QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.
| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
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| Microsoft Power BI | 4.0 | 26.4% | 93% | 321 interviewsAdd to research |
| Tableau | 4.2 | 21.7% | 89% | 306 interviewsAdd to research |
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We've got a third-party provider that consumes our data, and they have QlikView experts or QlikSense experts who visualize and create business-type reporting and insights for our other business users to use.
We do operations and monthly reporting via QlikView. We usually have various types of business use cases for different business units, and it is used for all those reports. We create reports for each of the business units based on their requirements. Our users can log onto the portal and prepare all their reports in one place.
QlikView is old, and we are now moving towards a Power BI environment. We are moving all our reporting over to Power BI.
It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful. So, it is easy to create a data set of specific fields or variables that you need. You create the snapshot, and it then basically stores that into its own little file that you can build over time.
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.
I have been using this solution for about 10 years.
It is stable. It is resource-intensive, but it works. It is not bad; it is just old in terms of functionality.
It is resource-intensive. So, it is not easy to scale. In my organization, we have about 50 to 100 users who are using the actual QlikView portal to draw reports. We have 5 to 10 users who are building and creating reports.
I have not really used their support. We have experts in QlikView. If we struggle with something, we've got QlikView consultants, and they have expertise. Every now and then, we do contact them if we're having issues with QlikView.
It is of medium complexity. It is not easy, and it is also not difficult. It takes a little bit of time to get the hang of it. If you have some kind of experience in working with these types of setups, it is quite easy to learn.
It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year.
I would recommend QlikView for a small business with very specific data needs. QlikView makes sense for small businesses with a very specific data environment where data is controlled, and there are one or two people requiring the data or reports. For anything bigger than that, there are other more modern tools that you can use at a lesser cost.
I would rate it a five out of ten because there is quite a learning curve for using the tool, and it has been falling behind other tools.
