QlikView Reviews

We've got a third-party provider that consumes our data, and they have QlikView experts or QlikSense experts who visualize and create business-type reporting and insights for our other business users to use.

We do operations and monthly reporting via QlikView. We usually have various types of business use cases for different business units, and it is used for all those reports. We create reports for each of the business units based on their requirements. Our users can log onto the portal and prepare all their reports in one place.

QlikView is old, and we are now moving towards a Power BI environment. We are moving all our reporting over to Power BI.

It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful. So, it is easy to create a data set of specific fields or variables that you need. You create the snapshot, and it then basically stores that into its own little file that you can build over time. 

It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data. QlikView is very old, and there are more modern tools that work.

It is expensive. Its licensing can be improved because the tool is old. If they still want people to use it a lot, they should substitute it for a newer, better BI tool. The price should change for what you get. They can have a cloud version for it, but I guess they have created QlikSense to have a cloud version or platform available so that people basically go from QlikView to QlikSense.

There is a learning curve. It is not for first-time users working with data. It has got its own little syntax to create usable datasets, codes, schedules, etc. So, there is quite a learning curve to learn the syntax to use the tool, but if you build expertise in it, it is nice to use.

I have been using this solution for about 10 years.

It is stable. It is resource-intensive, but it works. It is not bad; it is just old in terms of functionality.

It is resource-intensive. So, it is not easy to scale. In my organization, we have about 50 to 100 users who are using the actual QlikView portal to draw reports. We have 5 to 10 users who are building and creating reports.

I have not really used their support. We have experts in QlikView. If we struggle with something, we've got QlikView consultants, and they have expertise. Every now and then, we do contact them if we're having issues with QlikView.

It is of medium complexity. It is not easy, and it is also not difficult. It takes a little bit of time to get the hang of it. If you have some kind of experience in working with these types of setups, it is quite easy to learn.

It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year.

I would recommend QlikView for a small business with very specific data needs. QlikView makes sense for small businesses with a very specific data environment where data is controlled, and there are one or two people requiring the data or reports. For anything bigger than that, there are other more modern tools that you can use at a lesser cost.

I would rate it a five out of ten because there is quite a learning curve for using the tool, and it has been falling behind other tools.

For now, our use cases are mostly the common analytic tools. I'm not involved with any AI or machine learning solutions, only dashboards and reporting.

The common analytics tools of the solution are valuable. 

There is room for improvement in terms of scalability. Because it depends on the use case and customer requirements. 

If QlikView can't handle the scale, I usually look to the data lake or data warehouse for solutions. My experience is that for self-service BI, users often request low code tools, which wouldn't be suitable for the QlikView front-end due to performance limitations.

I have been using the solution for almost ten years now.

It is a stable product. 

Scalability really depends on the size of your data and QlikView server architecture. For the biggest data sets, it could become an issue at some point.

We haven't actually used technical support for Qlik. We've always been able to solve problems ourselves.

I don't recommend any specific BI front-end because customers usually suggest the tools themselves. I focus on the data lake and data warehouse. As long as the chosen tool is QlikView, Tableau, or Power BI, I don't see much difference. So, I always recommend those three.

We can handle all three tools, so it's more about understanding the customer's specific needs and suggesting the best fit.

We handle most of the difficulty in the data warehouse, so the front end is relatively simple. We just use the common features. 

My customers are mostly in government and banking, and they haven't had issues with QlikView pricing.

My recommendation depends upon the Gartner's recommendations. Currently, the top BI tools are Power BI, QlikView, and Tableau.

So, it's pretty good. I'd rate it an eight out of ten. 

I'm using the product for traffic purposes, leads, and some users. It's about the approval ratio. I'm using data to see what I want to see and based on this, I'm creating some reports for myself and management. Whatever I want to see, whenever I want to look something up, I can do so with this product.  

If we have an FTD, we can see when this FTD came in. This is very, very important for me and for our team to see how the actual FTD came in and when, as, for our department, we are building campaigns for traffic. If we have an FTD that registers today and deposits today, this is different than another scenario where we have when leads from last year that are deposited today. The faster I can see this, the more helpful it is. This is a key feature for me.

It's easy to use in terms of navigation. Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do. You can see what filters you have to choose from right at the beginning, on the first page.

Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening. It might be when it's refreshing or updating. I'm not sure. For example, maybe when I'm doing a report and it's refreshing, I can see that all my filters are gone and I need to start again from the beginning. This is the main issue for me.

I've used the solution for one year and six months. 

For the past year and six months, it has been very stable. The numbers are correct as far as I can see. Based on this, reports are created. We haven't had an issue. It's reliable. 

We have 30 or 40 people using the solution currently.

I'm not sure of total scalability, however, based on the scalability of the data, of course, it has a lot of scalability available since we have thousands of FTD leads. We need scalability. So far, we haven't had a problem achieving it. 

That said, if the solution can scale according to the number of users, I'm unsure.

As of now, project coordinators and the business intelligence team are using it. 

I don't have any communication with technical support.

I'm using Qlik Sense as well. It's something very similar. It's just some different places that you're going to have. You're going to find some different filters, however, at the end of the day, it's very similar.

I didn't handle the initial setup and I'm just the one user. 

I'm an end-user of the product.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using at this time. 

My advice to everyone that is using QlikView that's a beginner is to check every page that it has. When I started using it, after one or two months, I found a lot of pages that were very important for the company. If I knew they were there from the beginning, I would have checked those pages instead of using only one or two things. Every page has very important info.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

The product is mostly for reports and analyzing the data of the company, basically. We aren't using it as a CRM right now. 

It's helpful. It's informative. It's good. Since we're doing analysis all the time and it has to do with numbers, it's pretty good.

It's user-friendly. The fact that you have everything accumulated in one place. You can switch views easily. You can also incorporate things if you want to. It's customizable and personalizable. 

The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning. If it could refresh without it taking away all your filters, it would be amazing. It doesn't take a long time to refresh. It's every 20 minutes or so. Still, if it kept your options where you wanted them, it would have been much better.

I've been using the solution for two years. 

It is pretty stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It is reliable. 

While we do add users every now and then, I can't speak to the real scalability. I haven't attempted to scale. 

We have around 50 people using the solution. 

I haven't spoken to technical support directly. I've spoken with our tech team that was taking care of any issues, however, when dealing with them, everything was resolved pretty fast, pretty easily.

I'm not sure about how the setup is, as I'm not the one that does that part. We do request it from our tech people, and it's done fairly quickly, however, I don't know if it's easy or hard. That's their part to know.

We have a tech team that handles the setup.

I don't deal with the licensing aspect. I don't handle that part of the solution. 

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. I'm not sure which deployment version we're using. 

I'd advise new users that it's a pretty straightforward product. It's easy. They should be a bit patient once it refreshes and takes away all your filters.

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We're using the solution to make reports, follow up, check our numbers, and basically manage the data.

It's user-friendly and easy to use, even for new users. The solution is simple to understand. It's easy to explain it to the new members of the team; they don't need much training, and it's really straightforward.

We don't have to export the data and make the pivots and everything else in Excel. We can manage our tables over there for what you want to see.

The initial setup is simple. 

It is stable.

The scalability is there. 

They could improve the update time. Sometimes it takes longer to update, so we see numbers of maybe half an hour ago or one hour ago. If it could be updated faster. That would be something that would help us a lot.

I've used the solution for five years. 

The solution is stable. It's reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

I don't see a limit in terms of scalability. I can see the users, I can see a lot of numbers there since we have individual entries. We've never had trouble with expanding. 

In the company, in my team, almost everyone is using it and we're about 20 people. You could say above 50 people for sure using it in our organization. 

Now we don't have a lot of agents. In the past, we had more agents working with us and it was more than that. 

Mostly the BI department and managers are using it. Whoever deals with the entries and the numbers basically deals with it. All of us use it daily.

I've never spoken to technical support. If there is anything wrong, we speak with our tech team and then they speak with QlikView.

We also use QlikSense. QlikSense is much faster than QlikView, however, on QlikView, we go to a view that we call dynamic. We have two columns that we can choose from for what kinds of entries we want to see and then it makes them show a pivot and a lot of filters above. You can make your own table on the spot without having to spend much time on it. It's something we don't have in QlikSense. This is why we still use QlikView at the moment. Everything we need, basically, we can see on both QlikView and QlikSense.

The solution is easy to set up. It's straightforward. It's not overly complex. 

While our tech team is large, there are two or three people dealing with opening users in general, not just in the software. They take the tickets when we need to add someone. 

We have a tech team that is doing the implementation. We just send the request to the tech team. That said, it doesn't take long until they reply back to us and give us the user. I'm not sure for how long they need to install, however, my request is usually solved within an hour or two.

I don't directly deal with the pricing of the solution. 

We are end-users. 

It's my understanding that we're using the updated version, however, I'm not a hundred percent sure of that.

I'd advise new users to basically know the timeframes, whenever they're doing reports. There are different ways to choose the timeframe and it could be a bit confusing if you don't know how to use it. Apart from that, it's super user-friendly and you don't need much training in order to use it. Just to know your values and your timeframe.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I was using the solution for data exporting for the organization I was working for. I use it just for the data most of the time.

The product is very user-friendly and easy to operate. 

The initial setup was very easy.

It's pretty stable.

We can scale it if we need to. 

It works properly most of the time. I can't speak of any areas that need improvement in terms of features. 

It would be ideal if it was a little bit faster. They could improve the speed. It's not slow per se, however, sometimes it just takes some time to give you the results you want. 

I've used the solution over the last 12 months at least.

The solution is stable and we haven't had any downtime. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution can scale as needed.

We have at least ten people on the solution currently.

I've never directly dealt with technical support.

The initial setup was pretty simple and straightforward.

We had an IT person that installed the program. We mostly dealt with it, however, he helped explain the features to us. 

I don't handle the licensing aspect and therefore can't speak to the exact costs. 

I am just a customer and an end-user.

I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm using. 

I'd recommend the solution as it is pretty user-friendly in general. 

Overall, I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution as a BI tool. We use it for data visualization.

Technical support is good.

The user interface and dashboards are very good. 

There are no issues with management monitoring. 

The solution offers good documentation.

We find Tableau to be a bit of a better solution. QlikView should try to be more like that.

The solution is quite costly.

I'm not sure how long I've been using the solution.

We have our own engineers and support from our tech department, so we've never had any issues dealing with the technical aspects of the solution. That said, they're okay. We're satisfied with their level of service.

We're also currently using Tableau. We find it to be better and easier. It's also less costly.

We want a few things that just aren't available on this solution, so we're moving more towards Tableau as our product of choice.

We have exceptional staff on hand that handled the implementation and deployment. They didn't have any issues with it. For them, it was straightforward. It wasn't complex for their level of expertise.

We handled the initial setup ourselves. Our internal team is very knowledgeable and can handle the implementation of new technology. Adaptability to new solutions is very easy for us.

The solution is expensive to use.

We're just customers. We don't have a business relationship with the solution.

We're actually thinking of moving off it and onto Tableau.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten. It just doesn't offer us what we need right now in terms of functionality. Tableau is a better fit for us.

We are active in the Hospitality Industry in Africa and we use QlikView primarily, for the time being, in our sales and marketing environment. We are situated in multiple countries and in multiple locations within those countries running on multiple sales systems. Each sales system has got its own features and capabilities. 

QlikView permits us to consolidate all the sales systems together onto one platform and enables ease of access throughout the whole company anywhere in the world. Moreover, QlikView makes our complex data infrastructure understandable for everyone.

QlikView allowed us to determine the sales date which was missing in the biggest sales system. QlikView helps us with detecting shortcomings in data capturing and safeguard our margin. It also enables us to forecast our sales, our revenue, and our cash-flow. 

Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand, QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them.

It enables quick and easy access anywhere in the world in real-time. We have satellite offices on different continents with a different time zone which makes it quite a challenge to show real-time values.

QlikView is for the end-user easy to use; a few clicks suffice to answer the question at hand. 

QlikView has got a very intuitive approach of visualizations, both from a developer's point of view as well as the end-users. It makes complex data easy to understand with little prior knowledge of how reading graphs is required. 

QlikView lacks the development aspects that its sister product QlikSense has got. It would be nice to also get the new graphs that are available in QlikSense in QlikView. 

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.

Certain features such as a cumulative result, as is possible in QlikSense, would be nice to have since it takes quite some time to get this right from a developer's point of view.

I have been using QlikView for five years.

It is very robust.

The scalability is quite good, QlikView is fairly versatile yet robust at the same time and can be applied on multiple levels

Did not need any of this yet.

Setup itself was fairly complex since our company battled with a legacy of dirty data and a lack of data literacy.

Implementation happened through a vendor, and their expertise was/is top-notch.

No idea, I haven't made the calculations yet since there have been multiple system changes simultaneously and therefore difficult to determine what is the result of which improvement.

The setup costs for QlikView are fair as are the yearly maintenance fees. The licensing becomes a bit more expensive and requires some planning for onboarding.

I don't know, I was not part of that process and not active within the company.

Since Qlik is focussing more on QlikSense, it is recommendable to look into that direction than into QlikView.