QlikView Reviews

Ability to quickly deploy dashboards with multiple data sources.

We have enable a user self service reporting capability support minimally by IT for linking and sourcing of data.

Map capability without add ins and extra cost.

We have used this product for about 2 years

No, product has proven to be scalable. You need to consider at least mid term scale before deciding which license types to purchase, I would recommend Server versions with session cals, vs. Document cals.

Our support has been excellent, but is provided by a 3rd party consultant group.

No we did not have a dashboarding tool other than using MS Products such as Excel.

We used a combination of both internal and external resources. We used DI Squared, they have been excellent to work with and have more than adequate capabilities and expertise.

Go for it. I might consider waiting for latest release version to come out before comparing other products. There may be some excellent additions to functionality. Plan out your environment, plan out the data modeling process. Spend time on governance of the processes that support the user self service capabilities. Although end users can use the product easily, they may need help with data procurement. Think about security of your data before turning everyone loose.

Flexible, quick access by end users, can promote user self service reporting

Still need to spend time designing the Data Warehouse behind this tool to facilitate user self service model.

Our primary use case of this solution is to provide reporting to our customers. The company works with online solutions for marketing so the customer gets insights about the response to email components and things like that. I'm a freelance database specialist and the company is a customer of QlikView. 

This is a tool with a lot of functionality to provide any kind of reporting to customers, it has a range of solutions. Although some customers would like to use different tools QlikView is what they're used to using. 

The most valuable feature for me is probably the ease with which you can analyze data by click-through. 

The user interface of QlikView is old. The provider built a new tool called Qlik Sense. So Qlik Sense is basically the offspring of QlikView. Somehow both are still supported and they've developed new versions for both of these tools but Qlik Sense is basically the restyled version of QlikView. There's a lot of discussion about some features which are difficult to use including the user interface, all look and feel aspects, but I think that will be in the new version. What they could provide is a migration path to Qlik Sense. It's very difficult to do that automatically because it always requires you to check and change some new port. I haven't researched it but I believe that's the case. 

I've been using this solution for around six years. 

The solution is stable but you need to tweak it once you set it up. The big issue with it is that it's a BI tool, so it's memory intensive and for some calculations also CPU intensive. It means that when it hits its maximum in terms of the resources available it starts to shut down. 

The solution is scalable but you really have to keep in mind that it's configurable in application so that if you reach the maximum, you know you need to act on that. Otherwise strange things will start to happen. We had that issue one time, we added more memory and since then we haven't had any issues. 

We have an intermediate company which we bought a license from and it provides us with support. Usually they're not very helpful. Either we find the answer more quickly ourselves, or if we can't find the answer, they usually also can't find the answer. So they have to forward it to the QlikView support. I think it's a waste of money. 

The deployment on premises is quite complicated. I did it myself but my predecessor neglected to make proper documentation about installation and the solution requires a lot of components on different servers that talk to each other and you need to set firewall settings and things like that. It's quite a big application. They could improve on that and they probably did that with Qlik Sense. There's a lot of manual stuff required which is not really necessary.

We have about 30 users in the company who are really customers. They access the reporting through a web console which sees it in the mail and some of them are external users who developed on the application. My role is more the maintenance of the application itself. I'm the one who installed it and updates the system. It's difficult to know whether our usage will  be increased. This is a difficult year for everyone. If a company has to cut its budget, one of the first things to go is usually marketing.

It's a very good product but I would recommend going for Qlik Sense because it has a better future, given that it's basically the new version of QlikView.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

On-premises

So the primary use case of QlikView, I have worked with financial maintenence.

You can do a lot of things at the back end which are not possible in the other solutions in the market.

Tools that can be improved are:

• Visualization charts
• Pricing
• UI transparency

One to three years.

The Qlikview is quite stable in comparison to other solutions.

It is a very good scalable solution. 

The tech support is strong. The logs of the documents are helpful. 

I have some prior experience with Power BI and Qlik Sense.

The initial setup is not very complex, it is on a moderate level. If others compare it to other BI tools, they may find it complex. But it was not a problem for us.

The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market.

There are features of QlikView that are not available with Power BI or Tableau. There are activities on the back end that work better in QlikView.

You can do a lot of things at the back end that you cannot do with other competitive solutions.

• 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.

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.