QlikView Reviews

Data integration and visual drill-downs are excellent.

I work for a consultancy and develop projects for clients. Our clients have definitely got benefits with the use of QlikView with accessibility of their business metrics in an interactive form on their smartphones. Also, QlikView can compress and store data in its own format, which makes it faster after data loading.

• Version changes should be made fully compatible with older versions.
• Advanced analytic capabilities of model building using regression or time-series analysis should also be added in the product.

Client requirements should be clearly understood and limitations of the product should be communicated to clients before making any commitments. Often projects are jeopardized due to poor communication and unclear expectations.

There are two reasons for my rating. First, the interactivity options are limited and, second, modelling options are not available. Also, we faced challenges with version changes and in integrating it with geographical information systems.

In-memory processing and ETL function are the most valuable features of the product to me.

Because data is automatically extracted from the database, users can see the operating data and charts in real-time.

I would like to see them add a powerful map and improve statistic functions.

I have used this solution for three years.

I have encountered scalability issues. Users get slower report response time when there are a lot of chart expressions.

Technical support is OK.

Initial setup was straightforward. QlikView is an excellent product.

We implemented using a vendor team.

The license price is expensive for us.

Generally speaking, QlikView is suitable for under mid-range scale company.

The in-memory architecture and ETL function are the most valuable features of this product to us.

Data is automatically extracted from the database. Users can see the operating data and chart in real-time.

I would like to see them add powerful map and statistical functions.

We have used this solution for three years (starting with the BI project kick-off).

Dashboards’ response time is slow when the logic behind them are complex or when there are many dashboards in one QVD file.

It’s quite good and their response time is quick.

Districom, a QlikView partner and reseller, implemented the BI solution for us. Districom’s business consultancy is very strong but their technical support is somewhat in need of improvement.

The license cost is very high.

It provides information all in one place for our users.

It saves us time.

Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.

Complicated license management.

• Relationship based data modelling
• Flexible charting

It speeds up my clients capability to prepare various non-standard management reports.

• Macro Editing
• It should have an HTML text box control
• Presentation on smart device 
• The performance of the Qlikview website is poor as it takes three minutes to open a page
• The SME server edition does not include a deploy tool, and we have to copy updated document to the server manually which seems ridiculous

I've used it for two years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It was quite straightforward.

We involved a local vendor, Shanghai EBI Strategy, and they helped us develop the solution based on our design, however, the result is not as good as expected.  In the local Chinese market, there is a lack of experienced consultants. I searched on the Qlikview forum for many tricks and solutions by myself and improved the overall data modelling structure.

It's not bad.

Yes, we also looked at BO and Microstrategy.  As Microstrategy is also a good package, we are exploring it further.

It is a really good package for your management reporting purpose, as you do not rely on IT support to add/revise any reports.

• Fast access to data
• Rapid development
• Rich graphic interface

• Licensing costs

• Cloud solution
• Less monolithic approach

Six years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Yes we did.

Customer Service:

8 out of 10

Technical Support:

8 out of 10

We previously used SAP BW, and we changed because it had very complex development, and long development times.

It was straightforward.

We used a mix of an in-house team and a vendor team.

Six months.

We looked at doing either an in-house development or an ad-hoc solution from a software provide.

You should perform a good sizing of the server, and develop a simple data model.

1) The ease with which self-service BI can be achieved via a small scale trail deployment

The company moved from paper based reporting to full dashboard reporting in the Sales function

Very little

2 years

None

In some cases making a design change to a Pivot table can be problematic if an additional dimension is added to a report that has a “matrix” layout like the following:

None – During a stress test it was able to load 38 million records without any problems on simple dual core PC with ONLY 1 GB OF RAM (absolutely amazing. I would not have believed it to be possible but I did the test myself)

There are frequent follow-ups from the vendor once you register on their web site.

Very straight forward for a simple 1 application installation. Just pick 32 or 64 bit and go!

Any user can implement a simple 1 application installation, then just follow good communication protocol with the IT team to get access to central data stores and you are away.

Silver, Spotfire from Tibco, Tableau Public, MicroStrategy’s free Reporting Suite, Roambi Analytics, Webalo, YellowFin, Jaspersoft

Just start …the rest will follow…

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.