I thought QlikView was supposed to be easy to learn

[#1]

Hello Everyone,

Of course I'm a newbie not only to this product but from a technical perspective BI in general. I'm not finding this product to be user friendly at all. Perhaps it's just the newness of it all but I'm wondering did anyone else fell this way at the start?

[#2]

Steve,

Good stuff. This application is starting scare me. The developers are actually listening to their clients.....Isn't that a novel thought? LOL

[#3]

Coming from a systems architecture and software design background, I found QlikView to be relatively moderate in difficulty to learn; largely due to the need to utilize 2 to 3 different languages to get started. Recognizing this, we created a standard practice in our company of attending and completing the free Online Courses before including them in user acceptance testing, and before getting started with development.

After attending these courses and completing the available tutorials most of our users found QlikView to be simple and intuitive for basic analysis.. however very difficult for much beyond that.

In order to enable our users to get more value from QlikView, we've started a process of pre-modeling the data structures for their consumption. After removing the hurdle of learning QlikView load script, our users have really flourished to develop some impressive applications. They're provided with a pre-loaded QVW (which the QV Publisher generates), and a simple tutorial document explaining the data structure. They binary load that QVW and go from there.

I'd recommend this approach to anyone having trouble with initial acceptance and usage of QlikView. It goes a long way in smoothing out that sharp learning curve.

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Alex Mumme
Developer/Analyst, Business Intelligence
Information Technologies Division

CHG Healthcare Services, Inc.
6440 South Millrock Drive, Suite 175
Salt Lake City, Utah 84121

[martino]

A BI tool is a so much more complicated (and different) Application than Excell and I wonder why anyone would expect to be able to "handle" QlikView without a fair and dedicated effort. I do not think that anyone would expect to be able to handle MS SQL server, Oracle og SAP BI with a background of experienced Excel user only.

It simply is not fair to give critic about anything (weather it is QV, or any other app.) without doing an effort of trying to understand it, and perhaps a bit arrogant to tell a company how to run business on that behalf. I understand your embarrasment of not having looked at the video tutorial.

Give it a chance - a fair chance..

Best regards

Martin

[#5]

Dears,

I 'm also new in qlikview. And I think the suggestion of Mr. john is very helpful for newest people. At least to go it through step by step.

Abdalla

[#6]

We initially had similar feelings. I echo others' comments about the tutorial: it is essential.

The phrase we've uttered here over & over is: "Ohhh. I didn't expect to find it/have it work that way. Now that I do, it is easy/makes sense!" User groups, the QlikCommunity site, and experience will help you clear the hurdles.

[#7]

Hi there, ofcourse it wasn't easy to begin @ the start, but i can assure u that as and when we got issues, the forum users were super quick to answer our queries which is remarkable, since QlikView training is not not easily available around here...

[#8]

I agree with you Brian,

I was able to create my TCE graph in a day, but its taking a lot of time to get my dashboard ready! 🙂

[#9]

I am having 3+ years of experience in qlikview.When i strated working with qlikview i was in the same situation but i m sure once u spent some time with qlikview u will find it very easy to learn & user frendly.

[#10]

Hi!

I had experience of Business Objects before, and after that experience: Yes - Qlikview is quite simple. I have now working with Qlikview something like 1 year. I am still newbie. But this product feels so much easier than ie. BO.

So good luck 🙂 It will get more easier when you have worked with it for a while.

And like others say: It's like love/hate relationship sometimes 😉

[brenner_martina]

Hi,

QlikView is quite simple but not trivial, for 6 years I work daily in QlikView, but do not know everything! QlikView is the best program I work with for 30 years!!!!!