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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense is a business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics platform that supports a range of analytic use cases. Built on Qlik’s Associative Engine, it supports a full range of users and use-cases across the life-cycle from data to insight – with self-service analytics, interactive dashboards, conversational analytics, custom and embedded analytics, mobile analytics, and reporting. The solution comes in three different editions - Qlik Sense Enterprise, Business, and Team. Qlik Sense can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises.
The Qlik Sense analytics platforms aims to empower everyone in organizations to make data-driven decisions. People of all skill levels get analytical power, with associative exploration and search, AI-powered insight suggestions, AI-accelerated creation and data prep, advanced analytics integration, and natural-language, conversational interaction. They can share and communicate the insights they discover and get answers anywhere they work – with interactive and secure online and offline mobility. And for the enterprise, users get a platform with open and standard APIs for customization and extension, data integration and connectivity, centralized management and governance, and a Kubernetes based SaaS / multi-cloud architecture driving scalability across combinations of on-premise, private, and public cloud environments.
Qlik Sense Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Sage 500
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Additional Features
- Supported: In memory data indexing Associative Engine
- Supported: Machine Learning with the Qlik Cognitive Engine
- Supported: Augmented Intelligence and insight suggestions with Insight Advisor
- Supported: Conversational Analytics with Qlik Insight Bot
- Supported: Open APIs, in addition to Qlik Analytics Platform
- Supported: Multi Cloud Architecture with docker containers deployed and orchestrated within Kubernetes
- Supported: Data Catalog & Data Ops Management with Qlik Data Catalyst
- Supported: Public and syndicated data as a service with Qlik Data Market
- Supported: Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data
- Supported: Flexible deployment options including Enterprise SaaS and combination of cloud and on-premise options
- Supported: Enterprise reporting and distribution with Qlik NPrinting
- Supported: Advanced geopolitical calculation and geotagging with Qlik Geo Analytics
- Supported: Embedded analytic capabilities to build, extend and deploy custom solutions that are scalable and cloud-ready with Qlik Core
Qlik Sense Screenshots
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The Qlik Associative Difference
Working with Qlik Insight Advisor
What's New Qlik NPrinting
2019 Gartner Bake off
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Qlik Sense Integrations
- DataRobot
- Azure
- Cloudera
- SAP
Qlik Sense Competitors
- Microsoft Power BI
- Spotfire
- Tableau
Qlik Sense Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Kubernetes |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, LATAM, APAC |
| Supported Languages | The Qlik Management Console is English only. The Qlik Sense client supports the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, simplified Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. The language Qlik Sense uses depends on the language preferences of your browser. The default reading order in a Qlik Sense app is left to right. You can change the reading order to right-to-left in your app preferences if your data or labels are in a right-to-left language such as Arabic or Hebrew. |
Qlik Sense Downloadables
- Qlik Sense Data Sheet Qlik Sense® is our governed, next-generation visual analytics product, supporting a full range of BI use cases for individuals, groups, and organizations, including self-service visualization, centrally deployed guided analytics apps and dashboards, custom and embedded analytics, and reporting. Business users of all types and skill sets get powerful, flexible visualization and discovery on any device, all within a governed framework that drives enterprise scalability and trust for IT.
- Qlik NPrinting Qlik NPrinting is Qlik’s next-generation reporting and distribution solution, helping spread knowledge and insight across the organization and beyond. This data sheet provides an overview of the product and its capabilities for report creation, distribution, and enterprise deployment.
- Qlik's Statement of Direction
- Qlik Insight Bot The Qlik Insight Bot provides an AI powered, conversational analytics experience, giving people a faster and easier way to ask questions, generate insights, and make data-driven decisions using natural language. It can be readily accessed from within Qlik Sense as well as through popular collaboration tools such as Slack, Skype, Salesforce Chat, and Microsoft Teams. Natural Language Processing (NLP) automatically trains itself and learns from user inquiries over time, and Natural Language Generation (NLG) delivers insights for not only what is happening, but also why – and where to go next. Insights include auto-generated charts, interpretations, key drivers, period-over-period calculations, predictions for measures, and even comparative analysis. Users can set alerts for KPI thresholds, share and collaborate conversationally, and even interact using voice – with Amazon Alexa integration.
- Qlik APIs A short data sheet describing the Qlik Sense APIs
- Qlik Data Catalyst Qlik Data Catalyst™ is a modern enterprise data management solution that simplifies and speeds up how you catalog, manage, prepare, and deliver your trustworthy, actionable data to business users across your enterprise.
- Qlik Scalability Tools
- The Qlik Associative Big Data Index The Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data, allowing users to freely explore and search Big Data repositories while leaving the data where it resides. This capability provides a governed, high-performance associative engine that can be deployed within sources such as Hadoop based data lakes, eliminating the need to transfer and prepare the data elsewhere before it can be analyzed.
- Qlik Connectors
- Qlik Analytics Platform - the power of the Qlik® Associative Engine and visualizations in the hands of application and web developers through powerful, open, and modern APIs – allowing you to see all the connections among all the values in all your data.
- Qlik Core - With Qlik Core, you can take advantage of Qlik's powerful associative engine to build, extend and quickly deploy custom interactive data-driven solutions that are highly scalable and cloud-ready. And built for Linux and running in a Docker container, Qlik Core applications can easily be embedded into any stack, IoT device, process, application, web page, or portal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
Qlik Sense starts at $20.
Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire are common alternatives for Qlik Sense.
Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Qlik Sense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Qlik Sense, a widely used data visualization and management tool, has proven to be invaluable for organizations in various industries. Users have praised its ability to provide consistent and visually appealing information, ensuring that everyone within the organization is on the same page when it comes to business performance. By reducing the manual workload of repetitive reporting tasks, Qlik Sense allows users to transition to more strategic business intelligence practices. This makes it a go-to BI tool for different departments and functions across the organization.
One of the standout features of Qlik Sense is its efficiency in processing large volumes of data and its flexibility in combining data from multiple sources. This enables users to create simple yet powerful dashboards that track impact and outcomes, financial performance, and cost modeling data analysis. Not only does Qlik Sense address reporting needs, but it also provides valuable insights that can inform decision-making processes. It has become an indispensable enterprise reporting tool, supporting management reporting and facilitating data exploration.
From inventory tracking and forecast analysis to providing executives with a quick overview of the company's health, Qlik Sense proves its versatility across various use cases. Its self-service business intelligence capabilities allow users to create personalized dashboards and analyze complex datasets without relying on technical expertise. By improving decision-making processes and saving time for users, Qlik Sense has established itself as a trusted companion in the realm of data visualization and analysis.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Qlik Sense. The three most common recommendations are as follows:
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Conduct thorough research before selecting Qlik Sense: Many users suggest exploring other tools in the market and comparing them with Qlik Sense. They recommend conducting research to ensure that Qlik Sense aligns with specific business requirements and needs.
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Take advantage of available resources and demos: Users recommend taking advantage of the free trial and demo apps provided by Qlik. They suggest testing the ease of use and functionality of Qlik Sense before making a decision. Additionally, users recommend exploring resources such as Qlik Branch or GitHub for extensions and add-ons to enhance the capabilities of Qlik Sense.
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Understand business processes and define requirements: It is recommended to have a clear understanding of the business processes and requirements before selecting any BI software, including Qlik Sense. Users emphasize the importance of defining evaluation criteria and having a list of requirements handy during the evaluation process.
Overall, users believe that Qlik Sense offers a robust BI platform with extensive capabilities, particularly suitable for large business setups in industries such as retail and manufacturing. Users appreciate its interactive visualization options, excellent data integration, adaptability to multiple devices, and ability to analyze data from various sources quickly. They also suggest investing in training and ensuring thorough knowledge of all features before attempting complex tasks.
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July 14, 2020
Confusing product for a nonprofit that needs dedicated technical expertise to fully utilize
Qlik sense is being used for our organization to capture demographic data for clients served across all programs, as well as provide outcome data, fidelity data (adherence to our program model), and tracking of strategic initiatives for clients within our flagship program. Additionally, Key Apps and sheets that we use internally have been "templatized" and are being offered as part of the "deep evaluation and learning experience" we provide to other organizations who adopt our flagship model (within their own organization in different states) as part of our Network Affiliate model.
- Interactive visualizations.
- Customization to add your own company branding (logo, color schemes, etc.).
- Allow for multiple cuts or filters of data depending on user needs (region, time frame, client type, etc.).
- Use Standard SQL so that new staff can build sheets and apps quickly using existing knowledge
- need to be able to select specific dates for filtering data (i.e., show data for all clients served between 7/1/2019 and 6/30/2020) as this would address the majority of our data requests from contracts and development
- Provide a "user training" section of the site that allows end-users to have a guided training on how to navigate QilkSense and use Key features like the snapshot tool or how to apply multiple filters to a particular view using the organization's data, not a random dummy data set.
June 15, 2020
The analyst in each of us
The system is used throughout the organization. The main goal is to visualize business processes in the mode as close as possible to real-time. With Qlik Sense, our company explores data in various ways and draws its own conclusions based on this data. In addition, we have built a dashboard, KPI, and a system of grades.
- Qlik Sense has a low threshold for entry into development, which makes it possible to include the maximum number of units in it at the lowest cost.
- In addition to the system, better training is required.
We're using Qlik Sense to analyze sales and customer demographics data. It's being used by the CEO and the marketing part of the organization. We operate in multiple countries, with several products in different currencies. Qlik Sense allows us to look at all the data in a single platform, which is hugely useful for us. I do have doubts as to the scalability of the cloud product as we're starting to hit the limits of data file sizes we upload (and we don't want to use the product directly against our MySQL DB for security reasons).
- Easy to implement for relatively simple analytics
- Deep user base/knowledge base
- Reasonably nice UI
- Flexible
- Data load is a bit byzantine - there should be a one-click data load process
- Hard to "undo" or modify data load criteria once it's been set up
- Up to down scrolling would be nice to have - it's pretty standard functionality
June 01, 2020
From report creation to self service
Qlik Sense is used by our finance controllers to quickly get real-time data to analyse, by our business to follow up their KPI and by finance to consolidate and assist in monthly closing. The self-service possibilities of the tool allow business and commercials to do a first part of their analyses themselves, leaving the time to our controllers to do more in-depth and detailed analyses and add value instead of only create reports. The dashboard our business leaders have provide them their first view on their business in real time. The possibility to drill down and the use of the filters allow analyses of margins per client/type of business.
- The power of grey: the possibility to filter on everything - even if it is not included in your current selection.
- User friendly in creating graphs/tables: with limited explanation a user can create themselves simple dashboards.
- Possibility to easily create data models linking different systems and tables.
- Visuals: changing the basic/preset colour schemes is hard.
- Not possible to select null values (blanks) without altering the Input.
- In QAP it is not possible for a user to save often used filters.
May 26, 2020
Qlik Sense Enterprise from a user's perspective
Currently Qlik Sense is being used by selected users within the whole organisation.
The current usage is quite limited as it does not connect to our existing systems yet, especially for the finance domain where we have to upload our own Excel files. Understand that this is not a Qlik Sense problem, but a data warehouse problem which the organisation is currently trying to resolve as well. Once the data warehouse is set up and running, Qlik Sense will be more widely and actively used.
The current usage is quite limited as it does not connect to our existing systems yet, especially for the finance domain where we have to upload our own Excel files. Understand that this is not a Qlik Sense problem, but a data warehouse problem which the organisation is currently trying to resolve as well. Once the data warehouse is set up and running, Qlik Sense will be more widely and actively used.
- Ease of publishing dashboards on an enterprise-level via streams.
- Scripting language is powerful with lots of functions.
- Qlik Sense can handle the whole data lifecycle, from ETL all the way to visualisations on dashboards.
- Things are not as easily customisable as say, Power BI or Tableau. E.g. font size, font type, text location, etc. No overlay/floating visuals capability as well.
- Complex front-end development makes the dashboards a bit sluggish and slow.
May 25, 2020
A good package for quick and easy reporting
Qlik Sense is used throughout the organization, including our Purchase Department, Finance Department, Warehouse Team, Sales Department, and upper senior management.
- Ease of information gathering.
- Customization of data.
- Graphical representations of data.
- Better error messages on data reload, some error messages are unclear.
May 21, 2020
A stellar BI platform
Qlik is the de facto BI tool in my market leading firm. We currently have 6K+ developers and over 10K+ users consuming applications. Qlik has been critical to my success with the ease of integrating and connecting data across multiple tools and source systems in a cohesive manner.
- Data modeling with the associative engine.
- Set analysis for fine controlled expressions.
- ETL capabilities with the load script editor.
- Visualization choices and customizations.
- Simplification of set analysis syntax.
- Develop concepts of data models.
May 20, 2020
Qlik Sense works Magic!
Using it for computing large amounts of data with the vizualisation and easy implementations. Qlik Sense has worked a lot in these. Easy to use and ease of availability on different platforms makes it very user friendly. We use Qlik Sense for our day-to-day reporting of machinery and equipment sales, purchases, stock details and historical data computation.
- User friendly.
- Data computation.
- Ease of availability.
- Easy licencing.
- More extensions support.
May 20, 2020
The original BI solution and still the best.
Qlik supports our organisation being data led and ultimately ensures our patients get the best care. We have a large suite of Qlik apps (both View & Sense) being used across the organisation from our ED dept, Surgical Theatres, OP Clinics, Inpatient Wards all the way to the Board Room, these apps consolidate vast amounts of data but presents it in a visual & easy to understand manner so it's quick for our clinicians to consume and make decisions on. We are also in the process of rolling out Qlik Sense which is more aimed at people wanting to explore their data in more depth than ever before.
- Quick to learn & easy to use.
- Automatically renders for the particular device, therefore works great on both desktop and mobile devices.
- Has Qlik's powerful cognitive engine that helps highlight relationships it data.
- It's consistent, from its underlying technology, code, standards, Qlik maintains a level of consistency unlike other vendors that frequently chop and change D&A products.
- Storyboard is sometimes poor a rendering content, particularly 3rd party extensions.
- Would be good to see the Qlik Value Added products & more extensions available in the Qlik Cloud.
We use it to track the consumption of our published marketing materials. Since we support many industry verticals, tracking and attribution are important to justify our expenditure in these areas, and ultimately, see where the materials contribute towards opportunities and sales leads. We rank the usage statistics when we try to allocate our content development budgets based on the level and method of consumption.
- Tracking
- Developing insights and reporting.
- Merging with Salesforce.
- Automated reporting and customization.
- Sometimes hard to save a standard query.
- Must rebuild report parameters repeatedly.
- Exportation of data to Excel a bit clunky.
Track data to see trends and make adjustments as well as identify events that can become hidden without looking at the data in a larger population. Build different reports to set up cost justification. Monitor process control data over time in order to identify potential quality issues that may need to be corrected.
- Easy to drill into data from annual into hourly.
- Easily customizable.
- Links well with multiple data sources.
- Takes too long to get comfortable with navigating around and using.
- It doesn't feed into presentations well or I haven't figured out how to do it the way I want.
We are using it to visualize our sales data. We use a very old system so it is hard for us to gauge what is happening sales-wise (trends, what items sell, what customers grow, don't grow, etc.), so we use the product for that. We also use the software to do conference calls with our reps, we show them what is working, what is not, and let them get data about all of their customers before they visit them and even send them PDF reports.
- Looks nice
- Easy to read
- Nice UI
- Great for display and presentation
- Easy to get hard to find data
- Hard to set up
- Sharing/limiting access very difficult
- Printing/exporting to PDF functionality does not work well
- Editing is very hard
- Updates were TERRIBLE and wrecked my account, needed help for 6 weeks to get it right again. George helped me and he was great.
May 16, 2020
Qlik business reporting
Qlik is used almost across organization in form of Qlik Reports. We analyze our products and employees performance on weekly/monthly/quarterly and yearly basis. we have multiple branches and their performance and revenue also get measured through these reports.
- Flexibility to play with data.
- Management console.
- Basic formatting issues: Color/font esp in graphs and Pivot.
- Use of master measures in expressions.
- Alternate state to have more options.
- More options rather than having to solve everything using set analysis.
May 16, 2020
Qlik Sense Review
We use Qlik to build and deliver professional dashboards to our stakeholders.
- Easy to use
- Overall look and feel
- Seamless
- User friendly
- Collaboration
May 13, 2020
360 deg. Review by Mohan
We are one of the biggest telecommunications services providers in Belgium with a total business employee base of around 10K. We are using Qlik Sense for all departments with around 60 Developers and around 700 Consumers to address order-related statistics, purchases, finance, revenue business decision related queries.
One of the examples is, it addresses the entertainment-related statistics on all our service users which helps us in advertisement-related decisions.
- Qlik Insights: Which lets us to have a basic starting point on how we can start visualizing data.
- QVD creation: Due to its RAM based data analysis structure with QVDs which helps us in fast data analysis.
- Extensive Visualization bundle and numerous extensions help in exploring more and more insights in data.
- Visualization such as charts and graph editing experience could be made a bit easy.
- Data manager loads too long for just 2 tables.
- Scripting editor could be more informative when getting issues in data loading.
May 11, 2020
Qlik Sense Unique Associate Engine
Many depts are using Qlik Sense to address reporting needs. It will be used across the whole organization. There will be more using areas include visualization, analytics, data collection and sharing. Information are centralized and shared with the group. It's easy to generate good quality reports and produce good results to the audience.
- On-premise server.
- Associative engine.
- Web-based.
- Modern looks.
- Free extensions.
- Fancy 3D charts.
- Extension store.
May 08, 2020
Pricey but Solid Enterprise Dash-boarding Tool
Enterprise-wide addressing all business problems.
- Company trends and future possibilities.
- Connections and the ability to get data from multiple sources.
- Visualizations.
- No capability to use M/C learning without R integration.
- Though visualizations are good, they are not comparable to Tableau.
- Price.
Qlik is used across the organization. It is used in most divisions and most departments. It limits data silos and improves coherency. At the touch of the button, people have access to millions of rows of data.
- Easy to build model.
- Making selections in multiple filters.
- In memory speed.
- Large data sizes.
- Set analysis is tricky.
- Can be challenging for people to build their own stuff.
- Limited geospatial reporting out of the box.
May 03, 2020
QlikSense can transform your business, your decision making, and make the best use of resources
Purchasing data analysis, dashboards, insight, business decisions, price prediction, prescriptive dashboards, sourcing reviews, performance management, and weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews.
- Dashboards
- Data links and relations
- Visualizations
- Data filters
- Handling huge data
- Insights
- AI Bot
- Easy Customization like Power BI
- Real-time data feeds
- Speed
- Geo analytics
- More AI
- Data inputs at front end
- Data reloads
April 28, 2020
Solid
I am currently using Qlik as an analytics tool for cost modeling data, as does the rest of my team, comparing the cost of specific components from different sources, categories, vendors. This data is then analyzed to see where our largest cost savings may be obtained from and how we can get there.
- Breaking down large sums of data in an easily digestible way
- Visualizing data
- Presentations
- Entering data manually is not a strong suit
- A guide for all Qlik syntax
- More colors for graphs
We utilize Qlik Sense as our principal BI solution for the entire company. We serve visualizations of our data to users in every department for any reason they might need automatically updating data resources. We purchased Qlik due to its ability to load relatively large volumes of data for analysis by the end user through the in-app selections tool, a job at which it performs fairly well.
- End-user driven analysis
- Multi-table data structures
- Data Manager is almost completely non-performant with large data volumes or complex queries, wasting large amounts of analyst time waiting around for the necessary synchronize tables step, which can take *actual hours* and doesn't even actually load the data! We elected not to utilize Qlik as our embedded BI tool for this reason: I couldn't imagine putting my own users through what I deal with on a regular basis. I also have several apps which appear to have developed some sort of bug which prevents me from
- Many common analytics questions are not really possible to perform in the front end and must be pre-calculated either in the load script or your data warehouse: rolling averages, period over period calculations, and several other common transformations are not really possible without (exceedingly complicated and unintuitive) "set analysis" scripts, and some are just best handled in
- Adding multiple event streams from different tables to a single graph is essentially impossible; you must instead redesign your data model to allow for a single data field to refer to all the relevant events. There is no internal feature to help you do this.
- Overall, Qlik is a system which serves end users reasonably well, and the data model combined with the selections feature *should* free up Analyst hours due to enabling end-user driven analytics, but that opportunity is lost due to how difficult it is to use and maintain apps in the back end.
- I don't know if this is a "room for improvement" but Qlik's model is to internalize all data to disk on your Qlik server, which means if you are looking for a tool to make best use of a high-powered big data warehouse with excellent OLAP processing times, Qlik is not the tool for you.
April 23, 2020
Easy to use "drag and drop" data analysis
It is being used across the whole organization to store and analyze data related to insurance policies. Qlik is being used for both internal measures (business metrics - revenue, client growth, etc.) and to offer client reports.
- Dashboards - You can build dashboards that look good and are easy to use.
- Ease of use - As everything can be clicked on, it makes it easy to play around with dashboards.
- Cannot export stories.
- Have to contact support for simple issues that could easily be resolved by the user.
- Support are not knowledgeable and are slow to respond.
Our agency recently implemented Qlik Sense and is trying to move in the direction of business intelligence to supplement more traditional reporting practices. We plan on using Qlik Sense to provide dashboards to the general public on key issues and track internal data issues. One of the key reasons we are implementing this tool is to reduce workload on repetitive reports.
- Data visualization
- Speed
- Performance on large data sets
- User access control
- Learning curve
- Collaborating during dashboard development
April 20, 2020
A power user with 2 years experience
It's used across the whole department (NSW Health). My department just uses Qlik Sense as our main BI tool at the moment while the other departments use other tools as well like Power BI or Tableau. Our department uses Qlik Sense for our KPI monthly reports replacing our static PDF reports.
- Can access different data sources directly.
- Easy to learn to build simple reports.
- Continual support from Qlik Sense team.
- Cannot change font size in the graphs, hard to read the graph titles especially when projecting to larger screens. Just the graph size becomes bigger not the titles at all!
- It's not really that easy to build the data model behind, steep learning curve. The built-in data manager is no use for serious analysts.
- Hard to visualise clearly on big screens, very faded and white on big screens.
- Data security model is complex.
- Cannot use version control software on Qlik Sense files, harder on collaborative work.
- Set analysis is powerful and useful but complex.
April 20, 2020
Qlik Sense is a solid product
It is being used for financial performance and utilization trending. It is used to produce dashboards used by users at many levels within the organization.
- Graphics are aesthetically pleasing.
- Color palette is broad.
- Intuitive dashboards.
- Learning curve to develop new content.
- Relatively inflexible to introducing minor changes to visualizations.