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By presenting your data in an easy to understand format, BI software helps you to have a
better understanding of your business’ strengths and weaknesses while providing
actionable insights into KPIs and other important metrics. This makes it a critical tool to
ensure competitiveness and profitability.
In the next few pages we give you 10 key operational benefits of business intelligence
software.
Benefits of Business Intelligence Software
4. Establish Benchmarking
QlikView unifies data sources for a complete view. Fast thinking and effective decision-making is
important in achieving success in a business
endeavor. Often, those in charge of running a
3. Data Mining
business don’t have the time to conduct a
large-scale research project and a particular
BI analytics tools are exceptionally well-suited
industry development or product release.
for powerful data mining. Data mining is the
Using business intelligence software is like
process of seeking patterns in data in order to
constantly having an in-depth research
identify trends and draw insights. It can be
project in progress that’s compiling
broken into five steps: collection, warehousing
information for groundbreaking
and storage, organization, analysis, and
5. Performance Management
Zero in on the best business BI even offers fraud monitoring and risk
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Tableau
vs
QlikView
vs
Power BI
“Analytics is the primary enabler to derive truth and meaning from data that drives
the business growth” – Hugo Moreno via Forbes.
Companies rely on data more than ever before, as almost all information is completely
digitized. Business intelligence software makes sense of the modern data landscape. The
best BI systems offer features that analyze and report data for streamlined presentation.
Some of the top tools in the industry are Tableau, QlikView and Microsoft Power BI.
If you’re evaluating Tableau vs QlikView vs Microsoft Power BI, read on. We highlight the
key pros and cons of each and include a comprehensive business intelligence tools
leaderboard showing how each stacks up across key business and functional
requirements.
Capabilities Overview
Our comparison of Tableau. QlikView and Microsoft Power BI considers the
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Tableau Server
Tableau server empowers everyone in your organization to see and understand their data. It is at
the centre of your business intelligence. It ensures a user can explore and share data in a trusted
and secure environment that scales to meet your organization's demands. It naturally fits within the
fabric of your business to provide the governance, your business needs, this means your team can
connect to and manage data on-premises or in the cloud from spreadsheets databases, big data
and cloud applications
It also enables to analyze in Tableau desktop and securely share your results to Tableau Server in
seconds, create beautiful visualizations to highlight opportunities in your business, empower
everyone to drag and drop and explore data to see patterns and quickly spot trends without limiting
them to predefined questions, wizards or chart types bring meaning to your data and find answers
in minutes. Tableau server visual tools help you manage and monitor everything from user
permissions to data source connectivity and the status of the server.
Cost of Ownership
Maintenance Cost An additional cost over and above the upfront cost has to be
paid for ongoing support and maintenance
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Tableau Server
Cost of Ownership
Data Migration Cost/Change Data Migration is possible in Tableau Servers and can be done
Management/Upfront Switching Cost with the following tools - Tabcmd Script, REST API,
TabMigrate and Enterprise Deployment Tool by InterWorks
Recurring/Renewal Costs Renewal cost is equivalent to the fees paid annually, based on
the number of users
Tableau Server ● On-premises or on public cloud with Amazon On- premise / Cloud
On-Premise/Public Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google based –$35 per user per
Cloud Cloud Platform month
● Centrally manage data sources and workbooks
● Explore analytics from any browser or mobile
device
● Author in your browser and subscribe to
workbook updates
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Tableau Server
Pricing Details
Tableau Online Fully ● SaaS form of Tableau Server with $42 per user per month
Hosted maintenance, upgrades, and security fully
managed by Tableau
● Centrally manage data sources and workbooks
● Explore analytics from any browser or mobile
device
● Author in your browser and subscribe to
workbook updates
Deployment Options What options are available for product deployment? Cloud-based/SaaS
Free Trial Does the vendor provide a free trial option? Yes
Product Limitations
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QlikView
QlikView, a product of Qlik is rapidly growing as one of the fastest BI and data visualization
software. It is gaining popularity among companies as the product can be deployed quickly, can be
used and learned easily. It is known for its powerful data discovery and interactive guided analysis.
The product is the leader in the market for its data discovery feature.
In the current highly competitive market, QlikView to meet the demands such as management and
scalability needs of most enterprises has developed a highly advanced enterprise-class
architecture. To ensure the quality of interactive data discovery, it provides a highly scalable,
secure, and manageable environment. No matter where the data is located, data is file-based,
on-premise, in the cloud, or in big data sources, it can access, combine and load the data from
their exact location.
Cost of Ownership
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Qlikview
Cost of Ownership
Recurring/Renewal Costs Renewal costs includes software update license and support
cost
Pricing Details
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Qlikview
Pricing Details
Product Limitations
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Microsoft Power BI
MS Power BI is a business intelligence service provided by Microsoft. The BI tool can be broken
down into several tools such as Power Query which is used to extract and transform data; Power
Pivot is mainly used to model and analyze data and Power View and Map tool is used to visualize
data. It provides interactive visualizations and self-service business intelligence capabilities which
enables users to create reports and dashboards by themselves, without the support of IT or
database and system administrators.
Cost of Ownership
Installation/Implementation Cost Included in the subscription cost. Additional charges may apply
for data migration during implementation, maintaining
on-premise data sources and building dashboards and reports
Cost of Ownership
Pricing Details
Power BI Pro Share ● Build dashboards that deliver a $9.99 per month per user
and Collaborate 360-degree, real-time view of the
business
● Keep data up-to-date automatically,
including on-premises sources
● Collaborate on shared data
● Audit and govern how data is
accessed and used
● Package content and distribute to
users with apps
Deployment Options What options are available for product Cloud - based/SaaS
deployment?
Pricing Details
Free Trial Does the vendor provide a free trial option? Yes
Product Limitations
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Tableau vs Qlikview vs Power BI
Comparing Tableau vs QlikView Tableau on this aspect of embedded
analytics. Both Qlik and Tableau are evenly
Qlik’s reputation for developing matched on their support for SmartData
enterprise-level products that deliver excellent Discovery as well. Overall, however, Tableau
customer experiences is accelerating as dominates the analysis and content creation
QlikView continues to attract new customers feature set comparison of these two
to the company and extend Qlik’s market companies.
growth. Qlik Sense continues to be the
company’s lead product, further strengthening Tableau’s depth of expertise and feature
their market position in the data discovery, richness are evident in how advanced their
stand-alone and embedded analytics interactive visual exploration, analytics
markets. Over the year, Qlik has also grown dashboards and support for mobile-based
its global partner network, which is also exploration and authoring are. Analytics
accelerating Qlik’s overall market adoption. supported across visual exploration,
dashboards and supporting with mobile
Qlik’s product strengths include an in-memory authoring all reside in the cloud, providing
engine capable of visualizing patterns and enterprises with 6exibility in reporting and
producing associative analytics that isn’t analysis.
achievable using SQL alone. The in-memory
engine is scalable enough to integrate with Enterprise Data Management Components
many different types of data sources, creating – Qlik’s architecture has been designed to
a uni/ed dashboard show analytics, metrics support self contained ETL and data storage,
and key performance indicators (KPIs) of making this series of features a strength
interest. Many of Qlik’s enterprise customers versus Tableau. Both Qlik and Tableau are
say QlikView and Qlik Sense are easy to use evenly matched on self-service data
If visualizations are your core focus, Tableau is far and away the best answer. There is a reason
the company and product are consistently top-ranked in intelligence visualizations.
QlikView is highly adaptable and provides wide-ranging deep analytics. It also provides
integration with Deltek products, so if you use Deltek for time and expense or earned value
management (EVM) reporting, QlikView is a natural choice. Overall, QlikView also continues to
have one of the industry’s highest customer satisfaction ratings.
Microsoft’s Power BI is inexpensive and plugs in seamlessly with MS Office. It is a solid option if
you need quick access to specific analytics or intensive reporting (and have personnel who are
skilled in MS-based data queries). Microsoft Power BI is the only one of these three data
visualization and analytics apps that have extensive R and big data-related integrations, ensuring
this apps’ scalability for larger projects.
Overall, Microsoft Power BI emerges as the most comprehensive solution among these three
tools. Microsoft provides integration abilities that are simply unmatched by competitors, resulting
in one of the most user-friendly, data-connected business intelligence systems available.
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