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Qlik Sense vs Toucan Toco comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Qlik Sense
Ranking in Data Visualization
6th
Ranking in Embedded BI
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
126
Ranking in other categories
AI Data Analysis (15th)
Toucan Toco
Ranking in Data Visualization
18th
Ranking in Embedded BI
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (28th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Qlik Sense is 4.7%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toucan Toco is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Qlik Sense4.7%
Toucan Toco0.9%
Other94.4%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Saranya Deepthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer at Wipro
Improved AI-driven dashboards have accelerated decisions but still need better visuals and faster refresh
Absolutely, nothing is entirely positive, and everything has both advantages and disadvantages. When I worked with Qlik Sense, circular charts were not available, which meant I had to look for alternative solutions that would be reliable or make the functionality work. There are some features that need to be added. Additionally, there is a limit to the number of fields that can be added in Qlik Sense, and I believe it would be beneficial if they increased the count for fields and columns. There might be requirements where an Excel file contains many columns that need to be displayed as visual representations to clients, and in those situations, it becomes very difficult and I have to use alternative approaches. When this problem arose, I used HTML code to write a solution and make it work. Qlik Sense should avoid these types of limitations in future updates. Another issue is page resolution. If a client wants to view the dashboard on a single page without scrolling, bar charts appear small and the values in KPIs, bar charts, scatter plots, and line graphs cannot be seen very clearly. Adding more extensions to make the job easier would also be beneficial. Improvements to reporting would be helpful as well, because working with large datasets makes reporting very difficult. Additionally, when data is refreshed, it cannot be completed in a short timeframe. Refreshing very large datasets can take one, two, or even three hours, so reducing the refresh time would be very useful for customers.
Jeffrey Richter - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of IT at Claridge Products
Real-time executive visibility has replaced spreadsheets and drives daily sales decisions
Toucan Toco offers excellent features, including the quick ability to create Stories and KPIs based on the data that we're storing in our data warehouse. We leverage the functionality within Toucan Toco to quickly build out a code-free environment, providing a code-free way of sharing both graphs and KPIs to track and deliver visibility to key data elements. Toucan Toco has positively impacted our organization because we previously were using Excel spreadsheets to share data out to the team, and now we're using Toucan Toco to share information in real time. This shift to real-time sharing has brought clarity to consistent metrics and real-time visibility to activity.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Qlik offers you all the features needed to extract the raw data from the source systems including an ETL layer to transform the data and to connect the multiple data sources into one data model, easy data sharing, security and scaling features, dashboards, and report functionality to share your data with your end-users."
"The product has many great features like easy and fast implementation, flexible data loading, and in-memory processing, but the Set Analysis is what I think is the most valuable. It makes the product very powerful."
"Qlik Sense has given us visibility into our data to make informed decisions."
"QlikSense has drastically and dramatically made our analytical function more efficient."
"Qlik Sense helped us with extracting insight from our data more quickly than before."
"The overall ability to build quick wins with simple data to drive insights."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"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."
"Toucan Toco has positively impacted our organization because we previously were using Excel spreadsheets to share data out to the team, and now we're using Toucan Toco to share information in real time."
 

Cons

"Qlik Sense could include additional features for data preparation and integration, making it easier for users to clean, transform, and integrate data from various sources."
"I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use."
"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."
"The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy."
"There are some tools like Alteryx, which are used for data preparation. These features can be built into Qlik to make the process smoother."
"It would be great if decentralized teams would have more features to manage the metadata on the dashboards, setup the specific user access rights and rules to govern incoming and outgoing data sets from/to other teams, and more features to separate the different data process layers (e.g. extraction, transformation [data quality, business rules])."
"It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"I chose nine because Stories can cascade on top of each other and be a bit complicated when they create multiple data sets underneath the Stories to manage."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate Qlik's pricing four out of five."
"Qlik Sense is pretty good in terms of price."
"Costs are a little high on the license/token side. However, if you look at the TCO, it is not too bad, particularly against Power BI."
"You need to pay 5,000 Norwegian kroner per user. Microsoft Power BI is slightly more expensive than Qlik Sense."
"Start small with tokens. You can always buy more."
"I'm not able to reveal the licensing cost for Qlik Sense, but because it was a huge deal, the cost was less than the usual cost. The license wasn't that costly. It was the infrastructure that was very costly."
"The cost is not bad considering the flexibility and support you receive from Qlik. I believe it is worth the cost."
"The costs can initially become quite high. Make sure you have a clear understanding of who will truly use the product as opposed to someone that will simply receive the end report."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise89
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Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software
It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos Enter...
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qlik Sense?
It is not about performance. It is just about how expensive it is to implement.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toucan Toco?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a very clean and quick process through negotiation, and it was a very fair and competitive process.
What needs improvement with Toucan Toco?
Toucan Toco can be improved with the addition of the AI functionality that they are working on, which will be a great value add once it's available. I chose nine because Stories can cascade on top ...
What is your primary use case for Toucan Toco?
Our main use case for Toucan Toco is to share business analytics across the executive staff. A quick, specific example of how my team uses it to share analytics with the executive staff is that we ...
 

Also Known As

QlikSense, Qlik Analytics Platform
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Sample Customers

Abbvie, Airbus, Barclays, BT Openreach, BMW, Daimler AG, HSBC, IKEA, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Mail Group, Sanofi, Siemens, Wendy'', Vodafone, Volvo
Heineken, GE, PnG, Sodexo, Banque postale, Groupe PSA, JCDecaux, Marques Avenue, Nexity
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