QlikView Reviews

Speed of in-memory processing
Associative model - no more cubes
Speed of development

We create BI solutions so our customers benefit from solutions that are delivered in weeks rather than months and we look good by providing timely value-for-money solutions

Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense which is getting stronger and sexier with every release 5 a year from now - June 2017).
Qlik Sense makes selling "Qlik" easier - the only "negative" aspect is that the "self-service" capability of Qlik Sense means less consultancy for our company but more customers!

8 years

Rarely

Almost never

No

Customer Service:

Excellent

Technical Support:

Excellent

Microsoft BI stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)

Setup is straightforward especially with later editions of QlikView

In-house

N/A - we are resellers

Tableau

Gartner and others have a good reason to rate it so high. Amazing product.

• Ease of use for end user
• Analytical reporting
• Easy-to-build dashboards
• Self-service reporting
• Speedy deployment

The PoC for a new business area was not covered by the management reporting platform (controlling of IT processes).

• Built-in monitoring of ETLs (there was no advanced tool for monitoring, planning and evaluation ETLs), I work with SAP BW (i.e. RSMO, RSPCM, ST13 transactions), of course there was an option to have additional expert tool but for a lot of additional money
• Formatted reporting (PDF and export to Excel) - if necessary compile aggregate export to PDF document was not allowed to draw and do parameterized output compile or schedule it as a job with an appropriate distribution to the responsible user group, custom printing to PDF or Excel did not correspond to reality/original

• Built-in monitoring of ETLs
• Formatted reporting
• Print to PDF
• Export to Excel

I have used it for half a year.

I had integration issues with SAP BW.

Technical support is very good.

IBM Cognos was the original MIS platform. Within QV, there are better analytical reporting features.

We implemented it in-house with some external support.

ROI is very long, > 5 year estimation.

Assess the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of the product as a whole with regard to the general characteristics of MIS systems and considering plans to use a management reporting platform across the enterprise.

• Load script engine (or "ETL" ability)
• Connectivity integration options
• Data visualizations / dashboarding

As a start-up, projects need to move fast and this product has enabled us to have data solutions ready when the business needs it.

• Better compatibility with Qlik Sense
• Better support for non-Microsoft platforms
• SFTP support in the load script
• More built-in connectors

I have used it for three years.

We wanted to upgrade to version 12 but had two models that were not reloading as expected and had to revert.

Technical support is good.

We chose this product because we needed to connect to the source system and report directly from it.

It was already established when I started.

Initial setup was straight forward. The only challenge is maintaining a custom user directory by hand, because of a lack of Active Directory in the organization.

Now we do everything in house. At the very beginning, before I started, we had vendor support.

ROI is tricky to measure but I'll give some examples:

• Finance can now do month-end statements in one day instead of seven.
• We can determine if a new product in a new market will be profitable within weeks of launching a pilot.
• Engineering is free from having to run database queries to answer business questions.

You need at least as much RAM on your server as the largest database table you will read, and it can't be a virtual installation.

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.

I would say the most valuable part was the ease of use.

This product gave us intelligence on our business which was previously unknown.

I would like to see the price reduced and the speed to be much, much better.

I used this solution for approximately two years.

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

This product was in place when I joined the company. I did not take part in the decision of this solution.

This was an in-house implementation. We had the technical resources available to install it.

Although we were able to gain insight into our organization, the pricing and performance of the system were too great to overcome.

Since we stopped using it, there might have been some improvements to the speed of the reports and also to the pricing structure. At the time I was using this software, there were several comparable solutions at a fraction of the cost. The other solutions also performed better with less resources.