Qlikview Review

What is Qlikview? Updated: Nov 10, 2018

Qlikview is a business intelligence program with many useful tools that any business needs. The application allows business owners close monitoring of their business. Qlikview incorporates many solutions and tools that make it as comprehensive as possible. The main goal of this software is to assist a company in data collection and analysis which would be facilitate decision making. This is a product of QlikTech Company.

Qlikview Average Rating -

The average rating of Qlikview is 4.5 stars. The rating is based on 93 aggregated online reviews.

Qlikview Typical Customers

Since Qlikview has the ability to handle unlimited users, it can be used by different businesses of varied sizes. However, the manufacturers recommend this software for small companies and startups, meaning that these are the types of business that would benefit mostly from this business application. Freelancers can also use the basic edition for their personal ventures at home.

Qlikview Features

Qlikview can help you business in so many ways that it would prove itself to be useful and cost effective. Since most of the processes are automated, you might not need that much staff, thus allowing to reduce overall overheads in your business. As a business owner, you will be able to get various reports from different departments, and all data will be available in one centralized place. You will have a clear picture of the company since all the data will be converted into relevant business reports that are displayed on the dashboard.

Qlikview 5 Pros

• Qlikview supports several mobile platforms, so CEOs and other business heads can have ready access to their company's information even when they're on the road or outside the office
• The service runs on its own platform using in-memory technology. This lessens the program's dependency on IT professionals to regularly maintain and manage the system, thus reducing maintenance costs
• Qlikview provides business heads with a clear snapshot of the company so they can deal with problems even before these affect the company
• Qlikview allows in-house and multi-location correspondence, so that company heads have access to the same data and can correspond accordingly with each other
• Unlike other BI systems, Qlikview focuses on speed, and users can locate and gather information on the system faster than with other available platforms

Qlikview 2 Cons

• Qlikview is designed for fast collection of required business data. However, this makes the system hardware-dependent. Without an advanced hardware system to support it, its use might prove to be cumbersome
• Though the program promises certain independence from IT professionals, most companies will still need a lot of IT support for the program's installation and implementation.

Qlikview Alternatives

Tableau Server and Birst are two main competitors of QlikView.

Birst is a cloud based business analytics tool that provides a free trial of its product and can access multiple on premise as well as cloud based data repositories. Its features include advanced tools for data visualization, interactive analysis, collaborative review and information sharing, as well as self service portals for data querying. Additionally Birst allows users to perform data mashups by combining enterprise data with their own information to review individual analytic views.

QlikView is also a cloud based BI solution that includes a publisher for automated distribution of analytic information, and a Direct Discovery tool that integrates with Big Data to allow analysis of unstructured data as well. There is also a Governance Dashboard to optimize the utilization of the QlikView product from a technology point of view and thereby improve information analysis.

Tableau Server on the other hand offers a free trial of the product and is provided as both an on premise as well as hosted edition based on customer requirements. The product is accessible via mobile devices and supports interactive dashboards which can be embedded in almost any type of enterprise application. Additionally the product supports data collaboration with includes commenting, real-time analysis as well as self service query management.

QlikView on the other hand offers clients a free download of its full featured desktop edition for use which is not period based. Additionally it allows development of business discovery apps for deployment in the organization and can integrate with collaboration portals for sharing of data analytics.

Qlikview Pricing Information

Qlikview offers different pricing plans with a free personal edition, and paid versions start from $1,350 per user.

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Specifications

Company:	QlikTech
Address:	Qlik Technologies Inc, North Radnor Chester Road, PA
Customers:	Small business, Medium business
Business Area:	Cross Business Areas
Platforms:	Desktop, Mobile, Cloud
Operating Systems:	Mac OS, Windows, Linux

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