Head-to-Head: Qlik vs. SAS Visual Analytics

Product QlikView SAS Visual Analytics

License Perpetual license, yearly maintenance, which includes upgrades.

Annual license.

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

According to Gartner, Qlik’s above-average scores for ease of use for developers, particularly when compared with traditional IT-centric enterprise vendors, has resulted in better-than-average implementation costs, IT developer costs and overall three-year BI platform ownership costs per user. The perception that QlikView offers a relatively low cost of ownership, when compared with other vendors’ products, is also evident from the high percentage of customers that choose QlikView because of its implementation cost and associated effort, as well as its TCO.

According to Gartner, highest 3-year cost of ownership.

Content creation

Customers most often select QlikView for its ease of use for end users, particularly in terms of its interactive dashboards and when compared with the offerings of the incumbent IT-centric vendors.

According to Gartner, SAS VA is one of the most time consuming to create content for.

Ease of implementation

Qlik’s above-average scores for ease of use for developers, particularly when compared with traditional IT-centric enterprise vendors, has resulted in better-than-average implementation costs, IT developer costs and overall three-year BI platform ownership costs per user.

According to Gartner, among the most difficult to implement

Touch feature Natural analytics, talk, and touch capabilities are built into the API so has sophisticated iPhone/Android touch functionality.

Mouse-like interactivity

Hardware expenditure Qlik doesn’t require a dedicated server.

Separate VA server recommended

Mobile integration

Anywhere, anytime collaboration – authored and accessed on any device with smart visualization that conform to any device.

Using SAS Visual Analytics

and SAS Mobile BI, users can easily design, create and share

information.

Data compression

Data is compressed before being put into memory

SAS doesn’t compress the data before putting it in memory, meaning they can require up to 10 times more memory for the same data as Qlik Sense

IT needs One tool for IT to install, configure and manage.

One easy tool for end users to access and interact with multiple types of BI content.

Leverage all information assets easily.

SAS EBI, SAS VA and SAS EG are just a few of the end user tools.

Server administration and metadata tools required by IT to manage BI implementation.

Expensive data integration

tool and data warehouse project to combine data sources.

IT Staffing A week of training is usually enough (source?)

According to Gartner, many customers report the greatest barrier to success with SAS is finding qualified BI staff.

Leveraging SAS datasets

Can leverage SAS data sets content without the inherent cost or complexity of SAS.

Will provide a more engaging user experience.

Complex, multi-product solution that takes significant time to resource and maintain.

Lots of user interfaces not only to learn, but also to support.

Data volumes Supports massive data volumes through a hybrid approach of in-memory and direct discovery and doesn’t require the data to be staged in advance of building the application.

Handles massive data volumes.

Microsoft Office Integration

Qlik Sense allows the creation of slide based stories that are connected directly to the data but they are also interactive and can provide links directly to source applications for additional information.

SAS add-on at extra cost.

Pricing $1,500/token for Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense Server is free. Tokens can be used in two ways – one “power user” assigned to the token, or up to ten hours of access with up to ten users accessing it.

Unlike most other SAS products, SAS VA starts at 4 core and yet lists up to 256 core. Predominant entry is 8 core.

Twitter connector

Already demoed on Star Cruises’ QlikView dashboards. Qualex Asia is a beta partner with the developer of these connectors.

N/A

Facebook connector Already demoed on Star Cruises’ QlikView dashboards. Qualex Asia is a beta partner with the developer of these connectors.

N/A

Google Analytics connector

Provides N/A

CRM Integration

A connector for SugarCRM has been developed by a third party and it is available for license.

N/A

Training costs In Manila, QlikView classes cost around US $800 for a three-day training session.

Usually about $1K/day

Connectors market

A simple Google search produces a vibrant community of developers creating connectors for Facebook, Twitter, Google AdSense, Google BigQuery, MailChimp, Youtube analytics, Sentiment and Text analytics, and Blog connectors that will increase the functionality of Qlik exponentially.

A simple Google search produces connectors to Cloudera, not much else.

Mobile App Market QlikMarket is a growing community of developers and application. Qualex Asia is developing applications that are specifically for the casino and hospitality industry.

SAS BI mobile is available in the iTunes and Android app store.

Thought Leadership Qualex Asia’s MD Andrew Pearson has been nominated as a Qlik Luminary so will be leading Qlik’s expanding casino footprint.

Personal Edition QlikView has free downloadable personal versions of the software

N/A

Magic Quadrant

Here is the Gartner Magic Quadrant for both tools: