QlikView Reviews

• Ease of use
• Implementation
• Processing speed

• Trends
• Opportunities
• Automated reporting

• More graphics
• Dashboard support

I've used QlikSense for six months.

Not really.

No issues encountered.

It's very good.

I haven't had a need to contact them.

We used Cognos BI which was fast but a bit complex.

We used an in-house team.

It's taken six months to get an ROI.

It was free to download.

We also evaluated Tableau, which we also use, and Cognos BI.

Try it alongside Tableau as depending on user preferences and other requirements, either product will do the job.

Amazing performance

Easy to use self service

Extremely powerful for data analysis

It has dramatically improved development time for BI reports.

Using traditional tools like OBIEE or SAP BO, BI was more like an IT dependent work stream. Now it has reached the business side, who can do their own analysis. Users can drill data without much IT help.

More flexibility to alter auto association in the data model.

Support for collaboration.

3 years

No issues with deployment, except a few hurdles for single sign on integration.

No, CPU and memory usage are not clearly presented.

Good, they need more proactive support.

Good

Yes, from SAP BO for ease of use and less time for development.

• 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.

• Integrated ETL
• In-memory data
• QlikView Management Console
• Front-end design.

Implemented some visualizations for:

• Orders Management
• Sales Dashboard
• Contribution Margin Dashboard
• Budget x Real Expenses Management

So now we have better control in some areas, like Sales, Logistics and Financials.

Sales, Marketing, Internal Controls, Factory, HR, Logistics, etc. all still have room for improvement.

Over two years.

No.

Yes, because at the beginning I didn't have the appropriate hardware in our servers. After an upgrade, there were no problems at all.

Upgrading server hardware.

9/10.

8/10.

No previous solution used.

It was complex because we didn't have the correct person (resource) to build the right queries. We then got someone with the right competency and things have been going well.

In-house one.

Not too many developers available in our market (Brazil).

• 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.

8 out of 10

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.

Dynamic dashboards is definitely the most valuable feature. You select your filters and all your graphs and tables are automatically updated; it really saves time when doing analysis! 

Thanks to Qlikview we have been able to set up and share dashboards across our services. We can monitor our internal productivity and revenue, but as well our client’s activity and be proactive if we see a sudden change in volumes. We also monitor our service levels.
Qlikview is giving visibility to our directors and VP , accounts department, as well as operational managers who can follow on their teams productivity. 

Qlikview is very intuitive and user friendly compared to other solutions, however I regret that some of their features are not available for Mac users.

A build your own report feature on standard .qvw would be great. Qlik has recently launched Qliksense, it answers this need but we cannot use the Qliksense feature on Qlikview reports. An all-in-one solution would be perfect.

Since 2008

Initial database set up was the main concern.

Customer Service is good, however we mainly use the Qlikview community. We can reach out to other users / developers who are always available to help.

Before Qlikview we had 2 BI solutions : Cognos and Hummingbird. Hummingbird was more a database extraction tool available for our clients. We then developed our own operational web-based database for our clients to check their transportation invoices and extract instantly the data they needed for reporting purposes. When this solution was live and operational we stopped Hummingbird as it did not make any sense to maintain both solutions.

In parallel, Cognos was our BI tool for dashboards/ graphs. We decided to change to Qlikview since Cognos was more complex in terms of development and less user friendly. 

I would say straightforward. Training was provided by our supplier, and our developers already had BI knowledge . 

Our vendor (Decideis) helped us with the initial set up and training; we then deployed the solution ourselves.

We are really happy with their knowledge of Qlikview. 

Cognos was evaluated and Qlikview was highly recommended by one of our customers.

Define precisely your needs, your budget and the resources available to set-up, deploy and maintain the solution. There are different solutions on the market, choose the one that will answer your needs. 

Memory data management, quick analysis and reporting.

We can collect and analyze information; until now information was spread across different sites, databases and spread sheets, managed by people belonging to different organizations. Now reports are available in short time in a single source.

Graphic User Interface, the product could be improved by a smarter, more intuitive and friendly interface for graphs or reports.

2 months.

No issues with deployment. 

No problems with stability. 

Yes, we had issues with scalability. 

Not enough data to give an opinion. 

Very easy setup.

We have not yet quoted a ROI, we expect a valuable saving of time and resource by cutting manual reporting, better decision making processes, and on time strategic management alignment.

We are in early evaluation phase.

Ease of use, visualization, intuitive, the Qlik method of ETL, Qlik Sense

Analysis in real time, predictive analytics, reporting

Server performance. Reloading of data sometimes weigh down the server's performance.

1 year

No issues with deployment.

Slight issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

8/10

8/10

SAP BusinessObjects. Change in business requirements.

Vendor - 7/10.

Yes. SAP BOBJ