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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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Tableau VS Qlik Sense VS Power BI : (EP 1) - Performance: loading ~40 million records
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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
Qlik Sense Videos
The Qlik Associative Difference
Working with Qlik Insight Advisor
What's New Qlik NPrinting
2019 Gartner Bake off
Watch Try a Qlik Sense App
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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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August 07, 2019
Best BI for us
It's used by one division and some other divisions use it in its Desktop version.
Normally we have a lot of databases coming from different CRM tools, mixed with output from SAP and other tools, so we needed a way to consolidate fields and information without modifying the original sources. Qlik Sense made this possible.
The server version helps to have the reports ready at available at any time, while the desktop version allows us to work offline, avoid user "overload" of the server version and it is always faster to get new features of the product updates with Desktop.
We like the ease of use for beginners but also the powerful tools for advanced users or report creators. Other tools were more expensive or not so easy to use.
- Powerful and easy insights our of the box.
- Powerful and easy to manage data from multiple sources and to "massage it" for use within the tool without touching the original files.
- Three to four updates per year.
- Intuitive.
- Drag and drop is really an integrated feature for many things inside the tool.
- Waterfall charts are not that powerful, I had to create my own.
- There should be more tutorials to get started - don't get me wrong, there are MANY online already, but there should be a logical sequence to all of them so you progress in a straight line.
- There should be a phone/tablet app for exploiting the data/reports "offline" (not to create charts, not to manipulate scripts/data, just to see the reports).
- Manipulation of fonts - it is not implemented.
- Label manipulation is quite cumbersome if possible.
August 07, 2019
Qlik works amazingly well for us, but we realize that we're not harnessing its full capabilities.
It's being utilized across all operations teams at the organization to better understand productivity, plan, and forecast for work. We have a total of 27 end-users and 2 developers. That includes senior management, who utilizes Qlik to get a clean and complete view of work performed in as little or as much detail as is needed.
- Viewing aggregated performance data at whichever levels are needed.
- Aggregating data from disparate sources for utilizing 3rd party tools and application data.
- Agile, what-if reporting for all users, at every level.
- Visualizations are very limited, and while an open infrastructure is great and allows for better opportunities to use new visualizations, the quality varies greatly and creators don't tend to support free tools for very long.
August 06, 2019
Quick Qlik Review
We use the Qlik Sense app across the organization at Air Products. From sales, operations, procurement, finance, business management, we have created a lot of different apps to address various needs. Whether it is revenue-related data (sales, price, volume), or costs/spend data, or other metrics that are of use from a distribution standpoint (miles, number of deliveries, etc.).
- It is very easy for an individual to quickly adjust and manipulate views. Allows folks to feel comfortable beyond spreadsheet reporting.
- Creating an app is easy enough once the back end data is created (QVD). This allows folks to create reports that will be auto-generated and managed by IT, versus having spreadsheets that lose their integrity when staff changes.
- The ability to have security allows for better protection of data as compared to a spreadsheet which can be cumbersome.
- Sometimes, too much data can be an issue, and the app slows down significantly.
- Clicks or filtering can be cumbersome, turning off potential users. Having better voice recognition commands could alleviate.
- Better mapping capability would be nice. I would like to be able to overlay store points along with customers as an example.
August 02, 2019
User-friendly, data driven insights
Qlik Sense is being utilised as a data analytics and insights tool across the organisation. It is aimed at making data more accessible to users who are generally not used to querying data in traditional data analysis tools such as SQL and/or SAS. The self service capability allows users to be data driven and use data to support their hypothesis.
- Speed of data queries and presenting results
- Highly customisable
- Front end UI is easy to use
- Better integration to share reports/data natively
- Better scaling options. I find it hard to create a report that's suitable for both laptops and big monitor screens
July 30, 2019
My Qlik Sense Review
Qlik is providing visibility of operational trends and exceptions to mid-level and upper management across the organization. For us, Qlik solves the problem of seeing our complex and voluminous data efficiently.
- Processing information too large to handle in traditional reports. Our managers were asking for a report that could not be efficiently created in Crystal Reports because of the size and number of the ERP data tables. With Qlik, I was able to meet their requirements. The end result exceeded their expectations due to its web access and dynamic visualizations.
- Dynamic Visualizations. Qlik's standard visualizations are easy to use and have rarely left me looking for a customized option. In addition, the chart's responsiveness with large data sets has allowed us to analyze our business in ways impractical to static reporting. What used to take 5 separate reports spread across the conference table can now be done on 1 screen.
- Exception Management. Using the scatter plot and other charts we've been able to catch exceptions in our job costing procedures that were being hidden in a sea of numbers. Then we were able to quickly select those exceptions and drill down into the problem. The identified trends provided the information necessary to update procedures and re-train associates.
- Formatting restrictions. I guess it is the nature of being so mobile. While the OOB visualizations have covered all my needs, getting the colors, sizes and placement of those have taken longer than I'd like. Part of it is learning the program. Others, like the size of the grids and getting consistent colors for a dimension used in multiple charts, have often left me looking for a workaround.
- Learning curve (example: set analysis). When we first began messing with Qlik, I was doing so while juggling many other responsibilities so this may just be a perception thing. Most of the basic stuff was pretty easy, but others still require looking on the net for help. Set analysis is a prime example. It's a very powerful tool that has provided good solutions, but the syntax is not exactly intuitive.
July 20, 2019
Analytical speed in retail sales monitoring
As a grocery retailer, Qlik Sense is being used by the top management and purchases department to monitor sales. It allows us to spot weaknesses and opportunities per store in order to take action. In the next 6 months, we plan to use it to also monitor stocks and profitability as well.
- Visualizations of data are neat, smooth, visually appealing.
- Flexibility to modify, adjust, or create new reports. No expert programming knowledge is required.
- High speed of loading and presenting data.
- Daily usage logs take up considerable space and need to be cleaned regularly so server space does not get filled up.
- Not particularly friendly for printing reports.
July 11, 2019
Click with Qlik
Using Qlik Sense, we build multiple proofs of concepts for our solutions addressing the pharmaceutical and sustainable development market. We have developed solutions using Qlik that help pharma companies market & launch their drugs, primarily helping them better understand the market, analyze the sales data, manage Salesforce and develop KPIs for executives. Our sustainable development solution helps measure and manage SDGs by UN nations.
- Data association - integrate data from multiple sources.
- Interactive dashboard - you change something in one part of the graph and it changes in corresponding areas of other graphs.
- Ease of use - no training is required.
- Text size management and colouring.
- More interactive chart options.
- Graphs and naming of axis.
June 28, 2019
Qlik's associative engine is the key differentiator
All employees throughout our organization use Qlik Sense as the primary tool to analyze and improve the performance of our online advertising products and to follow company KPIs. It has certainly changed the way we can react to things and made the company more data-driven.
- Qlik's associative data engine (based on a proprietary in-memory database) makes the slicing and dicing of data very easy.
- Self-service aspect: it's easy for the end-users to create their own variations of existing sheets to better suit their needs.
- Easy to use: end-users learn how to use it in a short time.
- Inflexible licensing model. For example, if you purchase per-user enterprise licenses for your users (which are expensive), you cannot decrease the amount of them later.
- Doesn't work that well if data sets cannot fit into memory.
- Query language (especially 'set analysis' functions) is quite complex and unlike most programming languages.
- Some calculations are difficult to implement with Qlik.
- Many third party visualization (available in "Branch") are of low quality.
June 27, 2019
A very effective tool if aimed at the right users
Qliksense is being used by non-technical or people with limited technical backgrounds within our organization to produce data and analysis to enable performance management of our supply chain. The main reason we adopted Qlik is that it allowed us to take data from several of our legacy systems, Qliksense allows non-technical staff to produce data visualization with limited support from technical staff.
- Takes data from multiple sources (including Excel) to help bring together disparate data sets.
- Simple to use charts and graphics that allow quick insight.
- Easy to use interface to allow users to develop reports quickly to meet stakeholder needs.
- Still requires some technical knowledge that often meant me having to support.
- Difficult to do more complex charts and visualizations.
June 27, 2019
Quite easily the best solution to our BI needs
We use Qlik Sense across all four worldwide locations in our organization. Our objective was to deliver a self-service business analytics solution that would be robust, flexible in connecting with a wide range of source systems, responsive across desktops, tablets, and phones and easy to manage from any location. We are happy with the outcome and are looking to scale this to all major functions and to act as a single source of consumption of all data and analytics.
- Qlik Sense is geared toward self-service of analytical requirements and encourages users to discover and share their analytics with relevant persons.
- It's fast, has a neat, and unobtrusive interface and puts the focus on data.
- It's responsive and adapts seamlessly to all devices.
- Managing tasks and user access is easy and efficient using the management console.
- I particularly like the hub interface where users see apps assigned to them. Each app can be customized with an icon and categorized into Streams.
- Copying contents of a cell from a table or even a text object is impossible currently. Users would very much like to be able to use this basic functionality.
- Customizing table headers with text formatting and colors would be useful.
- More options in the background grid would be useful. For the moment each object occupies the same minimum size and there's no way to reduce one object without affecting the others
June 26, 2019
Qlik Sense Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using QlikView nowadays in almost all our departments (Sales, Finance, Warehouse, Planning, IT, Management) for dashboarding, KPI's and other (scheduled) reports, but we are looking after Qlik Sense to find out if/when we go from QlikView to Qlik Sense. We are very satisfied with QlikView. We started to look at Qlik Sense because of the ability to use maps, scalability (desktop/tablet) and the self-service possibilities for our employees.
- Use of maps (free).
- Scalabilty (different devices).
- Self service.
- Living community.
- Pixel-perfect dashboarding. Due to the scalability/ability to use on different devices, the place to put charts and tables on a pixel-perfect way is limited.
June 14, 2019
Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is used by our organization at an enterprise level. We are driving digital literacy throughout the organization and want to automate most of the processes. For example, when it comes to creating reports, we used to use Excel and would spend lots of time on it and similar products every month. To overcome this, we are using tools like Qlik Sense to automate the process of creating reports. We are also using Qlik Sense features like in-memory capability, associative data modeling, and others to create new dashboards and reports.
- Associative data modeling - Data modeling is easy and has a lot of transformation capabilities. It's not traditional data modeling which is very helpful in traversing data across all the tables in the data model.
- In-memory engine - The data is already loaded in RAM, so it's fast.
- Strong developer tools for creating extensions and mashups.
- Fast analytics - Creating charts and dashboards is easy and fast.
- Strong self-service capabilities.
- Strong and active developer and administrator community. Lots of online help available.
- Out-of-the-box visualizations are of limited functionality like changing fonts, colors, applying themes.
- Sharing apps across developers is painful, everything needs to be controlled via QMC.
- Cost of license is a bit higher.
- AI capabilities - this has just been introduced, so it might improve in upcoming versions.
June 07, 2019
Qlik Sense in Real Estate
Qlik Sense is currently in one department covering 1400 users. We use it as an application in conjunction with the Klikins extension and for business insight and reporting.
- Combines multiple sources into a single app without the need to consolidate in a data store/lake
- Intuitive to use for the end users and the UI
- Fast to develop and deploy for ever changing output requirements
- Adding attachments / documents to specific data points
We use Qlik Sense to evaluate retail product performance over time and against other similar products both within and external to our business. We extract the data from our ERP system with a direct connection and prefer to use it over other tools because it allows us to blend in data from other sources like Medallia.
- Qlik gives us a no-nonsense and easy to use interface that can spoon feed data to the majority of our users, while allowing for more detailed analytics by those that need it.
- Qlik’s connection to multiple data sources and ability to seamlessly blend them behind the scenes is simply magical.
- The network of community experts to answer your questions is above and beyond any of its competitors.
- Price is an issue, they seem to change their pricing model and offerings way to frequently, so you never know if you are getting priced appropriately.
- Graphics could use a modernization. They feel a bit 1980’s, not as crisp or sharp as Power BI, even though the tool itself is light-years ahead of Power BI.
- Spend more time improving the tool. Feels like Qlik is making a shift away from the tool and more towards data literacy in general, there is still so much more they could do with this product I would like to see more commitment to it.
June 04, 2019
Qlik making the most "Sense" above other competitors
Qlik Sense is being used across multiple departments in our organization as a reporting, analysis, and performance-tracking system. We have been able to drive up adoption with "quick win" dashboards that take the manual effort of creating Excel files at each month-end and allowing Qlik to be the source of historical information. We have dashboards that deal with our Branch outreach, Call Center, general Membership information, Robotic Process Automation results, and plenty more. In all, we have about 100 apps in production ranging from very small to very large size.
As we move forward in our journey, the goal is to have Qlik Sense be the preferred analysis tool in every meeting to be able to answer on-demand questions for planning, reviews, and general Q&A.
As we move forward in our journey, the goal is to have Qlik Sense be the preferred analysis tool in every meeting to be able to answer on-demand questions for planning, reviews, and general Q&A.
- CUSTOMIZATION and CLEANING of your data: Within a specific chart, as a Master Item throughout an app, or in the Data Load Editor, you have full power to clean your data and make it work for your need.
- Bringing together data from multiple sources: We have multiple servers that each house many databases along with secure file share folders. Qlik makes it so easy to connect to all of these sources and choose which data I want to bring in to the app within the snap of a finger!
- The online community and available help. When I started using Qlik, I did a ton of self-learning, as our company had only one or two developers that were also relatively new to the platform. Thanks to browsing the web and finding the online community of how-to questions and the help.qlik.com resources, I haven't found a use case within our company that hasn't already been solved or answered in the online forums.
- If you do not have NPrinting, exporting a sheet/reporting is not very neat. The PDFs are clunky and you cannot see any information that is cut off by a chart's space restrictions on the app sheet.
- While this is an improvement point already, the amount of unsupported extensions out there that do not function perfectly with each new upgrade is a bit "Wild West"y... Again, there is already something being done about this and it really is more of a user problem than a Qlik problem, but something we are somewhat irked by every once in a while.
- The ability to really customize a chart (in terms of formatting, color scheme, etc.) is just not quite there yet. And by "there" I mean perfect. Only limited color schemes out of the box and some of the formatting and options are not very complete. For instance, if I want to resize a chart or visualization, I am limited by the square-grid that is available. Granted, you can reduce or enlarge the size of the grid to help, but being able to only have rectangles makes real-estate an issue in many application dashboards.
June 03, 2019
Make sense with Qlik Sense
QlikSense is used across different departments in our organization. The implementation uses the right data model based on how we want to consume our data. This alone solves data availability, quality and most of all, decreased dependency from the IT group.
- Visualization. Easy to understand visualization controls enabling non-technical users to create their own dashboards with minimal ticket request.
- Built-in Associative model. It was very easy for IT to create a base model for the end users to consume.
- Internal data store. Although being proprietary, this attribute saved the organization from license cost
- Extensibility. Very easy for us to branch out any base data model or reports that we've built in the past to enable us to continuously align to business needs.
- The internal workload balance is good, but it would be nice for us to be able to control how server loads can be distributed across server nodes.
June 01, 2019
Qlik Sense in manufacturing domain
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have been using Qlik products for the last 8+ years and started with QlikView. We recently were planning to move to QlikSense and had evaluated the product already. We are using Qlik products in operations, engineering, logistics, test and supply chain departments across the organization. We created a wide variety of dashboards and reports for business users to drive the operations, tool efficiency and program management efficiency.
- QlikSense has strong self-service analytics capabilities when compared to competitors. With Qlik Insights, business users can easily create any additional analysis without development team involvement.
- QlikSense easily pushes the new data to charts or tables without any interruption to the webpage. No need to refresh the webpage to see new data after reload.
- The chart objects auto reset based on browser resolution or OS. No need for additional development for mobile dashboards.
- Real-time data refresh without limitations.
- Source control inside the product.
June 01, 2019
Great product for certain industries
Qlik Sense was used in our Aviation Security Operations across scheduling, planning, finance, human resources, and operational departments. It allowed us to manipulate and visualize millions of rows of data quickly and simply, and to connect data tables from numerous sources.
- Data manipulation.
- The speed at which it can organize and manipulate millions of rows of data.
- Ease of connecting data from different sources.
- Qlik needs to provide better training, it cannot be only examples of simple financial models shown in the advanced class.
- Ongoing support.
- More visual customization options.
June 01, 2019
Qlik Sense Review
We currently have a deployment to a small group of power users across the whole organization. It was implemented to help fulfill our model of self-service. Whereas our Qlikview serves as a means to facilitate dashboarding and KPIs. Qliksense was a means for self-service so users could generate their own decks
- Data manipulation
- Data joining
- Presantation
- Any means of worth
- Additional visualizations
May 30, 2019
Qlik Sense as a system-wide solution
The intent is to use Qlik Sense across the whole organization. Currently, it has been launched within a few departments. We provide dashboards to make outcomes and processed data available to executives and managers in an effort to make one source of "truth". Historically, each department was responsible for pulling their own data and we would have multiple "answers" to the same question. In the future, we're hoping to provide drill-down levels with the data and to educate the user base to take advantage of it.
- Qlik is more IT or programmer-friendly for data load scripts.
- Qlik makes it easy to "lock down" data views, so that the occasional user doesn't get into trouble by applying filters, etc, that don't make sense.
- We're a bit behind the curve when it comes to educating our end users on using the Qlik app, so we still need to use pdf views to distribute. Qlik doesn't have a lot of options for this venue.
- Qlik requires more IT knowledge to get the data loaded appropriately than I would like.
- I find the interface more difficult to use than the competitors.
May 30, 2019
Clicking for Qlik
Qlik Sense is being used internally for data analysis and for external customers for data reporting and analysis. Dashboards have been created to highlight key performance indicators and areas of focus within the business areas. These dashboards have different access levels and details for different areas across the business to meet changing and differing business goals.
- Visualisation
- Ease of use
- user experience
- Licencing model
- Data import
- Single sign-on from active directory can be difficult to set up
May 29, 2019
Self service BI with QlikSense
Qlik is designated as the enterprise dashboarding and mobile BI tool.
- Data relationships
- Search
- In memory processing
- Components
- Scripting
- Multidimensional data processing
- Graphics
Qlik Sense is mainly used in my department where we use it to analyse and report on complex datasets. For example, where data from multiple line of business systems needs to be stitched together to see the full story. As a specific example, we have used QS to generate the Groups Gender Pay Gap reporting requirements.
- Visualize complex relationships
- Provide intuitive UX
- Allow dynamic querying of data
- Certain chart types that QlikView users would be familiar with are not (yet) available in QS.
- Changing the size of charts to any size.
- Allowing charts to be displayed behind other charts.
May 17, 2019
Sense it!
We are about to take Qlik Sense into use step by step. We have now two implementation projects going on and we will move from QlikView to Qlik Sense in a few years. We will use Sense across the whole organization. I don't see any problems with that.
- Self-service reporting.
- Much easier to use than QlikView.
- Can't comment yet. Lack of experience...
May 16, 2019
Qlik Sense Review
Qlik Sense is used across the broader WBA company. I was involved in the implementation and subsequent use in our New York office. The use case was to consolidate information from our third party distributor and internal finance solution (SAP) to enable a balanced scorecard for the management team and more detailed analysis for finance, supply and commercial functions. The first phase of the project utilised QlikView. Subsequent phases migrated to Qlik Sense.
- Qlik Sense is very easy to use - which made it very easy to justify the benefits case and drive adoption as we released subsequent sprints.
- Qlik Sense addressed the issues we faced to develop a single solution that would work for the office-based community and remote sales force using QlikView.
- Qlik provided extensive support to help us decide the roadmap for Qlik products in the context of our IT landscape.
- Qlik integration with SAP was a real bonus.
- Qlik's associative engine is both a strength and a weakness. For a single solution like the one I describe here, it makes the development process quick without compromising performance. However, when the larger data and analytics strategy was considered for the group (which for such a large company involves handling vast quantities of consumer and operational data) other solutions proved to offer better value for our requirements.