No I don't ... DocCALs are not the licence I was refering to I I certainly wouldn't expect loads of access to a document for £200. The comment was not properly clarified - apologies.
However ... have you seen Tableau? FREE document reader to download, similar (but not as good for complex data sources) splice and dice in memory type analysis which can be added to websites etc. with no additional licences. I know there will be other costs involved but if we've spent £21k (plus annual 20% fee) getting an enterprise server and £800 (+20%) for each named user or heaven help us gone down the amazingly expensive £8,250 (+20%) session CAL (consecutive but not concurrent users).
And if we want a test environment? +£10,560 (+20%)
And if we want to distribute reports? +£12,650 (+20%)
And if we want those reports to be in pdf? +£12,650 (+20%)
You want to use the extranet server? £12,375 (+20%)
session CAL for that? £1,875 (+20%) much more reasonable ... BUT you're only supposed to have 3 documents on that server ...
Sharepoint? +£2,530 (+20%) actually not too bad ... until you remember that of course, all the object you imbed need a licence as well, so if you have users on DocCALs you've got to put all the analysis into a single document that can make performance on your server suffer ... so then you need to upgrade your server ...
I know compared to some, QlikView might not be dreadful, but if you've read the Gartner magic quadrant report they have highlighted that the cost of larger scale implementations within companies can prove very costly and that this could well prove to be a limiting factor for QlikView in the future. Initial download and trial - excellent, free; small scale implementation - not too bad; trying to expand across the company so that we can really utilise all the possibilities of what is an excellent tool ... too much.
They have restructured the price in quite an interesting way. You no longer have the £4.5k for a developer licence but equally you no longer have the very low cost Analyser (view only) licence. It was the cost equivalent of the Document CAL but allowed you to view multiple documents. Over a large scale it could still be quite costly but not as bad as it is now!
I certainly don't think £200 is a sensible value for unlimited use. However, after all the setup and "support" costs that go along with an enterprise server setup, I feel that some of the licence and CAL costs can be prohibitive and difficult to justify. This, sadly, limits the power one could get from the solution as you can find your wings clipped, which is massively frustrating.
This is obviously just my opinion so feel free to disagree. 🙂
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