QlikView Reviews

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.

As a BI professional sometimes you have to tackle projects with poor or no documentation at all, just the datasources and some vague requirements. In QlikView it is quite easy build up a first data model (dimensional or not) and use the first stage to understand the entities and relations between it and the business. From there you can explore the business, understand the users real requirements and needs and improve the model with a few changes, without much effort. This is because Qlikview has a very flexible and short cycle of development in each iteration.

For the user QlikView is a wonderful tool of data discovery, providing powerful tools to navigate easily between a sea of data in an intuitive, easy, and clear way, allowing them to go from facts to KPI and vice versa.

Qlikview can be used both as an advanced reporting tool as well as an BI KPI tool, becoming the base for continuous process improvements. In general the benefits of the tool become clear at the early development stage when the user is challenged to input clearly his ideas, problems and needs and that will affect the process in which he participates. Typically in a second iteration the key user will ask for a new release more oriented to advanced KPIs rather than just reports. This is a direct consequence of the process making things clearer and evolving. So the main value supplied by Qlikview is to reduce uncertainty, make the participants question, discover, interact with each other, and eventually improve the process. Properly used should function as an improvement catalyst for the processes involved.

It is well know that the ETL is quite far away from leading products like Data Stagem Informatica and others. Currently Qliktech is working on this problem with Expressor, a powerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area is the licensing scheme, which leaves out many SMO. To remedy this and try to stop the eruption of third parties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTech launched Qlik Sense, although the future is unclear and there may be a possible merge of the two branches (Qlik Sense + QlikView). Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves the development of new graphic charts to the community with mixed results.

I have using it for the last five years, since 2010 at least.

The deployment of the dashbords, in the simplest scenario, is so easy you just drop a unique file (qvw extension) in the published folder and the solution appears into the main web page that works like an index of all solutions: the access point.

The product has great stability although in some circumstances, especially if it is low in resources or the reload process encounters some kind of dead lock while extracting the data from the DB, it could/will result in the shutdown of the service. The good news is the automatic behavior: I never saw corrupted data or unstable behavior, just restart the service / reload and all works well again.

The product is designed to scale both horizontally and vertically. Some organizatations which have servers and dashboards that handle until 30 Tb of data have had some issues that finally have been addressed by the support service of QlikTech.

The customer service is provided by the local reseller and is fine. We have mainly used it to get the new releases and some support during the installation.

The technical support in my country is provided by the master reseller and it looks good even when they have to pass the case to Qliktech to figure-out the problem and find a solution. In this last case it can be somewhat delayed because these cases needed to reach the top levels of the service.

I have used (and still use) Microsoft BI: SSISm SSAS and SSRS. The productivity level of QlikView is quite superior, whilst Microsoft licensing scheme is really better, specially when there are large number of users and a lot of SQL licences deployed making it (MS) much cheaper.

The initial setup was absolutely seamless and the only requirement for a successful deploy is a little training to the users, not only about how to use QlikView, but what can be done with QlikView, giving them the initial spark.

In general the vendors which I have worked with were very well qualified, although not very inclined to share information easily.

This question is hard to answer because except for a few cases its impossible to measure how the project (not the tool) improves the results of the organization. Such measures are available at the organizational level, but it is difficult to quantify the proportion of the contribution from one tool to a whole process.

The start cost is around of US $25.000 and the annual royalties are around 20% that includes customer and technical support and upgrades.

I have evaluated Tableau and Microstrategy. The first one is too basic (wonderful if you are a final user). The second one: extremely complex, just for very large organizations and large IT teams.

Think seriously about the possible population of users, how it will grow-up, and check the licensing cost and its limitations.