I used Qlikview for about 3-4 years and it was very powerful. It met almost all requirements we needed. The scripting and language was fast and intuitive. The only issue that it had was for end users, using it in the browser was slow and the visuals became a little dated. Using it on the desktop was significantly faster.
I started to look into Qliksense, and they basically went all in on browser technologies. It looked faster and more modern, until you start to develop in it. That's where it became a pain. They moved the speed of development (scripting and loading data) and made it slow, so that it became faster for the end user in the browser. The qliksense desktop app is nothing more than a browser.
I gave up on Qliksense to try Power BI ... which looked like it had all the benefits as Qlikview and none of the drawbacks... and it was an utter failure too. Power BI was such a immature product (couldn't take care of 3/4ths of the Qlikview features) and was exponentially slower to develop for (scripting is slow, any change you make takes minutes to update etc). And sure enough, you look into it, and a lot more "web" technologies are underneath PowerBI.
So my question is, is this what we are left with? Slow, laborious, report creating? Is there a better product out there that doesn't fall into the same problems? Is Tableau any better?
