QlikView Reviews

It provides information all in one place for our users.

It saves us time.

Threshold for a non-coder to create new reports.

Complicated license management.

• Relationship based data modelling
• Flexible charting

It speeds up my clients capability to prepare various non-standard management reports.

• Macro Editing
• It should have an HTML text box control
• Presentation on smart device 
• The performance of the Qlikview website is poor as it takes three minutes to open a page
• The SME server edition does not include a deploy tool, and we have to copy updated document to the server manually which seems ridiculous

I've used it for two years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It was quite straightforward.

We involved a local vendor, Shanghai EBI Strategy, and they helped us develop the solution based on our design, however, the result is not as good as expected.  In the local Chinese market, there is a lack of experienced consultants. I searched on the Qlikview forum for many tricks and solutions by myself and improved the overall data modelling structure.

It's not bad.

Yes, we also looked at BO and Microstrategy.  As Microstrategy is also a good package, we are exploring it further.

It is a really good package for your management reporting purpose, as you do not rely on IT support to add/revise any reports.

• Fast access to data
• Rapid development
• Rich graphic interface

• Licensing costs

• Cloud solution
• Less monolithic approach

Six years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Yes we did.

Customer Service:

8 out of 10

Technical Support:

8 out of 10

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

It was straightforward.

We used a mix of an in-house team and a vendor team.

Six months.

We looked at doing either an in-house development or an ad-hoc solution from a software provide.

You should perform a good sizing of the server, and develop a simple data model.

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

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

Very little

2 years

None

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:

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)

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

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

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.

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

Just start …the rest will follow…

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.

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.

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

3 Years

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

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

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.

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

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.

Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models. In our case, we use for this modeling for the calculation of cost allocation and transfer price and the like. It is very helpful. It's a really powerful tool in modeling creation.

It has helped us to implement the accounting management system and provide a very comprehensive solution for this. Also, I already mentioned cost allocation system, transfer pricing.

It's also very helpful in visualization of the data from our operation systems. Because we are a bank, data creation is very important for us, so it's another model.

It covers many things, including current exposure, the coverage of loans, etc. In these areas, it's the most comprehensive and most helpful of the tools we're using, based on this platform.

I would say it's not negative, but it's an issue because we also use other tools, like SAP BusinessObjects, for a long period of time, which is another product in the business intelligence area.

Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models. Probably that could be more comprehensive, from my point of view.

Four or five years, already.

Yes it's stable. Not 100% but, really, compared to other products, it's a stable product. It's controllable. And the maintenance received from local partners is very good, at a very high level.

No problems.

We have both technical support and support in the development model from the local partner of QlikView. I would rate it at a very high level.

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.

It was very easy because we started by using the free version of QlikView. After that, we bought everything, including a server license. So, we had no problems with this.

At that time, we already had BusinessObjects as a BI tool in our bank, with SAP Crystal Reports, for example, as a part of BusinessObjects. At that time, in the market, there were no alternatives in this respect, so our choice was very precise because already we used this tool and we decided to buy it.

I would recommend this product. We have a lot of reference meetings because we were the first bank in the country to implement it, this platform. So we're meeting our colleagues who are working not only in the banking industry but from telecom, from the pharmaceutical industry, etc. We recommend it.

It's one of the best products in this segment, for BI, for the automation of analytical activity within the bank or within the company. It doesn't 100% cover everything, but in the area, it works very well.