The use cases depend on the industry. Finance, Telco, Manufacturing & Consumer Goods (CPG). Most of our customers are from these industries. We have regular projects in Mexico. Some use cases are around government requests to all banking and financing institutions, as well as public companies, to present specific reports every month. We use the solution to generate the reports for our customers. The sales and finance areas have a lot of requirements for such reports to get insights and predictive analysis.
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As for other things it's very easy to make the data integrations since we can implement different data sources with ease, while being easy to collaborate and share reports/dashboards, scale the datasets, implement Stream and User Governance/Security,
If we top all of this with the mobile accessibility and the awesome community and experts around all of the topics we get a very desired software.
The customer support is also very fast and clear, so no question is left behind.
Qlikview: A Powerful tool for financial reporting solutions
Qlik Features and Power
Self-Service Capabilities
Conversational Analytics
Interactive user interafce
Ease of use, limited IT team help required
drag and drop functionality
ease of implementation
Data integration is a robust and versatile data integration platform
A vast knowledge base and a good support team address queries
Using once in a week
Excel Export is limited to 1048566 rows per sheet
Http header is limited to 16kb
Data model, allowing users to explore and understand data relationships dynamically. This helps in discovering hidden patterns and insights that may not be apparent in a linear data model.
Data visualization features, allowing users to create interactive and intuitive dashboards and reports. This helps in better understanding the data and communicating insights to stakeholders.
Collaboration by enabling users to share interactive dashboards and reports with others. This promotes a collaborative data-driven decision-making culture within organizations.
Qlikview - old but gold
QlikView Review
Unleashing Data Insights and Analytics Excellence
Simplifies data analysis
Nice platform for data visualisation
An easy-to-deploy solution with a variety of use cases and excellent reporting features
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We use Qlik Sense to manage all our sales KPIs as well as renewal plans. It's the tool where all the Go to Market plan is designed and modeled.
What is most valuable?
Reporting and Alerting are valuable features of the solution. Many companies are requesting to implement them and now want to explore and use AutoML. It is a machine learning module easy to use with enough capacity to run sales/churn models.
What needs improvement?
Adoption experience is required. There is some technical background required to do some of the reporting. Customers often request easy interaction with other tools like Excel and PowerPoint.
For how long have I used the solution?
My organization has been partners with the product for more than ten years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Two of Qlik's main differentiators are scalability and analytics capabilities. It could solve extensive data size dB.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the support an eight or nine out of ten from the customers' perspective. The platform and the solution itself are quite stable, most of the support requirements are around getting the best usage of the solution.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is quite simple. The setup and integration with the customers can be done fast. The deployment method depends on the industry. It can be deployed on-premises and on the cloud. Banking customers request to have the product deployed on-premise. We have around 50% of the product on-premise and 50% on the cloud.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment takes less than a month. Most of the time, it takes one to two weeks to do the connections and create at least one dashboard in place. Then, depending on how deep the customer would need the reporting to be, it will take longer. It takes mostly two weeks for the setup, dashboards, and getting connectivity ready. We probably need one or two system engineers or IT engineers to deploy the product, no more than that. We have a lot of guys who have good experience with Qlik.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Upfront seems to be the most expensive tool. But when we talk about TCO, then the pricing rate change as this is one "all-inclusive tool" and does not need to add other services/elements to complete the setup.
What other advice do I have?
We see more requirements around machine learning and predictive analytics. The customers could optimize the value for their money and increase ROI by using and getting most of the functionality in place. Most companies initially use the product as a dashboard tool, but if you do that, you are not getting the real value of it. Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.