QlikView Reviews

The most valuable features of this product are: its data modeling capabilities, the associated search function, various charting, the flexibility of doing sales in object, section access, and drag & drop storytelling.

We have been using Qlik for most of our front-end solution since adoption; people like it a lot.

I would like to see:

• Mobile and smart device delivery
• Set analysis simplification

I have used it for 3-5 years.

Performance sometimes is a concern.

Occasionally, it hangs while running a script and it bounces out.

Technical support is OK. We work with a vendor partner. We have no direct interaction with Qlik.

We used IBM Cognos BI, in which charting and dashboarding are painful.

Initial setup was very easy.

A vendor partner implemented it.

I advise your team to dive in and learn how to build the most-efficient data model, and learn how to design your web pages.

Ease of development. Data Discovery and Analytics

Great insight into our data and aides both business explanations and data analysis.

Collaboration. Data Input.

5 years

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Once your user base or applications get large you do need a powerful server with lots of RAM.

Customer Service: Excellent and great community interactions as well.Technical Support: Excellent

This was our my first in memory data discovery tool. I have used more static reporting solutions such as SSRS, BOXI etc but they are not really a comparable product to QlikView, Tableau or Spotfire.

Very simple, standard desktop installation file and when performing the server install it requires very little Windows Server knowledge.

In house

Depends on licence version purchased an number of licenced users. One off software purchase plus 20% annual maintenance plan.

Tableau, Spotfire

It is a great product that is easy to learn. Ensure you still put the necessary work into the "back-end" design as even thought the new breed of BI tools are easy to use, having a well designed data structure behind the model will make the speed and scalability that much better.

Our sales reps use dashboards for reporting latest inventory quantities on a real-time basis, which is critical for the business.

Time and effort are reduced using QlikView by saving a lot of money providing the same information before an implementation.

• Datamining
• Fast data loading of million of rows
• Incremental load
• Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools.

• Bookmarking
• Data load window and more information to be used while loading huge data.
• Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker.

More than five years.

No issues.

No issues.

Support is very good.

It is better in all aspects than our previous solution.

Not sure.

Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing.

We evaluated MS Excel.

Overall, it is an excellent product.

The most valuable feature of this product is quick and easy access to data by top management, in an elegant and colorful display that make is easy to visualize numbers.

We are able to provide top management with dashboards that connect different applications together, and gives them visibility and decision-making abilities that simple reports don't.

The management console is cumbersome to use for managing large numbers of users and documents.

I have used this solution for five years.

I did not really encounter any issues with deployment, stability or scalability.

Support and customer service are highly rated.

We evaluated this product against other BI products such as OBIEE and Cognos. We preferred QV because of its ease of use and fast deployment and development of dashboards.

Initial setup was straightforward. We just installed the Server Edition and configured it in no time.

We implemented it in-house. There are no specific skills needed, except basic knowledge of Windows.

We mainly use QV for providing dashboards to top management, as licensing is very expensive.

QlikView is a great product to get you up and running easily and quickly. However, it does not replace an enterprise reporting solution. It should be used for specific needs and would be too expensive and cumbersome to manage to deploy across the whole institution.

The best features of QlikView are:

• The fast and easy process of extracting data from multiple sources (DB), although having duplicate data in the source files creates a mess.
• The intuitive way of creating dashboards for finance, sales, BPM, etc.
• The display and drill-down access to detailed information, graphic interfaces are easy to create and dynamic using just one pivot table.
• The easy way to grant access to all the data or just bits of it to specific users.
• The capability of QV to handle .pdf files.

As an example, today we have our budget information from different areas in one summary page. Numbers are updated fast and easy in the web browser. This has given crystal clear info for all the users that have access to the model. Hard data and dynamic graphs give a clearer and accurate view of the data. Filtering saves a lot of time when doing presentations to the top executives of the company; any question is answered in real time with just a few clicks.

I would like to perhaps be able to have preloaded and editable examples of models created by QV experts that can be customized for our specific needs, instead of starting from scratch anything we need to work on.

I work an electric utility in Mexico, therefore we build QV models and dashboards specific to our industry (electricity, gas, nuclear generation, asset management, executive reporting and such). 

Right now, we have to build our models from scratch, if we could have access to prebuilt models for our specific industry and line of business it would be very useful and time saving. 

It’s important to understand that the quality of the final data will have a direct relationship to the source of information. You can really apply here the phrase "Garbage in-Garbage out". Because once QV is up and running, almost everyone will turn to the dashboards as THE source of information, it’s imperative to be sure the source of data is flawless.

It’s a great BI tool to convert raw data coming from several different sources into a dashboard full of in-depth knowledge, to do proper information analysis and make accurate decisions for the company.

• Data discovery
• Set analysis
• Adhoc reporting
• Drill down options
• Flexibility
• In-Memory technology
• Quick learning curve
• Easy to deploy

The product enables top management with better decision making if utilized properly.

QlikView should not loose its original flavour. They should stop trying to emulate other BI products and mould their own product.

I'm using the QlikView local client.

It is best suited for Dashboarding, Analysis and Reporting. Do not try to re-implement everything from a previous BI product if you had one. Ensure that the QlikView features & functionality are properly utilized to get the best out of it.

• Ease of use
• NPrinting
• Visually good diagrams
• Integration with almost all databases

• Associating links

We have used this product for a number of different clients, and most of them liked the software and all the rich features it bring with it. The amount of data it displays on the dashboard with such a ease, helps users to always get the results in desirable time limit.

They are coming up with a lot of improvements. However, the version control is not one of them, and it's not straightforward.

We have had no issues with the deployment.

There have been no stability issues.

We've had no issues with scaling it for our needs.

There is a number of criteria you have to see before you start implementing the product, as you compare Qlikview with other tools such as Tableau. You make sure that you check the cost, ease of use, differnt ways to displaying the information etc.