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Logout button is a small shortcoming compared to issues with other BI tools. Gartner report has Qlik in the top 3 BI tools by a very wide margin ahead of dozens of other tools. (Microsoft and Tableau being the ones keeping up with Qlik.) Was mostly a need for people who were sharing computers routinely.
I don't work for Qlik, am a self-trained developer who crashtrained himself on it back in 2013 (okay honors degree in finance says I'm reasonably smart too. 
) I have no official certifications, but have been the primary QV developer at my company for a few years now. About a hundred end users accessing QV dashboards I built directly for their random myriad needs, and some managers and directors receiving qv/nprinting reports at whatever intervals they wanted.
We're still on the small business edition, QV 11.2 SR12, NPrinting 16 and I've singlehandedly automated 6-7 jobs out of existence and my team is the only one not growing as the company grows, because it is that scalable. Even made a qlikview to analyze the user access logs and show how I saved a gazillion manhours year over year and got a nice bonus.
The stuff paid for itself and my salary many times over now. (Our company was 130 people, recently acquired by a 30k-size corporation and merged with 3 of their other acquisitions to make a new 3k-size company. Parent company just acquired another 18k-size company, and I've had 4 bosses this year, watching people swirl around me our teams coalesce. I'm on a BI team now and we all brought our applications from our legacy companies, and I think I have the most happy end users and the least technical skill of anyone in the group.
So... don't knock it until you try it and it keeps you relevant through a storm of mergers and acquisitions.
Note: I am holding off on upgrades to QV 12/NPrinting 17 while they smooth those out. I have a thoroughly vetted environment I'm content to leave be until the early adopters finish vetting the new stuff.
Eh, my brother's a data scientist with SAP and I've used SAP at a past company myself - it cost 23 million dollars to deploy there and we only took a handful of the modules to use with half our functions. Currently I'm using a small business edition of Qlikview on a nice little 16gb ram machine for some tens of millions of records. (Though I am using some nice optimization tricks to go easy on our humble server.) Biggest companies using Qlikview are somewhere in the top 20 on the Fortune 500 list and companies with the largest deployments need terabytes of ram on their servers - they're using the enterprise edition. Somewhere around here, you can see them arguing about hardware configurations needed to crunch their billions of records. I don't know if anyone's Qlikview deployment cost 23 million dollars, QlikTech might know that one.
Anyway, stuff is what you make of it!
Also sorry if I come off as snide, I'm not a client-facing person by any stretch of the imagination. If you all did your cost-benefit analysis and had a robust decision-making model and such, I'm sure you'll come to what's best for your company and needs. I'm sure if it comes down to Qlik missing a logout button versus SAP costing an extra $20M, the logout button won't be the deal breaker for Qlik.
