Tableau vs QlikView
New Gartner report, again invoked the discussion on which tool is the best – Tableau vs QlikView.
– It is always challenging to compare the two tools because each bring lot of good functionality and advantages to the business community.
Tableau vs QlikView
– Tableau brings in cool visualizations and ease of use.
– QlikView has a robust engine for ETL capabilities and visualizations. Qlik’s new baby, Qlik Sense, provides ease of development.
– I read on many forums that you don’t need QlikView’s ETL capability if the organization has an ETL application like Informatica or Datastage.
In my view, no matter how strong your data warehouse is or how much data preparation is done, you will always need to manipulate and transform data for your specific requirements.
– Tableau does provide limited data transformation capabilities and is improving with each version. Tableau takes self-analytics a step further and help business users in creating their own dashboards without the help of IT. QlikView does the same with Sense.
– It is easier for a new comer to learn Tableau. QlikView does takes longer in learning and understanding, only because it provides more functionality. It has both ETL and visualization.
In the end, both tools have their own advantages and disadvantages but important thing to understand is that these are just the tools which are used by people.
So before investing in any tool, invest in your people, in yourself – in understanding the concepts and understanding the business. Once you know your business, then only you can make a right decision on the selection of the application.
To learn more about Tableau, visit What is Tableau
To learn more about QlikView, visit What is QlikView
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About the Author
Chandraish Sinha has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology. He is an accomplished author and has published 11 books covering Business Intelligence related topics such as, Tableau,Power BI, and Qlik. Checkout his Amazon Author profile.
His latest book Excel Basics to Advanced covers all the aspects of MS Excel and provides exercises for self-learning.
Similarly, his recent book, Dashboarding with Tableau, covers all the features in Tableau and includes exercises for self-learning.
He has implemented IT solutions in different domains viz. Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Telecom, Financial and Retail.
He blogs regularly on various IT topics. Check them out in the links given below:
