QlikView Reviews

1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time to learn, but it is very powerful. Not as a total ETL replacement tool necessarily, but as a supplement to load and join data sources, perform additional transformations, add supplemental inline tables, and even at times, output a final .txt/.csv for consumption by other tools (even Tableau!). I've combined as many as a half dozen data sources including data from multiple SQL Data Marts, Teradata Data Marts,Source System DBs, XLS, CSV, and Google Big Query.

2. Design Flexibility - While other products may do drag and drop, ad-hoc reporting analytics better. (Including Tableau, and Qlik's new product QlikSense) I've not come across one that better supports the creation of a polished, packaged, custom dashboard, that supports what I'd consider "guided exploration", and best meets the needs of our user base. The customization can be taken even further through in-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g. Custom D3 Visualizations).

We have gradually reduced laborious manual reporting in Business Units and "spreadmarts". We now have some executive using QV dashboards in weekly review meetings, in place of spreadsheets and PowerPoints. While it does take some time and IT involvement to initially develop and deploy a solution, the payback is immediate. In one particular case we were able to eliminate a days worth of manual work with a QlikView solution that required a few days of development effort. We also previously had no way for end users to routinely and easily analyze larger (100 Million+ rows) data sets, which now can be done through QlikView.

No out of the box mapping capabilities (Extensions/Plugins available).

No auto-scale for different display resolutions/dimensions, but the trade-off here is the much greater design flexibility than one gets with a Grid based product.

Would like to see a few more visualizations available out of the box (e..g Bullet Graph)

Very rudimentary report creation and PDF capabilities No scheduling or distribution without Publisher product.

2 1/2 years

None.

None thus far, but have a relatively small scale implementation (30-40 Users to date), on a single server (196GB RAM, 15 Core). Our largest data sets are in the 100-200 Million rows. Dashboards deployed to the server perform very well, but working with data sets that large locally (on QlikView desktop) may start to lag, depending on your hardware. Being a in-memory tool, desktops and laptops should have at least 8GB RAM, though even more is preferable if working with very large data sets.

Customer service was/is excellent.

Our need for technical support has been minimal, but when needed it has been great. The overall Qlik Community is phenomenal. Many problems can be resolved through the community channel. Users often provide example files one can reference or reverse engineer.

Previously used an older Domo product (Centerview). The product was no longer supported. It was very flexible, but also very labor intensive. Data had to be fully prepared outside of the tool ,and every interaction had to be defined. Development time was weeks vs days in QlikView.

Currently also using Tableau, depending on the particular use case.

Straightforward setup. Connected to Active Directory to manage users.

In-house with some set up assistance provided by the Qlik sales support team.

Server is Apprx $35K initial cost, plus 20% annual maintenance/support cost

User licenses are $350 or $1500 depending on license type(plus 20% annual maintenance/support). This can get costly if you have a very large user base.

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I would never propose QlikView, or any other single tool, as THE definitive data visualization and dashboard tool for every organization, but it did best meet our particular needs. Organizations with more data-savvy, self-sufficient business users may find a product like Tableau, or Qlik's other product, QlikSense, to be a better 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.

9/10

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.

This is a collage of some panels, in Portuguese. The data refers to Brazilian docking ports and loads by type of load, goods, and regions.

The associative and in-memory technology are the most valuable features.

It’s an easy way to create dashboards with minimal training. This product is good and I can collect data from multiple data sources.

They need to improve on the idea, concept and support.

I've used it for five years, alongside Qlik Sense.

There were no issues with the deployment.

There were no issues with the stability.

There were no issues with scaling it.

8/10

8/10

No other solution was in place, but I have tried others and they can't offer what Qlik can.

QlikView initial set-up is simple just run the installer and click next.

If you can license QlikView with Qlik Sense it’s very good.

• Tableau
• MicroStrategy

• Easy to use in small/middle organization
• Cheap tool when compared to MicroStrategy
• It does require a separate ETL tool

It helps to provide answers quickly for critical business questions. It has reduced our time spent on data entry and manipulation and can identify areas for cost cutting.

We've used it for three years.

It's good.

It's a straightforward set-up. You can start working with QlikView immediately after installation.

I have implemented it for different clients.

I also use MicroStrategy.

If you are having small business set-up then you have to go for QlikView else MicroStrategy is more stable for big organisations.

We use it for dashboard reporting.

It needs JDBC connection for different databases.

I've used it for five years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's good.

It's good.

Consultants setup our tools.

I think it is good. We took awards area of Big Data Technologies and we give some free or paid services to our customers.

You should try the trial version. if it is usable for your business, you should buy it.

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.

It produces reports quickly.

We're able to get faster KPI's in many departments.

Job scheduler needs work.

I've used it since 1 November 2012.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

10/10 - it's perfect, very fast and very good support.

10/10, Heyde is a perfect partner.

Data Warehouse built with SQL,and it was too complicated, and oversized for a medium sized company, and too slow for any changes.

It was straightforward, and after the installation we had the first results in a few days.

Through a vendor, Heyde, whose level of expertise is very good, 10/10.

Even though I am not able to mention a number or time, but because we didn’t have an equal solution it's been very good.

Start small, and use this to get a close business relationship.

The DWH of our ERP.

Top down, that requests from the top-level management of how deep the drill down should be.

• KPI's
• Dashboard creation

Powerful, scalable, and a bit addictive, allowing you to "see" your data in ways never thought possible. We can now take medical stats presented in an academic journal and applying them to community-based medicine. This literally changes physician behavior like no other tool.

We were struggling with running application reports, and were spending substantial time, and high-end resources to deliver the basics. Implementing QlikView for our clients also allowed us to aggregate our client-based data and see "What type of reports are they running" "What time of day" "Which users". This data alone allowed us to immediately focus on the points of user experience which would impact the users the most.

Online education, but they are revamping.

I've used it for two years.

No issues encountered.

QlikView is a very heavy RAM utilizer (all strong BI tools are). When we hit around 20 concurrent users, the user experience began to suffer. We contacted Qlik Support and they assisted us with a review of our infrastructure. We followed their suggestions to the tee, and were back with great speed!

It's excellent, and very responsive.

It's excellent.

Simple, low level learning curve.

We did it in-house.

Currently $1 spent = $3 recouped (including labor/support/Infrastructure).

Push for more services in your installation (consulting, IT, Development, Design). Sales can be very creative.

We also looked at Tableau.

Review your end-goals, internally and externally. This can be a powerful tool for your clients but also for internal decision making.