Customer Satisfaction

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4/10

4.4

User Experience

★★★★★★★★★★ 5/10

Functionality

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7/10

4.7

Business Value

★★★★★★★★★★ 6.1/10

6.1

Qlik QlikView

What is Qlik QlikView?

Visualization and analysis platform (consisting of desktop and web client) with functionality for set-based (assosiative) analysis and creation of individual dashboard applications.

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Provider and product description

Qlik, originally founded in 1993 in Lund, Sweden, moved its headquarters to the United States in 2005 after raising funds from several venture capital firms. Qlik is currently owned by the private equity company Thoma Bravo after its acquisition in 2016. Since then, the vendor has made a number of acquisitions to create a robust cloud platform that delivers the data integration and analytics organizations need to transform raw data into informed action.

QlikView® was the vendor’s first analytics product and the tool it became famous with. It is a dashboard and analysis product that made in-memory technology in analytics and BI widely popular. The QIX engine still delivers exceptional performance for highly responsive analyses and interactive dashboards. QlikView® was the first tool marketed under the ‘data discovery’ and ‘modern BI’ terms to differentiate it from established BI suites. It was positioned as a self-service tool targeted at business users, enabling them to analyze data without having to consult developers for new reports, dashboards or analyses on new data sets.

QlikView® is still in use at many organizations but no longer actively marketed to new customers. To ensure compatibility, at least one QlikView® release per year is provided with improvements ranging from technical health to integration in the Qlik portfolio. QlikView applications can be run in Qlik Sense® or Qlik Cloud®, which makes migrations much easier, especially when dealing with large implementations.

QlikView® was originally developed as a desktop solution with a Windows client (QlikView® Desktop). It can still be used in this way, and often is, but Qlik has moved away from the desktop to a web-based architecture (QlikView® Server). QlikView® Desktop is used for data preparation (extract, transform, load) as well as for building applications. A core strength of QlikView® Desktop is that it seamlessly combines content consumption and creation in a single mode. This makes the software very flexible to analyze data and enrich and reshape it for further inquiries. QlikView® applications (‘apps’) can be hosted on the web as guided apps (e.g., dashboards or analytical applications) or delivered as complete apps with the data to users who use the local client to access server-based apps.

The QlikView® Publisher component is used to handle data reloads and the distribution of QlikView apps to users. Qlik NPrinting® (a separately licensed on-premises product) provides centralized report creation and distribution using data and visualizations from QlikView®.

Strengths and challenges of Qlik QlikView

BARC’s viewpoint on the product’s strengths and challenges.

Strengths

Qlik sets itself high expectations regarding query performance and hardly ever falls short of them thanks to its mature in-memory engine
Easy-to-use data navigation for end users through ‘associative’ queries and interactive visualizations
Proven suitability for fast and iterative implementation and app modification based on mature and stable software

Challenges

Few new features and innovation in QlikView because Qlik Sense® is the vendor’s primary, modern BI and analytics front end
Limited built-in functionality for data governance to align KPI definitions and ensure consistent use of master data across multiple applications
Outdated user interface and visualization lacking visual appeal and embedding options for leading analytics applications
Data preparation requires extensive scripting and loading of all data into Qlik’s own in-memory engine

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The information and figures are largely drawn from BARC’s The BI & Analytics Survey, The Planning Survey, The Financial Consolidation Survey and The Data Management Survey. You can find out more about these surveys by clicking on the relevant links.

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Individual user reviews for Qlik QlikView

Role

Employee of a cross-departmental BI/analytics team

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Media/Publishing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Ability to knit complex data sources together and manipulate data along the way to create a relevant bespoke customer view.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Tough initial learning curve to get up to speed with how it works and all the available options for customizing.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Plan what you want to get out of it well and collaborate with end users who will be using the end product. Do not underestimate the time it will take to develop the user dashboard part.

How would you sum up your experience?

Love it for knitting data together now I am more up to speed. Allows for quick analysis.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Super schnelle Entwicklung eines lauffähgen Dashboards mit Datenmengen bis ca. 50 GB.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Keinerlei Weiterentwicklung seit Jahren und Qlik Sense ist keine Alternative für die essentiellen & hervorragenden Funktionalitäten von QlikView.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

How would you sum up your experience?

War Super und es gibt aktuell für Echtzeit-InMemory Analytics noch wenig gleich gute Alternativen.

Role

Qlik Sense nutzen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Simplicité de mise en oeuvre et d'usage.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Interface utilisateur à améliorer.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

How would you sum up your experience?

Très bonne opinion.

Role

Employee of a cross-departmental BI/analytics team

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Source

BARC Marketing, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

The ETL ease of use.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

The web view.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

It is a great Data warehouse ETL and BI tool.

How would you sum up your experience?

Top notch technology.

Role

IT employee

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Banking and finance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 04/2024

What do you like best?

Associative methodology. Cognitive capabilities. Qlik nation site for following latest news and product updates

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Licensing and administration capabilities.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Plan ahead for licensing needs to choose the correct licensing plan.

How would you sum up your experience?

Great product and implements latest technology.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from business department

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Manufacturing

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

Bewährte gute Lösung, die seit vielen Jahren global im Einsatz ist.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Veraltet, wird daher ersetzt. Grafikmöglichkeiten nicht mehr State of the Art.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Obwohl QlikView eine sehr gute Lösung ist, ist sie dennoch veraltet. Daher bitte Qlik Sense oder eine Lösung eines anderen Anbieters nutzen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Role

Head of a separate BI/analytics organization unit

Number of employees

More than 2.500

Industry

Insurance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 03/2024

What do you like best?

Performance, technische Möglichkeiten.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Integration eines modernen Datenmodellierungsstools.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Trial and Error Methode nutzen, selbstverständliche Standards definieren.

How would you sum up your experience?

Super schnell produktiv nutzbare Auswertungen, es gibt quasi keine Grenzen der Auswertbarkeit.

Role

Project manager for BI/analytics from IT

Number of employees

100 - 2.500

Industry

Insurance

Source

BARC Panel, The BI & Analytics Survey 25, 05/2024

What do you like best?

DIe Variabilität der unterschiedlichen Datenbanken, die angeschlossen und abgefragt werden können.

What do you like least/what could be improved?

Manchmal lange Laufzeiten bei großen Datenmengen.

What key advice would you give to other companies looking to introduce/use the product?

Genaue Anlaysen der Datenmengen.

How would you sum up your experience?

Wir haben sehr gute Erfahrungen gemacht und lernen aus den Fehlern, die zu Beginn gemacht wurden.

Survey Information

Number of reviews for Qlik QlikView

Reviewed versions

95% version 12, 5% version 11

Peer groups in the survey

Large/Enterprise-Wide Implementations, Report & Dashboard Focus, International BI Giants

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