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Dundas BI vs QlikView comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 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
6.5
QlikView offers quick returns and valuable insights despite perceived costs, challenging ROI calculation but often realized within six months.
The biggest return on investment is the time saving for the customer.
 

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
6.1
QlikView's customer service is praised for responsiveness, community support, and efficiency, though experiences may vary by location.
I would rate the customer support a solid 10.
 

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
7.0
QlikView is scalable with proper hardware, though high user counts may require infrastructure enhancements and favor Qlik Sense.
 

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
7.7
QlikView is praised for stability and robustness, with some resource intensity issues during heavy data processing but overall reliable.
 

Room For Improvement

Dundas BI users want better visualization, ease of use, data integration, API support, and clearer error messaging in reports.
QlikView's outdated interface, scalability issues, and high costs drive users towards modern tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik Sense.
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.
 

Setup Cost

Dundas BI offers flexible pricing options, suited for enterprises, varying by user type and supporting numerous deployment models.
QlikView's pricing varies significantly, with high setup and user costs compared to Power BI and SAP Crystal Reports.
The license cost per user or per year for QlikView is about 500 Euros annually.
 

Valuable Features

Dundas BI excels with customizable visualizations, diverse data integration, flexible interface, and extensive customization via JavaScript API and tools.
QlikView offers dynamic dashboards, self-service BI, and rapid data visualization with its Associative Query Logic and user-friendly interface.
The best features in QlikView are rapid development, the fact that I can do what I want in QlikView, and full control along with ease of use.
 

Categories and Ranking

Dundas BI
Ranking in Embedded BI
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (29th)
QlikView
Ranking in Embedded BI
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Reporting (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Embedded BI category, the mindshare of Dundas BI is 1.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 11.2%, up from 7.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Embedded BI Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
QlikView11.2%
Dundas BI1.2%
Other87.6%
Embedded BI
 

Featured Reviews

Abhinav Chadha - PeerSpot reviewer
Is not intuitive and doesn't have a good UI; good drag-and-drop feature for creating dashboards
I think the customer experience could be improved. I don't always want to have to contact vendor support to get my query sorted out; it takes a huge amount of time to raise a request. If I could find some answers online, user forums, some example dashboards and a video about creating dashboards, that would be amazing. As an additional feature, I'd like to see the ability to link the dashboards together. My current preference would be to work with Tableau or Power BI because they're more user intuitive and both have a good user interface. I don't find Dundas BI so easy to work with. It's the data integration aspect that is causing trouble.
Arjun Meda - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
12%
University
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Performing Arts
6%
 

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 Business73
Midsize Enterprise36
Large Enterprise75
 

Questions from the Community

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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.
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.
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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