QlikView vs SAP BusinessObjects GRC comparison

The compared Qlik and SAP solutions aren't in the same category. Qlik is ranked #4 in RT , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 4.7% mindshare in the category. SAP is ranked #2 in CCM , with an average rating of 6.7, and holds a 14.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Qlik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of SAP users who would recommend it.

QlikView

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1,806 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

SAP BusinessObjects GRC

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512 Views
241 Comparison Views

66% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between QlikView and SAP BusinessObjects GRC based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

QlikView

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

162

Ranking in other categories

Reporting (4th), Embedded BI (3rd)

SAP BusinessObjects GRC

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

4.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Continuous Controls Monitoring (2nd), GRC (12th)

Mindshare comparison

QlikView and SAP BusinessObjects GRC aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. QlikView is designed for Reporting and holds a mindshare of 4.7%, up 3.3% compared to last year.
SAP BusinessObjects GRC, on the other hand, focuses on Continuous Controls Monitoring, holds 14.1% mindshare, down 24.1% since last year.

Reporting Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
QlikView	4.7%
Microsoft Power BI	23.8%
Tableau Enterprise	20.2%
Other	51.3%

Reporting

Continuous Controls Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP BusinessObjects GRC	14.1%
ACL Analytics	28.6%
CaseWare IDEA SymSure Monitor	19.0%
Other	38.3%

Continuous Controls Monitoring

Q&A Highlights

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Jun 23, 2014

Which is a better for reporting, SAP BO or QlikView?

SAP - BO is all traditional and extracts data from a structured sources and after the fact, so it can at best help you to make decision after the fact. It is based on creating a Universe so their is quite an intensive build period before beginning to drive and insights. The Universe acts as a data map and the data continues to reside in the database. The issue with this is that if you ask for frequent updates this hits the databases and depending on the latency there may be a significant time lag to see your results. It is not good at agile data discovery and visualisation and as such could be seen as a traditional BI tool ie people know what data they have and what they want to see. But with most Data Visualization tools they can extract data from structured and unstructured data, and from social media and can easily get adhoc and better decision making Analytical reports and user friendly. It is very good for exploring things you dont know in the data. With the need and then analyze the insights you are looking for . QLIK - VIEW can serve you in more complicated information reports using Data Visualization tools like QlikView, Tableau, SpotFire, Pentaho

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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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Vishal Guthula

Sr Advanced Analytics Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Experienced security and easy understanding with advanced customization enhances efficiency

Regarding automation, they could enhance features for checking real-time data when someone attempts to access data without proper permissions. Currently, we do not receive immediate alerts; we only discover issues after something goes wrong. Having prevention alerts immediately when someone triggers unauthorized actions would allow us to address these situations proactively.

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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

"It is a stable product."

"The search feature: ability to see the related data."

"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."

"The language support is very good."

"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."

"QlikView is an excellent tool, though expensive compared to other BI tools, it provides ETL capability allowing the building of a complete data warehouse within Qlik Sense."

"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."

"Easy to analyze data by click-through."

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"It is wonderful from the control perspective. The GRC tools help you in knowing what are the risk controls, how to mitigate risks, and how to ensure that there are no conflicts between the roles. From the user perspective, you get to know what are the permission risks and access risks. You get a lot of useful information."

"The customization options in the dashboards inside SAP BusinessObjects GRC are highly valuable, and the real-time monitoring feature performs effectively, allowing teams to maintain data security by restricting domain visibility."

"The tool helps create reports for projects, including the creation of any ad-hoc reports"

"The stability of SAP BusinessObjects GRC is acceptable."

"We have enterprise clients for the product."

"Initial setup was straightforward. It took maybe one week."

"The best features are the scalability and flexibility to implement applications on top of the BW."

Cons

"The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features."

"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."

"The user interface is old."

"Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time."

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

"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."

"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."

"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."

More QlikView cons

"I think the old system is better than the new one. From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to ensure that the new technologies it offers are better than the old ones."

"BusinessObjects is very dated. It is not that user-friendly. It should be made more user-friendly. In addition, if they could make predictive analytics an embedded part of it where people get to know what is there to offer, it would be great."

"I am working on features that are not functioning as expected, which creates significant difficulties in management."

"Technical support could be better and faster."

"Currently, we do not receive immediate alerts; we only discover issues after something goes wrong."

"We cannot actively log in to the system. It should also improve support."

"An additional feature I would like to see is the option to add wait time and integrate sources in wait time."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."

"My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly."

"Pricing is a bit too high and I think licenses should be unlimited."

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

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."

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

More QlikView pricing and cost advice

"There is a yearly licensing cost. I would rate their pricing 4 out of 5."

"The license is costly."

"SAP BusinessObjects GRC is expensive."

"The product's licensing costs involve a one-time purchase. The tool also allows others to make annual payments towards the licensing charges of the product."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

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…

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Answers from the Community

Avigail Sugarman

Community Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)

Jun 23, 2014

Which is a better for reporting, SAP BO or QlikView?

2 out of 14 answers

it_user93438

Consultant at a manufacturing company

Jun 17, 2014

SAP BO is a very robust tool for BI but is very structured and is difficult from a self-service perspective for users to design and run their own queries. QlikView scores over SAP BO on ease of use. It is also robust and can exchange data with SAP or with virtually any ERP. If self service by users is important for the organization, then QlikView is the better choice to make. However, if users are satisfied with structured reports as per their defined format, then SAP BO is equally good, if not better. SAP BO often tends to slow down the system and hence reporting can be a time consuming task. Check this for the use intended by the organization and see if the time can be optimized. QlikView is usually faster for comparable reports. Best regards, Saumil

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it_user115764

Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jun 17, 2014

Hi Russell, Sorry, can't help here as I don't gave QlikView expertise. only Business Objects! Regardz

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	73
Midsize Enterprise	36
Large Enterprise	75

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about SAP BusinessObjects GRC?

The tool helps create reports for projects, including the creation of any ad-hoc reports

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What needs improvement with SAP BusinessObjects GRC?

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What is your primary use case for SAP BusinessObjects GRC?

I work with SAP, and currently I am working with other domains such as Power BI, Microsoft, and in the AI sector. When working with Microsoft, I utilize solutions such as Intune, Configuration Mana...

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Overview

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

SAP GRC helps you automatically detect, remediate, and prevent access risk violations - no matter the industry or business size. Get real-time visibility into your current risk position, and confidently reduce unauthorized access, fraud, and the cost of compliance.

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Sample Customers

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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