This blog is about comparing Tableau with another tool called Qlikview, for creating visualizations.
These days the performance driven executives only have a few seconds to convince a skeptical audience. The most effective way to convince an audience is by using graphs, visualizations and interactive dashboards that tell a story. The visual elements that one uses should have clarity and easy comprehension to complex business messages. These days with the intervention of big data, people do not want to just have the graphics, they want to create business insights from that data and analyze the trends and patterns.
For this, there are three tools in the market – Tableau, QlikView, D3.js which are worth mentioning. These are known to have gone beyond the average capabilities of the text and present ad-hoc reports. These tools have the capability of giving the user easy access to manipulation with the data and present some business intelligence advantage and create interactive analytics. However, I want to discuss more about QlikView as it has not been discussed during this course.
QlikView is a more specific Business Intelligence or BI tool which is now expanding at a rapid rate globally. It offers an integrated BI platform and comes bundled with demos, training manuals and tutorials. It also comes with the ease of deployment and configuration. It has a patented technology called ‘associative technology’ which can help in deriving intelligence and insights on demand. Another point of distinction is that it loads all the tables into memory to enable interactive queries and create reports. However, QlikView seems to lack the logical structure and GUI is not as impressive as Tableau. Also, the visual outputs are time intensive and not intuitive as Tableau.
Reference: https://www.experfy.com/blog/qlikview-vs-tableau-review-two-visualization-giants