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We performed a comparison between Qlik Sense and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Qlik Sense vs. QlikView Report (Updated: March 2024).
768,857 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Qlik Sense is very stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Even for rare issues, we receive good support from Qlik. It's a very stable solution.""The GeoAnalytics paints such a clear picture. It provides a visual of our patient volume, giving us opportunities to see how we are trending in the surrounding cities, and making us more aware of locations that we need to focus more on.""Data-driven decisions are now easier.""The ETL component allows us to pull from many different sources, making pulling data in easy.""Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment.""We began to see how our processes and other team's processes were negatively affecting the bottom line. We were able to provide tips to other teams to help improve their processes.""The overall ability to build quick wins with simple data to drive insights.""It offers good control. Loading the logs is also a good thing."

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"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis.""The initial setup is not very complex.""One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running.""The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation.""This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals.""It excels in supporting database connections and various database types.""A well designed app brings freedom of inquiry to meetings, allowing me to answer questions in real time and this has transformed progress and outputs of our monthly group meeting.""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."

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Cons
"Data modelling automation needs improvement.""Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application.""We need more types of visualizations.""Multi-server deployment: not just cloud, but on premise too, and hybrid. Needs lighter protocols to communicate between the different services and with the clients.""The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy.""Qlik application automation needs additional work and features.""I would like to more easily themed environments.""Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."

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"Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times.""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.""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.""Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial.""Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect.""Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker.""Needs improvement with UI transparency.""Error handling."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is worth it."
  • "Understand the break over price point for switching to the Enterprise license."
  • "Licensing could be cheaper."
  • "Licensing: Review the named model and move towards a usage model (e.g., cores, memory, computers, API calls, etc.)."
  • "The cost is not bad considering the flexibility and support you receive from Qlik. I believe it is worth the cost."
  • "Start small with tokens. You can always buy more."
  • "Currently, our ROI is clear and concise decision-making. This timely addition will easily add $15 million to our bottom line in 2017."
  • "You will spend more time on educating your staff than licensing the product."
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  • "Pricing is a bit too high and I think licenses should be unlimited."
  • "QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."
  • "Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."
  • "The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."
  • "It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos… more »
    Top Answer:There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows:  1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle  - look for SAP… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies.
    Top Answer:If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.
    Top Answer:My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly.
    Top Answer:Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView… more »
    Ranking
    2nd
    out of 31 in Embedded BI
    Views
    3,963
    Comparisons
    2,501
    Reviews
    22
    Average Words per Review
    563
    Rating
    8.6
    3rd
    out of 31 in Embedded BI
    Views
    1,400
    Comparisons
    1,217
    Reviews
    21
    Average Words per Review
    464
    Rating
    8.1
    Comparisons
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    Compared 7% of the time.
    Tableau logo
    Compared 21% of the time.
    Microsoft Power BI logo
    Compared 11% of the time.
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    Compared 8% of the time.
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    Also Known As
    QlikSense
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    Overview

    Qlik Sense is a visual analytics and business intelligence (BI) platform that gives users full control over their system’s data. From this platform they can control every aspect of their system data. It maximizes an organization’s ability to make decisions driven by their data.

    Benefits of Qlik Sense

    Some of the benefits of using Qlik Sense include:

    • Easily manipulate data: Qlik Sense allows users to easily combine and otherwise manipulate their system’s data. It allows them to create interactive visual representations of your datasets. The many different ways that the data can be represented offer many potential options for how to analyze the data. These choices enable users to easily gain critical insights.
    • Easily automate alerts and routine actions: Qlik Sense enables users to keep a close eye on their data. Automatic alerts that will notify them if their data changes in any way. Users don’t need expert knowledge of coding to create automated data-driven events. Users of all experience levels can take advantage of this benefit. Qlik Sense enables routine actions to be automated when necessary data insights will spur the system to take action. This combination of analytics and other tools empower users to take charge of their data.
    • Customize reporting: Users can set Qlik Sense to generate custom reports. These reports can also be customized to be shared by way of one of several methods, allowing users to control who sees their data and what they see.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Qlik Sense stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its associative analytics technology and its remote access capability. Qlik Sense employs an associative analytics engine that gives users the ability to take their data analytics to the next level. Users can create visual connections between different datasets spread across their network, creating deep insights that enable users to gain a full understanding of their data. This engine is easily scaled up to allow a large number of users to benefit from the deep insights that it provides. Users can access Qlik Sense from anywhere in the world. Qlik Sense has an online portal that can be used consistently from anywhere at all. Having the ability to remotely analyze data gives users flexibility when it comes to choosing how to deploy their manpower.

    Jarno L., the managing director of B2IT, writes, “The associative technology features are the solution's most valuable aspects. Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the user interface point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that.”

    Tami S., the senior business intelligence analyst at the La Jolla Group, writes, “With the changing business landscape, it is nice to access Qlik Sense through an external website. As an organization when we use QlikView Desktop, we need to connect to our internal network. We can access QlikView through the QlikView access point but the website has a little different look and feel than the desktop application. We appreciate that Qlik Sense is browser-based and the user experience is the same whether at home, in the office or on a boat. As long as the user has internet access, performance is the same.”

    QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

    Sample Customers
    Abbvie, Airbus, Barclays, BT Openreach, BMW, Daimler AG, HSBC, IKEA, Nationwide Building Society, Royal Mail Group, Sanofi, Siemens, Wendy'', Vodafone, Volvo
    Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Retailer10%
    Healthcare Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization49%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company6%
    Manufacturing Company5%
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Consumer Goods Company6%
    Retailer6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise54%
    Large Enterprise37%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise41%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Qlik Sense vs. QlikView
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Qlik Sense vs. QlikView and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Embedded BI with 112 reviews while QlikView is ranked 3rd in Embedded BI with 158 reviews. Qlik Sense is rated 8.6, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and Alteryx, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our Qlik Sense vs. QlikView report.

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