QlikView Room for Improvement
Arjun Meda
Assistant Vice President at HSBC India
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 used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time.
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. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution.
Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.
Jason Heunis
Senior Manager: Diversified Operations at Pharmacy Direct
It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data. QlikView is very old, and there are more modern tools that work.
It is expensive. Its licensing can be improved because the tool is old. If they still want people to use it a lot, they should substitute it for a newer, better BI tool. The price should change for what you get. They can have a cloud version for it, but I guess they have created QlikSense to have a cloud version or platform available so that people basically go from QlikView to QlikSense.
There is a learning curve. It is not for first-time users working with data. It has got its own little syntax to create usable datasets, codes, schedules, etc. So, there is quite a learning curve to learn the syntax to use the tool, but if you build expertise in it, it is nice to use.
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Sandro Gatti
Partner at Bios Management
There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use.
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Prashant Baste
Sr. Solution Architect at Team Computers
There are a couple of things right now to consider since QlikView is going to be out of the market. Instead, Qlik Sense will be the new platform. Right now, QlikView is switching up. So there are some enhancements in Qlik Sense required.
Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time. The aforementioned area can be considered as room for improvement.
MUHAMMAD HAYAT QURESHI
Commercial Finance Controller at Imtiaz Super Market
Many types of analysis based on financial or management and accounting concepts require writing expressions. This particular feature could be included in QlikView.
They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code. Any HR, finance, or supply chain department executive could develop an analysis on the platform.
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AhmadKastero
Head of Product at Quantiphi
Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial. It could become even more remarkable if it were available in the cloud, retaining the core functionality of its engine and offering the same seamless user experience. There could be enhancements to the Qlik Management Console. Specifically, the user interface and user experience could be refined to better manage execution sequences. Currently, there might be overlaps between executions and deployments without clear alerts or notifications. This lack of alerts could lead to issues like concurrent job executions causing system downtime or memory constraints. Improving the sequencing of deployments and incorporating smart notifications would significantly enhance the overall process.
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Rasool Ahamad
Technical Lead at GSPANN Technologies
In terms of improvement, I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date.
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BrunoPreti
Director of Special Projects - Product Business Manager QLIK & Microsoft at Aldebra Spa
They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients. Some clients have requested a hybrid environment where both QlikView and Qlik Sense can work together effectively during the initial stages of migration, so that would be a good feature to add.
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DorianS
Lead Author at SFApps.info
While QlikView is a powerful tool, there are areas where it could be improved. There is a lack of static PDF report generation and automatic resizing of the dashboard to fit the device, for example.
Also, scripting can be a bit difficult if you don't have the necessary knowledge, so this app may not be suitable for everyone.
Martin Goebbels
Data Analyst & Researcher (Freelance) at Sonra Intelligence
I'm not like a lot of people who are into AI, especially when it comes to making queries. I don't really remember if QlikView has this feature, the one where you write up a question about the data in human language, and they just bring up a quick analysis from it.
I'm not sure if this feature exists. But if it doesn't, it should be something they consider adding. I believe assisting users with quick building using natural language queries is not as simple as just making a regular query.
I like the idea of using human language queries. That would be a plus, really.
QlikView should improve the integration with scripting. It has its own scripting language for building the underlying data layer. Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, and that could be really improved.
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reviewer2341953
Enterprise Data Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly. At present, I encounter difficulties while writing complex queries on the UI. It doesn't support the query button as well.
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Sultan Molobayev
Data Warehouse Architecture at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
There's room for improvement in the area of management's handling of concerns. They should integrate Qlik analytics and seamlessly transition users from QlikView to Qlik Sense.
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AbakarAhmat
Software Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
The solution should be mobile-responsive. It should also include drag-and-drop and slice-and-dice features.
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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
While it used to be extremely easy to work with for me, at least the basics, some other folks used to have a bit more trouble using it. I think that it might be useful if the first-time user wizard was a bit better. It might help people get the “Eureka “ moment on their own. I always felt that the wizard was not really worth using, and I started people off with making their own import scripts with my help. Others also seemed to believe that as well.
I think the wizard could take a bit more time and provide training along the way. For example, show the data to be imported, and go over some of the best practices. And maybe continue on with going over the Edit Script and hit some of the basics there as well and so on.
I think all things are covered in the tutorial, but I had very little success having people use the tutorials.
Some aspects are so common, and used so much:
- Basic import of data, load, review the field names that come in, set your fields as “what you want”
- Import a different table, review as in step 1, but check for synthetic links, do your “AS” statements to clean up, and get the linkages you want, etc.
- Then have some wizard to make tables and charts in the same way, etc.
I do these things with new users inside of a couple of hours, including usually helping tham make their first solution.
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Jhornber
Director, BI & Analytics at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
No out of the box mapping capabilities (Extensions/Plugins available).
No auto-scale for different display resolutions/dimensions, but the trade-off here is the much greater design flexibility than one gets with a Grid based product.
Would like to see a few more visualizations available out of the box (e..g Bullet Graph)
Very rudimentary report creation and PDF capabilities No scheduling or distribution without Publisher product.
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Hendra Eka Putra
Chief Executive Officer at Idea Domina
There is room for improvement in terms of scalability. Because it depends on the use case and customer requirements.
If QlikView can't handle the scale, I usually look to the data lake or data warehouse for solutions. My experience is that for self-service BI, users often request low code tools, which wouldn't be suitable for the QlikView front-end due to performance limitations.
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FSI IT Consulting Manager at Deloitte Portugal
It could be more mobile friendly, as some of its features don’t work properly on mobile devices or do not provide the best user experience to our customers who would like to extend their access to data. A Cortana/Siri-like feature or advanced analytical capabilities for users with advanced scripting and statistical skills would also extend its usage in the organizations where I operate.
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Business Intelligence Latin America Leader at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Qlikview should have a connector or a specific product to allow people outside of the company or that don’t have a license to read/use the application (a kind of reader license). At least something really cheaper or free.
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Senior IT Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Their marketing department is heavy-handed, more so than it really needs to be. This can turn companies off when they get too aggressive. Their pricing structure doesn’t match their aggressiveness either, costing an end user $1500 for a web-based license.
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reviewer2309610
Logistics Engineer at a logistics company with 201-500 employees
QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily. QlikView is a powerful tool but has shortcomings when compared to the visualization capability provided by Qlik Sense or Power BI.
From my perspective, I understand that since QlikView is an older product, it can be simply left as it is, and users can move to Qlik Sense, which provides a much stronger visualization.
If QlikView decides that its visualization part should be just like Qlik Sense or Power BI, then I would say it would be too much to capture in one or two phrases, considering that it is overall much easier to create visually good-looking dashboards and also something like a geographical map which is not possible in to get in QlikView currently.
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Sue Penick
Director of IS at Bennington Marine, LLC
This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help. I keep them all in OneNote now and copy and paste them in, then change the field names. This addition would really save time.
examples:
Convert date-time stamp to just a normal date in the Load script - so we can match to the company calendar for Model Year / month etc , Fiscal Year /month / week of year/ week in year
date(floor(DTTMSTAMP),'MM/DD/YYYY') as TransactionDate,
Storing QVD's: (this is the path needed from a Data Loader)
STORE SummarySalesAggregate INTO [..\QVDData\SummarySalesUnitsAndDollars.qvd];
Sorted and Count for creating Arrays:
SortedAndCounted:
Left join (SummarizeSales2)
LOAD
Option_Inv,
Line_No,
if(peek('Option_Inv',-1)<> Option_Inv,1, Peek('counter',-1)+1) as counter
Resident SummarizeSales2
Order by Option_Inv asc, Line_No asc;
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Archana Jha
Assistant Manager at KPMG Global Services (KGS)
More/newer visualisation components need to be added. QlikView's ability to embed custom visualisation is not a great experience.
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Business Intelligence Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would like to see embedded predictive analytics models or more integration, connectors with advanced analytics platforms.
Qlikview is extremely good with descriptive analitycs. But when you need to predict using advanced predictive models like Logistic Regression or CART or decision trees, R and SAS institute for example are good at it, so if Qlikview would have this capabilities embedded or connectors to integrate with them will be a killer product.
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Theophilos Papa
Crm/Business Intelligence administrator at Kc firiakis LTD
It works properly most of the time. I can't speak of any areas that need improvement in terms of features.
It would be ideal if it was a little bit faster. They could improve the speed. It's not slow per se, however, sometimes it just takes some time to give you the results you want.
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Bernard Barnard
Head of Qlikview IT at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
- Robust Version Control integration, limited in current versions
- Automated deployment between DEV/UAT/PROD environments, currently these are manual file-based operations
- More descriptive system metrics and lower-level diagnostic and performance metrics at the application level
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reviewer1904634
Operations Officer Team Leader at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening. It might be when it's refreshing or updating. I'm not sure. For example, maybe when I'm doing a report and it's refreshing, I can see that all my filters are gone and I need to start again from the beginning. This is the main issue for me.
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reviewer1904637
Project Coordinator Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning. If it could refresh without it taking away all your filters, it would be amazing. It doesn't take a long time to refresh. It's every 20 minutes or so. Still, if it kept your options where you wanted them, it would have been much better.
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Shabaz Shaikh
Software Developer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see JavaScript or jQuery features added to it.
Dynamic changes with respect to page scrolling, responsiveness and actions related to it are what I am expecting in the next version.
Other than these, while adding named CALs in QMC, it would be really great if we could load all of the names from a single file (for example, an Excel sheet) together all at once.
The iPad application lacks some features. For example, container box object functionality does not work properly in iPads.
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Business Information Expert Performance Measurement at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
- Chart types; some look a bit outdated, would love to see Qlik Sense- or Tableau-like visuals
- Central formula/measure repository, can now only be done with variables
ONUR ÇALISKAN
Managing Partner at INFOLOJIK
The tool is expensive in Turkey.
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reviewer1901754
Head Of Business Intelligence at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
They could improve the update time. Sometimes it takes longer to update, so we see numbers of maybe half an hour ago or one hour ago. If it could be updated faster. That would be something that would help us a lot.
it_user297504
Data Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
By comparing with the latest data discovery tools like Tableau, Qlik Sense and Sisense, the layout and colors are not eye catching enough. It looks like a very powerful excel with a lot of powerful features for analysis. But it may not be good for presentation.
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Works at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I really wish the application was easier to use in the development phase.
Our business model relies on the business to build their own reports and many departments did not have the associates they need with this type of skill set (i.e. SQL experience). In a business model where a centralized department (i.e. IT) is in control of the reports for the entire company, this would not be a problem.
The development was the ultimate reason this application did not take off in my organization vs. a competitor's application (Tableau). This is a shame as the finished dashboard appeared to be more polished.
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Information System & Business Enterprise Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The QlikView management console could have better interfaces for managing security. Right now, it is hard to tell “who has access to exactly what apps?”
Better out-of-the box governance features, to allow analysis of application architecture, optimization of scripts, identification of unused fields/data.
Current GIS interfaces (e.g. with ESRI) are through partners, and are acceptable, but could be easier to implement, more streamlined interface between the two.
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BI Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
- Self-service capability is very limited, though it has been improved in QlikSense. However, it will require an additional license & server to set it up.
- Dashboard capabilities and features are not on par with Tableau, though the same has been attempted in QlikSense. However, Tableau still has better dashboard features.
- Real-time analysis with live connection (direct discovery) is very limited.
- The current version is missing a variety of connectors and they need to be procured separately.
- Not adaptive to display across various screen resolutions
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ManFin32102
Manager, Financial Systems Deployment, EPSI at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields.
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Consultant at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see the desktop user interface updated. Some of the dialogs in the product look quite dated. I would also like to see the responsive UI design features from Qlik Sense make their way into QlikView.
On the analysis side, I would like to see tighter integration with R, or perhaps some built-in machine learning algorithms.
I would also like to see Qlik products made available on other platforms such as Linux and OS X.
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Peter Eerdekens
Commercial Business Analyst at Asilia Africa
QlikView lacks the development aspects that its sister product QlikSense has got. It would be nice to also get the new graphs that are available in QlikSense in QlikView.
It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop.
Certain features such as a cumulative result, as is possible in QlikSense, would be nice to have since it takes quite some time to get this right from a developer's point of view.
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Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see improved performance/scalability at high data volumes + high user concurrency. Having only in-memory capability for hosting source data is a constraint.
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Information Systems Development Manager(Senior) – Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
QlikView does not work very well with very large data sets. I would like to see that improved.
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Data Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect. It would save time troubleshooting errors that don't exist when the script runs or charts render.
it_user157734
Solutions Manager Business Intelligence at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
We actually use QlikView, which does not allow easy-to-use framework management. There is a deployment framework, which I do not find easy to use and somehow not stable. I hope QlikView can improve this.
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Product Manager - Healthcare Analytics at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Online education, but they are revamping.
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BI Expert at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is well know that the ETL is quite far away from leading products like Data Stagem Informatica and others. Currently Qliktech is working on this problem with Expressor, a powerful graphic dataflow tool. Another area is the licensing scheme, which leaves out many SMO. To remedy this and try to stop the eruption of third parties (e.g: Tableau), QlikTech launched Qlik Sense, although the future is unclear and there may be a possible merge of the two branches (Qlik Sense + QlikView). Finally QlikTech, since release 10/11, leaves the development of new graphic charts to the community with mixed results.
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Marketing Intelligence Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
There definitely needs to be an update in the number of chart types available and the options within each chart. There are various charts that could use more customizable options, as well as certain charts that are missing such as waterfall charts, histograms, etc.
One glaring omission is the lack of mapping technology in QlikView. Although they do offer solutions through third-party add-ons, other similar providers have this as a default feature in the app. I think currently, mapping technology should be standard with these applications given the competition and the capabilities it brings. It seems that because of their third-party developer relationships, they are holding back on adding features to the application, which would put those developers out of business.
The licensing scheme leaves a lot of room for improvement. I believe it is cumbersome and expensive to maintain. In order for a user to view a published application, they need to have a viewer license (approx. $350 the last I remember). However, if they need to view multiple applications, they need a viewer license per application. $350 X # of applications they need to view per user. This will get very expensive if a lot of users need to view the application. There are application licenses, there are named user licenses, there are session licenses, and developer licenses. There are way too many licenses of varying costs, none of which are very economical in my opinion. If you need to view more than three applications, the best alternative is to purchase a developer license, which allows for unlimited applications. However, that will set you back about $1400, even if the user is not a developer.
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José Maurício Da Silva Júnior
BI Consultant at Inteligencia de Negocios
There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client.
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Mridul Rao
Manager - Revenue & Growth|Strategy & Planning | Market Intelligencee at a media company with 10,001+ employees
We find Tableau to be a bit of a better solution. QlikView should try to be more like that.
The solution is quite costly.
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Washington De Andrade
Works at Toccato Tecnologia em Sistemas
- Improvement in the graphical user interface
- Introducing HTML 5
- Context sensitive
- Drag and drop visualization
- Responsive design.
it_user657474
Analyst - Business Applications at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
- Data cleansing
- Better source data connectors
it_user156003
Senior BI Consultant (Qlikview) at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Performance at front-end level could improve but usually there is a workaround - by reducing application size, splitting applications or the way the UI is presented - without affecting user experience.
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Solution Engineer - QlikView/Qlik Sense at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
- Scalability
- Live connections
- Responsive design
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AyodeleMakun
Qlik Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up. There is no drag and drop functionality at the development stage unlike its competitors. Maybe QlikSense could handle that area.
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Senior Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I would like to see more visualisation objects features.
View full review »it_user175005
Project Manager at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
Qlikview is very intuitive and user friendly compared to other solutions, however I regret that some of their features are not available for Mac users.
A build your own report feature on standard .qvw would be great. Qlik has recently launched Qliksense, it answers this need but we cannot use the Qliksense feature on Qlikview reports. An all-in-one solution would be perfect.
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Project Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
QlikView should give you just that: gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about their company operations
So, QlikView has little success by itself, so we have to go with: ERP, CRM, or some planning and estimation solutions (this would take what-if scenarios) which means other costs besides the costs of implementing QlikView
This is why QlikView offers the possibility to perform what-if scenarios.
• QlikView has little success by itself, so we have to go with: ERP, CRM, or some planning and estimation solutions (this would take what-if scenarios) which means other costs besides the costs of implementing QlikView
• QlikView can display better analysis but it takes more skill and time to develop/design than with Tableau.
• Qlikview it is stronger than Tableau for reporting only, but it requires more training and is less intuitive than Tableau
• You have to employ IT specialist
• It is limited by RAM, so Qlikview is not very scalable
I chose QlikView specialization rather than other BI solution available on the market due to the advantages this technology offers:- Good price compared to other solutions;
- Flexible licensing system (but not complicated and consists of dozens of modules that other solutions);
- Very little development time;
- Easy maintenance;
- Ability to provide Business Intelligence Off-The-Shelf.
- In QlikView, you can develop yourself analyzes you need in just minutes
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it_user414966
IT Admin at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We would like to provide our customers with reports in PDF or other popular formats that are not included in the publisher; additional licenses are required for the print and PDF tool. From my point of view, a reduced functionality for this should be included with Enterprise Server Edition or Publisher.
But so far, every new version includes new benefits for us.
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Information Publishing Portfolio Manager at a comms service provider
I have several lower-level users who don’t need full functionality of the tool, but do need to access more than one model. In this regard, the licencing structure is limiting and costly for a user who is not using the analytical aspects of the tool. QlikView only offers full-user CALs (expensive) and document CALs (less expensive), but those licences only allow the user to access one model.
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Developer with 501-1,000 employees
Regex. Cleaning out data during script regex could be really handy.
Otherwise, I am having a hard time thinking of any other areas with room for improvement.
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Managing Partner at PBS
Qlik has launched another product, Qlik Sense to improve ease of use for the end user. The product lacks PDF exporting, mapping – which costs extra - and reporting features. Also, it turns the data into QVD format that is not accessible by other software.
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IT Manager at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
In QlikView 11, there is a password for the section of code, but there is no user management with a password that allows access to data when opening the file.
I would like the data loading and programming to be made easier.
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Analista de inteligencia de mercado at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be great if this software had better transforming tools. We can do a lot of heavy work with scripts, but sometimes that gets really messy.
I mean that it would be very good to have a graphic tool to manipulate the data.
I work with IBM Modeler, and I love how easy it is to transform data in it. I think QlikView could implement a graphical interface to manipulate date, just like Modeler. I also think thats way off the scope of QlikView, but I am just thinking how great it would be to have such tool built in.
it_user68187
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In one word, QlikView has become dated now. Other vendors are providing equal or better solutions, especially for self-service, on-the-fly beautiful visualizations and ease of use.
QlikView is not moving as fast as the market trend. There are no big updates in their product that could make our life easier. As far as the useful functionalities, QlikView is the same as it was five years ago.
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Angel Monjarás
Product Specialist and Education Services at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
Currently, there is no SaaS licensing model.
The ETL tool could use some visual aids in addition to the wizards that help to build the code.
Visualization design is not drag-and-drop.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Areas of this product with room for improvement are ETL, presentation of data on a map, what-if modeling or predictive modeling, license policy.
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it_user203682
Project Manager, Global Business Intelligence & Analytics at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see:
- Mobile and smart device delivery
- Set analysis simplification
it_user77322
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Collaboration. Data Input.
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it_user867504
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
- Bookmarking
- Data load window and more information to be used while loading huge data.
- Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker.
it_user75063
Database Expert at a university with 501-1,000 employees
The management console is cumbersome to use for managing large numbers of users and documents.
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IT Admin at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to perhaps be able to have preloaded and editable examples of models created by QV experts that can be customized for our specific needs, instead of starting from scratch anything we need to work on.
I work an electric utility in Mexico, therefore we build QV models and dashboards specific to our industry (electricity, gas, nuclear generation, asset management, executive reporting and such).
Right now, we have to build our models from scratch, if we could have access to prebuilt models for our specific industry and line of business it would be very useful and time saving.
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Senior Manager - Anti Money Laundering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
QlikView should not loose its original flavour. They should stop trying to emulate other BI products and mould their own product.
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Associate Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
They are coming up with a lot of improvements. However, the version control is not one of them, and it's not straightforward.
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AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Yes, Drag and drop of controls. Some geographical charts.
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it_user2862
VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Map capability without add ins and extra cost.
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it_user2862
VP of IT at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Still need to spend time designing the Data Warehouse behind this tool to facilitate user self service model.
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Martin Zwarthoed
Database Specialist at Zwarthoed IT Solutions
The user interface of QlikView is old. The provider built a new tool called Qlik Sense. So Qlik Sense is basically the offspring of QlikView. Somehow both are still supported and they've developed new versions for both of these tools but Qlik Sense is basically the restyled version of QlikView. There's a lot of discussion about some features which are difficult to use including the user interface, all look and feel aspects, but I think that will be in the new version. What they could provide is a migration path to Qlik Sense. It's very difficult to do that automatically because it always requires you to check and change some new port. I haven't researched it but I believe that's the case.
it_user928116
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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Leander du Plessis
Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
- Better compatibility with Qlik Sense
- Better support for non-Microsoft platforms
- SFTP support in the load script
- More built-in connectors
it_user103896
Sales Engineer at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
I would like to see the price reduced and the speed to be much, much better.
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BI Project Leader with 1,001-5,000 employees
There’s room for improvement with the licensing, as well as memory consumption for certain objects and technical support.
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Business Intelligence Data Architect at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Some improvement to the user interface (for the developers). It could certainly use a re-vamp. The existing tab structure can be confusing sometimes and the controls that you would expect to find on one particular tab are actually on another.
I'm referring to the properties of the various charts that you can create within Qlikview – this brings up a dialogue box with a number of different tabs along the top;
In my opinion, for example, the tabs “Visual Cues” and “Style” could be combined into one. “Caption” for another example could be renamed to “Title Bar config” or “Chart Config” or something like that. Some aspects of the “Layout” tab could be added to “Presentation”.
The dialogue box itself isn’t quite wide enough, so if you end up going all the way to the right you have to click on an arrow a couple of times to see the tabs all the way to the left again, and you can’t resize it either – Why???. The box itself should be wide enough to encompass the number of tabs in a single view. Either that, or have a maximise / minimise buttons on it to give the users the choice.
There are no doubt a few others I can point out if I give more though to it, just my feeling of the product is that it can be a little unwieldy, especially to people initially learning the program.
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Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
- Built-in monitoring of ETLs
- Formatted reporting
- Print to PDF
- Export to Excel
it_user225840
Business Analyst ( Marketing BI Analytics) at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Currently we are building a pane to use filters and select options. For a dashboard, if they would add a "Column value" filter option like what you see in Amazon on the left hand side, that would be useful.
It could also have an autosave feature, which it direly lacks.
A direct feature to export views to PowerPoint, instead of external plugins, could be useful.
Sometimes large files are difficult to read and QlikView crashes midway. So you need to start from scratch. Instead, if it could support reading and processing large files with a lot of records (4 million +), that would be useful. This was one such issue we faced while doing a BI transformation as the data generated was huge.
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Reporting Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Data modelling is often a protracted process, with no toolset available apart from scripting. The consequent data models are not very portable at all.
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Technical Associate at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
This cannot be considered a self-service product. It requires IT support.
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Project Manager - Business Intelligence at www.datademy.es
I think its visualization has room for improvement, and I know Qlik Sense has better visualization.
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Senior Manager of Data Analytics at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
It is really missing a comprehensive semantic/metadata layer and security/data profiling can be hard to accomplish at corporate level without a high level of scripting.
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it_user422718
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is really an awesome product, but there is room for improvement regarding the visual aspect (this has been sorted out in their new product – Qlik Sense). Some features are a bit tedious to achieve results, especially for new users and people who have not had training or experience in using the product.
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Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
While Qlik and their products are very intuitive and a pleasure to use as a developer of the dashboards and poweruser, many of my colleagues and stakeholders of information are used to static (paper) reports. This often leads to producing tables and graphs that are 'pinned down' (set analysis) to reduce the flexibility of the representations and the dashboards as a whole. (Qlik presents this as a core strength of their products.)
Often this makes the formulas for these expressions and dimensions very complex. Of course you could argue that the users would have to 'mature' to use this new, more flexible, way of information. But it would be a great improvement for the Qlik products if it were able to easily 'lock' graphs without extensive coding.
View full review »it_user416430
Business Intelligence Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The visualization charts. I believe they are working on that because Qlik Sense has released a few versions in which the charts are a lot better than QlikView.
And the interface. QlikView is mainly defined as a guided analytics tool, which requires experienced users to help with the development. In the future, it should move forward on self-service (the core value of Qlik Sense), which is the trend on the business intelligence development. So I think they will have some big changes coming.
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Senior Business Analyst at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Enhance predictive analytics and big data; this is the future trend.
- Simpler, cleaner charts and visualization (easier user acceptance)
- Formatting and repositioning the menu/charts takes a bit long. It does not have drag-and-drop capability like Tableau does.
it_user235527
IT Manager / Specialist at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
Reports module should be improved to make it user-friendly and easy to develop reports.
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BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
QlikView should improve its front-end design and import the Qlik Sense design within.
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Partner with 51-200 employees
Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense which is getting stronger and sexier with every release 5 a year from now - June 2017).
Qlik Sense makes selling "Qlik" easier - the only "negative" aspect is that the "self-service" capability of Qlik Sense means less consultancy for our company but more customers!
it_user78468
Senior IT Business Partner at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Cost: The licenses are expensive.
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Service Delivery Manager - EABL at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see improvements to scheduled reporting and the capability to email the user.
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DecisionSupMgr214
Decision Support Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
The security features in QlikView are not yet mature: very complex to define permissions in a dashboard (based on data/sheets).
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COO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I believe that improved analysis prediction capability would be more than welcome in QlikView. If we could simulate scenarios in a more intuitive way that would be a nice-to-have feature.
Besides the fact it’s quite a useful tool for data visualization, the final user interface is not that intuitive. That might be the idea with Qlik Sense, which we haven’t had an opportunity to experience yet.
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Ed Dallal
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity
- More graphics
- Dashboard support
it_user356589
Managing Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
New graph / chart objects need to be added.
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Partner at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I would like to see a modernised user interface.
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Analytics Application Consultant Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
They need to improve on the idea, concept and support.
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Senior BI Consultant at a retailer with 51-200 employees
It needs JDBC connection for different databases.
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SAP Application Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Job scheduler needs work.
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Lead Technical with 1,001-5,000 employees
More flexibility to alter auto association in the data model.
Support for collaboration.
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IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think the visualization of the charts and the number of default charts provided by QlikView should be improved. QlikView only has limited chart options compared to its competitor. I think Map would be a great addition if QlikView can provide it as default chart.
I think that the type of chart that is provided by QlikView must be added to capture the need of variety of visualization. Tableau has more charts compared to QlikView.
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Director, Business Analytics at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
Improve its table/data editor to allow easier ways to pull multiple data from multiple sources and associate them to establish a complete business data model.
Consider providing more features that allow the decision-making process of analysing different data at different levels to be captured. Maybe a decision-making flow/process editor for Qlik sheets and objects at the presentation layer.
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Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The script engine for loading data needs a total overhaul. It is hard to use and counter-intuitive. It also blocks less-skilled users at the very beginning.
View full review »it_user357312
Manager Analytics at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Version changes should be made fully compatible with older versions.
- Advanced analytic capabilities of model building using regression or time-series analysis should also be added in the product.
it_user381315
Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I would like to see them add a powerful map and improve statistic functions.
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MIS General Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
I would like to see them add powerful map and statistical functions.
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IT Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
it_user208263
Associate Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
- 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
it_user92304
Consulting Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
it_user76272
Business Manager (Exco level) & Executive Director at a retailer with 51-200 employees
Very little
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it_user87984
BI Expert with 51-200 employees
Implement security model for a document can be difficult and slow to implement.
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it_user752142
Board of Management with 501-1,000 employees
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.
it_user374679
IT Admin at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
I predictive analysis is an area with room for improvement.
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Consultor QlikView at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
In the next version/release, I'd like to see mashup possibilities and real-time connections.
View full review »it_user164283
BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The look and feel of the charts and graphs can greatly be improved.
View full review »it_user67443
BI Expert at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Version management
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it_user231753
Profesional Management Database and Server, Networking, Virtualization Server. at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I would like to see the possibility to change the program if the new program is better than last program.
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IT Specialist at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees
- More support through contextual menus
- Adapting to the new Qlik Sense (HTML 5) environment
it_user169491
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Graphic User Interface, the product could be improved by a smarter, more intuitive and friendly interface for graphs or reports.
View full review »it_user858876
Enterprise Architecture & Business Analyst - Analytics at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees
For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool that combines the functions we have from one side and the other side. One application.
Also, they have not come out with new functions for QlikView. Qlik Sense has evolved but not QlikView.
Another problem is the printing. It is not a solution that comes with QlikView. I believe we had to buy it. It is not integrated. It is not the easiest to manage. It is not as easy as it could be.
it_user93783
Master Data at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
Data Science.
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Analyst Control and Monitoring at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
QlikView is really easy to use and it can help you manage different kinds of data, but licenses are expensive.
View full review »it_user164442
Team Lead, Data Engineering at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Server performance. Reloading of data sometimes weigh down the server's performance.
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Partner at a tech company with 51-200 employees
I would like to see more ‘drag and drop’ functionality as, in my opinion, there is still too much coding required to join tables correctly.
View full review »it_user388488
IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Actually, Qlik, has decided to move forward with a brand new product, Qlik Sense, so it seems that QlikView can be deprecated as it follows an older approach that pre-dates data visualization in data warehouse and BI.
View full review »it_user170457
Assistant Manager - Solution Consulting at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The forecasting accuracy should be improved.
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Qlik Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The performance can be improved.
There is no automation or drag and drop functionality.
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Beslutstödsutvecklare at a tech company with 51-200 employees
- Error handling
it_user86037
BI Expert at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The backend (scripting) needs improvement to be more like a real ETL BI tool. The script editor is, in my opinion, no more than a basic scripting editor with too-limited debugging features.
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