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Dundas BI vs Qlik Sense comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

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
7.5
Measuring Dundas BI's ROI is difficult, but some generate returns by charging users monthly fees for report access.
Sentiment score
6.2
Qlik Sense delivers high ROI through faster decision-making, cost savings, and enhanced insights, boosting operations and revenue growth.
In my organization, we moved from OBI to Qlik Sense due to limitations with OBI, resulting in very high ROI.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
Dundas BI's customer and technical support is responsive, helpful, and efficient, earning strong user satisfaction despite timezone challenges.
Sentiment score
5.4
Qlik Sense's customer service is praised for technical support, though response times vary, with community forums and partners being essential.
While tech support is comprehensive, the stability of Qlik Sense means I generally do not need it.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate technical support from Qlik as a nine on a scale from one to ten.
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
In Turkey, the consultant firms are very professional, and they support you.
Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Dundas BI scales well with development teams managing it, though license dependency affects independent report creation and user expansion.
Sentiment score
7.7
Qlik Sense is praised for scalability, efficiently handling large data sets and users, but requires careful licensing and server management.
It is easily scalable with Microsoft, with other services Azure and other tools they provide.
student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability and availability are very important for any company when we talk about the scalability architecture of Qlik Sense.
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It performs well in terms of performance and load compared to others.
Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
Dundas BI is generally stable, but users face occasional issues with upgrades, large data, and resource management. Support helps.
Sentiment score
7.6
Qlik Sense is highly stable, with users praising its reliability, effective support, smooth upgrades, and robust functionality.
The stability is very good.
Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Dundas BI users want better visualization, ease of use, data integration, API support, and clearer error messaging in reports.
Qlik Sense users seek better customization, real-time features, data handling, visualization, ease of use, cost efficiency, and improved support.
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.
Solution Architect at Predoole Analytics
Providing an API feature to access data from the dashboard or QEDs could be beneficial.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Power BI has better visualizations and interactions with updates in 2023 that provide ease of use.
Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Dundas BI offers flexible pricing options, suited for enterprises, varying by user type and supporting numerous deployment models.
Qlik Sense offers flexible, albeit pricier, licensing options praised for easy setup and quick ROI, but requires careful cost analysis.
It is just about how expensive it is to implement.
student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Core-based licensing operates on a subscription mode, allowing unlimited users.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Compared to Power BI, it is definitely costly.
Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Dundas BI excels with customizable visualizations, diverse data integration, flexible interface, and extensive customization via JavaScript API and tools.
Qlik Sense provides intuitive dashboard creation, seamless integration, and robust data handling with powerful analytics and flexible development capabilities.
The true power is in the ability to connect with any database, get the data, and work with the data.
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It has an interactive interface with Qlik graphs, pivot, and interactivity, which makes it easier to use than other tools.
Business Intelligence Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Dundas BI
Ranking in Data Visualization
32nd
Ranking in Embedded BI
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Qlik Sense
Ranking in Data Visualization
4th
Ranking in Embedded BI
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
125
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Dundas BI is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qlik Sense is 5.6%, down from 7.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Qlik Sense5.6%
Dundas BI0.7%
Other93.7%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Ishwar Saswade - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Techknomatic Services Private Limited
Has a lot of integration and visualization options, but can't be easily used by business users, and working with the color palette is difficult
With Dundas BI, we do not have end-users apart from the developers. End-users do not find it easy to create their own reports. Most of the implementations I have seen require a developer team for creating the visuals, and they then give them to end-users. A self-serve part where end-users or business users can create their own reports would help in terms of the adoption of Dundas BI. Currently, business users find it difficult to work with Dundas BI because there are so many settings that they don't know what they need to do. Even when a developer starts working on Dundas BI, he needs to spend at least one month or so getting used to the functionalities of Dundas BI. Even then, it is not easy to remember where or how they made a certain property change. It takes at least one month for a developer to get acquainted with it. Working with the color palette is difficult in Dundas BI. They can work on different color palettes and make them organized and user-friendly. It would help a long way. Most of the time, the users face challenges in assigning colors to the fields that they have created or to the dimensions and measures in a chart. Dundas can further reduce the number of settings they have. When you create any chart in Dundas, you get a lot of features to control each setting, which is pretty useful for BI, but for end-users, it is difficult to identify the exact settings to change a property. I would love it if some of the options come pre-selected. If some of the settings are set to best practices by default, it will be helpful. Whenever we have any issues, the error messages that we get in Dundas BI are not very helpful in identifying the root cause. Making these changes will bring a lot of change to the end-user experience.
reviewer2592669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
In-memory data storage boosts performance
The advantages compared to other BI tools show architectural differences. The main feature is that it keeps all the data in memory. It doesn't retrieve the data from data sources when I need it on the dashboard; instead, it quickly provides the desired data, making it very fast compared to other BI tools. The ROI is very high using Qlik Sense. It offers many benefits of BI. It is flexible from a developer's point of view, allowing me to accomplish many tasks compared to other BI tools. From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
11%
University
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise87
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
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...
What do you like most about Qlik Sense?
The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies.
 

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QlikSense, Qlik Analytics Platform
 

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Sample Customers

Coca Cola, Siemens, Verizon, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, Scotiabank, Pepperidge Farm, Shutterstock, Norwegian Government, Boeing, Guess Inc., BP, Bayer
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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