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What is QlikView?

QlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.

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QlikView has proven to be a versatile and valuable tool for various use cases across different industries. Users have built reporting and …
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Quick overview of QlikView

7 out of 10
November 18, 2021
Qlik is used to design interactive analytics and dashboard. We are dealing with different sources of data and need to grasp useful and …
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QlikView user review

8 out of 10
April 27, 2021
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We have many users working with the QlikView app, and export our ERP data to the software to apply filters and research product sales and …
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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (62)
    8.5
    85%
  • Drill-down analysis (62)
    8.1
    81%
  • Report sharing and collaboration (59)
    8.1
    81%
  • Formatting capabilities (63)
    7.5
    75%
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Pricing

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QlikView

Custom

On Premise
per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.qlik.com/us/search?q=pricing…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

QlikView Presentation HD

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Qlikview Online Training - Qlikview Free Demo Video - Bigclasses

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QlikView Tutorials for Beginners | QlikView Demo | Free Qlikview Training

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QlikView for iPad

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QlikView & Google Maps - Real Estate Demo

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QlikView Export & Import Document Layout XML

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.3
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.9
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

7.8
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.4
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is QlikView?

QlikView, Qlik’s classic analytics solution, aims to revolutionize how organizations use data, boasting an intuitive visual discovery that put business intelligence in the hands of more people than ever. Qlik Sense, the vendor's next-generation analytics platform, supports the full range of modern analytics use cases at enterprise scale by combining the Associative Engine with Cognitive Engine driving augmented intelligence, plus a scalable, governed cloud architecture.

As businesses modernize operational processes including BI, Qlik Sense is provided by the vendor as a way forward. Through the Qlik Analytics Modernization Program, QlikView users can adopt Qlik Sense at their own pace for a small uplift on their annual maintenance rate -- which Qlik states will expand the enterprise's analytic possibilities while reducing the total cost of ownership for BI.

QlikView Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Windows App
  • Supported: Administration via MacOS App
  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
  • Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
  • Supported: EMC Greenplum
  • Supported: IBM Netezza
  • Supported: HP Vertica
  • Supported: ParAccel
  • Supported: SAP Hana
  • Supported: Teradata
  • Supported: Sage 500
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: SAP
  • Supported: Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Versioning
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

QlikView Screenshots

Screenshot of QlikView Sales DashboardScreenshot of QlikView on all devicesScreenshot of QlikView using mobile touch screen

QlikView Videos

Qlik Analytics Modernization Program Overview

Watch Mobile BI: QlikView on iPad

Watch Test drive QlikView demos

QlikView Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, APAC

Frequently Asked Questions

QlikView® is Qlik®’s original BI offering designed primarily for shared business intelligence reports and data visualizations. It offers guided exploration and discovery, collaborative analytics for sharing insight, and agile development and deployment.

Tableau Server, Domo, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for QlikView.

Reviewers rate Pixel Perfect reports highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of QlikView are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

QlikView has proven to be a versatile and valuable tool for various use cases across different industries. Users have built reporting and dashboards based on accounting and operations data, allowing non-experts to explore data and identify potential prospects and targeted populations. With QlikView, the entire company has relied on data to inform their decisions, providing a flexible report builder that is used across multiple departments. The Sales team has utilized QlikView to track and identify hot leads, understand buying patterns, and analyze the sales life cycle.

Moreover, QlikView has been successfully implemented in the education sector at a university, where dashboards were developed for different entities within the institution. It has consolidated various data sources and systems, allowing users to view reports and filter data for reporting purposes. By organizing data from different systems that would not communicate with each other, QlikView addressed the issue of having to look in multiple places for similar data. In addition, it has provided granular information about SKUs and sales to enable informed decision-making on promotions in the marketing department.

Furthermore, QlikView has been instrumental in addressing business intelligence needs for customers across various domains such as marketing, finance, selling data, HR management, projects management, financial management, and R&D. The software allows key users within organizations to access highly-interactive analytics applications and dashboards that provide different points of view on the same data. It has also served as an enterprise analytics solution by creating dashboards containing HR, payroll, finance, training, and other data, reducing ad hoc reports and increasing communication and awareness. Moreover, QlikView's ability to visualize data quality management dashboards empowers business users, management, and executives to make decisions based on real-time changes.

Additionally, QlikView has supported ETL processes by ensuring data integrity between disparate product sources while identifying data gaps. Its capabilities extend beyond reporting needs as it generates C-Level reports and day-to-day operations reports, providing valuable insights across multiple levels of management. As a business intelligence tool, it has been successfully utilized to analyze and create reports from large datasets such as NIH clinical trial data, showcasing its ability to handle complex joins and produce clean reports.

Overall, QlikView is lauded for its speed, ease of use, and intuitive dashboards that allow users to navigate their data effectively. Customers have also relied on QlikView during tough times to identify and save money that would otherwise be wasted without resorting to layoffs. Its adaptability, performance

High Speed and Agility: Users have consistently praised QlikView for its high speed and agility in data visualization, with many stating that the software allows them to quickly navigate from a high-level view to granular details. This speed and agility enhance the overall data visualization experience, making it efficient and seamless.

Intuitive Data Exploration: The associative search feature in QlikView has received high praise from users for its intuitive and efficient data exploration capabilities. Many reviewers appreciate that it eliminates the need for predefined drill paths, allowing them to visually explore the data and go anywhere they want without restrictions. This feature greatly enhances their ability to analyze data effectively.

Powerful Data Loading Capabilities: Users highly regard the data loading capabilities of QlikView, considering it a powerful platform that can be extended and incorporated into web pages. The ability to integrate with the R open-source engine and build custom extensions adds to its versatility and usability. Several reviewers have mentioned this as a key strength of QlikView.

Confusing User Interface: Some users have expressed frustration with the software's user interface, stating that it is confusing and hinders their ability to perform tasks efficiently. They feel that the design or layout of the interface is not user-friendly.

Unhelpful Customer Support: Several users have voiced their dissatisfaction with the customer support provided by the software. They have found the support team to be unhelpful in addressing their concerns or providing timely assistance when needed.

Recurring Error 429: A common issue reported by multiple users is encountering recurring error messages with status code 429 while using the software. This has caused inconvenience and has disrupted their workflow on numerous occasions.

Based on user reviews, users commonly recommend the following for Qlik View:

  1. Spend time researching the true power of the tool and learning from other users' innovations in the online community.
  2. Get trained and utilize the support and assistance provided by Qlik View to make sure that the program is being used to its full capabilities.
  3. Have a designated code writer to make the processes of deployment easier and more proficient.

These recommendations highlight the importance of exploring the tool's capabilities, leveraging available resources, and making informed decisions to optimize the usage of Qlik View for complex businesses.

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Reviews

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December 24, 2018

Qlikview from a glance

Andrew Khonje | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlikview is being used across many departments as a way of consolidating various data sources and systems. We use Qlikview to view reports or filter data for reporting use. Qlikview in my organization addresses the issue of having to look in multiple places to get like or similar data such as inventory by DC, transport by store/dc, and various data sets which are stored in different systems. Qlikview allows as to organize data from different systems that would otherwise not communicate with each other.
  • Has great visual dashboards
  • Can consolidate data sets from many sources
  • Is user friendly and easy to learn
  • Allows you to slice and dice data easily
  • Depending on the quantity of data sources it can be slow to refresh
  • If not managed well data integrity can be an issue
  • Creating dashboards is not easy
Wells suited for companies with large data sources that need to be utilized by many departments or employees.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been QlikView for Data Visualizations for the past two years. The major use case is of a self-service BI for all business users in the organization. We have been using the same to analyze data and identify data discoveries to support decision making. Around 4 to 5 business units have been using QlikView for the past 6 months now. Two more teams are using it on a trial basis. The major use cases center around generating new views of data on the fly. We use it to provide an associative experience across all the data used for analysis, regardless of where it is stored.
  • Performance aspects are the major reason behind picking QlikView. We have tried working with Tableau but find QlikView comparatively is faster. QlikView can effortlessly combine all sizes of data sets.
  • Gauge charts and 3D graphs were not available on other platforms when we started evaluating QlikView. In QlikView, gauge charts are available for you to use in an ease of use system. QlikView also has 3D graph forms to showcase data.
  • BI Reporting is a strong feature of QlikView. Strong visualizations with BI reporting are one reason why we picked the solution as they help us deliver requirements faster.
  • In QlikView, building a map visualization takes a long time since it needs scripting and external extension for this.
  • The interface of Qlikview has too many items and tools on its menu which are rarely used but provide a wide range of ways in which the data can be showcased.
  • The areas where graphical changes need to be, you will have to write the logic for it. No Drag and Drop implementations.
QlikView is well suited in scenarios where there are large sets of data that need to be included in data identification and analysis. It would be beneficial in an organization where multiple forms of data are created and need to be interpreted with BI in place, when you want an on the fly view for multiple BI reporting options.

It wouldn't be a good option if you need multiple variations of graphical charts required for dashboard creation, or if you need ease of use with geographical data representation.
December 17, 2018

QlikView is great for BI

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my previous role at the state's department of finance, we used QlikView in our department as our Business Intelligence solution. Because of its easy integration with different data sources, we were able to leverage QlikView as our main data analysis and reporting tool.
  • One of its most useful features is real-time collaboration and version tracking.
  • QlikView has some of the best data visualizations available and is useful in finding any hidden data relationships or patterns.
  • From some of the feedback we received from users in my previous job, it seemed as if the learning curve for non technical people was quite steep.
  • The pricing model for this product can be a little prohibitive for smaller organizations.
QlikView is a great business intelligence tool that is fairly fast to set up and integrate with different databases. It offers a wide variety of features, but is especially useful for data visualization and reporting.
December 16, 2018

Fly with QlikView

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
QlikView can be used both across different departments and at enterprise level. It helps organisations/users to do deep data discovery and analysis in order to get deep insight and uncover useful information to make better decisions and take good action.
  • It surfaces both associated information one needs and also those not needed thus providing a complete view for analysis e.g. total credit exposure, cross/up sell, market basket analysis, etc.
  • Good in helping one understand what one doesn't know in terms of knowledge surfaced from data discovery e.g. money laundering patterns, purchasing behaviours, etc.
  • A strong QlikView developer can 'cut and slice' data very quickly to produce any combination of data to produce required output e.g. set analysis.
  • QlikView by itself or with Qlik NPrinting can produce nicely formatted reports.
  • Fast and agile in analysis.
  • Has QlikView Reports (but not integrated to Qlik NPrinting)
  • Improve on how data model can be built more visually appealing and friendlier.
  • Ability to create master items like in its sister software Qlik Sense.
  • More and ready collections of sexy visual objects.
  • Cognitive intelligence to recommend charts.
  • More certified extensions.
  • QlikView Reports can be integrated to work with Qlik NPrinting.
QlikView is well suited if the data can be presented in a well data model for agile and flexible data discovery. Not that well suited if used to do financial reporting and analysis where complex and dynamic financial relationships/hierarchies (e.g COA) need to be included.
Jake Tolbert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use QlikView as a data exploration tool for non-experts. Our front-line staff can use QlikView to dig into our data, explore what's available, what prospects might be in a particular area, what a possible population might be for a targeted event, mailing or solicitation. Our entire department has access to Qlikview--some users rely more heavily than others on data to inform their decisions. Those users are digging into QlikView to get a picture of what their data looks like quickly and easily.
  • QlikView has a simple, relational data model that's REALLY fast. Filtering and changing data is dead simple results are almost immediately available.
  • The free version of Qlikview is almost completely featured, so you roll a pro-level product out to an entire department for really cheap.
  • QlikView is really flexible--if you can imagine it, you can build it.
  • Because it's such a clean slate, QlikView requires some UI design. You've got to think about how you want to display not only the data itself, but the filters and controls users need to explore the data.
  • It can also be a pretty confusing to your users: if they filter in one place, they often forget that they've done so and don't understand why they're not seeing all their data elsewhere.
  • The free version of Qlikview doesn't push data updates, so if users forget to refresh their data manually, they can be working from an old copy of the data. Paid versions solve this problem.
I can't recommend QlikView enough for a small shop on a shoestring budget--with one technical user administering things, all your users can have a really nice, super useful data exploration tool. The burden is certainly on that one user, but the payback is immense considering the price (free!). Solutions like Tableau and Qlik's new product, Qlik Sense, are certainly prettier and less demanding in terms of UI design, but they can't touch QlikView in terms of value.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use QlikView to visualize aggregated data for our projects. The last project that I worked on was an auditing system. I pull numbers of files accessed and number of database reads that the auditing system generated and graph these numbers on a daily basis. Once a day, I look the QlikView-generated graphs to determine if their is any spike in the numbers. If there is, then I look into the spike and attempt to determine why it happened. This is a very easy and quick way of looking at the content of about twenty emails to determine if there were any abnormal audit items.
  • QlikView allows you make data-backed visualization very easily. The format of these visualizations is completely up to you and your team.
  • QlikView can show your data in many type of graphs as well as show the actual numbers associated with graphical points.
  • We use QlikView to access data on Microsoft SQL Server, but other data sources are supported. Check out the QlikView documentation to determine if they can use data in formats that you need to perform analysis on.
  • We found that QlikView can be a bit slow in supporting some forms of encryption. It is web-based and we needed to upgrade all of our server to not support the older SSL and TLS 1 protocols, only support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. However, QlikView could not run with TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. We had to wait over six months to get a version that would handle the newer TLS versions.
  • There are so many options with QlikView that you can get lost when developing a visualization. There are still items I have not yet figured out, such as labeling a graph with the name of a selected detail item.
  • QlikView works by pulling the data it is going to use for visualization into its database. I am a security reviewer and I need to make certain that PII and PHI is not pulled by QlikView for a visualization, otherwise this could become a reportable indecent.
QlikView is a good tool for visualizing data as long as you are trying to visualize aggregated or anonymized data. It can generate most type of graphs and also show you the details of the data that are being graphed. However, you do need to be careful to not include sensitive data in you visualizations since the data is stored in the QlikView database and that could become an attack vector that you will need to watch.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a service based organization and we implement solutions for our clients. I am a part of the Analytics department and we implement QlikView based dashboard/ solutions to address clients' business problems. Typically, I have worked with Insurance and Healthcare(Pharmaceutical) clients which are market leaders in various geographies like US, India, etc.
  • in memory application
  • AQL i.e auto association
  • QVD
  • conditional hide n show feature
  • Implementing maps other than that of US
  • Real time data handling is not possible
  • device compatibility isn't there
QlikView is well suited for scenarios where a heavy data is involved or heterogeneous data is there which also requires some manipulation/ cleansing or application of business rules. Also, if the UI dashboard involves complicated formulas to be worked upon, QlikView is well suited.

However, if there is a need to quickly create some dashboards where the developer has little knowledge on database/ scripting and also there is no data manipulation required for input data, other technologies other than QlikView can be considered.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Qlikview to analyze sales data, customer satisfaction (survey) data, and to build dashboards to display and analyze to senior leadership, and marketing management. It is the business intelligence tool of choice for the organization and is used to synchronize the look and feel of analytics across multiple functions and applications (such as data from Salesforce, Qualtrics, Google Analytics, and other applications).
  • Easy Data Import and Data Manipulation. I really like how easy it is to import new data and how I can edit the script to clean and format data automatically.
  • Creating Business Intelligence visualizations and creating more complex visualizations than I can make in Excel (locking them down is helpful too!).
  • Creating interactive elements that allow non-technical users to glean more useful insights at the click of a mouse.
  • Qlikview desktop is not easy to share with users who do now have Qlikview. It would be nice to have a sharable "read only" version of the qlikview file that could be emailed to people who just want a report.
  • I wish Qlikview was better built for responsive design. It would make it a lot easier to share with users who have large screens or are working on small laptops. I design to my screen but that doesn't work for everyone and the zoom feature makes things fit but not necessarily proportionally sized.
  • Easier quick start guide for new business users. The UI is not super friendly but once you get used to it, it all makes sense. However, I think a more freshened up UI could help more functions support it faster instead of relying on Excel for everything.
Qlikview is perfectly suited for business analysts who want to create an end-user report for management and senior leadership. Unfortunately, qlikview is less suited for Excel-style reports where users may want to go in an modify reports since it takes a good amount of knowledge to use Qlikview. Additionally, qlikview is less suited for reports that would be reviewed on mobile due to the proprietary file type and the lack of true mobile/responsive design.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlik is used by certain departments. Some other departments use different data visualization tools. It offers a way to build visualization tools that meet our client's needs. It is flexible enough that templates can be developed that will suit the needs for multiple clients. It also makes self service a little bit easier.
  • Allows self service, freeing up analyst time resources for large fish.
  • Flexible enough to be used in multiple business problem types.
  • Can point to multiple data sources, making blending a little easier.
  • Colors and graphics look dated
  • Some of the functionality is clunky, making what should be easy changes more complicated than they should be.
Well suited for illustrating the basic metrics most business use as KPIs. Heat maps, and other useful visualizations are a little more complicated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used qlikview as part of the digital analytics consulting our company provides to customers. We have used it for some of our customers to generate data visualization reports.
  • Integrates data from various digital sources for visualizations
  • Clean graphs for data analysis
  • Ease of use
  • Support for Mac desktop
Qlikview is great to aggregate data from various sources to create a digital consumption visualization graphs. It helps in giving insight into how our clients are doing with their business to better streamline them.
September 22, 2016

QlikView Pros and Cons

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are the largest QlikView roll-out in the UK and we use it to share high level performance metrics on clinical trials such as time and target data related to recruitment. The product is pitched under the banner of open data as it is used to inform a wide set of stakeholders including commercial, public sector and NHS. We operate QlikView on Amazon Web Services to provide a robust platform.
  • QlikView is visually excellent and allows our users to interpret data rapidly for decision making.
  • The ability to customise QlikView Apps allows for bespoke reporting for specific sectors.
  • QlikView allows us to rapidly share information in a predictable way.
  • QlikView relies on drop down menus and this seems a little antiquated in this day and age.
  • QlikView also relies on trained staff to create the apps and this means accepting that this is a bespoke application and requires bespoke training and support.
  • There are other products that are less clunky and require less trained staff to operate.
QlikView is perfect if you are moving from traditional reporting to a more automated setup. However it is not a step-change in analytics as other products are such as ThoughtSpot. It is likely that your BI team will continue to operate as they did before but now have a nice front-end to share.
Alexander Obolensky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
QlikView in Tsentrobuv covered all the systems and almost all business users - from stores to stakeholders. sales, marketing, accounting, IT and so on. They were covered by about 70+ different QlikView applications.
  • Works great with a great amount of data. For example: detailed transactions for 1200+ stores for 2 years.
  • Easy for end users - as simple as Excel but much more representative.
  • The system can be implemented in short period of time (starting from 2 weeks).
  • All the information is preloaded in the application. Sometimes it would [not] be easy to select a period of time (for example) at first.
  • Lack of geo-based functionality.
  • Missing data-mining functionality.
  • Lack of prediction functionality.
It's great when you don't know the exact result you want at the end of the project because you receive the result fast and they are often updated so you can correct the way you implement the system. I'm really sure that BI and QlikView can be useful for any kind of company to increase its effectiveness.
September 16, 2016

Easy to Set Up, Easy to Use

Melinda Patience | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QlikView is an excellent visualization tool with intuitive dashboards that are easy to use by everyone. It is easy to set up by even the most novice admin. In the organization in which I used it, the dashboards were used by the whole organization to view research data.
  • Easy to setup dashboards
  • Intuitive functionality
  • Makes filtering and drilling down quick and easy
  • Graphics can be a little simple
QlikView is excellent for looking at large amounts of data quickly. Being able to drill down and filter all from one dashboard screen is perfect.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I consult with other organizations to recommend and implement QlickVIew desktop.
  • Strong ETL capabilities
  • Out of the box support for several charts
  • Customization of charts
  • Look and feel is clunky, looks like age old piece of software
  • Support for tablet and mobile devices
I liked the ETL capabilities of this tool, being able to connect to any data source. The novice to advanced users will be able to extract and explore the data. You can build complex query capabilities out of the box.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses it to collect business intelligence data. We're able to drill down to specific areas, policy classes, kinds of loss, coverages, etc. Armed with this info, we hope to make better business decisions.
  • Slice large data sets.
  • Visualize data (graphs, charts, etc.).
  • Sort and filter data.
  • Exporting can be cumbersome.
  • Clunky, non-intuitive UI.
  • Steep learning curve.
QlikView works well to visualize and compare large sets of data.
June 06, 2016

Qlikview

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlikview is used across the whole organization from finance to the clinical side of the business. It provides business insights on various aspects of the business with its easy to use and intuitive interface. It is very easy to integrate data and produce quick visualizations for specific business needs.
  • Mapping data from various sources, intuitive with its associative model makes it easy to understand how data points relate to each other.
  • Easy to explore data and answers any questions in real time.
  • Great way to express data using the charts and visualizations and performing set analysis as a experienced user.
  • Too many configurations and properties can sometimes make it confusing and hard.
It's best suited for blending multiple data sources together. QlikView is best for large organizations with enough budget to spend on licenses.
Chin Uba (MBA, MSc, MCITP, MCSE) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work for an MSP. QlikView is used by some of our current clients. My role is to maintain the support and in some cases recommend the product to other clients where possible.
  • Discovery aspect of user visibility of data.
  • Ease of publishing reports to web interface.
  • High speed filtering of wide long data sets.
  • QlikView has some issues with macros. Most of the support calls are issues with macros. Perhaps improve it.
  • Doc Cal licensing encourages development of poorly formed reports that has lots of tabs and chart objects.
  • Old windows style development IDE with poor debugging capabilities.
QlikView is suitable for most BI reporting scenarios but cannot compare to SAP. I will recommend it for SMEs with less than 500 report metrics. Anything above please look for something more enterprise.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used across our entire organization. We currently have approximately two-thirds of our markets using QlikView. We are using it to provide markets with advertising data from our enterprise advertising system.
  • We are able to load in data from multiple sources. We load data from SQL databases and Excel spreadsheets.
  • I have always described QlikView as pivot tables on steroids. It provides our users with a lot of freedom to manipulate or 'customize' reports that are already created by expanding and/or collapsing columns and the ability to move columns around to provide more detailed information or to roll up data in more meaningful summary reports.
  • Our users also love the multitude of selection list boxes that can be made available. Simple clicks on these list boxes can 're-run' reports in a matter of seconds.
  • We make extensive use of Bookmarks. Since we use QlikView across our organization, we tend to create reports with the whole organization in mind. Bookmarks make it easier for individual markets to 'customize' these reports for their local use.
  • I would really like to see 'Wizards' that would help with creating and better understanding Set Analysis expressions. Set Analysis is a very powerful tool, but for those who aren't hard core users have trouble understanding how to best write and use these expressions.
  • With the amount of data we have to load, it can take quite sometime for reloads.
I believe that any data that can be reported on via row and column charts, pivot tables and graphical charts, is well suited for QlikView. We have used it for small one department projects to entire organizational reporting.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlikview was used for a POC concerning an investissement department BI dashboard
  • Data Discovery made easy
  • Point'n click report & dashboard building
  • Basic Datalake on your desktop
  • Rights management and distribution of datasets and dashboards
  • Dashboard ergonomics
  • Third Party integration
Ideal for quick deployments and small projects, prototyping. Good solution if you don't already know which data matter.
Ermanno Basso | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implemented QlikView as a "soft" BI system, in the beginning in our IT and KPI department, and then in our production and cost analysis departments. We carry out dashboards and tables to present the data as the department managers need it for daily decisions.
  • Easy access to any database, you need just a valid credential.
  • Heavy interaction with Excel, this is a must for users and to solve basic issues.
  • The system evolves according to the user's capacity.
  • In the beginning you need to involve the user, the first impact is friendly but the immediate results are somewhat trivial.
  • When you understand the potential of the system you need to QlikView experts for more complex processing.
  • If you connect a complex database such as a company ERP solution (you can easy do it), you need to know the database structure to find data.
QlikView is very useful if you a have lot of data spread on various databases and/or Excel worksheets being used as database. But note, it can not replace an enterprise-class BI tool.
David Worrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My clients use QlikView (or I should say that I use QlikView for my clients!) to build reporting and "dashboards" based on accounting and operations data. Primarily, we use the version bundled inside of QuickBooks 2015 Enterprise (called "Advance Reporting"), and have created very nice -- and quite complex -- reports based on the QlikView engine / modules. Specifically, we report on sales commissions earned by sales person, on a per-item, per customer basis -- great detail that is simply not possible without QlikView.
  • QV's #1 strength is the drag and drop visualization tools -- with just a bit of training, you can make some really nice looking charts
  • QV's #2 strength is the simplicity of the filtering. Other SQL languages might call this "linking" or database structure ... which can be a pain.... but QV makes this easy. Further, once the data is inside QV, the ability to FILTER the data using check boxes is completely intuitive and simple.
  • QV's #3 strength is its ability to work across platforms and integrate multiple data sources and multiple types of data. QuickBooks data is just one example of something that it can chew up with ease.
  • Like a lot of software, QV starts with a blank page. If you are like me, you dive in without reading the instruction manual. Big mistake. There is a rigid stepwise process that you must follow to make it work....
  • I've never used anything quite as powerful as QV, so I cannot compare this to many other packages. ... but with 30 minutes of training and an hour of practice, you can be pretty proficient.
QlikView is well suited for QuickBooks uses -- particularly if you are running 2015 Enterprise or later. It's not perfect for those organizations that are trying to push data analytics down to the staff/user level ... I think it is still best suited for a knowledgable IT or SQL geek on the startup process. But if you can get a geek (like me) to design your reports, then any staff person can use the reports and even make simple updates (like sorting on a new date range, or selecting different filters).
Melissa Best | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QlikView is used across our whole organization. In the marketing department we use it for Business Intelligence to view margin, cost, categories, etc. It gives us really granular info about our skus and sales. I personally use it to decide which products to promote in marketing campaigns based on margin and bestsellers. We've also needed to understand the cost of an item in order to decide on promotions.
  • I love how you can slice and dice data to get the answers you need about your skus and sales.
  • QlikView gives me more detail than Google Analytics about how my categories are performing.
  • Our BI team is able to use QlikView to answer almost any question I have about what's happening on our website. They can set up bookmarks of commonly used searches that I need to make it quicker for me to find the data I need.
  • QlikView is not intuitive for the average user. You definitely need a BI team to set it up and help you use it, as a marketer.
  • Our instance of QlikView does not provide cost data. I'm given the information I need but I have to do some math in order to come up with the cost we're selling a product for. This may be because our BI team hasn't set it up that way.
  • You have to remember to use QlikViews navigation functions and not your browsers. And when I click from one tab to another, I lose my settings and have to start over.
  • I'm a casual user of QlikView and maybe if I were an actual BI team member, I would have the knowledge to get around these obstacles.
If you don't have a Business Intelligence team to set it up and help you navigate, then QlikView is not for you. It is definitely an enterprise tool. I have to ask someone on our BI team to walk through any process that is different than what I'm normally doing in QlikView. You don't inherently know which tab to start with whether it's the Product, Marketing, or Trends tab. But it houses a lot of data is very powerful. I would love to have the time to really understand the tool and make more use of it in my day-to-day decision making.
May 24, 2016

In a Qlik

Praveen Chandrasekaran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlikview is being used in the sales department in our organization.It solves the problems with respect to business sales.
  • Qlikview allows rapid in-memory assembly of data (qvd's) from various sources such a database, flat files etc to produce nifty, integrated reports, it appeals a lot to the business users who get a fairly quick answer to their questions.
  • Very easy to use and user friendly from a business user perspective as data can be shown in charts and diagrams which is helpful for high level executives.
  • Easy to install and setup from an administrator's point of view.
  • It requires lot of memory in servers for it to perform efficiently since it pre-loads data.
  • From a developer's perspective it's very complex to set up the loads and scripts in the qvd's and subsequently to the qvw.
  • The support for Qlikview is not topnotch.
  • Very hard to monitor all the loads from an admin point of view as if one load fails the qvw dashboard doesn't get the data in.
Business users would love to have it as it's very easy for reporting. From an IT perspective it's very hard to set it up and get the loads running.
Raymond Younan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using QlikView as part of the reporting strategy at the university. Dashboards are being developed for different entities within the university and each entity is using it for its own purpose. We created dashboards to reflect the students' status and behavior, the status of the IT ticketing system and the status of the financial situation. The plan is for us to use QlikView now with the new data warehouse we're building to be able to report on the whole situation of the university from one source.
  • Fast applying changes to the filters
  • Easy to deploy and needs minimal operation time
  • It connects to all data sources we needed
  • The online community is very helpful and it has a lot of data already
  • The Select Tables form needs major renovations
  • Still has stability issues where it crashes frequently
The cost is usually steep, so I would check about the budget first. QlikView is very helpful for creating dashboards and using it to make decisions; I usually don't recommend people to use it as a simple reporting tool for generating reports.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Qlikview is being used across multiple departments. Depending on your job you are selected and set up as a Qlikview user. We have some experts in it who lead troubleshooting and training and bookmarks. It allows our company to pull email campaign results quickly and efficiently. We are able to see things like click through rate, clicks, click to open percentages and gauge email campaign success.
  • It pulls consistently the same information. It is reliable to pull the data we need on email campaign analysis. We are able to refresh every week so it updates in a good time frame.
  • Qlikview allows us to see a lot about the clicks. We can see click through rate and click to open percentage. This lets us know how successful a campaign was.
  • Overall details. I can search across multiple products and see what is doing the best. Does a certain time frame work on A/B testing? Did one list work better than another list?
  • I think the bookmark feature could be a little better. Filtering can sometimes take up time and it would be nice to be more efficient with this.
  • More details. I've never used Qlikview for example for heatmaps so it'd be nice if it did that. Programs like Eloqua show some finer details.
Qlikview is well suited for larger email campaigns. Again it really shows you how many were delivered and opened and clicked and it can give you URL detail and message detail. It is a good comparison on A/B email testing to find out which email lists are stronger. I do not think it would be necessary to use this for a small sure thing campaign - example if you were hosting a happy hour event and inviting key contacts you would not need to know analysis. Things like newsletters are fabulous for this program.
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