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QlikView vs Yellowfin comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

QlikView
Ranking in Reporting
7th
Ranking in Embedded BI
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
163
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Yellowfin
Ranking in Reporting
23rd
Ranking in Embedded BI
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (35th), Data Visualization (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of QlikView is 4.0%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
QlikView4.0%
Yellowfin1.2%
Other94.8%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

MA
Managing Director at Hurricnae
Rapid development and flexibility transform commercial decision-making processes
In QlikView, I believe the improvement that should be made is to bring the costs down, as you'll have to be competitive with Power BI, aiming for at least a 30% reduction to stop the hemorrhaging to Power BI, considering that you're losing a lot of customers to Power BI. Reducing costs is the main improvement needed, as this is the biggest burden currently faced in the South African market, with Microsoft converting QlikView customers due to the perceived cost reduction. I am aware of several big corporations, such as Sanofi and Aspen Pharmacare, which have left QlikView due to cost issues.
AC
‎IS Executive at SAINS
It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities
Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.  All management…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"QlikView is an excellent tool, though expensive compared to other BI tools, it provides ETL capability allowing the building of a complete data warehouse within Qlik Sense."
"The solution is fast."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"QlikView is extremely flexible in terms of visualization tools for communicating complex data insights."
"This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
 

Cons

"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"QlikView is probably on the pricier side than other BI tools."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."
"It is expensive for small companies."
"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."
"It is quite expensive, rating at around nine out of ten on a cost scale."
"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."
"I rate the product's pricing a three out of ten."
"QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."
"Pricing is a bit too high and I think licenses should be unlimited."
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Comparison Review

it_user79932 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - BI Head with 5,001-10,000 employees
Feb 4, 2015
Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho
1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Educational Organization
16%
Healthcare Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business73
Midsize Enterprise36
Large Enterprise76
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about QlikView?
If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?
I would rate the pricing for QlikView as not cheap, but it is reasonable.
What needs improvement with QlikView?
We are not using analytics features and possibly predictive analytics and forecasting features in QlikView, although they are available. QlikView is very flexible, but we are currently using only t...
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Sample Customers

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.
NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores
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