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BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 20, 2014

With one of our implementations, we saved the company over $1 million. Look and feel of the charts could be improved.

What is most valuable?

Powerful Business Discovery Capabilities
Fast Implementation Time
Ease of Use
Easily Scalable
Quality Product

How has it helped my organization?

With one of our Implementations at a mining house, we were able to save the company over $1 million, by cutting out surplus inventory.

What needs improvement?

The look and feel of the charts and graphs can greatly be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

2.5 Years.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No deployment problems.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No stability problems.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No scalability problems.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

Very good.

Technical Support:

Very good.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is very straightforward. The documentation is clear and concise.

What other advice do I have?

Choose a good Implementation Partner with a wide level of expertise.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. We are a QlikView Implementation Partner.

Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 9, 2014

A lot of options in the tabbed panel used for different components

What is most valuable?

Its easy and fast to build dashboards.

For how long have I used the solution?

One year

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Sometimes the product final (look & feel) is different from the desktoop tool and the web server.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Its a product very stable

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

4 out of 5.

Technical Support:

4 out of 5.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Microstrategy. We changed because Qlikview is faster to build a dashboard than Microstrategy.

What about the implementation team?

Vendor team

Good expertise

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Tableau

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 19, 2014

Presentation of data on a map and what-if modeling could be better, but its point and click user interface is valuable

What is most valuable?

The features of this product that are most valuable are: its point and click user interface, speed, ability to follow dependencies in data, ability to fix any view in my special sheet, ability to track back to data sources for any output value or part of a graph.

How has it helped my organization?

We implemented an application for control of sales team, for controlling. Accounting people or our sales director are able to work with it without extensive training and they are able to do their own analysis without support of IT people. We developed an application for health insurance company that allows them better control of a cost paid to hospitals or doctors. They have very detailed analysis of drugs paid by insurance.

What needs improvement?

Areas of this product with room for improvement are ETL, presentation of data on a map, what-if modeling or predictive modeling, license policy.

For how long have I used the solution?

We are using it for, I think, 6 years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No. But you should respect such special features when you design a data model.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No. But we did not used QlikView for Big data.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: The customer service is done by partners. So if you have knowledgeable partner the service is good, if not you can easily switch to another. Our country is small and there are several partners who can support QlikView, so I think that every customer could receive good support.Technical Support: Technical support from QlikTech is at standard level. What is non-standard in a comparison with other tools is the very low number of errors that we found. I do not remember any important error during the time we used it.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used Microstrategy, Actuate, Crystal Reports. Microstrategy was much slower (all of them) and it had very bad support in our country. All three tools consumed much more days for building the applications – but it was 5-6 years ago, I am not familiar with today’s versions.

How was the initial setup?

It was straightforward, but we have skilled people and we are not beginners. We are an IT company.

What about the implementation team?

We did implementation in-house and we deliver projects for our clients. We have people that passed training in QlikTech.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Day to day cost consists from maintenance fee and we have a man, who is responsible for development of the internal application. But the same man together with other members of BI team are working for the customers. Setup cost was not high. When we started we bought 5 licenses and developed the application in-house, but during the years we have invested in the development of our internal applications. It is a continuous improvement.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We have knowledge of Microsoft Analysis Services, Jaspersoft. We sometimes use Jaspersoft as an embedded reporting tool into application. QlikView was nice and easily to learn, so the evaluation period was short.

What other advice do I have?

To do careful requirements analysis, be sure that you have all relevant data available, start the project with somebody, who has an opinion of QlikView.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 10, 2014

Best In Memory Tool

Valuable Features:

Our business finds this tool very impressive, particularly the drill down to nth level is very good.

Improvements to My Organization:

Yes. we were using BO previously and it took a long time to track particular trade details. In QlikView we get trade level data in seconds.

Room for Improvement:

Yes, Drag and drop of controls. Some geographical charts.

Use of Solution:

I've been using this tool for 4.5 years

Deployment Issues:

None.

Stability Issues:

None as of now.

Scalability Issues:

Sometimes it creates problem when many users log in at same time, but this also depends on your RAM capacity.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

BI Expert at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Mar 3, 2014

Data discovery, in memory analysis, one development for all devices is very valuable. Can improve in version management.

What is most valuable?

Data discovery, in memory analysis, one development for all devices, ease of use for both developer and end-user

How has it helped my organization?

A proof of concept with the customers data can be done in 1-3-5 days depending on the number of KPI’s and datasources to address.

What needs improvement?

Version management

For how long have I used the solution?

+ 3 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No, server hardware sizing is very important here.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: Excellent, good reviews by Gartner as well.Technical Support: Excellent, good reviews by Gartner as well.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Oracle BI, Microsoft BI, Business Objects XI, Cognos Reason for change: ease of use, speed in building models and applications, price, price and price.

How was the initial setup?

Straight forward, the complexity lies in the creation of the data model using scripting but you can do it step by step and add sources while building, something which is more difficult with classic BI products

What about the implementation team?

We are implementation partner of almost all BI suites.

What other advice do I have?

Do a proof of concept first, seeing is believing.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Senior Manager of Data Analytics at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Feb 19, 2014

Great for personal productivity and data analysis. Forget it if you just need a reporting tool

What is most valuable?

I think it's the best data analysis/discovery tool I've ever seen.

How has it helped my organization?

I'm currently using it also for my personal and professional productivity: e.g. stock analysis, project management dashboards.

What needs improvement?

It is really missing a comprehensive semantic/metadata layer and security/data profiling can be hard to accomplish at corporate level without a high level of scripting.

For how long have I used the solution?

4 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Not in the last couple of years

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Not in the last couple of years

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It really depends on your analytics. You have to think and design your documents and/or analytics for large scalability if you think you need something like that.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: Medium/LowTechnical Support: Medium/High

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I never replaced a tool with QV in my working experience. For my personal productivity, it mainly replaced excel.

How was the initial setup?

Everything is quite easy and straightforward

What about the implementation team?

We implemented in-house with limited support of the vendor team

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Server licence (about 9k USD) + maintenance and a bunch (increasing) of different kind of user licences (average $500 each).

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Mainly SAS, Microstrategy and Microsoft BI

What other advice do I have?

Well, it really depends on what you're looking for. It's not a reporting product, it's an analysis/data discovery tool and it does it really well.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

Business Manager (Exco level) & Executive Director at a retailer with 51-200 employees

Feb 12, 2014

Start & the rest will follow. Just keep an eye open that design change to a pivot table can be problematic.

Valuable Features:

1) The ease with which self-service BI can be achieved via a small scale trail deployment

Improvements to My Organization:

The company moved from paper based reporting to full dashboard reporting in the Sales function

Room for Improvement:

Very little

Use of Solution:

2 years

Deployment Issues:

None

Stability Issues:

In some cases making a design change to a Pivot table can be problematic if an additional dimension is added to a report that has a “matrix” layout like the following:

Scalability Issues:

None – During a stress test it was able to load 38 million records without any problems on simple dual core PC with ONLY 1 GB OF RAM (absolutely amazing. I would not have believed it to be possible but I did the test myself)

Customer Service:

There are frequent follow-ups from the vendor once you register on their web site.

Initial Setup:

Very straight forward for a simple 1 application installation. Just pick 32 or 64 bit and go!

Implementation Team:

Any user can implement a simple 1 application installation, then just follow good communication protocol with the IT team to get access to central data stores and you are away.

Other Solutions Considered:

Silver, Spotfire from Tibco, Tableau Public, MicroStrategy’s free Reporting Suite, Roambi Analytics, Webalo, YellowFin, Jaspersoft

Other Advice:

Just start …the rest will follow…

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

BI Expert with 51-200 employees

Feb 11, 2014

A powerful user-friendly BI tool with an amazing graphic interface but security is difficult and slow to implement.

What is most valuable?

The graphic interface is amazing, it is also very user-friendly and easy for developers to iterate, modify and evolve it. Due to its "in memory" nature it is very fast and powerful.

How has it helped my organization?

It is a very easy-to-sell product. The value added is huge and the ROI is very high since the projects are done relatively fast.

What needs improvement?

Implement security model for a document can be difficult and slow to implement.

For how long have I used the solution?

3 Years

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: Direct Communication, usually quick responsesTechnical Support: 9/10

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I have worked basically with CPM tools so this is my first BI tool.

How was the initial setup?

It is very easy to install Qlikview. The important part is to size correctly the servers according to the size of the application and the number of users.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In my company we work with many BI tools from different vendors, from SAP and Oracle to Pentaho and Qlikview.

What other advice do I have?

What I have seen is that it's addictive for the users. So if you are an IT manager and you are planning to use another BI tool, try not to show Qlikview to the users or they won´t let you change.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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