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MUHAMMAD HAYAT QURESHI

Commercial Finance Controller at Imtiaz Super Market

We have experience using an in-house management information system (MIS) developed using C++ before considering QlikView.

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AhmadKastero

Head of Product at Quantiphi

Before adopting QlikView, our team previously utilized SAP's Business Objects for scalable enterprise solutions. Tableau was also present in the market at that time, predating QlikView's emergence. I found Tableau to have an element of complacency. However, upon transitioning to QlikView, I perceived it as a superior and more dynamic solution.

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DorianS

Lead Author at SFApps.info

I use different apps with Salesforce. They include Tableau, Conga Grid, and Rollup Helper. I haven't switched. I'm researching the best solution.

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reviewer2341953

Enterprise Data Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use SAP Crystal Reports.

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Sultan Molobayev

Data Warehouse Architecture at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

Prior to using QlikView, we employed Sub-Business Objects. Qlik is more prominent for creating interactive dashboards and visualizing dynamic numerical data related to benefits, and allows for the download of data.

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it_user377385

Vice President, Business Continuity Manager / Information Security Officer / Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

As a global firm, we actually looked at many products, even signing a multi-year contract with a QV competitor (Tibco Spotfire, but the enemy of efficiency for analysis is MS Excel).

For SpotFire, it was always my opinion that that deal was done on a golf course, because QlikView over the years was the better product by far (certainly, all users loved it) versus the other product, which very few users understood, and certainly users did not show anywhere near as much affection for it.

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Jhornber

Director, BI & Analytics at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

Previously used an older Domo product (Centerview). The product was no longer supported. It was very flexible, but also very labor intensive. Data had to be fully prepared outside of the tool ,and every interaction had to be defined. Development time was weeks vs days in QlikView.

Currently also using Tableau, depending on the particular use case.

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Hendra Eka Putra

Chief Executive Officer at Idea Domina

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.

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it_user381693

FSI IT Consulting Manager at Deloitte Portugal

I’ve also worked with other main market solutions like Microsoft, or Tableau, but over the last few years, QlikView has evolved considerably, especially when they completed it’s offering with Qlik Sense 2. Although it is not as versatile as the Microsoft solutions, it is stronger in ease of use and development when compared to Power BI for example. It’s licensing costs when compared to Tableau are also a differentiating factor.

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it_user257343

Business Intelligence Latin America Leader at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The time or effort to develop new stuff in QlikView is lower than other traditional tools as MicroStrategy, Cognos, etc. Besides that, we are changing our approach to a self-service BI.

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it_user195606

Senior IT Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I previously used Microsoft BI tools, but as a company we were too far behind the curve to take advantage of their latest technology in the BI space. Upgrading to Office 2016 is not something a Fortune 500 company is going to do overnight.

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Sue Penick

Director of IS at Bennington Marine, LLC

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it_user305934

Business Intelligence Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I did not previously use a different solution.

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Bernard Barnard

Head of Qlikview IT at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated IBM Cognos and SAP BusinessObjects. We chose QlikView because of its online community, extensibility and support, and large demand from business.

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reviewer1904634

Operations Officer Team Leader at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

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.

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Shabaz Shaikh

Software Developer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

I did not use a different solution before Tableau. This is the first tool I have used for BI.

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it_user120957

Business Information Expert Performance Measurement at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have everything, but the combination of functions in one tool as well as the good support and quick implementation times make QuickView our preferred tool for most use cases.

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reviewer1901754

Head Of Business Intelligence at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user297504

Data Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have previous experience with IBM Cognos. It was a very comprehensive solution that can be used for pixel-perfect reports, email schedules and also data analysis. However, there are many more development and implementation steps than with Qlik.

Also, Cognos requires a steep learning curve even for a user with a technical background.

As we wanted an easy and user-friendly self-service BI solution, QlikView is more suitable from this perspective.

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reviewer1185771

Works at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user181071

Information System & Business Enterprise Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Like everyone, we used Excel and Access. We tried using the enterprise MicroStrategy and both developers and users rejected it as too much effort, not intuitive compared to QlikView.

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it_user178017

Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

I have used a number of competing products such as Cognos, Tableau, Power BI and SAP BusinessObjects.

QlikView development projects are rapid and the product itself is very flexible and reliable.

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it_user72435

Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nothing else was reviewed, given the business area lead had previous experience with QlikView and wanted that for his department.

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it_user342081

Information Systems Development Manager(Senior) – Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not evaluated any solution similar to QlikView (e.g. Tableau).

We did not previously use a similar solution.

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it_user165582

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

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.

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it_user140223

Marketing Intelligence Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The choice to use this product was an organizational decision.

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Mridul Rao

Manager - Revenue & Growth|Strategy & Planning | Market Intelligencee at a media company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user657474

Analyst - Business Applications at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

We previously used Tableau. We switched because the business requested Qlik.

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it_user156003

Senior BI Consultant (Qlikview) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There are other data visualization tools similar to QlikView. Spotfire, for example, has incredible UI possibilities, but I think QlikView is very ahead in the competition in terms of solution flexibility.

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it_user421155

Solution Engineer - QlikView/Qlik Sense at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Among Tableau, QlikView, and Qlik Sense, I prefer QlikView, due to its higher customization capabilities, its associative nature, and its ETL features.

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AyodeleMakun

Qlik Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did not use a solution previously.

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it_user114843

Senior Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I have experience with other similar visualizers, but QV offers a better experience in terms of ETL development.

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it_user175005

Project Manager at a logistics company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user414966

IT Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

Before 2012, we used SAS and Crystal Reports for reporting and BI. When we started looking for other solution, we evaluated the new version of Crystal Reports, but there was no comparable alternative to QlikView.

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it_user193482

Information Publishing Portfolio Manager at a comms service provider

I looked at IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects, and MicroStrategy. The main draw cards to QlikView was the cost and flexibility.

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it_user186759

Developer with 501-1,000 employees

Before QlikView, Excel was used across the company. At the same time, we had SAS Web Reporting Studio provided by my company’s headquarters, which was very far from even being considered to be used for anything beyond just comparing total sales numbers if the QlikView reports were in line.

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it_user363234

Managing Partner at PBS

We usually position this product for departmental and fast-win solutions. When you’re an expert in this product, it’s quite easy to develop well-functioning and complex dashboards.

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it_user401796

IT Manager at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees

I used BOARD at another company. I have found QlikView to be better.

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it_user335649

Analista de inteligencia de mercado at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I started working in my actual job because of this software, so I didn´t have the opportunity to choose it. However, I can see it´s great software, and I´d surely choose it.

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Angel Monjarás

Product Specialist and Education Services at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

We did not previously use a different solution. Choosing it comes naturally because we resell Qlik.

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it_user97479

Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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. View full review »

it_user203682

Project Manager, Global Business Intelligence & Analytics at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used IBM Cognos BI, in which charting and dashboarding are painful.

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it_user77322

Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

This was our my first in memory data discovery tool. I have used more static reporting solutions such as SSRS, BOXI etc but they are not really a comparable product to QlikView, Tableau or Spotfire. View full review »

it_user867504

Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It is better in all aspects than our previous solution.

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it_user75063

Database Expert at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated this product against other BI products such as OBIEE and Cognos. We preferred QV because of its ease of use and fast deployment and development of dashboards.

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it_user2862

VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No we did not have a dashboarding tool other than using MS Products such as Excel. View full review »

it_user928116

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

I have some prior experience with Power BI and Qlik Sense.

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Leander du Plessis

Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We chose this product because we needed to connect to the source system and report directly from it.

It was already established when I started.

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it_user103896

Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

This product was in place when I joined the company. I did not take part in the decision of this solution.

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it_user225189

BI Project Leader with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are evaluating Power BI suite and Datazen. We found that these products offer a good level of analysis, but the licensing offer was the deciding factor.

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it_user156729

Business Intelligence Data Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

QlikView was this company’s first foray into making use of an external business intelligence tool.

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it_user85638

Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

IBM Cognos was the original MIS platform. Within QV, there are better analytical reporting features.

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it_user130470

Technical Associate at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

The only reason we chose this product is its dynamic interactive dashboard. It works well on iPad. We liked the product, as compared to MS BI.

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it_user254223

Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es

I have used Business Objects and Microstrategy. QlikView is a different tool. It has advantages and disadvantages compared to Business Objects or Microstrategy. The main advantages are flexibility and agile development.

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it_user90651

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

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

it_user326526

Senior Business Analyst at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I also evaluated MS BI and tableau. Compared with MS BI, I find Tableau and QlikView have stronger visualization; intuitive data insights; less development lead time - MS BI requires creating OLAP cubes, which takes more time; clearer and simpler charts; and intuitive data mapping/insights.

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it_user235527

IT Manager / Specialist at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We used to have IBM Cognos, but we decided to go for QlikView because of the flexibility and the short time to develop and delivery analysis.

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it_user78285

BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I previously used IBM Cognos, Tableau, MS, SAP BO... Personally, QlikView is the best when you talk about fast delivery and visualisation.

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it_user93909

Partner with 51-200 employees

Microsoft BI stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS)

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it_user299343

Service Delivery Manager - EABL at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees

I had used other solutions, but they didn’t give me the kind of reporting & analysis I got from QlikView.

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DecisionSupMgr214

Decision Support Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Most solutions like SAS, Tableau and others require a fully-fledged data warehouse (EDW), and IT support and intervention at all times for creating dashboards. QlikView is flexible and allows users to create their own reports in a relatively short time.

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Ed Dallal

Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity

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

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it_user220716

Partner at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We used MS Analysis Server & MS Reporting Services for some years and compared to Qlik products, it was inflexible, old-fashioned and slow.

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it_user377319

Analytics Application Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

No other solution was in place, but I have tried others and they can't offer what Qlik can.

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it_user303567

SAP Application Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Data Warehouse built with SQL,and it was too complicated, and oversized for a medium sized company, and too slow for any changes.

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it_user214938

Lead Technical with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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it_user408444

IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I chose QlikView because it provides flexible data loading that can help us present data without a data warehouse.

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it_user92304

Consulting Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We previously used SAP BW, and we changed because it had very complex development, and long development times.

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it_user87984

BI Expert with 51-200 employees

I have worked basically with CPM tools so this is my first BI tool. View full review »

it_user752142

Board of Management with 501-1,000 employees

Because the majority of BI tools are focusing on processing a significant mass of data, we were looking for a more analytical tool with the possibility to quickly build models, and we found it. On the other hand, QlikView has some constraints due to the architecture, so it may not be applicable for millions and millions and millions of data records because it requires significant expenses for the hardware. But, as an analytical tool, it's very interesting.

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it_user374679

IT Admin at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated three other products. We chose this product because of its cost effectiveness, quality of services and advice.

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it_user67443

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

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

it_user231753

Profesional Management Database and Server, Networking, Virtualization Server. at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We will possibly continue using the product.

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it_user155814

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

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

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it_user858876

Enterprise Architecture & Business Analyst - Analytics at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using a different solution and we still use a part of that solution, SAP. SAP Business Warehouse and SAP BusinessObjects. We faced a lot of problems in the migration between BusinessObjects and BW. In the past, BusinessObjects was a separate company that was bought by SAP, so we had a lot of problems in terms of integration. It was not possible to pursue these solutions with so many problems. We could not deliver solutions with that platform, so we went to the market to see which other solutions there were for creating the output: the reporting, the analytic views, the dashboard creation.

The most important criteria when it comes to selecting a vendor are the vendor's position in the market, and the solution itself. If we are going to change from one supplier to another supplier, we must have confidence in that new supplier. Other factors are the functionality of the solution and the cost of implementing the solution.

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it_user176133

Consultant at a tech services company

I hadn’t used any other BI tool, but our organization migrated to QlikView from SAP BO because of its associative experience & quick deployment time.

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it_user164442

Team Lead, Data Engineering at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

SAP BusinessObjects. Change in business requirements.

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it_user373044

Partner at a tech company with 51-200 employees

As mentioned, we previously used Crystal as well as Oracle OBIEE and both are inflexible and time-consuming.