QlikView Reviews

I am working on Qlik Sense and previously worked on QlikView for data visualization and reporting purposes.

It provides a comprehensive data warehouse solution within Qlik Sense, eliminating dependency on external data sources and enhancing data visualization capabilities.

We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases.

The product provides availability or adaptability for building an analytics dashboard. The selection parameters are easy to access. By applying specific filters in Excel, we can distribute a country's sales data into provincial states and then cities. It has efficient breakdown features.

I use the solution in my company since I like the product a lot. I find it to be better than the other tools in the market.

The tool helps me in the areas of data visualization and business intelligence.

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features have been added to QlikView after the layout containers were introduced. QlikView used to be a way more customizable tool than Qlik Sense is in the present time.

Improvements are required in the hide and unhide functionality that falls under the layout container feature that has been used in my company in recent times. Hiding off the apps in the app overview tab based on the access was a really good feature that needs to be introduced back in the product since I see that, at the moment, there are multiple groups on the tool, owing to which multiple changes on the QMC part is required to handle the solution.

Only the person with access to the dashboard in QlikView could have a link to the dashboard through QlikView's hub or access points. With Qlik Sense, one can see whatever is available in the stream. If a user wants to control everything in the product, then there is no need to make multiple changes in the QMC at the individual app level. The aforementioned area can be considered to improve Qlik Sense.

I have a comprehensive use case that involves reviewing various aspects of financial balance, financial planning, accounting movements, and analytics, in addition to other applications related to industrial planning and more.

The key highlight of our work review process lies in the efficiency of data management on the backend. It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations. It offers a robust data management model on the backend and a user-friendly data browsing experience.

The feature I found valuable in the solution is the power of VPN and the power of representation of data. Also, the speed of performance is a valuable feature of the tool.

There are a couple of things right now to consider since QlikView is going to be out of the market. Instead, Qlik Sense will be the new platform. Right now, QlikView is switching up. So there are some enhancements in Qlik Sense required.

Though the initial setup phase is simple, when it comes to the integration with the custom systems, the configuration and the compatibility sometimes take some more time. The aforementioned area can be considered as room for improvement.

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. 

We use QlikView for business analytics, primarily for internal insights in the healthcare space.

QlikView employs the Snowflake schema, which becomes an associative model, making it easier to drive insights. Additionally, the intensity with which you can work on the ETLs is quite impressive.

In my manufacturing unit, we use QlikView to track various KPIs related to inquiries, bookings, test drives, retail sales, turnaround times, service attendance, part replacements, and more. We visualize this data through line charts, bar charts, and pie charts, and also offer ad hoc reporting for dealers to customize their dimensions and measures. This helps us monitor performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions efficiently.

The most useful feature of QlikView for me is the QVD concept. It allows me to compress and store data, improving application performance by reducing load times. Additionally, I find the access control feature valuable as it enables me to restrict data access based on roles, ensuring data security. Lastly, the ability to schedule tasks using the QMC automates data reloads, keeping dashboards up-to-date without manual intervention.