or perhaps five years of historical data along with live data for better visibility and stability in the process.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Consumption-based pricing models would be helpful because scaling can get costly quickly.

Prateek Rao

PARTNER & MANAGING DIRECTOR at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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It performs well in terms of performance and load compared to others.

reviewer1586415

Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Qlik Sense helps analyze data and can handle larger amounts of data compared to other BI tools.

Shraddha Waghulde

Solution Architect at Predoole Analytics

It is easily scalable with Microsoft, with other services Azure and other tools they provide.

reviewer2737320

student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.9

Celonis is highly stable, with minor connectivity issues resolved by upgrades, offering reliable and secure performance for users.

Sentiment score

7.6

Qlik Sense is praised for stability, with minimal crashes, reliable performance, and robust support even with large datasets.

It's super stable.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

Celonis is stable.

GulshanMishra

Management Data Engineer & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The stability is very good.

reviewer1586415

Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Room For Improvement

Celonis' high cost, complex setup, and integration challenges deter users, who seek improvements in usability, support, and documentation.

Qlik Sense users seek improved data integration, user-friendliness, pricing clarity, and enhanced features for better collaboration and visualization.

Ultimately, I need niche expertise, combining strong SAP knowledge with Celonis competency.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

It is essential for the Celonis solution to have their services and solution models integrated with GenAI.

AntonioCardone

Senior Development Manager at Lutech

The most important area for improvement is the automation part.

Ebin_Abraham

Data Engineer at Baker Hughes

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Power BI has better visualizations and interactions with updates in 2023 that provide ease of use.

Hasan ÖZ

Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Providing an API feature to access data from the dashboard or QEDs could be beneficial.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

There should be more comprehensive documentation and explanatory videos available to help clients understand and calculate capacity-based pricing, making it easier to predict costs before implementing Qlik Sense Cloud.

Shraddha Waghulde

Solution Architect at Predoole Analytics

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Setup Cost

Celonis pricing is high, especially for scaling enterprises, with costs rising with users and data, but free versions exist.

Qlik Sense's enterprise pricing is higher, but cloud options offer cost-effectiveness and fast ROI with careful assessment necessary.

I think it's relatively expensive, but it's also good.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

Based on client feedback, I have heard that the pricing for Celonis is considered high.

Nikhil-More

Senior Application Developer at Fujitsu

creating a data model for one process will differ in cost if you add more data models for additional processes.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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It is just about how expensive it is to implement.

reviewer2737320

student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Compared to Power BI, it is definitely costly.

reviewer1586415

Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Among the BI tools and data analytics tools, Qlik is the most expensive.

Hasan ÖZ

Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Celonis offers user-friendly process mining, integration, real-time analytics, and automation tools for optimizing efficiency and identifying savings opportunities.

Qlik Sense offers rapid performance, seamless data integration, user-friendly analytics, and AI insights with real-time exploration and collaboration.

Celonis is also beneficial for its built-in apps that streamline tasks from legacy applications, facilitating daily operations and improving efficiency.

Nikhil-More

Senior Application Developer at Fujitsu

The standout feature of Celonis is definitely the Process Intelligence Graph, which creates a living digital twin across multiple systems and provides the operational context needed for effective AI and automation.

Prateek Rao

PARTNER & MANAGING DIRECTOR at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It provides a visualization of the process itself, giving a very good synthesis of performance and helping me find improvements.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

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From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The true power is in the ability to connect with any database, get the data, and work with the data.

PawanSingh3

Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Real-time data analysis can be performed, and collaboration with other team members is seamless.

Saranya Deepthi

Project Engineer at Wipro

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Categories and Ranking

Celonis

Ranking in AI Data Analysis

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Mining (2nd)

Qlik Sense

Ranking in AI Data Analysis

15th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

126

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (6th), Embedded BI (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Celonis is 0.4%. The mindshare of Qlik Sense is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Celonis	0.4%
Qlik Sense	0.4%
Other	99.2%

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Featured Reviews

Prateek Rao

PARTNER & MANAGING DIRECTOR at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Process intelligence has transformed procurement and order cycles and delivers measurable savings

Celonis can improve in several areas. The initial data modeling and continuous real-time ingestion, especially from non-standard legacy systems, can still be complex and quite resource-intensive, requiring a steep PQL learning curve for non-technical users. Simplifying the interface for business stakeholders would significantly accelerate the process. I think introducing a natural language to query interface would allow business users to query data without writing long PQL. Streamlining guided onboarding flows and offering modular plug-and-play dashboard templates tailored to specific roles would shorten ramp-up time for daily users. I think more transparent and predictable consumption-based pricing models would be helpful as data volume scaling can get costly quickly. I would also love to see native, real-time streaming connectors for unstructured data such as emails and support tickets. The learning curve for new users of Celonis is one of the pain points I raised earlier, and I find it to be quite steep.

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Saranya Deepthi

Project Engineer at Wipro

Improved AI-driven dashboards have accelerated decisions but still need better visuals and faster refresh

Absolutely, nothing is entirely positive, and everything has both advantages and disadvantages. When I worked with Qlik Sense, circular charts were not available, which meant I had to look for alternative solutions that would be reliable or make the functionality work. There are some features that need to be added. Additionally, there is a limit to the number of fields that can be added in Qlik Sense, and I believe it would be beneficial if they increased the count for fields and columns. There might be requirements where an Excel file contains many columns that need to be displayed as visual representations to clients, and in those situations, it becomes very difficult and I have to use alternative approaches. When this problem arose, I used HTML code to write a solution and make it work. Qlik Sense should avoid these types of limitations in future updates. Another issue is page resolution. If a client wants to view the dashboard on a single page without scrolling, bar charts appear small and the values in KPIs, bar charts, scatter plots, and line graphs cannot be seen very clearly. Adding more extensions to make the job easier would also be beneficial. Improvements to reporting would be helpful as well, because working with large datasets makes reporting very difficult. Additionally, when data is refreshed, it cannot be completed in a short timeframe. Refreshing very large datasets can take one, two, or even three hours, so reducing the refresh time would be very useful for customers.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

17%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	40
Large Enterprise	89

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Signavio Process Manager or Celonis?

SAP Signavio Process Manager is a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling tool. It is easy to use and does not require too much technological involvement. This solution has a collabo...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Celonis?

I am not heavily involved in that particular aspect, but I have heard that Celonis is somewhat expensive.

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What needs improvement with Celonis?

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos Enter...

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Seeking lightweight open source BI software

There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qlik Sense?

It is not about performance. It is just about how expensive it is to implement.

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Also Known As

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QlikSense, Qlik Analytics Platform

Overview

Celonis empowers businesses with process mining, offering automation and AI features that visualize processes, identify bottlenecks, and optimize operations. With seamless integration and user-friendly tools, Celonis adds significant value to businesses aiming for operational efficiency.

Celonis is a leading tool for process mining and optimization, seamlessly connecting with SAP and Oracle systems through pre-built connectors. Its capabilities include visualizing processes, identifying inefficiencies, and optimizing workflows with comprehensive dashboards and action flows. While Celonis scores high on functionality, integration with Microsoft, Azure connectivity, and an improved pricing model are areas for improvement. Training resources and an intuitive interface are essential for users managing frequent updates and complex programming needs. With robust process analysis and automation features, Celonis enhances decision-making and resource allocation.

What key features does Celonis offer?

Process Mining: Visualizes and analyzes business processes to identify inefficiencies.
Automation: Enables streamlined, automated workflows for improved productivity.
AI Capabilities: Enhances process optimization and decision-making with advanced AI.
Integration: Offers pre-built connectors for seamless integration with SAP and Oracle.
Dashboards: Provides comprehensive views of operations to monitor performance.

What benefits or ROI should reviewers look for?

Operational Efficiency: Identifies and resolves bottlenecks, improving workflows.
Resource Optimization: Enables better allocation and utilization of resources.
Informed Decisions: Data-driven insights support strategic decision-making.
Cost Management: Streamlines processes, reducing operational costs.

In finance, procurement, and supply chain, Celonis is utilized to monitor and optimize entire business processes, analyzing data from systems like SAP and Oracle to uncover inefficiencies. Organizations leverage its process analysis and automation triggers for improved performance and resource allocation.

Celonis

Qlik Sense offers drag-and-drop dashboard creation, multi-data source integration, and self-service analytics. Users benefit from associative data modeling and real-time insights. The platform enhances quick deployment across any device with its flexibility and ease of use.

Qlik Sense provides rapid dashboard creation and seamless multi-data source integration, supporting real-time analytics and high-speed ETL capabilities. Users enjoy advanced visualizations and natural language processing within an intuitive interface. The solution's in-memory engine ensures fast data processing while offering flexibility and quick deployment on all devices. Its open API facilitates extensive customization and integration with chatbots and third-party extensions.

What are the key features of Qlik Sense?

Rapid Dashboard Creation: Enables quick creation of insightful dashboards using a drag-and-drop interface.
Multi-Data Source Integration: Supports seamless integration across various data sources for comprehensive analysis.
Self-Service Analytics: Empowers users with intuitive tools for independent data exploration and insights generation.
Associative Data Modeling: Enhances understanding of complex datasets and relationships.
Advanced Visualizations: Offers sophisticated visual options to present data clearly and engagingly.
Real-Time Insights: Provides up-to-the-minute data analysis capabilities.
Open API Integration: Allows extensive customization and integration with third-party tools.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Fast Deployment: Enjoys rapid setup and integration across devices, facilitating immediate data access.
Enhanced Flexibility: Customization options allow tailored solutions that meet specific user needs.
Comprehensive Integration: Capable of integrating multiple data sources, improving analytical scope.
Improved Data Accessibility: Offers easy access and understanding of complex data.
Automation Efficiency: Streamlines reporting and analytics tasks, boosting productivity.

In industries such as finance and sales, Qlik Sense enables interactive data analyses and dashboard creation across departments. It supports business intelligence for financial reporting, sales analysis, and decision-making. By automating reporting and combining data from multiple sources, it facilitates users in generating insights and enhancing data accessibility for informed business decisions.

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Sample Customers

Anheuser-Busch InBev, AXA, Bayer, Cisco, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, Kellogg's, Lufthansa, and Whirlpool

Abbvie, Airbus, Barclays, BT Openreach, BMW, Daimler AG, HSBC, IKEA, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Mail Group, Sanofi, Siemens, Wendy'', Vodafone, Volvo

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