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TrustRadius Insights for QlikView are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

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.

QlikView Reviews

1 Review
Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Highly flexible but requires discipline.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Pros

  • QlikView does an excellent job of evolving with an organization as it can move faster than an organization thinks. As clients work with their data, their business understanding grows.
  • QlikView ETL capability can be used to create a rapid-prototyping space to lower the risk associated with making changes to an ETL process by using it's native QVD file format as a temporary substitute for virtual data warhouse tables. When these stabilize, the client can integrate them into the ETL process without unnecessary time pressure.
  • Application development is highly flexible. This pairs well with an agile methodology allowing for requirements to necessarily flex as the client evolves. If done well, it generates high user acceptability levels.
  • QlikView provides excellent time to value in that dashboards can be created and deployed quickly. The product has a fully functional scripting language to support all ETL functionality in addition to a fully flexible interface design capability. The ETL piece can be used to quickly bridge gaps in the data.
  • Ideal state processes can be created by deploying mulitple QlikView files to work together.
  • Architecture is highly flexible allowing architects to design in constraints at appropriate points to control scope creep.

Cons

  • Simulateous development is difficult as development goes on in one qvw file. There is no check-in/check-out functionality to protect against changes being overwritten. There are third party products that can bridge this gap.
  • It can be too flexible in that an inexperienced team can fall victim to user whims. This happens when developers implement changes without an appropriate methodolology.
  • It's not a true platform solution. Integrating with single sign-on solutions as an example, is unnecessarily difficult.
  • QlikView's achilles heel is RAM. Handling "big data" requires complex, multi-tiered architectures spanning across several applications to maintain performance.

Likelihood to Recommend

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Mike Schroff
Senior Consultant at Analytics 8 (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
QlikView
7 years of experience