Pretty @#$% Awesome
February 22, 2016
Pretty @#$% Awesome
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
QlikView Desktop (Free)
Overall Satisfaction with QlikView
We use QlikView to produce a variety of dashboards for the board of trustees, the superintendent, department chiefs and executive management, and employees of certain other departments to assist in monitoring KPIs and other important data quickly, easily, and in ways that have often been difficult or impossible to see before the implementation of QlikView.
- QlikView, because of the way it stores everything in RAM, is extremely fast.
- QlikView allows you to explore relationships between data elements that might otherwise be overlooked.
- It has a very sophisticated, robust programming "language" and allows for virtually unlimited customization.
- While powerful, the syntax of the commands, particularly with respect to dollar-sign expansion and set analysis, can be exceedingly arcane. I can't even remember right off hand how many different duties the dollar-sign is involved in, but it seems like they could have figured out a way to make it a little less confusing. On the other hand, mastery of set analysis, advanced aggregation, and dollar-sign expansion is what separates the men from the boys.
- I'd personally like to see a wider variety of built-in chart types.