QlikView Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score7.3 out of 10

789 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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

22 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesAccounting1Information Technology & Services16Management Consulting1Marketing & Advertising1Research3

Qlik: Useful and Handy BI Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in our organization in order to have a trend analysis to improve product decisions. QlikView helps our sales team analyze customer interests and dislikes. In this way, we can perfectly understand the profile of each of our clients.

Pros

Good UI/UX.
Reports and analytics.
Data visualization.
Data export.

Cons

Local Qlik data generation becomes redundant work.
It usually takes an inordinate amount of time to search for export options.

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView excels in interface and platform connectivity. We use QlikView with Qlik NPrinting and the results are really good. QlikView has a much higher ETL rate and a higher overall refresh rate.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Great tool but expensive

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

April 27, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QlikView is being used by our organization to monitor and analyze data for our business processes and allows us to create different tables and views that are worth analyzing. It helps us to manage the manage the business decisions that we make. It is not used by all of our team, only some of it.

Pros

Charts.
Tables.
Data analysis.

Cons

Customer support.
Implementation.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a larger company, this would definitely be a useful tool, but for many smaller companies there may be better tools out there for the money. I feel as if our organization is not getting our money's worth from this platform.

Verified User

Executive in Marketing (Marketing & Advertising company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

QlikView is a great tool for any firm, highly recommend

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

November 4, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QlikView is used widespread, but not every group in the firm uses it currently. But usage is growing constantly, and we have many new use cases on the to-do list, so I anticipate expanded usage to continue.

Our analysts use QlikView to review data in detail, prepare dashboards and reports for their analysis commentary/output, etc. Managers also use QlikView for quick high level review of data.

Pros

Easy user interface.
Self-service available for 'power' users.
It is not very difficult to maintain or rollout updates.

Cons

Some users do not like all features.
Enhancement requests do not get adopted quickly.
It would be nice to have additional functions available for some of our use cases.

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView is a great tool for our needs because it can quickly be configured to meet our user requirements, which are always changing and expanding.

It would be nice to have some additional features and capabilities available in QlikView, but we have been able to come up with some adequate workarounds to date.

Verified User

Director in Quality Assurance (Research company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great analysis software for your report and dashboard needs!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QlikView is currently being used by most of the key users within our organization by those who needs to access highly-interactive analytics applications and dashboards in a really simple way. It's filters allow for a very intuitive use of the software, allowing the users different points of view of the same data.

Pros

Filters on reports are really easy to use.
It's easy to create new reports.

Cons

The cost could be a little high for some companies.
The UI is not as simple to manage.

Likelihood to Recommend

Qlikview's licenses are not cheap, but you get a good value for the price you are paying. In case you have a lot of users accessing the reports and dashboards, it could become a little pricey for the company, but in case you don't have too many users, you'll be OK.

Guillermo Villamizar

Account Manager in Information Technology at EXXIS GROUP | Partner SAP Business One en Latinoamérica | (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Better than some, less expensive than most.

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Qlik was trialed within our data intelligence group. We examined it against a known dataset with various other toolsets.

Pros

Pattern visualization.
Data transformation.

Cons

Ease of use.
Pricing model.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good : Creating dashboards for a sanitized dataset. Bad : Importing data from unstructured sources (flat files/streaming data).

Nestor Ramirez

Strategic Technical Director in Engineering at Trace3 (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

3 years of experience

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Qlikview review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 12, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using QlikView to visualize our data quality management dashboards with either business users, their management or executives of our company. Using with QlikView documents (QVD) and QlikView views (QVW) helps us to distribute data with a variety of user interfaces.

Tablet support is enabled for our executives and they can check their dashboards anytime and make decisions upon change of the data.

Pros

Fast development
Easy SDLC implementation
Visualization performance
Variety of charts
Ability to answer needs

Cons

Faster data refresh policy for static and changing records on the same page
More Data Compression

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView is easy to learn (2 days of training for intermediate skills and 4 days of training for advanced skills).
Fast implementation cycle. Simple to use (especially for non technical business users).
Multi language support.
Easy to install, maintain and administer. Ability to comply with tight security needs.
It will take not more than a day to produce a simple dashboard and a week for an advanced style dashboard.

Gurcan Orhan

Data Quality Management Software Development Manager at Yapı Kredi (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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QlickView - a tool for business analysts

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 26, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QlikView is being used by the business analysts to create custom reports which allow them to analyze our data.

Pros

Easy to use by users without a big technical knowledge.
Easy to integrate different data sources.
Fancy reports.

Cons

It is really slow, the performance should be improved.
The ability to test reports can be improved, it takes a lot of time just for testing.

Likelihood to Recommend

The scenarios where QlickView is well suited are:

When you don't have technical people to create reports.
When you want business analysts to be able to generate their own reports.
When the organization is starting to embrace tools to generate reports using different data sources.

The scenarios where QlickView is less appropriate are:

When you have a team with a technical background that can use other tools to create custom reports faster.
When you have another BI tool.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Fly with QlikView

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

QlikView can be used both across different departments and at enterprise level. It helps organisations/users to do deep data discovery and analysis in order to get deep insight and uncover useful information to make better decisions and take good action.

Pros

It surfaces both associated information one needs and also those not needed thus providing a complete view for analysis e.g. total credit exposure, cross/up sell, market basket analysis, etc.
Good in helping one understand what one doesn't know in terms of knowledge surfaced from data discovery e.g. money laundering patterns, purchasing behaviours, etc.
A strong QlikView developer can 'cut and slice' data very quickly to produce any combination of data to produce required output e.g. set analysis.
QlikView by itself or with Qlik NPrinting can produce nicely formatted reports.
Fast and agile in analysis.
Has QlikView Reports (but not integrated to Qlik NPrinting)

Cons

Improve on how data model can be built more visually appealing and friendlier.
Ability to create master items like in its sister software Qlik Sense.
More and ready collections of sexy visual objects.
Cognitive intelligence to recommend charts.
More certified extensions.
QlikView Reports can be integrated to work with Qlik NPrinting.

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView is well suited if the data can be presented in a well data model for agile and flexible data discovery. Not that well suited if used to do financial reporting and analysis where complex and dynamic financial relationships/hierarchies (e.g COA) need to be included.

Verified User

Executive (Information Technology and Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

7 years of experience

QlikView - Not a Bad Visualization Tool

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use QlikView to visualize aggregated data for our projects. The last project that I worked on was an auditing system. I pull numbers of files accessed and number of database reads that the auditing system generated and graph these numbers on a daily basis. Once a day, I look the QlikView-generated graphs to determine if their is any spike in the numbers. If there is, then I look into the spike and attempt to determine why it happened. This is a very easy and quick way of looking at the content of about twenty emails to determine if there were any abnormal audit items.

Pros

QlikView allows you make data-backed visualization very easily. The format of these visualizations is completely up to you and your team.
QlikView can show your data in many type of graphs as well as show the actual numbers associated with graphical points.
We use QlikView to access data on Microsoft SQL Server, but other data sources are supported. Check out the QlikView documentation to determine if they can use data in formats that you need to perform analysis on.

Cons

We found that QlikView can be a bit slow in supporting some forms of encryption. It is web-based and we needed to upgrade all of our server to not support the older SSL and TLS 1 protocols, only support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. However, QlikView could not run with TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. We had to wait over six months to get a version that would handle the newer TLS versions.
There are so many options with QlikView that you can get lost when developing a visualization. There are still items I have not yet figured out, such as labeling a graph with the name of a selected detail item.
QlikView works by pulling the data it is going to use for visualization into its database. I am a security reviewer and I need to make certain that PII and PHI is not pulled by QlikView for a visualization, otherwise this could become a reportable indecent.

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView is a good tool for visualizing data as long as you are trying to visualize aggregated or anonymized data. It can generate most type of graphs and also show you the details of the data that are being graphed. However, you do need to be careful to not include sensitive data in you visualizations since the data is stored in the QlikView database and that could become an attack vector that you will need to watch.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Research company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

QlikView Review: Quick Glance

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a service based organization and we implement solutions for our clients. I am a part of the Analytics department and we implement QlikView based dashboard/ solutions to address clients' business problems. Typically, I have worked with Insurance and Healthcare(Pharmaceutical) clients which are market leaders in various geographies like US, India, etc.

Pros

in memory application
AQL i.e auto association
QVD
conditional hide n show feature

Cons

Implementing maps other than that of US
Real time data handling is not possible
device compatibility isn't there

Likelihood to Recommend

QlikView is well suited for scenarios where a heavy data is involved or heterogeneous data is there which also requires some manipulation/ cleansing or application of business rules. Also, if the UI dashboard involves complicated formulas to be worked upon, QlikView is well suited.

However, if there is a need to quickly create some dashboards where the developer has little knowledge on database/ scripting and also there is no data manipulation required for input data, other technologies other than QlikView can be considered.

Verified User

Consultant (Information Technology and Services company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience