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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALooker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A

    QlikView

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AQlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    LookerQlikView
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    QlikView
    Custom
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerQlikView
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.On an perpetual license basis, based on server plus number of users. Contact vendor for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LookerQlikView
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Looker
    Looker was easier to use, better integration with non-standard datastores, such as Prestodb, and Snowflake, and BigTable. Ease of manageability. Creation of reports faster and easier compared to QlikView. Tableau has better heat maps, however, Looker has better drill down in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    Looker stacks up very well against the other tools we have evaluated and used. All the tools have their own pros and cons. Looker had a better edge in terms of visualizations when we chose to use it. After several updates, other tools began to have newer features. Looker still …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    I think working on Looker could be hard, but in performance, it can easily overtake Wave and Zoho Reports. The flexibility of the system and it being super fast makes Looker a standalone from other similar software.
    Incentivized
    Qlik
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    LookerQlikView
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    QlikView
    8.0
    67 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.195 Ratings8.149 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.0115 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.499 Ratings8.059 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    5% above category average
    QlikView
    8.3
    66 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.2112 Ratings9.065 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.9114 Ratings7.066 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.947 Ratings8.336 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.2116 Ratings9.061 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    8.9
    112 Ratings
    7% above category average
    QlikView
    7.9
    61 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.494 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.1100 Ratings9.056 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.775 Ratings7.542 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.297 Ratings7.347 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    13% below category average
    QlikView
    7.3
    57 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.2109 Ratings7.754 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.297 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings6.85 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    8.3
    112 Ratings
    2% below category average
    QlikView
    8.3
    59 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.7106 Ratings8.558 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.293 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.2106 Ratings8.054 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.245 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and QlikView
    Feature
    Looker
    6.3
    84 Ratings
    21% below category average
    QlikView
    8.0
    47 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.681 Ratings8.044 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.575 Ratings8.038 Ratings
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    LookerQlikView
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LookerQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (117 ratings)
    7.2
    (87 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    8.2
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    3.3
    (15 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    7.8
    (43 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LookerQlikView
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Looker is ideal if you are heavily invested in Google Services, particularly marketing related services, and you with to quickly create reporting dashboards for that data. It gets more difficult when you try to tie in data from other services, and I would not use this were I already using BI package - it is not anywhere near as well supported or as widely known as some of its major competitors, but what it does do, it does do well.
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    Qlik
    Sales data validations have helped manage our justifications in the past, especially with regard to new product development and new business introduction. It has also been helpful in identifying trends with business impact and direction specific to quarter and monthly sales from ERP data as well as decisions to purchase equipment of staffing based on run rates and product demand.
    One thing that can get out of hand is data output - if you aren't careful in your query, you may be overloaded with data dumps and drown in the amount of info you have to filter through. This is a user caution, not a comment on the software itself.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
    • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
    • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
    • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
    • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
    • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
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    Qlik
    • QlikView has a simple, relational data model that's REALLY fast. Filtering and changing data is dead simple results are almost immediately available.
    • The free version of Qlikview is almost completely featured, so you roll a pro-level product out to an entire department for really cheap.
    • QlikView is really flexible--if you can imagine it, you can build it.
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    Cons
    Google
    • I wish I could get more granular in the Google ad data, such as down to the campaign type, instead of having to see only all campaigns.
    • The setup can be time-consuming if you're not using the product regularly.
    • Editing the dashboard requires a few logins; I wish it was more seamless.
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    Qlik
    • We found that QlikView can be a bit slow in supporting some forms of encryption. It is web-based and we needed to upgrade all of our server to not support the older SSL and TLS 1 protocols, only support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. However, QlikView could not run with TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. We had to wait over six months to get a version that would handle the newer TLS versions.
    • There are so many options with QlikView that you can get lost when developing a visualization. There are still items I have not yet figured out, such as labeling a graph with the name of a selected detail item.
    • QlikView works by pulling the data it is going to use for visualization into its database. I am a security reviewer and I need to make certain that PII and PHI is not pulled by QlikView for a visualization, otherwise this could become a reportable indecent.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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    Qlik
    Ease of use, ability to load from pretty much any data source. today I created an application that loaded time sheets from excel that are not in a table format. With Qlik's "enable transformation steps" I was able to automate loads of multiple spreadsheets and multiple tabs easily. Could not do that with any other tool.
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    Usability
    Google
    Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
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    Qlik
    QlikView is very easy to implement. The installation is very straight forward. QlikView has several different data connectors that can connect to different data sources very smoothly. The user interface to build the reports is very easy to understand. This helps to have a smaller learning curve. Something very helpful is that QlikView is a browser application for the end users. So, you don't need to install any applications on the user's computer.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No objections
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    Qlik
    We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs
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    Performance
    Google
    Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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    Qlik
    It is not a SAAS product.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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    Qlik
    My experience with the Qlik support team has been somewhat limited, but every interaction I have had with them has been very professional and I received a response quickly. Typically if there is a technical issue, our IT team will follow up. My inquiries are specific to product functionality, and Qlik has been very helpful in clarifying any questions I might have.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    My team attended, but I cannot myself rate, but I think it was good as they've successfully launched a training program at our company themselves for users. It was 3-4 day training.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Qlik
    Training was as expected. The demo environments tend to be more fully featured that our own environment, but the training was clear and well delivered.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    Qlik
    "Implementation" can mean a few things... so I'm not sure that this is the answer you want.... but here it goes: To me, implementation means: "Is the user interface intuitive and can I produce meaningful reports with ease?" On that score, I'd say YES. The amount of training required was minimal and the results were powerful. The desktop implementation is a simple, "blank" interface just waiting for your creativity. The pre-populated templates give you a reasonable start to any project -- and a good set of objects to "play around with" if you're just getting started. Finally, note that the "implementation" I used was baked into QuickBooks 2016 Enterprise -- called "Advanced Reporting"..... That integration makes it ultra useful and simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
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    Qlik
    The only other vendor product that I have worked with that provides a similar experience to Qlikview is Tableau. I would recommend Tableau if your use case is to build a fixed dashboard. You can share reports for free without needing to buy additional licenses. I would recommend Qlikview if your users are looking for a more interactive experience. They can create new objects to represent the data which can't be accomplished as easily in Tableau
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    Qlik
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
    • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
    • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
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    Qlik
    • You can use the free desktop version to do a lot of reporting and analysis work more quickly so the ROI is huge
    • QlikView is great at finding outliers such as data entry errors
    • QlikView is great at helping you quickly discover new insights about your business that can prompt you to take action that can immediately affect your cash flow.
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    ScreenShots

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.

    QlikView Screenshots

    Screenshot of QlikView Sales DashboardScreenshot of QlikView on all devicesScreenshot of QlikView using mobile touch screen