QlikView Reviews

Amazing performance

Easy to use self service

Extremely powerful for data analysis

It has dramatically improved development time for BI reports.

Using traditional tools like OBIEE or SAP BO, BI was more like an IT dependent work stream. Now it has reached the business side, who can do their own analysis. Users can drill data without much IT help.

More flexibility to alter auto association in the data model.

Support for collaboration.

3 years

No issues with deployment, except a few hurdles for single sign on integration.

No, CPU and memory usage are not clearly presented.

Customer Service:

Good, they need more proactive support.

Technical Support:

Good

Yes, from SAP BO for ease of use and less time for development.

Its easy and fast to build dashboards.

One year

Sometimes the product final (look & feel) is different from the desktoop tool and the web server.

Its a product very stable

No

Customer Service:

4 out of 5.

Technical Support:

4 out of 5.

Microstrategy. We changed because Qlikview is faster to build a dashboard than Microstrategy.

Vendor team

Good expertise

Tableau

Data discovery, in memory analysis, one development for all devices, ease of use for both developer and end-user

A proof of concept with the customers data can be done in 1-3-5 days depending on the number of KPI’s and datasources to address.

Version management

+ 3 years

No

No

No, server hardware sizing is very important here.

Customer Service: Excellent, good reviews by Gartner as well.Technical Support: Excellent, good reviews by Gartner as well.

Oracle BI, Microsoft BI, Business Objects XI, Cognos Reason for change: ease of use, speed in building models and applications, price, price and price.

Straight forward, the complexity lies in the creation of the data model using scripting but you can do it step by step and add sources while building, something which is more difficult with classic BI products

We are implementation partner of almost all BI suites.

Do a proof of concept first, seeing is believing.

The graphic interface is amazing, it is also very user-friendly and easy for developers to iterate, modify and evolve it. Due to its "in memory" nature it is very fast and powerful.

It is a very easy-to-sell product. The value added is huge and the ROI is very high since the projects are done relatively fast.

Implement security model for a document can be difficult and slow to implement.

3 Years

Customer Service: Direct Communication, usually quick responsesTechnical Support: 9/10

I have worked basically with CPM tools so this is my first BI tool.

It is very easy to install Qlikview. The important part is to size correctly the servers according to the size of the application and the number of users.

In my company we work with many BI tools from different vendors, from SAP and Oracle to Pentaho and Qlikview.

What I have seen is that it's addictive for the users. So if you are an IT manager and you are planning to use another BI tool, try not to show Qlikview to the users or they won´t let you change.

It allows you to establish business data models on an associative basis, and to do on-the-fly analysis on associated data for deep understanding / insight.

For complex analysis, its scripting capabilities enable one to do complex calculation to present required information much easier than traditional / other BI software.

I have implemented both QlikView and Qlik Sense solutions for our customers/organizations in multiple industries.

The immediate improvements allow organisations:

• To analyse data more comprehensively (e.g. in the areas of risk management and customer profiling/segmentation) to provide greater insight / understanding
• To make data available more quickly to facilitate decision making, especially for exceptional cases (e.g. when not meeting KPIs)

Other side benefits derived from implementing such projects are:

• Data gaps: It can identify insufficient or unavailable data for making better decisions.
• Process gaps: It can identify business processes that need to be improved, e.g. manual processes that need to be fine-tuned or automated.
• System gaps: It can identify areas where the system needs to be improved e.g. improvement to existing system functions, or a new system needs to be put in place.

With such gaps and their relationship to the values of decisions, an organisation is able to prioritized resources to address those gaps over time.

Improve its table/data editor to allow easier ways to pull multiple data from multiple sources and associate them to establish a complete business data model.

Consider providing more features that allow the decision-making process of analysing different data at different levels to be captured. Maybe a decision-making flow/process editor for Qlik sheets and objects at the presentation layer.

I have used QlikView for approximately five years.

You can encounter deployment issues if you do not follow good / recommended “best practices”. Such issues can always be resolved through better design of the implemented solution.

By adhering to good practices, deployment, stability and scalability should not be an issue.

Technical support is average.

Initial setup is straightforward and much easier than other traditional BI software.

We are a Qlik implementation partner. We implement Qlik solutions for customers.

Our customers’ ROI is typically within 1-3 years, depending on the size and complexity of implementations.

Initial pricing/licensing of QlikView and Qlik Sense are competitive to the market. However, as the number of users grows, it could be costly.

You need to understand well the users’ decision-making process, the data requirements and the actions users want to take. It is OK to start a Qlik project without complete data available.

• Ease of use
• High custom development potential
• Adaptability

We are now getting coordinated management areas, which were practically delinked until now.

• More support through contextual menus
• Adapting to the new Qlik Sense (HTML 5) environment

I have used it for eight months.

I encountered difficulties managing computer RAM.

Technical support is 8/10.

Initial setup was straightforward.

We implemented QlikView independently without difficulty. We needed support for installing Qlik Server.

We are at a too-early stage of implementation to evaluate this, but we anticipate difficulties in expanding its use due to the high cost of licenses.

We use QlikView and Oracle BI, but the productivity-to-cost ratio is much higher with QlikView.

You need to assess carefully the choice between QlikView and Qlik Sense. We do not understand too well the coexistence of two products with the same function.

Loading data is the most valuable feature of this product to me, because we don’t have a data warehouse yet.

QlikView helps me to combine data from many data sources and represent it in the dashboards.

I think the visualization of the charts and the number of default charts provided by QlikView should be improved. QlikView only has limited chart options compared to its competitor. I think Map would be a great addition if QlikView can provide it as default chart. 

I think that the type of chart that is provided by QlikView must be added to capture the need of variety of visualization. Tableau has more charts compared to QlikView.

I have been using this solution for about three months.

I use it on my laptop with limited data. I've never used it for big data.

I chose QlikView because it provides flexible data loading that can help us present data without a data warehouse.

I implemented it by myself.

Pricing is higher compared to the competitor.

If you are looking for dashboards and do not have a data warehouse yet, QlikView is the best option.

The ability to customize it. This involves a bit of programming however and that can be an issue. For data visualization, it involves the end-user with self-service BI. It's ETL functions are powerful as well, but this is a bit of an old fashioned approach.

Annual Information from public sector following transparency laws are now publicized in an automated way. Previously, this task used to involve a lot of scripting development and data warehouse routines, such as ETL. Now all this is done using QlikView and raw data.

Actually, Qlik, has decided to move forward with a brand new product, Qlik Sense, so it seems that QlikView can be deprecated as it follows an older approach that pre-dates data visualization in data warehouse and BI.

I've used it for the last two years.

The tool involves too much programming when compared to other tools. It has a development/delivery circle as any internal system development for test/production environment does.

There have been no stability issues and a restart can be automated on a virtual machine.

The product eats all memory you give according to the number of accesses it gets, as the navigation is buffered for future queries. Ideally, the datasets must be summarized to the granularity that the public expects.

Customer Service:

9/10

Technical Support:

9/10

It was done with technical support, but I wouldn't classify it as complex.

We used a vendor team who were 9/10.

This is not easy to measure, but senior management and the public are satisfied.

It's aligned to the market, but document viewing and sharing constraints are a bit confused and intimidate. They have changed their approach for Qlik Sense.

All proof of concepts used trials and it's not easy to buy a specific product for the government, so the management decision was to apply to an on going acquisition process where the product was already chosen. Two other options were Tableau and Infogram.

Their competitors seem to be more up to date with features and technology. Check whether Qlik Sense is better for you, otherwise you may acquire a legacy tool.

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