Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
QlikView is free of charge for single-user use. This is called
the
Personal
Edition
or
PE
. Documents created in Personal
Edition can be opened by fully-licensed users or deployed on
a QlikView server. The limitation is that, with the exception of
some documents enabled for PE by QlikTech, you cannot open
documents created elsewhere, or even your own documents if they
have been opened and saved by another user or server instance.
Often, a business user will decide to download QlikView to see if he can solve a
business problem. When other users within the department see the software, they
get enthusiastic about it, so they too download a copy. To be able to share
documents, they decide to purchase a few licenses for the department. Then
other departments start to take notice too, and QlikView gains traction within the
organization. Before long, IT and senior management also take notice, eventually
leading to enterprise-wide adoption of QlikView.
QlikView facilitates every step in this process, scaling from single laptop
deployments to full enterprise-wide deployments with thousands of users.
The following graphic demonstrates this growth within an organization:
As the popularity and track record of QlikView have grown, it has gotten more and
more visibility at the enterprise level. While the adoption path described before is
still probably the most common adoption path, it is not uncommon nowadays for a
company to do a top-down, company-wide rollout of QlikView.
