QlikView Valuable Features
Jason Heunis
Senior Manager: Diversified Operations at Pharmacy Direct
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.
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Sandro Gatti
Partner at Bios Management
The key highlight of our work review process lies in the efficiency of data management on the backend. It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations. It offers a robust data management model on the backend and a user-friendly data browsing experience.
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Prashant Baste
Sr. Solution Architect at Team Computers
The feature I found valuable in the solution is the power of VPN and the power of representation of data. Also, the speed of performance is a valuable feature of the tool.
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QlikView
April 2024
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MUHAMMAD HAYAT QURESHI
Commercial Finance Controller at Imtiaz Super Market
The product provides availability or adaptability for building an analytics dashboard. The selection parameters are easy to access. By applying specific filters in Excel, we can distribute a country's sales data into provincial states and then cities. It has efficient breakdown features.
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AhmadKastero
Head of Product at Quantiphi
The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation.
Rasool Ahamad
Technical Lead at GSPANN Technologies
The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept. It allows me to compress and store data, improving application performance by reducing load times. Additionally, I find the access control feature valuable as it enables me to restrict data access based on roles, ensuring data security. Lastly, the ability to schedule tasks using the QMC automates data reloads, keeping dashboards up-to-date without manual intervention.
BrunoPreti
Director of Special Projects - Product Business Manager QLIK & Microsoft at Aldebra Spa
Our clients are looking for a migration process that's as trouble-free as possible, and Qlik Sense is doing well in areas such as database connections and integration, including in SaaS environments where QlikView is still a valuable option. It excels in supporting database connections and various database types.
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DorianS
Lead Author at SFApps.info
The most valuable features of QlikView for our organization have been its robust data analysis and visualization capabilities. In addition, the integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time. Salesforce is a reasonable price compared to other applications.
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Martin Goebbels
Data Analyst & Researcher (Freelance) at Sonra Intelligence
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. And I see that our tool would essentially have its own programming language. So that's how you can customize a lot of things.
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Sultan Molobayev
Data Warehouse Architecture at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters.
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AbakarAhmat
Software Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools.
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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
The ability to capture data from multiple sources, quickly link by key fields and quickly analyse in a dashboard proved to be such powerful features that we reduced the use of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access almost entirely for any kind of reconciliations.
I worked in a financial institution having most data in mainframes but also having extracts and datasets put into various places from highest quality Oracle and MS SQL server objects right down to MS Access/Excel and continuing to Text File output.
Sometimes for either quality control purposes daily or some other kind of reconciliation or verification, QlikView was great for a basic end user with minimal skill to bring that data in and map it as necessary to achieve the desired result. (Often the datasets easily map via a couple of primary fields that the business users understand and outside developers may not understand without a business analyst specification)
Most times making that ad hoc effort a template of some sort and making mundane roles like daily recons be easily achievable.
Doing this same work in MS Excel or MS Access can be tricky and dangerous and not be as intuitive for non-technical people. Doing it other ways can end up being too much effort with hiring developers and building systems and paying for a lot of developer man-hours when a quick QV dashboard does the trick by the business end user.
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Jhornber
Director, BI & Analytics at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
1. QlikView Scripting - Takes some time to learn, but it is very powerful. Not as a total ETL replacement tool necessarily, but as a supplement to load and join data sources, perform additional transformations, add supplemental inline tables, and even at times, output a final .txt/.csv for consumption by other tools (even Tableau!). I've combined as many as a half dozen data sources including data from multiple SQL Data Marts, Teradata Data Marts,Source System DBs, XLS, CSV, and Google Big Query.
2. Design Flexibility - While other products may do drag and drop, ad-hoc reporting analytics better. (Including Tableau, and Qlik's new product QlikSense) I've not come across one that better supports the creation of a polished, packaged, custom dashboard, that supports what I'd consider "guided exploration", and best meets the needs of our user base. The customization can be taken even further through in-house built, or borrowed, extensions (e.g. Custom D3 Visualizations).
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Hendra Eka Putra
Chief Executive Officer at Idea Domina
The common analytics tools of the solution are valuable.
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FSI IT Consulting Manager at Deloitte Portugal
The strongest characteristics of the product are its ease of use and its data discovery and exploration capabilities:
- Ease of use, as it is very intuitive, as long as its back end data model is well designed, providing its end users with a high level of autonomy and the developers with a very intuitive and complete set of tools.
- Data discovery and exploration, thanks to its in-memory data association capabilities that provide a fast and easy way to relate and explore data.
it_user257343
Business Intelligence Latin America Leader at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Once you select any data on the dashboard, QlikView highlights the unavailable data in grey in order to show to users that those combinations don’t exist or aren’t possible.
Filters are not local. Once you filter something, the standard is to apply the filter to all tabs available in the dashboard.
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Senior IT Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
SQL scripting, as it provides me the fastest way to pull data into the system, since I’m more on the technical side.
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reviewer2309610
Logistics Engineer at a logistics company with 201-500 employees
I think the main benefit of QlikView is that it is an incredibly powerful tool, as it can handle millions and millions of rows.
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Sue Penick
Director of IS at Bennington Marine, LLC
The most valuable features are the ETL, automation, and ease of use by the user population.
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Archana Jha
Assistant Manager at KPMG Global Services (KGS)
As a developer, I liked that using QlikView, I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always depending on the data team.
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Business Intelligence Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- In-memory analysis
- Associative database query
- Easy to use
- Easy to install
- Easy to maintain
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Theophilos Papa
Crm/Business Intelligence administrator at Kc firiakis LTD
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.
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Bernard Barnard
Head of Qlikview IT at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
QlikView’s Associative Data Model allow business users to easily create data models.
QlikView’s in-memory technology offers lightning-fast drill-down and drill-through capabilities.
The ability to apply row-based security provides the flexibility to deploy a single application and restrict access to sensitive data according to role.
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reviewer1904634
Operations Officer Team Leader at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
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.
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reviewer1904637
Project Coordinator Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
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.
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Shabaz Shaikh
Software Developer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Extraction from almost all data sources provides a lot of value to me. Ease of operation, data modelling and creating dashboards with simple objects and the abundance of visualizations are also valuable.
We extract our data from SAP BW as well as Update 7 data source. Extracting and associating these data to form Main Data Model is quite simple. The objects that QlikView provides can be used to make complex KPIs for visualization. Apart from these for visualization, we also implemented many extension objects of Maps with our QlikView applications.
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Business Information Expert Performance Measurement at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
- Combination of ETL with powerful scripting options and a fast, flexible front end makes it like a Swiss army knife
- Powerful front end, which allows us to make very user-friendly interfaces
- The associative model, which allows for truly integral reporting
ONUR ÇALISKAN
Managing Partner at INFOLOJIK
The solution is fast.
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reviewer1901754
Head Of Business Intelligence at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
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.
it_user297504
Data Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
QlikView’s associative model is a fantastic design that enabled the Green/White/Grey feature. This feature greatly helped us highlight the relationship between different kinds of data.
To further explain the Green/White/Grey feature, let’s take a sales report of an electronics shop as an example. In this report, it may have dimensions (Product Category, Salesman) and expressions (Sales Qty, Sales Amount).
Green means the values of dimension that you have selected. Under the Product Category dimension, it will have different values e.g. Smartphone, Laptop, Desktop. If we want to see the sales performance of Smartphone, we can click on Smartphone, then it will become green. We can also select multiple values e.g. Smartphone and Laptop in the dimension.
White – shows the values of dimension which are related to the another dimension values that you have selected.
Grey - shows the values of dimension which are NOT related to the another dimension values that you have selected. By following the previous example, we have selected Smartphone in Product Category dimension. In the Salesman dimension, Salesman e.g. Jeremy or Janice who have have sold Smartphone will be shown in white color. Another Salesman, e.g. Roy, who didn’t sell Smartphone will be shown as Grey. This is very useful for us to identify relationship between dimensions
Its “Search Object” function is also very useful for us to search for the information we needed.
“Section Access” is another great feature as we can identify user authority on accessing data in an easy way.
Another feature "Set Analysis" which enabled us to configure different behavior for each dashboard. So that some dashboards (e.g. YTD) can be freezed and not affected by some of the filter selections.
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Works at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Information System & Business Enterprise Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Usability, usability, usability: It is easy for developers and for end users.
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BI Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
- In-memory performance – It allows slicing and dicing of a huge volume of data in the dashboard very fast if designed optimally.
- Scripting – It provides a flexible data-preparation layer, along with the ability for data integration from multiple data sources. This enables creating a reporting data model inside QlikView from a transactional system without impacting the performance of the transactional system, if designed correctly.
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ManFin32102
Manager, Financial Systems Deployment, EPSI at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's pretty easy to deploy.
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Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Qlik's data modelling is very powerful and allows for easy integration of data from multiple sources. The in-memory associative engine is very powerful and provides quick answers to questions that arise when a user is exploring their data.
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Peter Eerdekens
Commercial Business Analyst at Asilia Africa
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.
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Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The associative/relationship engine and fast performance are the most valuable features of the product for me. It is excellent for number crunching with basic visualizations and known questions.
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Information Systems Development Manager(Senior) – Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
QlikView’s associative ability. The AQL that QlikView uses to associate and ‘bring together’ similar data types (based on name) is extremely powerful and useful. One click causes a whole ripple effect though the whole dashboard, because everything is associated to one another.
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Data Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
Ability to connect and transform data from a variety of sources into the same application. From an analytical development perspective, there is a wide scope to create complex calculations within chart expressions, (including recursive expressions), which, combined with the trellis functionality, means more output with less setup effort.
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.
Finally, it really is a case of data instantly updating upon selection. No more watching an egg timer as a server churns away.
it_user157734
Solutions Manager Business Intelligence at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
- The in-memory engine is really powerful, making it possible to deal with huge data records on the fly (more than 400 million in a table). I have built data models with over 1 billion records and the performance is good.
- With in-memory calculations at the UI (on the fly), it is possible to build charts, tables, etc. directly on the user interface (UI).
- Cubes are built on the UI. No need to pre-aggregate data, but it is of course possible to do that in the script (which I would not recommend) or better deliver data as SQL-View.
- Scripting possibilities to build complex applications and functionality.
- Web integration capabilities, for ex. you can include JScript Objects or R for better visualization.
it_user296565
Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
- KPI's
- Dashboard creation
it_user165582
BI Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
As a BI professional sometimes you have to tackle projects with poor or no documentation at all, just the datasources and some vague requirements. In QlikView it is quite easy build up a first data model (dimensional or not) and use the first stage to understand the entities and relations between it and the business. From there you can explore the business, understand the users real requirements and needs and improve the model with a few changes, without much effort. This is because Qlikview has a very flexible and short cycle of development in each iteration.
For the user QlikView is a wonderful tool of data discovery, providing powerful tools to navigate easily between a sea of data in an intuitive, easy, and clear way, allowing them to go from facts to KPI and vice versa.
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Marketing Intelligence Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The in-memory technology allows you to easily manipulate and analyze vast amounts of data with simple clicks. It allows for real-time analysis of data via visual representations, as well as data tables. It supports using variables in calculations, as well as their proprietary SET analysis, which allows for calculations based on calculated dimensions, aggregations, and other logic against real-time selection of data.
It is very flexible in terms of calculations and presentation of values and data. It makes very quick reporting and data analysis possible.
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José Maurício Da Silva Júnior
BI Consultant at Inteligencia de Negocios
The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis.
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Mridul Rao
Manager - Revenue & Growth|Strategy & Planning | Market Intelligencee at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Technical support is good.
The user interface and dashboards are very good.
There are no issues with management monitoring.
The solution offers good documentation.
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Washington De Andrade
Works at Toccato Tecnologia em Sistemas
- Speed of development
- Ease of learning
- Low ROI
- Fast deliveries
- Scalability
- Multiplatform, and speed in queries.
it_user657474
Analyst - Business Applications at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
- The search feature: ability to see the related data
it_user156003
Senior BI Consultant (Qlikview) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- The way data is loaded, transformed and stored in one single file with a high compression rate
- The development flexibility allowing almost any type of relationship between data from disparate sources
it_user421155
Solution Engineer - QlikView/Qlik Sense at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
- Connect to multiple sources of data without needing ETL prior to load
- Ability to create complex data joins within the script
- ETL features
- Ability to do complex customization in the design and data representation (set analysis)
- Associative search capabilities
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AyodeleMakun
Qlik Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts who desire much more advanced handling of dirty or unconsolidated data. QlikView scripting language has numerous transformation functions.
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Senior Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The associative engine and feature-rich expression scripts are the most valuable features of this product.
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Project Manager at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
Dynamic dashboards is definitely the most valuable feature. You select your filters and all your graphs and tables are automatically updated; it really saves time when doing analysis!
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Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
QlikView is based on a different technology from OLAP technology. Called AQL ™ (Associative Query Logic), this technology has been patented since 1994.
If there is no need rethinking QlikView OLAP cubes, development and implementation of new elements, reconfiguring the graphical interface. Also, working with databases is much more flexible. Thus reducing the time and that the costs of implementing new analysis / reports.
QlikView is easy to use, letting you easily analyze large volumes of data! Interactive graphical interface to predominantly assures unquestionable advantage over other applications. From a few clicks you can find any information in your database, no matter how "hidden" or detailed as!
QlikView is a highly effective management tool, allowing a broad area of analysis. Virtually any existing information in the database the company can be valued by this application, stimulating her performance in an integrated context.
• Qlikview has its own ETL engine built-in
• You can analyze millions of data - QlikView is easy to use, letting you easily analyze large volumes of data!
• Time to implement - Any user / manager can define its own set of analyzes
• Partner Network – Qlikview has more than 1000 partners world wide
• Development - Qlikview has Scripting
• 64-bit in-RAM DB - Qlikview is faster than Tableau
• QlikView is based on a different technology from OLAP technology. Called AQL ™ (Associative Query Logic), this technology has been patented since 1994.
• Interactive graphical interface - Extremely intuitive interface (requires almost no training);
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it_user414966
IT Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We appreciate the different methods how data can be provided to a developer, designer and end users. Develop new reports from production databases to final reports without additional tools and
the high-performance loading data from database without any performance issues on the database environment. The loading performance of QlikView data container.
it_user193482
Information Publishing Portfolio Manager at a comms service provider
The traditional BI tools are extremely limiting in the fact that they require very strict controls on the sources of data. This is understandable in very large corporates, but in a small- to medium-size business, where most supporting data sources are nothing more than an Excel spreadsheet, this is a pain. Therefore, my most valuable asset in QlikView is the ease with which any datasource can be integrated into the QlikView model for reporting.
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Developer with 501-1,000 employees
- ETL functionality is hugely important, as data rarely are provided smooth and clean, even when the assumption is it has been cleaned beforehand. Plus, usually in BI, we need to create custom groupings, and being able to do that in script ad-hoc is very helpful
- Scripting for loads, with lots of functions, and insert script possibilities all provide extremely good flexibility for development.- Overall flexibility and ease of development is great for ad-hoc quick fixes, quick workarounds, which happen in BI
- Set-analysis function, unique for QV, is an awesome way to create subsets, literally under any chart/table/text box needed in a smart, fast way (replaces long expressions such as “if...then...“). It also allows you to control results, taking into consideration user clicking and selecting data.
- Associative model is super handy to just take an overview of data quality through visual associations (power of grey).
- Data governance is an extremely usable feature; there is no need for BI to build its own app, and it helps with licence monitoring.
it_user363234
Managing Partner at PBS
Data exploration and in-memory capabilities: It has an associative data exploration feature and can handle one hundred million lines of data and provide good performance.
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IT Manager at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
It allows our company to view all of our data in a single solution. It is easy to use, even for novice users.
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Analista de inteligencia de mercado at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is possible to work with a large amount of data without affecting the performance.
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Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It works as a complete BI software solution for us. We can do complex scripting to build data models. We can make somewhat complex reports, even though it does not have the best capabilities as an ETL tool. It is not the best tool for complex reports. It also does not have the best visualizations, but it has a lot of features in one package, and that is its biggest selling point for us.
Performance is very fast. You can create dashboards for large sets of data and the dashboards are still quite responsive.
Creating dashboards takes a lot less time compared to other big vendor solutions.
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Angel Monjarás
Product Specialist and Education Services at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
- The associative indexing engine that does away with the need to design and build OLAP cubes. Instead, it can integrate information from multiple sources in one data model that is easy to maintain, expand, and completely flexible to navigate (no pre-defined query paths).
- The out-of-the-box ETL capability that takes care of the necessary data transformations without having to rely on a separate product.
it_user97479
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The features of this product that are most valuable are: its point and click user interface, speed, ability to follow dependencies in data, ability to fix any view in my special sheet, ability to track back to data sources for any output value or part of a graph.
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it_user203682
Project Manager, Global Business Intelligence & Analytics at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features of this product are: its data modeling capabilities, the associated search function, various charting, the flexibility of doing sales in object, section access, and drag & drop storytelling.
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Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Ease of development. Data Discovery and Analytics
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it_user867504
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
- Datamining
- Fast data loading of million of rows
- Incremental load
- Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools.
it_user75063
Database Expert at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature of this product is quick and easy access to data by top management, in an elegant and colorful display that make is easy to visualize numbers.
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IT Admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The best features of QlikView are:
- The fast and easy process of extracting data from multiple sources (DB), although having duplicate data in the source files creates a mess.
- The intuitive way of creating dashboards for finance, sales, BPM, etc.
- The display and drill-down access to detailed information, graphic interfaces are easy to create and dynamic using just one pivot table.
- The easy way to grant access to all the data or just bits of it to specific users.
- The capability of QV to handle .pdf files.
it_user240294
Senior Manager - Anti Money Laundering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
- Data discovery
- Set analysis
- Adhoc reporting
- Drill down options
- Flexibility
- In-Memory technology
- Quick learning curve
- Easy to deploy
it_user358971
Associate Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
- Ease of use
- NPrinting
- Visually good diagrams
- Integration with almost all databases
- Associating links
it_user125946
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our business finds this tool very impressive, particularly the drill down to nth level is very good.
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it_user2862
VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Ability to quickly deploy dashboards with multiple data sources.
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it_user2862
VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Flexible, quick access by end users, can promote user self service reporting
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Martin Zwarthoed
Database Specialist at Zwarthoed IT Solutions
The most valuable feature for me is probably the ease with which you can analyze data by click-through.
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Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
You can do a lot of things at the back end which are not possible in the other solutions in the market.
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Leander du Plessis
Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
- Load script engine (or "ETL" ability)
- Connectivity integration options
- Data visualizations / dashboarding
it_user103896
Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
I would say the most valuable part was the ease of use.
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BI Project Leader with 1,001-5,000 employees
Data Discovery has allowed us to enrich the analysis of data and discover new ways to generate new KPIs. It has also helped us to discover some critical points in our processes.
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Business Intelligence Data Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ability to provide drill down functionality quickly and easily into large data sets. Anyone working with a large amount of data in Microsoft Excel and then waiting ages for it to subtotal all that information, will certainly appreciate the speed and efficiency with which QlikView handles data. Users can get a lot more done, and a lot more data can be analysed in a shorter period of time.
The fact that QlikView provides its own QVD structure, as well, removes all dependency on having a DBMS in place before implementing QlikView – so it is cost effective.
The fact that QlikView can literally plug in to so many different types of data sources, as well, is a definite benefit.
The facility to auto-reload at scheduled times is great too!
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Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
- Ease of use for end user
- Analytical reporting
- Easy-to-build dashboards
- Self-service reporting
- Speedy deployment
it_user225840
Business Analyst ( Marketing BI Analytics) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The server load, the QVD load, ease of variable declaration, and the different dynamic charts are very valuable to me.
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Reporting Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
QlikView enables fast visualisation, analysis and navigation through data. It is very flexible, and offers easy-to-develop, quick-value tools for navigating and understanding data.
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Technical Associate at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
The dynamic interactive dashboard is the most valuable feature of the product to me.
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Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es
- Flexibility
- Agile development
- Intuitive
- Very good performance
- Excellent user groups
it_user90651
Senior Manager of Data Analytics at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I think it's the best data analysis/discovery tool I've ever seen.
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it_user422718
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
- Integration capabilities
- Speed
- Amount of data that can be accessed within in a few clicks
Working in the IT environment gets challenging especially when you have multiple sources of data that you need to combine. QlikView makes this really easy and simple to do, because QlikView has its own ETL modeler built into it. Having an all-in-one tool is quite an advantage.
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Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Strong visual capabilities, drill down function and data browsing. No need for any other tools, ETL/ scripting and visualisation built right into one tool.
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Business Intelligence Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The data model and the visualization are the most valuable features of the product. The data model helps my organization to recognize and identify the problem of our clients’ data. The visualization helps us to deploy an easy-to-understand solution to the client and they are able to explore the data by themselves.
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Senior Business Analyst at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Intuitive data insights and standard reporting.
- It runs in-memory so you can increase the speed by increasing RAM, depending on your budget.
- It has its own ETL tool, QlikView Connector.
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IT Manager / Specialist at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature is its flexibility to develop dynamic analysis, gathering information from different sources, such as spreadsheet, database and internet.
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BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of the product are its in-memory and ETL capabilities, especially the set analysis function.
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Senior Software Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Easy to use in small/middle organization
- Cheap tool when compared to MicroStrategy
- It does require a separate ETL tool
it_user93909
Partner with 51-200 employees
Speed of in-memory processing
Associative model - no more cubes
Speed of development
it_user78468
Senior IT Business Partner at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The dynamic way in which you can analyse data.
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Service Delivery Manager - EABL at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
Data mining and consolidation are the products most valuable features to me.
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DecisionSupMgr214
Decision Support Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
I use QlikView to combine data from different sources in the absence of an EDW and build our analytical dashboards.
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COO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
QlikView Desktop Enterprise allows us to build dashboard visualizations in a fashionable way and allows us to make quick business decisions all over the enterprise.
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Ed Dallal
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity
- Ease of use
- Implementation
- Processing speed
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
QlikView's associative data model is the key feature of this application, which makes it superior amongst other competitors. It eliminates left, right, inner joins, and takes care of creating links between different tables.
Other valuable features are the Power of Gray, on-the-fly data cloud creation, and its ease of use and deployment.
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Partner at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Completeness in functionality and user friendliness are the product’s most valuable features.
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Analytics Application Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The associative and in-memory technology are the most valuable features.
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SAP Application Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It produces reports quickly.
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Lead Technical with 1,001-5,000 employees
Amazing performance
Easy to use self service
Extremely powerful for data analysis
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IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Loading data is the most valuable feature of this product to me, because we don’t have a data warehouse yet.
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Director, Business Analytics at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
It allows you to establish business data models on an associative basis, and to do on-the-fly analysis on associated data for deep understanding / insight.
For complex analysis, its scripting capabilities enable one to do complex calculation to present required information much easier than traditional / other BI software.
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Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I do like the richness of details you can set up. It really allows you to set up a dashboard with pinpoint accuracy.
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Manager Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Data integration and visual drill-downs are excellent.
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Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
In-memory processing and ETL function are the most valuable features of the product to me.
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MIS General Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
The in-memory architecture and ETL function are the most valuable features of this product to us.
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Associate Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Relationship based data modelling
- Flexible charting
it_user92304
Consulting Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
- Fast access to data
- Rapid development
- Rich graphic interface
it_user76272
Business Manager (Exco level) & Executive Director at a retailer with 51-200 employees
1) The ease with which self-service BI can be achieved via a small scale trail deployment
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BI Expert with 51-200 employees
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.
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Board of Management with 501-1,000 employees
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.
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IT Admin at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Data visualization and the data modeler are the most valuable features of this product to me. I noticed that Qlik takes less time to set up data sources and enables us to integrate multiple tables. It is easier to manage variables with Qlik's data management.
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Consultor QlikView at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Fast development, support for QVD format files, and business discovery are the most valuable features of this product to me.
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BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- Powerful Business Discovery Capabilities
- Fast Implementation Time
- Ease of Use
- Easily Scalable
- Quality Product
it_user67443
BI Expert at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Data discovery, in memory analysis, one development for all devices, ease of use for both developer and end-user
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Profesional Management Database and Server, Networking, Virtualization Server. at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It is very simple to use. When I use QlikView, I just install it and then connect it to MS SQL Server. After I make a successful connection, I can, for example:
- Create a simple procedure in MS SQL Server.
- Execute the procedure to get the information I need in a column.
- Design a QlikView report that includes the column from the procedure to preview it in QlikView.
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IT Specialist at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Ease of use
- High custom development potential
- Adaptability
it_user169491
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Memory data management, quick analysis and reporting.
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Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its easy and fast to build dashboards.
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Enterprise Architecture & Business Analyst - Analytics at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees
The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information. Of course, it has the typical functionalities. For example, when I select something I can know its opposite.
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Master Data at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Easy to implement.
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Consultant at a tech services company
Because it provides data discovery along with BI solution design, it has a distinct advantage for data analysts.
Associative Experience is also valuable.
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Analyst Control and Monitoring at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
I think the most valuable feature is the possibility of working with all types of data and sources.
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Team Lead, Data Engineering at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Ease of use, visualization, intuitive, the Qlik method of ETL, Qlik Sense
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Partner at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The ability to build models that allow business users to do their own what-if analysis on the correct data.
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IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The ability to customize it. This involves a bit of programming however and that can be an issue. For data visualization, it involves the end-user with self-service BI. It's ETL functions are powerful as well, but this is a bit of an old fashioned approach.
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Assistant Manager - Solution Consulting at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real-time reporting is this product’s most valuable feature to me.
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Qlik Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The language support is very good. It understands more languages than other products.
The customization features are good.
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Beslutstödsutvecklare at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features.
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IT Specialist at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
- Integrated ETL
- In-memory data
- QlikView Management Console
- Front-end design.
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BI Expert at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
- Instant loading of huge amount of data and immediate display of relationship (both correlation and absence of correlation) between data
- RAD development methodology adoption for QlikView projects
- Set analysis function for simultaneous display of alternative aggregation sets
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