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Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service vs QlikView comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Business Intelligenc...
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st)
QlikView
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
163
Ranking in other categories
Reporting (8th), Embedded BI (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service is designed for BI (Business Intelligence) Tools and holds a mindshare of 0.8%, up 0.5% compared to last year.
QlikView, on the other hand, focuses on Reporting, holds 4.0% mindshare, up 3.4% since last year.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service0.8%
Microsoft Power BI8.1%
Tableau Enterprise6.2%
Other84.9%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
QlikView4.0%
Tableau Enterprise14.5%
Microsoft Power BI14.1%
Other67.4%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

Ram Alla - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Consultant at KPI Partners
Has supported secure report building and simplified data visualization for non-technical users
The features I find most useful in Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service include data visualization desktop for self-service reports. We can export using Excel and CSV files by dragging and dropping the columns to create reports. The drag-and-drop interface in Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service helps create dashboards for non-technical users as it is easy to use. By dragging and dropping columns, it creates a tabular view by default. We can convert these into many graphs and views such as pivot tables and other interactive graphical representations. I use self-service analytics in Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service.
SG
Financial Controller with task of Business Intelligence Implementation at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Daily invoice analytics has become streamlined and complex data modeling is now simplified
We are not using analytics features and possibly predictive analytics and forecasting features in QlikView, although they are available. QlikView is very flexible, but we are currently using only tabular presentation of data because that is what we need. Presenting a large volume of data in QlikView with graphics can be overwhelming for the majority of people who want to see a lot of information in one picture. It would be beneficial to have AI or ML features in QlikView. However, I think they will decommission QlikView, and AI features are already available in Qlik Sense, so you would need to migrate to that platform.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable, and executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"This solution allowed us to consolidate information from the finance and supply chain systems into aggregate reporting, which had been very difficult to create in the past."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"It is easy and fast to build dashboards."
"The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept."
"QlikView is a highly effective management tool, allowing a broad area of analysis."
"It allows our company to view all of our data in a single solution and it is easy to use, even for novice users."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"You can do a lot of things at the back end which are not possible in the other solutions in the market."
"Easy to analyze data by click-through."
"Working in the IT environment gets challenging especially when you have multiple sources of data that you need to combine, and QlikView makes this really easy and simple to do because QlikView has its own ETL modeler built into it, so having an all-in-one tool is quite an advantage."
 

Cons

"Quality of support varies."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"Some of the advanced analytics need work, and I believe there's an opportunity to improve or simplify the integration with data power users and data science users."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"I didn't interact with them for this solution, but from a broader perspective, my experience with Oracle is that their tech support sits somewhere between low and fair."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
"I encounter deployment issues but it depends on how you develop it and for what are you using this tool."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"The forecasting accuracy should be improved."
"The licensing scheme leaves a lot of room for improvement. I believe it is cumbersome and expensive to maintain."
"Sometimes when developing QV applications, I encounter almost unexplainable errors that causes QV to crash."
"It was complex because we didn't have the correct person (resource) to build the right queries."
"There’s room for improvement with the licensing, as well as memory consumption for certain objects and technical support."
"QlikView has some superb, unique features but the desktop edition suffers from having a rather tired user interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is reasonable compared to other products."
"Oracle products are always going to be on the higher end of your price scale. You have to kind of accept that going in."
"It is expensive for small companies."
"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."
"It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year."
"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."
"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."
"I rate QlikView's pricing a five out of ten."
"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
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
Construction Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
10%
University
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business73
Midsize Enterprise36
Large Enterprise76
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service?
As an expert, I can recommend that improvements could be made in Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service regarding cost. Compared to Power BI, it is significantly more expensive. I think the pri...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service?
The main use cases revolve around analytics which helps us with configured reports for AP, AR, and General Ledger. We have created several reports in Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service as R...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service?
I really recommend Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service itself. I recommend it because we can secure the data compared to other tools. We can connect with a self-service portal and create new...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?
I would rate the pricing for QlikView as not cheap, but it is reasonable.
What needs improvement with QlikView?
We are not using analytics features and possibly predictive analytics and forecasting features in QlikView, although they are available. QlikView is very flexible, but we are currently using only t...
What is your primary use case for QlikView?
The primary use case involves analyzing data on a daily invoice level with QlikView. Building metrics using simple language, similar to what you have in Excel, is what I have found most valuable in...
 

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Sample Customers

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