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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
Incentivized
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 7.9
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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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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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-5 of 5)
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Oleg Troyansky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When I first started using QlikView 12 years ago, it was a small niche tool that could help you load your data from a variety of sources and build dazzling visualizations in a matter of hours or days. As an Application Director for a mid-size manufacturing company, I deployed my first QlikView dashboard in 3 weeks, with minimal investment, and that first achievement was called a "slam dunk" even by the most skeptical executives. This was in 2002, way before most of the tools and gadgets that we use today, ever existed.

We used QlikView to analyze Sales, and then Profit Margins, and then Excess and Obsolete Inventories, and then transportation costs, and so on and so forth. within 5 years, QlikView become a valuable business tool on every desk in the company.

Since then, the technology world around us had changed a lot - our computers are now using 64-bit operating systems, and a nifty laptop is now more powerful than the most powerful server back in the days. The capabilities of business software had changed as well. Today, QlikView is not a niche tool anymore, it's a flagman tool in the market of Data Discovery (Qlik likes to call the same term Business Discovery). However, the core value remains largely the same:

With QlikView, we can load large amounts of data and build beautiful and insightful visualizations with an unmatched speed. Using the recent advances in technology, we can empower our users to navigate their data in the most liberating and powerful way.

I won't be the first to state that modern companies collect, store and process vast amounts of data. BI tools are trying to help people make sense of that data, and QlikView is by far my favorite tool for this task. We think that we know our business. However, the "million dollar" question is what we don't know about our business? For me and many of my customers, QlikView has become an eye opener, in the way it helped companies realize how much they don't know about their business:

- As a manufacturer, do you know what products are truly profitable and to what extent, considering all the customer programs, allowances, chargebacks etc?

- Do you know what products in your inventory are turning fast and what products are sitting there for years?

- Do you know your true service levels with your customers, and how they are trending in time, and what are the possible reasons might be?

- Do you know if vendor payment terms are consistent across your corporation, or do you lose money on various unfavorable payment terms?

- Do you know how your customers are paying you? Do they comply to your payment terms? Are you paying them chargebacks while they are being late on their commitments?

- Do you know if your employees follow your travel policy, and how much does it cost you when they don't?

All of those questions have one thing in common - if you don't know the answer, you are likely to be wasting money that could be saved.

When things are getting tough, companies tend to resort to layoffs and tough decisions... With the help of QlikView and advanced business analytics, we can find money in a haystack of data and help companies get better without necessarily laying people off. There is a lot of money wasted in the process, and QlikView is an excellent tool that can help us find it, save it and put it back to work.
  • QlikView is extremely effective in its ETL capability. In comparison to Tableau and other modern tools, QlikView has the best data loading capabilities, making it extremely easy to load data from multiple disjointed data sources and build a cohesive data model that supports your needs.
  • Flexibility. With QlikView, making changes to an existing application is extremely easy. Since we don't need to mess with multi-dimensional cubes, developing and changing data models and visualizations is easy and fast
  • Quick learning curve. It's very easy to get educated and become proficient on QlikView. New developers become productive after just a few days, and then continue learning more advanced techniques while already delivering value to their companies.
  • Deploying and managing QlikView in a huge environment, with many servers, many locations and many users, can be still challenging. The management tools are very good for managing one or a few servers. When the environment needs to scale up by a lot, the management and monitoring tools may not be as efficient.
QlikView is best when

- you need to load data from multiple sources
- develop actionable dashboards with information aggregated at multiple levels
- help people focus on issues that matter most
- enable Data Discovery by users, with minimal dependency on IT resources.

QlikView is less recommended when:

- loading high-frequency real-time data for real-time reporting
I worked and played with several BI tools in my careers. Some were easier to learn than others. With QlikView, I instantly fell in love, and I'm still in love after 12 years of using the product. The most common feedback that I get from my users is: "This is the best thing I've ever seen!"
Today I'm consulting on QlikView, so this question doesn't apply to me directly. However, most of my clients are fanatic supporters of QlikView, for its unmatched ease of use and ease of implementation.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
100%
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Access Control and Security (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
100%
10.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
90%
9.0
Mobile Capabilities
N/A
N/A
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
  • When I implemented QlikView as a customer, we generated huge ROI with Excess and Obsolete Inventory analysis. QlikView enabled the kind of analysis and the kind of visibility that was never possible before.
  • Implemented in-house
QlikView is built in such a way that makes it extremely easy to use - for developers, designers, and users.
QlikView server is very stable, with minimal errors and rare outages.
Michael Lam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
QlikView is our companies go-to reporting solution. It is our frontend BI tool and is generally used to pull information out of our database. We provide a flexible "report builder" which is valuable to our end users who build reports off QlikView reports. This reporting tool is used across many departments: SEM | BD | Partners | SplitTest | Finance
  • Fast - everything is in memory so it moves away from the traditional logistics of reading data from disc.
  • Interface is fast to develop. Once a thoughtful data model is setup. The frontend development is fast and allows a RAD environment.
  • The server itself is easy to maintain. Maintenance is low and does not need a typical "sys admin" to manage this reporting server
  • Visualization - Graphically beautiful and provides that "bells and whistle" factor
  • The relationship of how data models are put together in QlikView - it requires good level of technical understanding how models are put together. If they had an ERD like framework when opening up an existing dashboard it would be helpful.
  • The licensing model QlikView employs financially does not make sense for growing small companies.
  • The support of AJAX technology is not up to par with its predecessor, IE plugin. They could do much better job implementing the same features in IE plugin over to AJAX users. The migration will be much simpler since AJAX will be the standard under Qlikview's new future versions.
For a long term solution it is best to hire someone full time to manage this reporting project. Vendors are useful if you need to get something quick out the door. For a long term solution that is financially beneficial it's important to hire someone with key skills that will enable him/her to be successful.
I have used CrystalReports XI, and SSRS 2005. Both are similar to one another but uniquely different from Qlikview. QlikView provides unique way of taking a subset of a filtered data model and creating another model in memory and comparing it to one another. I don't know of any other tools that allows this powerful type of analysis.

Also the speed of QlikView is much faster. The amount of data I'm dealing with is close to 100M records. We have one dashboard as large as 2GB fully compressed and is very fast in pulling detailed information.
The main reason why I don't give this a 10 vs 8 is because of Qlikview's licensing model. They charge you one license per document. So if you have a user that accesses 3 QlikView files, it will cost you 3 document licenses. Instead I do hope Qlikview eventually moves towards a single user license. They already have something like this but its much more expensive +3x more than document license. For smaller companies they should consider lowering their price so it's more favorable.

Choosing a BI reporting platform is a huge decision and will affect the future reporting capabilities of the company. A company rarely sets on one tool and then migrates to another tool. Its a huge effort to do this. With that in mind, getting more companies to choose Qlikview with a low price point will allow the entire Qlikview community to grow as a whole.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
90%
9.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
90%
9.0
Drill-down analysis
100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
70%
7.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (3)
100%
10.0
Publish to Web
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
100%
10.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (2)
80%
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Access Control and Security (3)
66.66666666666667%
6.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
70%
7.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
30%
3.0
Mobile Capabilities (2)
95%
9.5
Responsive Design for Web Access
100%
10.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
90%
9.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
1
0
  • Vendor implemented
  • Professional services company
We were early adopters. Don't remember who but it was 3rfs party help.
Change management was a major issue with the implementation
Mohamed Soufiene Khayati | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Nous intégrons la plateforme Qlik pour plusieurs comptes et pour différents secteurs d'activités. En ce qui nous concerne, nous l'utilisant dans tous les départements. Il nous permet le HR Management, Projects Management, Financial Management and analysis et en R&D. [We integrate QlikView at a departmental level across multiple accounts and sectors. We use it to support various functional areas such as HR Management, Projects Management, Financial Management & Analysis and R&D.]
  • Modèle associative : mes monsieur vous ne savais pas à quel point je suis fortement intégrer sur la solution Qlik ainsi que d'autre et je n'ai jamais trouver un outil autre que Qlik qui permet de tel association entre les données, cela ma permis dans 90% des projets de trouver des association cachées entre mes données et ma fait apprendre beaucoup d'information dont je n'ai jamais penser. [Associative Model - I can’t stress enough how strong QlickView integrates with other solutions. It has allowed me in 90% of my projects to find hidden relations between my data and discover information I would have never thought about.]
  • La flexibilité de son interface graphique, je suis libre de faire et un intégrer sur mon dashboard tous ce que je veux sans limitation ou des modèles pré-configuré et limité. [The flexibility of its GUI – I can integrate on my dashboard all the data that I want without limitation or pre-configured and/or limited models.]
  • La technologie In-memory bien sur avec sa combinaison avec le modèle assiciative [The In-memory technology combined with the with Associative Model]
  • QlikView nous permet de s’en-passer d'un outil d'ETL pour construire notre modèle de données (Data Model), il met à notre disposition toute une interface dédiée. [QlikView allows us to pass on the usage of an ETL tool to build our data model (Data Model). It includes a dedicated interface.]
  • Possibilité d'intégrer du VB Script et Java Script, c'était un rêve avant pour les data-miner de disposer d'un outil BI puissant dont il peuvent intégrer directement leur algorithme et regarder le résultat directement implémenté dans les graphique (il intégré R déjà) [Ability to integrate and data mine VB Script and Java Script. QlikView can integrate their algorithm and look at the results directly within the graph (it integrated R already)]
  • Interface d'ETL plus interactive et flexible [Its ETL interface could be more interactive and flexible]
  • Interface de communication directe avec R et SPSS [Its direct communication interface with R and SPSS]
  • Plus de connecteurs à disposition des développeurs [More connectors could be made available to developers]
  • Pourquoi le QvSource est payant !!!??? [Why is QvSource a paying service!??]
  • QlikView Next sera une grande catastrophe s'il n’intègre pas tous les interfaces de QlikView 11 (je crois que c'est déjà le cas !!) [QlikView Next will be a great disaster if it does not include all the interfaces from QlikView 11 (I believe this is already the case!)]
QlikVIew peut répondre à tous les besoins utilisateurs juste il faut s'avoir comment l'utiliser et il ne faut pas hésiter à le défier et croyez qu'il sera à la hauteur si vous êtes à la hauteur d'utiliser pleinement tous ses capacité. En effet, il ne faut pas s'en-passer de Qlik Community pour voir les problématique des autres et les solutions proposées pour ne pas les refaire!

[QlikView can meet all the users’ needs as long as you know how to use it to fully leverage its complete set of features. Don’t hesitate to leverage the Qlik Community to learn the issues that others have faced and how they’ve solved them so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes.]

L'architecture en mémoire associative de QlikView permet de gérer des jeux de données jusqu'à plusieurs milliards d’enregistrements ou plusieurs milliers d'utilisateurs. L'IT peut fournir une expérience utilisateur extrêmement réactive et cohérente sans être surchargée pour se concentrer sur son cœur de métier. [The associative memory architecture enables QlikView to manage datasets up to several billions of records or thousands of users. IT can provide a user experience extremely responsive and consistent without being overloaded to focus on its core business.]

De trop nombreuses entreprises se trouvent prises en otage de leur environnement en silos qui les empêche d'accéder à leurs données d'une manière à la fois simple et pertinente. Grâce à des connecteurs spécifiques pour certaines des applications et sources de données les plus répandues (SAP, Salesforce.com et Informatica®), QlikView facilite l'accès à vos données métier et à leur analyse. [Too many companies are held hostage by their siloed enviroment, which prevents access to their data in a simple and relevant manner. With specific connectors for some of the most common applications and data sources (including SAP, Informatica and Salesforce.com), QlikView provides easy access to your business data and analysis.]

QlikView permet aux entreprises du monde entier de tirer un meilleur parti de leur investissement dans les actifs d'entreprise et d’entreposage avec un accès intuitif, des analyses complètes et une visualisation sophistiqué. Les résultats sont extrêmement parlants :
**Des utilisateurs métier plus satisfaits et plus productifs.
**Un retour sur investissement plus élevé sur l'ensemble de vos investissements informatiques.
**Des professionnels de l'informatique se concentrant sur leur cœur de métier plutôt que sur des tâches de production de rapports et de développement de requêtes et de cubes [QlikView enables companies worldwide to make the most of their investment in business assets and storage with intuitive access, comprehensive analyzes and sophisticated visualization. The results are extremely impressive:
** Users are more satisfied and productive. ** ROI higher across all of your IT investments. ** IT pros focused on their craft rather than on some production tasks for reporting and application development purposes]
QlikView répond à tous mes besoins et il satisfait tous nos clients.
[QlikView meets all my needs and the ones of our customers.]
QlikView makes mrales and facilitates making decisions to managers, it is simple and makes intuitive analysis.
Bill Chamberlain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Extremely fast data visualization. We can go from a high level view to the most granular detail in seconds.
  • Associative search -- there are no pre-defined drill paths. You can visually explore the data and go anywhere you want. You do not have to drill down...and then back up. It makes the data exploration much easier.
  • Very strong data loading capabilities.
  • QlikView is really a platform that you can extend. You can incorporate it into web pages, integrate it with the R open source engine, build custom extensions, etc.
  • QlikView has a "green, white, grey" color scheme. Green is what I selected, white is what is included in that data set, and grey is what is excluded. It is a powerful visualization tool that can show you what is included as well as what is excluded. For data junkies, it is an excellent tool.
  • If you are looking to analyze real-time data, QlikView is probably not the right tool for you. It uses static pre-loaded data, rather than live data from an external data source.
  • We can literally do in a few minutes what it would have taken us hours or days to do in the prior Business Objects tool. We can quickly get to detailed information to see what is happening in our community, who the power users are, what they are doing, activity trends, etc. We then use these insights to determine any changes we want to make in our user adoption strategies.
The software is excellent at meeting our business requirements. We will continue to use.
2
This question doesn't necessarily apply. We've built an application using QlikView that we use with our clients. Our clients have various numbers of users on the platform.
1
Technology savvy individuals.
  • Our primary use is analyzing millions of rows of social collaboration activity.
We created an application using QlikView that is a replacement for Business Objects.
TIBCO Spotfire and Tableau were other systems considered. Both of these products are very good and they all have different strengths. QlikView best met our business needs because of its ability to load multiple data sources directly, handle ETL logic on the data load, delivers to mobile devices via HTML5, and its ease of data visualization.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Professional services company
We implemented in house on our own and work with our customers on implementations.
We have been very happy with the product.
  • Self-taught
It depends on what you are going to do. For the high end users, training would certainly shorten the learning curve.
We did not do any custom coding to the platform. It is all out of the box.
No
Not necessary in our deployment.
I have had little direct interaction with QV customer support, so I cannot provide a meaningful rating.
Once the data is loaded (which can range from simple to complex depending on the data set), it is relatively easy to create new charts/dashboards.
We have not had any downtime issues with the product nor uncovered any significant bugs.
The speed of loading the data and working through the data visualizations is excellent.
  • Jive Software
The integration was simple. We connected QlikView to Jive's analytics database and were up and running in no time.
  • We likely will integrate with Active Directory and Google Analytics in the future.
Yes
The vendor was great to work with. For large enterprise engagements, QlikView's licensing model is a bit complex and hard to decipher what is best for your organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Self-service
  • In-memory performance
  • Associative model
  • Their UI from a development perspective, for developing dashboards.
  • A lot of the components that you can place on a dashboard, i.e. filters, sliders etc. are handy
  • You can spit out to Excel, PDF.
  • Out of the box, the governance and meta data management is not great. You can buy another product for that. Out of the box, you can get yourself in trouble. We have solved for that through business process and workflow.
  • They are still a bit tied too Microsoft tools like Internet Explorer. Working on Firefox, Chrome, Safari is not the same experience. We would really like them adapt. For example, when viewing a line graph with multiple points on graph, if you zoom over a point, it will light up the bubble in IE, but we cannot get it to work the same way in other browsers.
  • Performance tuning explain plans don’t exist.
  • Our ability to do custom Ajax development – we would like to put in a widget, where we can do an uptime call and have nothing else change. No documentation etc.
  • Documentation is ok.
  • Speed to market is the really big thing. You can attach to multiple data sources quickly and build a consumable model for a dashboard. It doesn’t require IT talent to build. We have built more dashboards and added more users in the last year, then in our entire history. I was at a company of 30k+ employees before, and we didn't have near this level of BI adoption.
  • As a result, we are seeing benefits across business function. For example, within sales, our pipeline has much more visibility. It allows for much faster decisions on things like quotas. One of our biggest power users is in sales ops. She feels her dashboards load 10x faster than our previous tool and she can make changes on the fly.
Assuming they give me a good deal :-)
200
We have 200 people/ day use the software as end users consuming dashboards/reports. It encompasses almost every department in our enterprise – cloud, sales, support, finance, accounting, security, procurement/supply chain, IT. It is truly distributed. Since starting use, we have had more than half the company – 2800+ unique people use the system as some point. It is the most adopted BI tool I have ever implemented. In total we have 40-50 power users building models in the system, again distributed across business functions. Those power users are supported by 1-2 people in my department, IT. We have a tight nit relationship with our power users. Our users can build their own QVDs – models. Now to get them into production, we (IT) review them to make sure they are not duplicating existing models, and not doing something that QVD is not meant to do. We also tune them to the best degree we can as a bad dashboard can slowdown the system. I will say that QlikView's monitoring consoles are very cool. We can see the top running queries, unique users, and the trending of consumption of dashboards. We (IT) do two training classes month - one for basic usage, and one for power users, building models in the system.
1.5
We have 1-2 people in the IT department in governance roles. They were BI developers previously. We have 40-50 power users in the business.
  • Data visualization/ reporting for multiple aspects of our operations including sales, marketing, service, procurement, finance and IT.
SSRS – Microsoft Report Services
Our shortlist included Tableau, a newer version of Microsoft's SSRS and Qlikview. We also knew what Micro Strategies and Business Objects had to offer from our experiences with them at other companies, and knew what we could afford. We eliminated them on price and the complexity of set-up. We liked QlikView's in memory, associative model, and self-service capability. With "in-memory", everything that gets consumed from a dashboard is loaded in memory so it is incredibly fast. Although Qlik touts its mobile distribution capabilities, that was not a huge differentiator for us, but is something we are now exploring. Microsoft and and BO do have in-memory capabilities now. The associative model is patented by QlikView. Basically it starts to understand the associations in your data, e.g. if A=B and B=C, then A=C. It means you can build a Qlikview model very quickly. In traditional data warehousing, you work with users and understand their requirements, refine the data model, start to physicalize it, tune it, build ETLs. It's a 3 month at best delivery cycle. That doesn’t work here at this company. Our business users will not wait for you. Our business is dynamic, we are launching new products all the time. Instead of going through an arduous process, you just load data into QlikView and build an associative model. It link things up. If it doesn’t work, you can change things very quickly. You don’t have to write data definitional language. Where you get into trouble, is if you load very large data sets into QlikView, memory not as abundant. They are releasing a tool called data explorer which allows you to do a hybrid approach – load some in memory and some in database. If data is going into frequently used dashboards it goes into memory. If infrequent access is required and the data set is very large, it makes sense to leave it in the database. We also have a company called DataRoket that builds connectors for us, e.g. load this relational data into QlikView. They have built adapters for QlikView-Hadoop integration.
  • Vendor implemented
QlikView were here for a few days, and it was up and running. It was very fast. Where it fell short, is they did the implementation in demo mode, and didn't initially work with us to help us scale. For example, should we consider a load balancer and multiple servers?. How much capacity can this environment handle from a data and user perspective. We had to learn on own by trial and error. We are bringing them in to do an architectural assessment, but we have to pay for this. We are now bringing them back in for architectural assessment. It is a fee based engagement.
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
My team attended, but I cannot myself rate, but I think it was good as they've successfully launched a training program at our company themselves for users. It was 3-4 day training.
My team holds training sessions for our internal users every month. 8-10 of our staff attend each month. We have an intro class, and a power user class.
No
They are still building it out. Just recently I received a contact for an escalation manager. I used to just call my sales guy. Response times vary.
Dashboards are easy to use. They are very Excel-like with HTML5 capabilities. Data visualization is good. The system requires minimum training to get user up and running. It just takes one hour to get up and running with building basic dashboards and one all day session for sophisticated dashboard building. It is intuitive. We see this in our user adoption. We went from 6 users/day consuming dashboards to over 200 in 1.5 years. We have 40-50 power users authoring dashboards. They have development licenses. My team in IT used to have to build all dashboards. Our capacity has grown from 3 to 50. Most of these users are analyst types good in Excel. A few power users can write SQL to build QVD models.
It is not a SAAS product.
It is not a SAAS product.
  • Various databases/ data containers including Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra (which we use for time series event data, monitoring). We do not integrate directly to operational systems, e.g. for finance, CRM, but push data from those enterprise apps into a data layer, so that we're not taxing those operational systems with queries. We have also built a star schema data mart for the cloud.
It was pretty simple to achieve via ANSI SQL adapter, ODBC. QlikView also hasa 3rd party building data adapters from different systems like Hadoop. We use Informatica to pull data from operational systems into the data layer.
Pretty easy. Aggressive at times in their sales cycles. They are a good partner.
Make sure you do a bake-off to compare Tableau and other best in class systems like Microsoft, PowerPivot. Really understand their license modeling as it’s changed. They didn’t have enterprise licensing model when they started. You really need to think about the taxonomy of your users. For example, power user licenses are different from end-user. You also need to understand concurrency.
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