QlikView Enterprise

[#1]

Hi All,

We are in the process of evaluating QlikView and requested our local QlikView partner to provide some information about licensing. We got a PDF document which answered a lot of questions. However, am still not clear about few things and I would appreciate of someone here can help.

The document says 1 Enterprise Server $8,400. What exactly is an Enterprise Server? How do I know if I need one? Do they have a Standard Edition(which offers lesser features) as well?

We are a small shop with about 80 users and out of which about 20 users would be using QlikView analytics and all our data in stored in SQL Server 2008. In our case, what would we need? Do we need a Publisher or is it covered in Enterprise?

Thanks a lot in advance for the help and sorry for asking so many questions.

[Jason_Michaelides]

$8,400 is extremely cheap and I should think they mean the small business edition rather than enterprise for that price tag. SBE is mainly the same as Enterprise but with a few notable limitations. These are the main differences:

Collaboration is disabled in SBE so no sharing bookmarked selections between users

SBE is limited to 25 Named Users and 100 Doc CALs

No clustering or shared access points on SBE

Hope this helps,

Jason

[#3]

Thanks, I am not sure if they meant SBE.

What about Publisher? Do you think we need it or is it covered in the license? In our scenario, what's the best licensing model you would recommend? Please advice.

[Jason_Michaelides · Accepted solution]

With a clear note that I am not a QV partner so can only advise from my experience as a customer:

For 20 users, it would seem that Enterprise is overkill and SBE would be best. As long as you can live without the built in collaboration.

Publisher is usually a significant extra purchase (on both SBE and Enterprise) and is used for automated reloading and distributing of QV docs and reports. Remember you can also schedule reloads using SBE without Publisher, you just get more options with it.  QV or the partner would be better placed to explain properly.

After deciding on the server edition you need to choose the end-user licences. Named users give one user the licence to view an unlimited number of dashboards. A single Doc CAL gives one user the licence to view just a single dashboard. So it depends on your usage which one is best. Named users are usually just over 3 times more expensive than Doc CALs.

Hope this helps, but you really need proper advice from QV or a partner.

Jason