Ask HN: What self service BI tools?
They were previously separate team but a recent re-org has brought us together.
We want to consolidate to one technology and are thinking put it all in Qlikview.
One wrinkle is that there is also high demand from business areas to add a "self service" tool to let analysts build and publish their own dashboards.
It seems like we can meet this need by adding Qlik's Sense product.
Then we can do the range of reporting from pixel perfect paper to structured dashboards created by developers where users only have the ability to filter/select data, to fully self-service options where we publish data sets and let users use the qlik sense drag and drop interface to build.
The business teams who want a self service option REALLY prefer tableau. There are a few vocal members with experience working in tableau complaining that qlik sense is not intuitive, not as flexible, etc.
I actually tend to agree on the intuitive point but after the learning curve for qlik sense, I find I prefer it. The "associative model" (full outer join) technique makes sense and adds value for data exploration.
Do we just give in and go tableau for the self service option and stick with qlik view for "pixel perfect" reports and structured dashboards? Force the organization to suck it up and learn qlik sense for self service?
Or something else? It's also an option to abandon qlik entirely for something else. Can tableau do it all? If not, are there common pairings of tableau with more traditional paper report, fixed dashboard bi tools?
Whatever we do it will be on prem not cloud hosted. Will have about 150 users overall. 6 developers who are on the tool full time, 50 business users who want to build their own dashboards, and the rest mainly consumers of reports who might pivot things around a bit with a drag and drop tool, but generally won't build their own things.
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