Have you considered using Qlik? This platform is a business intelligence solution that businesses and individuals can use for data analysis. Qlik is a successful company that offers a great product with associative search capabilities, a robust smartphone app, and tons of stellar dashboard technologies.
It also has a massive business size with high revenue and many customer partners, customers, and resources. To put it simply, Qlik is an industry leader.
That being said, Qlik does have its downsides-- and many organizations and individuals are looking for alternatives. We’re not here to encourage you to toss Qlik. Rather, if you’re already considering a switch, we want to be able to help you make a more informed decision.
This guide will explore what Qlik is, five key reasons to look into alternatives, and how DashboardFox can be an excellent alternative to Qlik.
What is Qlik?
Their mission is to build a data-literate society where anybody can utilize data analytics to make better decisions and solve their most difficult challenges. Qlik offers an end-to-end, real-time data integration and analytics cloud platform to bridge the gap between data, insights, and action.
Businesses can make better decisions, increase revenue and profitability, and enhance customer connections by translating data into Qlik Active Intelligence. It is a global company with operations in over a hundred countries and over 50,000 clients.
Now that we understand what Qlik is let’s look at some reasons to consider alternatives to this platform.
5 Reasons to Consider an Alternative to Qlik
You’ll need a developer to use Qlik.
Codeless BI is the future, and Qlik is unfortunately stuck in the past. End-users can build applications with it, and you’ll need to hire a trained developer to use it properly.
It can be pricey when compared to other BI platforms.
Originally, Qlik was quite open about their pricing, but now there is no mention on their official website. According to previously announced prices, individual users pay around $15,500 per concurrent user. It provides various benefits, but they come at a high cost.
It has a track record of adopting pushy sales practices.
Qlik's sales force has a reputation for using aggressive sales practices to close more sales and larger transactions. For some potential customers, this may be a major turn-off.
It has a poor reputation for customer service.
We would give Qlik high marks in a handful of areas, including product quality and ease of use for developers. They would not, however, receive great marks for customer service. We believe they are going through some growing pains due to its fast expansion, and it's evident that a large section of its support personnel is still learning the ropes.
It doesn't have a centralized security solution.
Users must establish data-level security at the document or report level in QlikView; it is not centralized. So, while you can prevent a single person from viewing data on a dashboard if they don't have access, "need to know" they cannot configure security without building a dashboard for each user. As a result, their data-level security takes an "all or nothing" approach.
DashboardFox is an Alternative to Qlik
If you’re planning on leaving Qlik for the reasons we’ve outlined in this guide, a great alternative could be DashboardFox.
To start, DashboardFox's design and operations are simple. It’s one seamless application, purpose-built from the ground up. Qlik, on the other hand, has grown via many acquisitions over the years, which translates into complexity in disparate products cobbled together.
Qlik has many moving bits and components to troubleshoot that aren't as well-integrated as they were when they were independent products. This adds to the complexity and hence the risk of long-term implementation issues. DashboardFox, on the other hand, is a single-window application that has low running expenses and requires little continuing maintenance.
Qlik has desktop, mobile, and server components that require upgrading and maintenance. With DashboardFox, there are no desktop tools or programs to install because it is purely a web server application. DashboardFox is only accessible through contemporary online browsers, including mobile web browsers.
Many clients contemplate switching to Qlik since upgrading from one version to another might take a multi-month endeavor. Applying new updates using DashboardFox might take as little as fifteen minutes. Nobody likes to cope with such a situation.
Finally, when it comes to pricing, DashboardFox is a great alternative to Qlik. DashboardFox does not require a yearly subscription as Qlik does.
DashboardFox not only saves money on the original purchase but also on the whole cost of operations and maintenance of a BI platform. You may save a lot of money compared to Qlik.
There is no need to learn a proprietary language with DashboardFox. Qlik is a developer tool, as it comes with its programming language, Qlik script. It's similar to SQL, but not quite. Thus it has to be set up and used by someone taught in that specific coding language. DashboardFox does not utilize any code and instead relies on regular SQL queries to function.
In terms of customer service, DashboardFox outperforms Qlik. Qlik will direct you to conventional tech support for product issues only and will send you to professional services for everything else. You'll be working directly with a smaller team of technical professionals at DashboardFox, who will give concierge-level assistance to fix product issues and assist with needs.
DashboardFox does have quite a few advantages over Qlik. However, Qlik has us beat in general business size, resources, developer customization, and the key Qlik feature they are known for, associative dashboards.
Still, if the downsides of Qlik have turned you off, consider looking into DashboardFox as an alternative.
Let’s Talk
Now that we have discussed why DashboardFox is a better alternative to Qlik, the next thing we should do is discuss what you need. We can quickly let you know if DashboardFox is a good fit or not.
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