Alteryx Platform vs. Qlik Sense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alteryx Platform
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
The Alteryx AI Platform gives organization automated data preparation, AI-powered analytics, and machine learning with embedded governance and security. Its self-service functionality, with self-service data prep, machine learning, and AI-generated insights, gives enterprise teams with a simplified user experience allowing everyone to create analytic solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, and the bottom line. Alteryx Designer can be used to automate every analytics step…
$4,950
per year per user (minimum of 3 users)
Qlik Sense
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
$200
per month
Pricing
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
Editions & Modules
Designer Desktop
starting at $5,195
per year per user
Designer Cloud Professional Edition
Starting at $4,950
per year per user (minimum of 3 users)
Starter
$200
per month
Standard
$825
per month
Premium
$2,750
per month
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
Considered Both Products
Alteryx Platform
Chose Alteryx Platform
I prefer Alteryx Platform to all the above products. In my opinion, the Microsoft products (Excel, Power BI) are inferior, cheaper alternatives to Alteryx Platform.
Chose Alteryx Platform
I think Alteryx Platform offers a much more user friendly and can be owned by the business user much easier than SAS data insights tool can. Both are powerful but the end-user experience is much easier and intuitive with Alteryx compared to SAS from my perspective.
Chose Alteryx Platform
Fivetran is a basic on its own, but it is very cloud based solution and useful for large teams handling large data sets, hence wasn’t useful for our case. That is why we picked Alteryx which provides easy to use and understand interface for low knowledge, people.
Chose Alteryx Platform
I used ACL before so all my scripts were written in SQL and it was not low code at all. After me and my team started using Alteryx, we moved all the scripts to workflows in Alteryx, it took some time, but works way better than ACL, it is faster and easier to maintain it any …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx is by far the most powerful tool to carry out complex and customized calculations with ease and highly reproducible while the other tools often face memory issues and 10x more time to carry ou similar calculations
Chose Alteryx Platform
The Server component of Alteryx is what our team drew to it. Having a centralized server and support team allows a lot of self service analytics
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx is more efficient than competitors we've tested and used. Alteryx Designer can handle data wrangling and analysis that we once needed to do in multiple software.
Chose Alteryx Platform
I still use SQL, Python, and Excel when I have to - but alteryx has largely replaced all three of these. Every operation I need to do in any of these I can do in alteryx and see what I'm doing each step of the way - so problem solving is also easier.
Chose Alteryx Platform
IMHO KNIME is not user friendly as much as Alteryx. Learning curve is long. Regardless is Open Source, the GUI is awful. To do same job in Alteryx you need to add many components and the configuration is very complex. Although the application is free, the server side is not.
I …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx weighs over Informatica in terms of ease of use and upscaling.
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx may be next to MSBI and Tableau.
Chose Alteryx Platform
IBM is old school, deployment capabilites and automation capabilities lack compared to many market players... Also opensource integrations were limited. Alteryx is good on both deployment and opensource integrations. New versions, IBM WatsonX, is expected to be better the but …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Microsoft Access is still in place, but will be subsitute by Alteryx, because connection to cloudbased data works, more automazitaion is possible. Easier to use.
Chose Alteryx Platform
We asked our external auditors for suggestions on how to make our processes better and they scheduled a meeting with us and presented Alteryx and then showed us a little bit about PowerBI but it was on their suggestion and their being able to show us at that presentation some …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx beats Tableau fair and square. Tableau is good for vizzy but nothing is comparable to Alteryx's data analysis and big data power. KNIME as well is nothing compared to the R&D Alteryx has. Alteryx having a cost compared to KNIME is a factor but the ROI is definitely …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx stacks up against its competitors in the marketplace because from day one its goal was to simplify and democratize data processes. Its visual nature and transparent tool set, combined with its highly addictive joy to use make it stand out from the crowd.
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx is MUCH more user friendly. both provide the ability to code within them, but Alteryx has much nicer interface. The formula tools have a more simple language that is easier to learn than formulae in SSIS. Alteryx is easy to read with multi colored tools identifying what …
Chose Alteryx Platform
We have not utilized any other tools like Alteryx or found any other tools like Alteryx to evaluate them against.
Chose Alteryx Platform
Alteryx low-code/no-code workflow development, and the ability to view my data at every step, immediately improved my development time by at least 60%. Highbond (formerly Galvanize / ACL) relies on a proprietary ACL script coding language, which can be time-consuming to …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Knime is open source and free. It also positions itself a little on machine learning. But the user experience and the features available are far less powerful than Alteryx. I was a former user of Lavastorm (ancestor of Infogix Data360) and got acquainted with the low-code …
Chose Alteryx Platform
Previous to Alteryx aquiring Trifacta, we looked at it as a possible compliment/replacement. WIth the aquistion, we are looking to the roadmap on full integration and are very excited. Trifacta brings a cloud native solution but currently lacks many of the features/functions …
Qlik Sense
Chose Qlik Sense
We use both Qlik Sense and QlikView. Both bring valué. However, due to simpler development Qlik Sense is the main tool.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense cost of licensing is cheaper compared with other tools which always gives an upper edge in analytics industry with good functionality. More enhanced level of security with better user community group available to discuss about new updates. Understanding of Qlik Sense …
Chose Qlik Sense
We use Microsoft Power BI too as a BI tool, in my point of view, Qlik Sense's ETL is much better than PowerBi. In another side, PowerBI learning curve is small than Qlik Sense, especially the PowerBI Desktop.
Chose Qlik Sense
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Chose Qlik Sense
The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community …
Chose Qlik Sense
Both are good data visualisation platforms; with certain applications where one is better than the other
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense offers a broad variety of functions that are not easily achievable using PowerBi. However, I was not involved with the selection.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is a fast tool to implement; you can have a functional dashboard in a few days, and the ETL processes are quite easy to build it. You can have the ROI in a short period of time.
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense comes out as a superior product as well as more cost efficient than some of the other products we evaluated as a part of our Enterprise Business Intelligence stack. It offers unified view of our data and extensibility. Qlik Sense being the most interactive …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is relatively cheaper and more futuristic
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is one of the best reporting systems. It is stronger than PBI and Tableau when speaking about complex KPIs. It is really similar to Microstrategy Analytics when you speak about obtained results, but it is easier to use, especially as it is more code-based. But is it …
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense can easily integrate multiple data models to visualize customer data. Tableau is easy to use—perhaps more manageable than Qlik—but expensive. Microsoft BI was chosen because it was similar to previously used
Chose Qlik Sense
We originally went with Qlik Sense because the desktop version used to be free for single users and was a very good proposition for us (we are a non-profit with a limited budget). However, from what I see, the functionality is comparable, and Qlik Sense stacks up well.
Chose Qlik Sense
As soon as you want to pull data from two or more separate tables, Qlik Sense leaves the rest in the dust, since it does not require joins or complex transformations. Zoho CRM analytics are limited to the data located in the product itself. No external tables can be combined.
Chose Qlik Sense
Other tools were not able to handle complex business requirements and performance was not too good with very huge volume data. we were required to maintain history, time-based data backups, and snapshots. Also, some of the tools were too costly compare to Qlik [Sense] solutions.
Chose Qlik Sense
We had a QlikView deployment and it made sense to utilize what was existing for our Qlik Sense use.
Chose Qlik Sense
When it comes to working with large datasets out of the box, Qlik in my opinion is unrivaled amongst the competitor. However, the overall user experience and customization options available to developers require a lot of work. When compared to other options on the market, …
Chose Qlik Sense
We thought we were getting a good (financial) deal. We had internal resources who were already familiar with Qlik.
Chose Qlik Sense
BI has some amazing features, but it requires a good understanding of DAX. It's not as user-friendly as Qlik Sense.
Features
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
7.4
Ratings
6% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Alteryx Platform
-
Ratings
Qlik Sense
8.6
Ratings
10% above category average
REST API00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
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8.4
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Usability
9.1
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
7.3
(0 ratings)
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Performance
8.6
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.2
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
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Product Scalability
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor post-sale
8.2
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Alteryx PlatformQlik Sense
Likelihood to Recommend
We're trying right now to get more people using it at our company so we can send management documented cases for how we can expand and purchase Alteryx Server which will extend the capabilities even more and across more departments. It's been well suited for pretty much everything we do on a repeating schedule. It's worth the time to set up the workflows. When Treasury sends me the bank download now - I save it to a folder and run our workflows and send back 2 journal entries in .9 seconds. (yes - in less than a second it's finished running)
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Qlik Sense is a program whose purpose is to greatly improve all your operations and use of all data in an organic way. The mission will always be to increase the economic and commercial processes of the company in a short time. I recommended it for its high technology, which was Created for this area, the results are successful. We have noticed how it has increased relationships with our clients thanks to the credibility and security that we provide.
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Pros
  • Pulling data from multiple disparate data sources.
  • Allows users to see the data at every step of the workflow to be able to cleanse, analyze, and optimize the data.
  • Provides an analytics platform that is easy for users of all levels to thrive in whether they are just starting out in their analytics journey or they have a master's degree in Data Science.
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  • Self-Service Visualization and Discovery
  • Fullstack BI from ETL to Visualization, its built-in ETL engine can transform disparate data sets into a common data structure
  • Uses HTML5 based responsive design which visualization automatically adapt to the screen size and orientation of the users device
  • Actively engaged community and resources to help you learn this software in the best possible manner
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Cons
  • Steeper Learning Curve: Alteryx can have a steep learning curve for users who are new to the platform or have limited experience with data analytics. Enhancements to the user interface and user onboarding resources could help make the learning process more intuitive and accessible to a wider range of users.
  • Enhanced Data Visualization Capabilities: Alteryx offers basic data visualization capabilities, but there is room for improvement in terms of advanced visualizations and interactive dashboarding features. Adding more sophisticated chart types, interactive widgets, and customization options would enhance the data visualization capabilities within the platform.
  • Improved Error Handling and Debugging: Alteryx provides error handling mechanisms, but enhancing the error reporting and debugging capabilities would be beneficial. Improved error messages, better visibility into data flow, and debugging tools could help users troubleshoot and resolve issues more efficiently.
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  • Not a lot of room for customization as we were used to in QlikView
  • UI and default navigation can be very clunky and not user friendly
  • Although the backend is fantastic, the front end experience leaves a lot to be desired. As a developer you don't have a lot of options to customized your app unless you turn to Javascript, CSS and HTML. This is not a common stack you would find in most BI developers
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Likelihood to Renew
We've developed a working partnership with Alteryx. As an enablement suite, we're continuing to innovate and deliver great products with use of Alteryx in our solutions. Alteryx use expands to our global product development teams and is in use in multiple parts of our organization. Alteryx also delivers Experian demographic content to other clients in their product offering. We're highly likely to renew, but that decision is way above my pay grade.
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Qlik Sense is a constantly improving it's software and working with its' users to make it better. They are great at keeping their users informed of progress and care about delivering a quality product
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Usability
I've found that while some things might take a little longer to create, the flexibility of Alteryx allows you to perform any function needed. I haven't found a use that was not available in Alteryx yet. APIs and XMLs can be created to perform certain functions. In addition, CMD line commands can be sent using Alteryx to perform certain functions as well.
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Qlik Sense has a better and easy to learn user interface compared with other analytics tool which always help us to create regular and adhoc reports within the stipulated time frame and can be easily refreshed at a scheduled time and sent to multiple stakeholders for timely update regarding the Key metrics indicator.
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Reliability and Availability
I use many programs and compared to others, Alteryx virtually never goes down, freezes up or gives an application error. Over a 4 year time period that I have used this program, any of these may have happened 3 times. It is an incredibly stable program that I feel completely confident in.
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Performance
Alteryx is an extremely reliable platform. If there is an error in my workflow, I feel pretty strongly it was probably my fault. The platform also handles large amounts of data very quickly and can join/match, sort, filter, calculate on that data quickly as well. One of my favorite things to build into a workflow are the messages based on data/metadata and error messages based on errors I have come across before.
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Support Rating
Stellar, bar-none. Some of the best support folks of any vendor. The Alteryx Community is the most responsive and supportive. On the rare occasion of a release issue or bug, we've been able to get quick help to solve the core problem. Alteryx does not play the blame game. They genuinely help the users solve their issues or respond to questions
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Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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In-Person Training
1st level of trainings which I've attended in Paris was easy and I was already knowing %90, that learning could have been an e-learning instead of in-person
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The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Online Training
Very good, detailed online trainings which you can take at your own pace, and strong certifications exists, certifications are extremely detailed and hard...
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The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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Implementation Rating
There is really not much to it (the installation, that is). Once you get it installed, along with any of the add-ons (demographics, R, etc.), you are up and running almost immediately. There is really no additional setup. You can immediately begin blending data, running demographics, performing spatial queries, running predictive analysis, etc. And for many of these functions, the learning curve is quite easy.
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Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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Alternatives Considered
I used ACL before so all my scripts were written in SQL and it was not low code at all. After me and my team started using Alteryx, we moved all the scripts to workflows in Alteryx, it took some time, but works way better than ACL, it is faster and easier to maintain it any changes have to be done.
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The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community made up of professionals. Qlik Sense has introduces artificial Intelligence into my data visualization and reporting activity.
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Scalability
Individual analysts can quickly generate results using their own copy of Alteryx Designer. But using the Server and developing macros for more complex needs can be time consuming.
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Return on Investment
  • Error handling - allows controls to be built into workflows easily and allows them to be isolated and spat into control reports that can be easily reviewed and audited, thanks to the ability to create multiple outputs in one go.
  • Time-saving - saved huge amounts of time, especially when moving Excel processes into Alteryx.
  • Product development - allowed my firm to create products that we have been able to market and sell to clients.
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  • The impact has undoubtedly been positive, it is difficult to quantify it, however in terms of effectiveness or efficiency I give it a 90%.
  • I don't give it 100% because to use the complete package you have to pay, and it's not that cheap and on the other hand because it has some deficiencies, such as technical support and some issues like windows that are not so friendly and easy to work with.
  • Still, I can't stop using it.
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ScreenShots

Alteryx Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Alteryx APA - Automating asset inputsScreenshot of Alteryx APA - Automating outcomesScreenshot of Alteryx APA - Data enrichment and insightsScreenshot of Alteryx APA - Data quality and preparationScreenshot of Alteryx APA - Data science and decisions

Qlik Sense Screenshots

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization Bundle