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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
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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May 16, 2019
Qlik Sense - the easy path to data discovery
Qlik Sense has helped us uncover some areas we need to improve upon. By quickly being able to identify issues we are better able to respond to problems and be proactive to potential issues in almost every single department. We are able to dig deep into ERP transactions to find the root causes of the issues quite easily as well.
From the development standpoint, it's simple to get up and running with minimal issues. You can very quickly sort out good data from bad. It's such a powerful tool, I'm not sure we would be where we are now without it.
- Tracking transactions
- Automatically loading the data on the schedule you want
- Ease of development
- Licensing costs
- Ability to scale back licenses, or modify license types - i.e. move users from Professional to Analyzers
- Suggestions for how to clean up synthetic keys
May 16, 2019
Making Sense of IT all!
We use Qlik Sense to give immediate access to a wide spectrum of global employees to understand the live KPI performance which drives our business performance. The user interface is modern, customizable, and intuitive, lending itself well to a broad level of IT capability.
- An intuitive interface, so all levels of ability can easily pick the product up and use it.
- The ability to build large data models and view the interdependent relationships.
- The ability to scale and roll out quickly and securely.
- Occasionally the programming interface only lends itself to "experts." A set of "wizard" prompts would be brilliant to help guide.
- Would love access to resources to build compelling user case scenarios to convince the business to roll out en mass.
- An online training academy/training resources to get users "qualified" would be helpful.
May 16, 2019
Qlik sense: An innovative BI analytics tool
Qlik sense, at the moment, is only being used by our department, as we are busy creating new models from old existing QlikView models. Afterwards, it will be used by various departments in the organization to analyze and compare data.
- A beautiful design of both the front-end and the back-end. Specifically, the back-end looks a lot neater now than compared with Qlik View.
- Data visualization is made really easy by Qlik Sense.
- Easy to understand and to start creating models with it.
- Can be a little difficult to get used to where all of the features are located.
- Qlik Sense is lacking a lot of features that'd make it a much better tool for data analytics.
May 16, 2019
It make Qlik Sense
It is being used to analyze our sales data, drill down into the categories that we focus on, and look at trending data and vs budget. It is being used across the company to see high-level sales and also to look into department-specific KPIs and ad-hoc data analysis. Reports are consumed across the company and specific users are able to build their own chart with the potential to have them create their own reports in the future.
- Scripting language
- Easy to create visualizations
- Drag and drop UI
- Presentation is simple and clean
- A little buggy.
- Set analysis can take some time to get your head around.
May 16, 2019
Qlik Sense Review
Qlik Sense is used enterprise-wide in our organization. This will serve/help to understand the health of the client, utilization and other operation related areas.
- Architecture. When it renders the info it brings it from memory. No need to talk to a connected backend every time which will help improve the performance.
- Interactive analysis where almost anything can be searched from the depths of data through global search and selections which respond quickly.
- In our CNT dashboard, in addition to dashboard metrics, we have to provide the info to Excel and other formats. Qlik Sense is able to do that. It's one of the cool features Qlik Sense has.
- From a GUI features point of view, I feel like improvement needed. when we are implementing CNT or Client dashboard, where the business wants some specific sort of GUI features and colors, out of box Qlik Sense doesn't not able to support it. We have to see a third-party app to integrate and meet the requirements.
- Often in the edit modes of scripts or storytelling, the software hangs and becomes unresponsive. We have to restart from the beginning.
May 06, 2019
Make sense of what you have with a 'Qlik'
Qlik Sense is being used across the whole of my organization for various purposes, which includes assisting management in extracting BI from raw data we have on certain products and/or to help drive strategy based on such information, or monitoring the health of our risk portfolio and insuring data integrity. For me it presents data in a meaningful and easy to understand manner through an extremely user-friendly interface.
- User friendly interface that is simple (even for first times users) to use/navigate
- Powerful filtering tool which enables the user to extract information they need effectively on a timely basis
- Really useful graphical representation of information which can be used as direct input into reporting
- Can be slow/clunky to load at times (might be due to the sheer amount of data)
- For some reason bookmarking does not seem to work/save my filtered view (might be due to our internal system)
May 05, 2019
BI has been made easy with Qlik
We are using it internally to unify reporting standards across the company and to provide visuals for our own clients. It helps users from all department have a single version of the truth for numbers in the company.
- Easy to use for all types of users.
- Quick and fast solutions for users.
- Very scalable.
- Load scripting tool is great.
- Would like to have a better way to access live data.
- Pixel reporting should be built into the solution.
- Mashups should export out of the box.
May 02, 2019
Easy for everyone
We use Qlik Sense at the IT department for gathering and show data from different sources in an interactive view. We plan to spread the use of Qlik Sense to more departments and integrate it with other systems as well. The reason we have not maximized the use of Qlik Sense is only organizational - the lack of time!
- Very simple and useful views make Qlik View easy to use for end customers.
- Interactive views gives end users possibility to tweak the data as needed
- THe UI is so nice and modern!
- Sorry - I can't really find any disadvantages!
May 02, 2019
Nokia - abandonned customer
We extensively used Qlik Sense to deliver analytics and technical consulting services to mobile operators across Europe and Asia. We are not a reseller of Qlik Sense but we promoted Qlik Sense to an operator by showing its flexibility. Unfortunately due to close to zero support from Qlik Sense we are seriously considering other BI solutions.
- Flexible, highly customizable, very stable BI platform
- More sophisticated and flexible base graphical components.
- Sales support from Qlik Sense practically disappeared. Nokia is simply not able to buy from Qlik their products. Requests and e-mails asking for resolution of this problem ASAP was simply ignored by Qlik since [we got a new] contact person. We get the impression that Qlik is not a future-proof product, they are about to abandon its customers and disappear from the market.
April 20, 2019
I like Qlik
Qlik Sense is our company’s primary BI tool for 3 business units, currently expanding to all BU’s
- Processes large datasets.
- Easy to deliver/deploy.
- Great user experience.
- Needs better white labeling.
- More descriptive error messages.
- Better resource sharing.
April 19, 2019
Qlik Sense for DTA driven analysis
In our company, we use Qlik Sense to tell story's and keep our management up-to-date with all the company and department-wide changes. It has helped in creating visibility on the user end. We have absolutely enjoyed using Qlik Sense as it is data-driven with the option of self-service which makes it more valuable.
- It helps in telling a story
- Self-service: which allows the users to create their own visualizations.
- Governance makes it easy to monitor licenses and allocate them.
- It provides room for innovation and creative thinking. However, with better color schemes and visualization, it can be made better.
April 11, 2019
Review of Qlik Sense
It's used by just myself but hopefully more members of my team and others in the near future.
- Fast associative processing
- Visualize data
- Handles large data sets
- Scripting language is very technical for some users.
- Very limited customization of dashboard layouts.
April 05, 2019
Qlik Sense for complex problems
Qlik Sense enters into our organization to replace Microsoft Analysis Services cubes and Excel+Sharepoint reporting. Business users claimed poor performance of the Excel reports and that they miss insights and data discovery capabilities. We have too high dependencies on the Microsoft services provider who develops an unmaintainable and infinite sets of ETLs packages in Visual Studio. Those issues got us stuck on developing new KPIs, unable to expand through our large sales force. With Qlik Sense, we have been able to face this problem and get a shorter time-to-build analytics solutions for our business users.
- Solve complex information problems. If you have complex measures, set analysis expressions will get you a best performance solution.
- Blend many data sources. Associative engine lets us mix data from many different data sources (SQL Server databases, Excel, Oracle, MongoDB) in an easy way.
- Get instant insights. We don't aggregate, we load data at minimum level. It enables business users to gain insights and search with no limits through the data set.
- Data Governance. There is no built-in tool to achieve data governance processes: data quality, data lineage, profiling... You have to build the new product Data Catalyst.
- Advanced Analytics. There is no built-in solution. You have to do it in an external tool (R, Python) and connect it through a connector not so optimized for high data volumes.
- Reporting. You have to purchase NPrinting to have a reporting designer and distributing tool.
- Pricing. Not flexible and quite expensive.
January 19, 2019
Why Qlik is the sleeper BI tool that has been around for 20 years and in Gartner's top Quadrant
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work with Qlik Sense with both departments and enterprises. I have significant experience working with competitors products. Overall, I have 20 years of BI experience and a solution agnostic point of view.
- Scales marvelously thanks to its very mature in-memory engine. Response times for users are excellent for even non-optimized data models when deployed on hardware with appropriate RAM.
- Users genuinely solve business problems within minutes of loading their first data set. The simple but comprehensive explorability of the data is second to none in the market place. Tableau and PowerBI are on the same playing level here. Qlik's jargon for this is their "associative engine," which really is a technical term, that doesn't describe the benefits.
- Self-service with Qlik covers these areas: 1) reusable data models for power users - avoiding multiple sources of truth, 2) ability for users to click edit on a published dashboard, create new views seamlessly without disrupting the production copy and a process to fold changes back into the production copy, 3) complete web-based creation of apps.
- Built on open standards, HTML5, Javascript, etc. Very extensible and embed-able. Vast open source libraries of D3 can be applied.
- The depth of capability in the graphs/charts is improving, but not on par with Tableau yet.
- Lack of wizards for creating some key features like accumulated totals, period-over-period analysis, etc. Note: the tool is fully capable of this, via chart formulas, but the syntax is complex.
December 20, 2018
Free data visualization and business intelligence tool that is easy to sue if you are OK with the limitations
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund uses Qlik Sense Desktop to do more advanced visualizations and reporting from a secondary database of its primary business software, Fluxx Grantmaker. Fluxx has excellent reporting options with dashboards, ad-hoc reports and even an excel plugin to build excel reports, but sometimes our leadership wants a little more and that is where Qlik comes in for us. The desktop version is free as well, which has some limitations, but has worked well for us.
- The desktop version is FREE
- Very easy to configure detailed visualizations, lots of drag and drop functionality
- Once apps are developed (apps are what QlikSense calls its reports) just about anyone can filter and run them.
- Great for storytelling with data
- It takes someone with at least SQL and basic programming knowledge for the initial setup and configuration of the platform. Qlik Sense uses its own scripting language, but it isn't too different from other languages.
- You need to remember to reload the data using the data load so you have the most up to date tables when using a secondary database like we do.
- Qlik Sense works with data in real time, so if you need to create a point in time snapshot, you need to build and copy a specific app you build for that purpose so you have that data frozen into a report.
November 06, 2018
Qlik Sense BI made quick and easy
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense is used across multiple departments across the whole organisation. [It's used for] Displaying daily performance and used in the analysis marketing campaign performance as well as sales performance. We have created numerous apps covering high-level summary reporting with the ability to create on-demand apps quickly and easily.
- Handles large data volumes with ease. We currently have apps using 20m+ records.
- The UI is intuitive and easy to use allowing the rapid development to display results in a coherent way.
- Massive online community of users willing to help each other.
- Large number of extensions available to enhance your app.
- Comparison tool for alternate states is coming and is missing until November 18 release.
- Although the UI is easy to use and visually pleasing it is a little too locked down at present. Limiting what you can do. This forces you to think in a smarter way when presenting data.
September 27, 2018
Qlik Sense - would I recommend it?
We have currently completed a 2 month evaluation of Qlik Sense, one of several evaluations in the past few years.
It will be used eventually to provide Cloud access for Qlik Sense documents and on-premise for internal users to benefit from an update and more modern interface when compared with QlikView. Our company currently has had QlikView for about 8 years.
- The responsive design for Qlik sense is excellent especially when you might not know what device will be accessing the site.
- For developers they will benefit for the data manager which has features that will help them gain confidence in their data model and make changes easier.
- Qlik Sense allows users to create stories that are powerpoint-like presentations. Because these are saved with the document it is easier to refer back to the source data when presenting to users. If you have ever been in a meeting where someone is presenting information from an Excel spreadsheet, is then asked a question and says 'We will have to get back to you on that one' , you will see the benefit of this feature.
- Only promote features such as multi-cloud deployments when they are available for all customers to use.
August 30, 2018
Qlik Sense Review
We are currently using Qlik Sense across two departments, IT and Finance. In IT we are using it to watch metrics of an eCommerce site we manage. In the finance dept, they use watch metrics in sales in general. The problems Qlik helped solve was the time it took to create some of the month end reports that finance, some would take weeks, and now with Qlik Sense, the reports are generated within minutes if not seconds.
- They make it easy to understand, you don't need to be very technical to use it.
- When you load your data into Qlik Sense you have a chance to make some tweaks to get it to match the model you are trying to achieve.
- Their section access is also a very nice addition and works to allow access to either whole apps or only certain parts of an app
- Something we have struggled with is getting Qlik Sense to load the apps into the web frame to be displayed on a regular HTML site.
July 13, 2018
QlikSense - SelfService BI
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
QlikSense is being used across the whole organization. It is used to do analytics on Bookings, Billings, revenue, Infrastructure, Sales etc
- Visualizations available natively. Account and pre-sales team can build their own visualizations and analytics with data.
- The amazing UI - provides a great experience while trying to organize data using dashboards. Having been a regular user for over a year now, the kind of things you can learn just by yourself on the fly is simply amazing. The dashboards also provide great flexibility with a lot of options.
- Qliksense provides a quick and efficient way to scan data immediately and helps businesses make better decisions. Definitely, a must-have tool for all kind of Analysts dealing with millions of rows of data as it provides a simple yet powerful way to get business insights.
- Advanced features need to be built as extensions, can be made available out of the box
- Email Alerts can be made out of the box
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are starting department by department but the idea is to deploy across all the organization. The main business problem it addresses is a lack of a good reporting and BI tools in our current legacy from one hand and to give us an option to combine data from several resources for better analysis.
- Great out-of-the-box self-service analytical capabilities. Very intuitive to use and short learning curve even for a non-tech person (for basic usage). For more experienced tech/BI user, this tool can give "quick wins" (in hours!) for implementing reports that on other tools can take days.
- The desktop version is free and includes all the features of the Enterprise version.
- Qlik Sense includes a robust ETL capability (guided wizard and elaborated script language)
- Qlik provides great training materials (webinar, help guide, forum and community) but those lack with re to the advanced features - i.e. how to develop widgets.
- The cloud solution provided by Qlik, is currently not available for enterprises but only for small companies. You can still implement in the cloud, but it will need to be your private cloud.
May 28, 2018
A Project Server Analyst view of Qlik Sense
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense is being used by several business units to report and analyze data. We are analyzing project cost and quality metrics as well as implementation effectiveness, resource capacity, and cost management.
- A rapid development of initial dashboards and reports, yet with advanced features to go beyond to quick and easy.
- Qlik connects to many different disparate data sources and offers a Big Data cloud subscription to compare against global trends.
- There is a self-service component that allows end users to modify existing or create new data visualizations as needed.
- There is a learning curve to effectively use their proprietary scripting language. Would be great to be able to use more commonly known development languages such as SQL more interchangeably.
- Would be nice for Qlik to bundle more visualization extension in their Out of Box experience.
May 24, 2018
QlikTastic Product
Currently using QlikSense across multiple B2B departments/media areas. With so many data sources both internal and external it allows us to knit these together to provide a seamless single customer view for our marketing and sales teams to exploit customer trends and opportunities and of equal importance is ensuring we maintain robust data protection rules with the new General Data Protection Regulation just days away at the time of writing.
- Makes it very easy to dive in and get started with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface
- There are some great built in geo tools that can help you do things like heat maps without too much effort - a nice improvement from there other main product QlikView
- Great attention has been paid to the user interface to make it fast, easy and flexible to use and helps to give you confidence when using the product
- Provides self generating code - for example creating calendar fields based on any date fields in your data sources automatically
- If like me you were previously using there other product QlikView for years before dabbling with the newer QlikSense it has a very different feel to it that can make switching a little uneasy - the interface for example is completely different
- It can be a bit fiddly to get some of the geoanalytics maps up and running with the need for sourcing external kml files from other websites for example
- Some of the auto generated code is not as efficient as it could be and can lead to you needing to potentially want to rewrite it
May 24, 2018
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense used in various projects within my organization, customers used mainly in transaction database which is updated on an hourly basis. Qlik Sense is very intelligent and smart it also computes faster with a high volume of data. It is user-friendly which allows users to analyze data in a time-efficient manner.
- User Interface - Easy to navigate and play across the dashboard, its charts and objects are like floating things like a bubble which is well suited for an official purpose
- Connect Different Data Sources - with the help of various connectors QlikSense connects Database like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc
- Security - It provides security in application level as well as data level
- Cons - Qlik has two development tools Sense and View, the company can merge two products into one as new Customers finds difficult to choose between the products.
May 22, 2018
Great tool for a non-IT driven deployment.
Qlik Sense is a great product that fits well with any business. We use it as a BI Roll-out driven and managed entirely by a team in finance. From this platform, we are able to support sales, marketing, and even manufacturing while still maintaining control over the data and integrity of the measures and key indicators. It enables a team of 3 to provide analytics and self-service data to a business network of several thousand people. With write-back functionality, it also gives each department the ability to enter and maintain their own budgets and forecasts, saving us countless hours of managing that process alone.
- The ETL layer within Qlik allows someone with no IT background and little knowledge of any programming languages to immediately fetch data and start using the tool.
- The Data Loading script gives power users the ability to model the data they bring in to be maximized for efficiency and speed.
- The Web interface allows us the ability to use custom URL’s to direct traffic into various different points of interest.
- The license structure is bizarre. The use of tokens is very confusing at first but does get easier to manage the longer you are operational. Knowing when to name tokens or keep them un-named is very tricky.
- More customization of color and layout/design aesthetics is much needed.
- Price is a factor as well. It’s hard to see the value proposition up to senior management when Other Tools have a lower entry price threshold.
May 14, 2018
Qlik has been of great use
We use Qlik Sense to keep track of sales information. We have pages set up for customers and we have pages set up for VPs. The tools provided by Qlik allow us to make tools that can be useful to everyone in the company.
- The drill-down capability is awesome.
- We love being able to effortlessly combine data from multiple places.
- There is a sense of feature overload. And classes to learn about all the features can get expensive for the average user.