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Michael_Reese
Employee
Employee

NPrinting vs CIA Partners QlikView Reporting add-on

Hello, I'm in the process of evaluating these products.

Has anyone else compared these two products directly?

What are there reasons you would recommend one over the other?

Any issues or limitations encountered after purchasing?  Has support been effective and reliable?

Thanks

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Chris, I believe you are asking 2 different questions but correct me if I am wrong:

1) is there is an End User ability to start a report - Not at the moment but NPrint rep tells me there is a Beta going on right now that will be released in the September 2013 timeframe that will permit end users to launch their own reports.   A QV/NPrint developer would need to expose a report launching mechanism in the QV application.  So users will be able to launch reports directly from the application.

2) can you build and distribute reports - Yes for sure.  This is exactly what NPrint does.   It will allow you to import users from your QV app (or another data source) and manually or schedule automated reports to run and distribute to directories, email or HTML locations.   The data can be run filtered per user so the report only contains information based on the user/group. 

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I've been away for a while, so thank you all for your answers.

best regards

Chris

ngulliver
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Hi, Christian.

Depending on the country you are in, NPrinting Enterprise edition (the high spec version) is about a third of the price of QlikView Publisher.

You can also get a free 35 day trial licence for the NPrinting Enterprise edition to try before you buy.

Have a look at

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/nprinting/

or the Vizubi website mentioned in Andrea's response above.

Cheers,

Neil

Anonymous
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Neil

Richard said above:

is there is an End User ability to start a report - Not at the moment but NPrint rep tells me there is a Beta going on right now that will be released in the September 2013 timeframe that will permit end users to launch their own reports.   A QV/NPrint developer would need to expose a report launching mechanism in the QV application.  So users will be able to launch reports directly from the application.

Is this indeed the case & had it been released ?

Best Regards,     Bill Markham

ngulliver
Partner - Specialist III
Partner - Specialist III

Hi, Bill.

The functionality is indeed happening but probably not for September since it was not included in the Beta testing of the latest release started on the 17th September.

No dates have been confirmed yet.

Cheers,

Neil

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I think that it would be interesting to add QV Report to this discussion.

QV Report is a real pixel perfect reporting environment (Crystal Report like, but 100% dedicated to QlikView reports).

No Excel dependency here (although it still allows for XLSX as output file, if wanted).

Not to mention all the standard and advanced features, QV Report now is available with a web client for users to explore their reports directly from a browser.

Get in touch with BI Network to know more.

Regards

Simone Stefanini

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Wow, this is totally unrepresentative of what nPrinting can do.

You can create Excel, Word, Powerpoint, HTML, or PDF documents, not just Excel or PDF. You can choose to attach the documents, or embed them into an email. For example, I often make up a detail report in Excel that shows each line item, but embed an HTML chart that shows the big picture (i.e. a chart) instead of multiple detail lines. That let's management quickly review the issue, and then go into Excel if they want to see the details.

You can draw charts from numerous QV files at once in a single report. e.g. I do a program summary each week which draws data from 7 different QV files (one for each offered service), and includes both Excel tables and QV charts.

You can cycle on multiple fields. For example, you want to produce reports for each salesman, showing (separately) activity on new and existing accounts. You cycle first on Sales Rep, and then on Account Type, and will get two separate files for each sales rep, each dynamically named.

You can display QV objects (tables, charts, etc.), and any images you want to add.

You can access bookmarks, or create your own filters, or both. If I want to cycle through a specific sub-set of a field (e.g. not all Sales, just National Accounts), I can still cycle on Sales Rep, just create a bookmark that selects the National Accounts reps first. nPrinting will then cycle through the appropriate reps.

You can embed QV objects (including variables) in your documents. For example, I usually create a variable "vToday"( which is simplyToday(0) ) and then use that to identify the report generation date.

You can format your Excel/Word/Powerpoint templates just as you would the Office object. If your tables are indeterminate in length, this may cause some issues. Equally, you can add any valid HTML to HTML reports to include headings, links, etc.

I will say that nPrinting has issues with stability; I have to restart the process at least once a week. Error messages are cryptic. There is a new version (14) that I have installed on a test-bed, and that seems to be improved.

nPrinting is not perfect, but it's better than what is included with QV. I think the reply above gives very short shrift to a decent and working product.


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Hello, Today I'm working with Nprint and I'm not using even 50% of what it offers, but I can guarantee that we can meet the need of the client and the report defined by user type. With tupo need to understand the customer's need, which often do not even want to buy more licenses. With this we extruturar the process in a way that you have the panel to a number of people and other Nprint process that automatically sends e-mail with HTML files in EXCEL, PDF to n users. The other product that you refer do not know, but I recommend the Nprint. I believe if you had answered well structured their need and the client will be very pleased. Hope this helps. Jorge Rodrigues (Brazil)

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All of these are stunning responses and very informative.

Because of some reporting gaps in our production environment we have in the past resorted to writing all sorts of macro's that would loop through values, make selections, extract objects and data and then paste them into an Excel or Word template and mail that off to users (to ad a management summary or comments and then publish as a Board of Trustees reporting pack for instance.

What I have always thought would be nice was if one could treat a QlikView app as a data source (in a crystal or SQL report writing tool (or like an ODBC source)) and then access that and leverage off the strengths of QlikView data handling.

Regards,

Sarel

Michael_Reese
Employee
Employee
Author

Hi, I'm the original poster and it's been several years creating this thread.  Today I am partnered with Vizubi, the makers of NPrinting.  The gaps it had early on in its initial releases are long gone.  It is extremely powerful and flexible and has many use cases, including some you haven't thought of yet.

It does have all of the Office export options, plus pdf, image, flat file, email etc. in addition to pixel perfect.  It also has On Demand functionality that allows QV users to generate reports using their own filter selections.  I've even created a solution for On Demand that puts dimensions, expressions and labels in the users' control as well.

I recommend you explore the NPrinting web site and its many helpful tutorials.

If you're interested in a solution provider, I offer implementation and training services.  Feel free to message me if you'd like to pursue partnering with us.

Mike