QlikView Reviews

We are a consulting company. Some of my employees use the solution. It is a memory-based BI tool. It works faster than other tools.

The solution is fast.

The tool is expensive in Turkey.

I have been using the solution for two years.

I rate the tool’s stability a ten out of ten.

The tool is scalable. We are working with two big corporations in Turkey.

The deployment took less than one day.

The prices were normal five years ago, but they are expensive now. My customers pay a yearly license fee.

Qlik Sense is easier to use than other tools. It is easy to install.

I recommend the product to others. It is expensive only in Turkey. We suggest to our customers, though. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is to provide reporting to our customers. The company works with online solutions for marketing so the customer gets insights about the response to email components and things like that. I'm a freelance database specialist and the company is a customer of QlikView. 

This is a tool with a lot of functionality to provide any kind of reporting to customers, it has a range of solutions. Although some customers would like to use different tools QlikView is what they're used to using. 

The most valuable feature for me is probably the ease with which you can analyze data by click-through. 

The user interface of QlikView is old. The provider built a new tool called Qlik Sense. So Qlik Sense is basically the offspring of QlikView. Somehow both are still supported and they've developed new versions for both of these tools but Qlik Sense is basically the restyled version of QlikView. There's a lot of discussion about some features which are difficult to use including the user interface, all look and feel aspects, but I think that will be in the new version. What they could provide is a migration path to Qlik Sense. It's very difficult to do that automatically because it always requires you to check and change some new port. I haven't researched it but I believe that's the case. 

I've been using this solution for around six years. 

The solution is stable but you need to tweak it once you set it up. The big issue with it is that it's a BI tool, so it's memory intensive and for some calculations also CPU intensive. It means that when it hits its maximum in terms of the resources available it starts to shut down. 

The solution is scalable but you really have to keep in mind that it's configurable in application so that if you reach the maximum, you know you need to act on that. Otherwise strange things will start to happen. We had that issue one time, we added more memory and since then we haven't had any issues. 

We have an intermediate company which we bought a license from and it provides us with support. Usually they're not very helpful. Either we find the answer more quickly ourselves, or if we can't find the answer, they usually also can't find the answer. So they have to forward it to the QlikView support. I think it's a waste of money. 

The deployment on premises is quite complicated. I did it myself but my predecessor neglected to make proper documentation about installation and the solution requires a lot of components on different servers that talk to each other and you need to set firewall settings and things like that. It's quite a big application. They could improve on that and they probably did that with Qlik Sense. There's a lot of manual stuff required which is not really necessary.

We have about 30 users in the company who are really customers. They access the reporting through a web console which sees it in the mail and some of them are external users who developed on the application. My role is more the maintenance of the application itself. I'm the one who installed it and updates the system. It's difficult to know whether our usage will  be increased. This is a difficult year for everyone. If a company has to cut its budget, one of the first things to go is usually marketing.

It's a very good product but I would recommend going for Qlik Sense because it has a better future, given that it's basically the new version of QlikView.

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

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.

We were using QlikView for reporting purposes.

The language support is very good. It understands more languages than other products.

The customization features are good.

The performance can be improved.

There is no automation or drag and drop functionality. 

I have not been in contact with technical support.

I have heard of other reporting tools like Tableau but I do not have experience with them.

When you are setting up QlikView, the first thing that you need to do is connect to the database. The length of time it takes depends on the size of the data. We found that for a million records, it will take between two and three minutes.

This is a product that I definitely recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

My company uses this application mainly for reporting and analytics through customized dashboards that meet corporate identity needs. The reports were created using existing SQL scripts that powered legacy dashboard and reports (i.e. SAP Crystal Reports).

This is a very cool application with endless options for creativity and visuals. 

While this application was loved by the end-users, the development required to build these dashboards proved to be more difficult vs. other solutions such as Tableau. 

My company is big on dashboards and this application excels in this space. Endless customization is key to meet everyone's needs. I also like how the application can use existing SQL statements to use as your root data/tables/information. Compared to other competitors, this solution can do more.

I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase.

Our business model relies on the business to build their own reports and many departments did not have the associates they need with this type of skill set (i.e. SQL experience). In a business model where a centralized department (i.e. IT) is in control of the reports for the entire company, this would not be a problem.

The development was the ultimate reason this application did not take off in my organization vs. a competitor's application (Tableau). This is a shame as the finished dashboard appeared to be more polished.

My experience is limited but from what I experienced, stability is very good.

The scalability of this solution is very good.

Very reactive, quick and supportive.

I have been 110% satisfied every time I have reached out with a question.

We started form SAP Crystal Reports and originally moved to Qlik as a replacement, but this application proved to be more difficult for development as the business owns their own report vs. IT.

Application install was simple and straightforward.

We implemented this solution with our in-house IT staff.

No ROI as we have moved on.

The biggest comparison was made with Tableau, which ultimately won.

Their training and services have been top-notch and very reactive.

We use this solution for ETL, Analytics, Reporting, Automation, Integration between data sources (cloud, local, spreadsheets, etc), Data Scrub for Migration to new software, and automation of sending files to banks instead of using EDI, Positive Pay, etc.

This solution has simplified getting to and understanding our data, no matter where it is housed.

The most valuable features are the ETL, automation, and ease of use by the user population.

This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help. I keep them all in OneNote now and copy and paste them in, then change the field names. This addition would really save time.

examples:

Convert date-time stamp to just a normal date in the Load script - so we can match to the company calendar for Model Year / month etc , Fiscal Year /month / week of year/ week in year

date(floor(DTTMSTAMP),'MM/DD/YYYY') as TransactionDate,

Storing QVD's: (this is the path needed from a Data Loader)

STORE SummarySalesAggregate INTO [..\QVDData\SummarySalesUnitsAndDollars.qvd];

Sorted and Count for creating Arrays:

SortedAndCounted:

Left join (SummarizeSales2)

LOAD

Option_Inv,

Line_No,

if(peek('Option_Inv',-1)<> Option_Inv,1, Peek('counter',-1)+1) as counter

Resident SummarizeSales2

Order by Option_Inv asc, Line_No asc;

excellent

excellent

I have never worked with Qlik Customer Service directly.

no

it wasn't bad. We did need some consulting advise on the set up in the server...but designing the organization and naming conventions should be up to you.  We took the consultants advise and ended up renaming, changing almost everything as far as naming conventions

started with a consultant, didn't use them long.

keep working with the Company to get the pricing you need.  

yes - many

I developed an application for a hospital to improve the potential of analysis of that company. I used Windows Server 2008, 8Gb RAM, two processors.

The hospital improved the quality of the data analysis and increased its profits, because, for the first time, they were able to analyze consistent data.

• Speed of development
• Ease of learning
• Low ROI
• Fast deliveries
• Scalability
• Multiplatform, and speed in queries.

• Improvement in the graphical user interface
• Introducing HTML 5
• Context sensitive
• Drag and drop visualization
• Responsive design.

Our primary use case is an application that our users use to get the profitability on a monthly basis.

It's pretty easy to deploy.

I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields.

I did not encounter any issues with stability of the product. 

I did not encounter any issues with scalability of the product. 

We usually use a partner for technical support, so I cannot really rate the service. 

We had the partner help us set up the product for us. So, I do not remember any difficulty with the setup process. 

It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market.