QlikView Reviews

The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools. 

The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features. 

I have been working with the solution for eight to ten years. 

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten. 

I rate QlikView's scalability a seven out of ten. My company has around 500 users for it. 

I provide technical support to my customers. 

I rate QlikView's installation a ten out of ten. It was very easy. Deployment depends on the project and its scope. It can take around one week to three months to complete. You need one resource to handle the maintenance and deployment. 

I rate QlikView's pricing a five out of ten. 

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

We use it for obtaining incremental data updates and QVD file downloads.

It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters.

There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns. They should integrate Qlik analytics and seamlessly transition users from QlikView to Qlik Sense.

I have been working with it for two years now.

I would rate its stability capabilities nine out of ten.

I found Qlik Sense to be more scalable than QlikView.

During the server migration process, I seek technical support for guidance and consultation.

Positive

Prior to using QlikView, we employed Sub-Business Objects. Qlik is more prominent for creating interactive dashboards and visualizing dynamic numerical data related to benefits, and allows for the download of data.

The initial setup was easy.

The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range.

Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

Once you select any data on the dashboard, QlikView highlights the unavailable data in grey in order to show to users that those combinations don’t exist or aren’t possible.

Filters are not local. Once you filter something, the standard is to apply the filter to all tabs available in the dashboard.

They used to manage the business data through spreadsheets, now they have an automates process and a stable solution. It reduced to zero the time to prepare the data, avoiding operational issues and allowing them to put all the focus on business analysis.

Qlikview should have a connector or a specific product to allow people outside of the company or that don’t have a license to read/use the application (a kind of reader license). At least something really cheaper or free.

I have used QlikView for three years.

I have not yet encountered any issues with deployment, stability or scalability.

I rate technical support 8/10.

The time or effort to develop new stuff in QlikView is lower than other traditional tools as MicroStrategy, Cognos, etc. Besides that, we are changing our approach to a self-service BI.

The initial setup was straightforward. QlikView allows you to install it on regular desktops with 8 GB memory. After some time, we migrated QlikView to a server with 64 GB, due to the number of users and the amount of applications developed.

We implemented/developed with an in-house approach.

I would advise that the first implementation should be done through a vendor team in order to have better standards/best practices applied from the beginning. It would speed up the learning curve.

For this specific case, we didn’t calculate or estimate the ROI. Comparing QlikView to Tableau, I think that Tableau has a more attractive pricing/licensing approach than QlikView. I would recommend studying it before starting to acquire new licenses in QlikView due to the model of sales (Named Call and Document Call). The cost of new licenses could increase faster if you don’t have in mind the proper usage.

Qlikview has a huge community in the internet with a lot of examples, online course, etc. It will help a lot to test by yourself. I would recommend providing a POC among the tools to identify which of them would fulfill your needs better.

SQL scripting, as it provides me the fastest way to pull data into the system, since I’m more on the technical side.

It has made our processes for collecting and presenting data easier, especially with regard to old spreadsheet mentalities.

Their marketing department is heavy-handed, more so than it really needs to be. This can turn companies off when they get too aggressive. Their pricing structure doesn’t match their aggressiveness either, costing an end user $1500 for a web-based license.

I have been using QlikView for about 11 months.

Their set criteria is a mystery of legends. I still, after a year, need to pull up a wizard to type up a set expression. It’s not intuitive at all.

Technical support is very good, with an exceptional user base. I’m largely self-taught on Qlik because of their community and the breadth of their support on-line.

I previously used Microsoft BI tools, but as a company we were too far behind the curve to take advantage of their latest technology in the BI space. Upgrading to Office 2016 is not something a Fortune 500 company is going to do overnight.

The desktop component was straightforward. I didn’t set up the server component, so I can’t speak to the publishing.

An in-house team performed the implementation.

No definitive ROI, but an enterprise license would go a long way towards adaptability and acceptance.

QlikView and QlikSense are powerful tools that require IT and BI expertise to take full advantage of. True BI utilization is not just dragging fields and creating graphs. It requires deep knowledge of data utilization and visualization. Qlik can provide that, BUT at the cost of additional IT or BI expertise.

I have used QlikView to create powerful and compelling data visualisations. QlikView is a well-rounded tool with good visualisation component and data preparation features.

Using QlikView, we have been able to derive the value out of our data much faster than with other tools because of its easy to understand/use components and features.

As a developer, I liked that using QlikView, I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always depending on the data team.

More/newer visualisation components need to be added. QlikView's ability to embed custom visualisation is not a great experience.

In my company, we use QlikView for dashboards. With QlikView, our company tries to ensure that we capture all operational items in the dashboard so that the management can take action based on that.

I think the main benefit of QlikView is that it is an incredibly powerful tool, as it can handle millions and millions of rows.

QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily. QlikView is a powerful tool but has shortcomings when compared to the visualization capability provided by Qlik Sense or Power BI.

From my perspective, I understand that since QlikView is an older product, it can be simply left as it is, and users can move to Qlik Sense, which provides a much stronger visualization.

If QlikView decides that its visualization part should be just like Qlik Sense or Power BI, then I would say it would be too much to capture in one or two phrases, considering that it is overall much easier to create visually good-looking dashboards and also something like a geographical map which is not possible in to get in QlikView currently.

I have been using QlikView for years. I am a user of the solution.

I am happy with QlikView's stability. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use.

My company has 20 to 50 users of the solution.

QlikView has a lot of resellers, and my company has been in touch with one of QlikView's resellers. It is QlikView's reseller and not the support from QlikView that my company contacts for help. I rate the technical support a seven out of ten.

Neutral

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

QlikView is a reasonably priced solution.

I would suggest others to QlikView and go for Qlik Sense. Qlik Sense is a tool that is as powerful as QlikView with better visualization capabilities. I would not recommend anyone to use the older QlikView, but I would recommend anyone to move to Qlik Sense.

I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.

• In-memory analysis
• Associative database query
• Easy to use
• Easy to install
• Easy to maintain

Amazing fast response to complex business questions due to flexibility and easy to use.

We have increased our revenues by 30% because the rapid and effective insights provided with the analytics we built with Qlik.

I would like to see embedded predictive analytics models or more integration, connectors with advanced analytics platforms.
Qlikview is extremely good with descriptive analitycs. But when you need to predict using advanced predictive models like Logistic Regression or CART or decision trees, R and SAS institute for example are good at it, so if Qlikview would have this capabilities embedded or connectors to integrate with them will be a killer product.

I have used it for nine years.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is outstanding.

I did not previously use a different solution.

For the value you can add to your business, the TCO is low. There is a high price perception in the market, but this is relative.

If you do not take advantage of the solution, it definitely will look expensive but if you do, you will be happy.

For three months, we evaluated several solutions with installations provided by vendors such as Oracle BI, IBM Cognos, and SAP BusinessObjects.

The main challenge to prove during that phase was the ease of use without professional services support at that stage!!!

I highly recommend this solution.