Qlik Analytics Platform vs. Rational BI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Analytics Platform
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
The Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP) is a developer platform for building custom analytic applications based on rich frontend and backend APIs. It gives full API access to the Qlik associative engine to build rich data-driven analytic applications, for example when building web applications for extranet and Internet deployment.N/A
Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
$0
single user
Pricing
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
single user
Professional
$129
single user
Enterprise
Varies
single user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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Community Pulse
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
Features
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Analytics Platform
-
Ratings
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Analytics Platform
-
Ratings
Rational BI
8.3
4 Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Analytics Platform
-
Ratings
Rational BI
9.0
4 Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Analytics Platform
-
Ratings
Rational BI
8.2
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
Supermetrics
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(6 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik Analytics PlatformRational BI
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik
Qlik Analytics Platform has helped us track turnaround time as well as sales volumes. We can display metrics in a multitude of ways and can then slice it up in even more ways by adding filters. It is nice that you can filter down the data by essentially "Qliking" anywhere to find insights. Qlik Analytics Platform has been extremely beneficial in reducing manual reports. We are able to automate numerous reports in addition to setting up alerts, through Nprinting, that will notify users when certain metrics are hit. For example, if our turnaround time exceeds a certain number, we can alert business stakeholders so they can take a closer look. We can also send notifications to sales representatives when their territories are underperforming.
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Rational BI
Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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Pros
Qlik
  • Fast setup of analytics report
  • Easy tweaking of build dashboards
  • Perfect integration with other data software
  • Vast possibilities on setting up dashboards
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Rational BI
  • Arrange data.
  • Dashboard.
  • Automatic reports.
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Cons
Qlik
  • Certainly, it turns out that implementation and data modeling are sometimes complex.
  • There are still many graphic and representation limits that need complex customizations to be overcome.
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Rational BI
  • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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Usability
Qlik
No answers on this topic
Rational BI
Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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Support Rating
Qlik
Customer support is provided through resellers, and finding the right reseller for your context can be a challenge. However our support from our last two resellers/partners has been largely very good. The online community is strong, though obviously doesn't replace having local technical experts working with the product and managing it.
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Rational BI
I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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Alternatives Considered
Qlik
Qlik is a platform with more scaling ability and functionality compared to PowerBI. PowerBI is the prior step before passing to Qlik, however, Qlik provides more functions and abilities to the business domain unit with better management capabilities for the IT team that set it up. In the end, we implemented Qlik for functionality and scalability.
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Rational BI
Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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Return on Investment
Qlik
  • It made our analytics better
  • Dashboards for strategic decisions are changed and setup faster
  • We spend more time on learning the tool than we thought to need
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Rational BI
  • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
  • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
  • Single pane of management.
  • Ease of use.
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ScreenShots

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