We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Visualization solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Obviously and considering that Qlik Sense is a data visualization application, the most attractive feature is the fast handling of large amounts of data and the attractive visualization of the same."
"You can build a very nice dashboard and/or report very quickly."
"It automates recurring processes to save time and money."
"Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the UI point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that."
"The flexibility of a non-IT developed solution allows for fast to market solutions."
"It allows you to create a new column using split on a current column, which we find very useful."
"The product is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the mobile platform."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features."
"We particularly like the data angling feature of this solution. This gives us the ability to work on data transformations, join files, and carry out other data preparation tasks all in a single tool."
"It's scalable."
"They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable."
"From the initial setup of the product we had some struggles getting connections to some of our databases to function, this indicated that some of the data extract drivers can be improved and addition of some of the older database engines need to be added in Qlik Sense."
"The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well."
"Some of the charts are still a bit basic and screen rendering on different sized monitors can be an issue."
"A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers."
"If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it."
"There is no downside."
"Moving forward I would like to see more features that are currently available in QlikView, such as being able to better customize coloring within charts. I would also like to see the ability to add calculated dimensions to the selections tool in the page."
"We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
"We would like an easier way to get the product to the cloud. Right now, we have the on-premise version, and we would like to find a way to make it easier to migrate it over to the cloud."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"I would like to see the visualization library in this solution expanded, so that I can increase what I can offer to our clients."
Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 23 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 10 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Robust solution, but could use a PowerPoint integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "Flexible, offers a single pane of glass, and is highly customizable". Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI and Apache Superset, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Amazon QuickSight and TIBCO BusinessWorks. See our Qlik Sense vs. TIBCO Spotfire report.
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