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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 Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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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November 30, 2022
Qlik Solution to Trigger Active Intelligence
We as consulting firm delivers end
to end process for our customers, transforming Data into values following
Analytics Data pipeline: -
Data Integration--->Data
Management--->Analytics--->Alerts and Automated Actions. We use Qlik Sense for all Business
Line of Area like: -
Sales: -Sales
Pipeline, Retention, Customer Prospecting, Forecasting. Marketing: -Demand,
Revenue Forecasting, Customer lifetime value.
Finance: - Expense
and Risk Management.
Operations: -Workforce Management,
Demand prediction. HR: -Employee Retention,
Attrition Prediction, Candidate Profiling. Operations: -Workforce Management, Demand Prediction. IT: - Software/ License
Usage, Infrastructure Performance Prediction. Supply Chain: -
Inventory Stock -out prediction, Supply Chain Performance, Transportation
Optimization. Service & Support: -
Support Case Prediction, Predictive Maintenance. It helps us to deliver informed actions on core business hypothesis such as: - Model Building & Refinement Data Management, Key Deliver Analysis, Augmented Analysis, Predictive Analysis, Insight Advisor, What -if-scenarios, Actions, AutoML
- Model Building and Refinement (Data Management)
- Exploratory Analysis
- Data Science & Machine Learning (Predictive Analysis)
- Near Real Time Data Integration
- Alerting Actions (Collaboration)
- Not all 3rd Party tool Integration for AI Model Refinement
- Live Data Streaming
- Anomaly Detection in Data Streaming
September 19, 2022
Qlik Sense, a great product
I work with hard-to-use databases that produce large sets of data. In order for the data to translate into useful information, I use Qlik Sense to create comprehensive visualizations to give senior leaders and managers the ability to understand their current workforce composition and plan for the future.
- Color
- third party apps
- linking data sets
- relatively easy for a new user in a low-code environment to adopt
- need to export images better
- better Microsoft integrations
- more options for intuitive app navigation
November 20, 2021
Qlik Sense - Faster to Insights
We utilize Qlik Sense in all of our business departments: Retail, eCommerce, Wholesale Sales, Supply Chain Management, Resource Planning, Finance, Accounting, and Warehouse. We deploy and support applications that cater to our different departments and brands. Each of our departments has Qlik Sense applications that are curated to their analytical needs.
- Quick to Insights
- Flexible in Disparate Data Sources
- Easy of Development
- Handling of Images. This became native to Qlik Software in August 21 release.
- Exporting Images to Excel in Bulk.
- Some features of QlikView are not compatible in QlikSense: Fast Change for charts, Cyclic fields.
November 19, 2021
Qlik: one of the best tools for data analysis
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Across the organization in different departments like IT, Sales, Tech support, Professional services, finance and more.
- Easy to use: As compared to most of other BI tools we found Qlik to be the most easy to learn. Our users hi from basic user to building advanced apps in very short span.
- Agile: with the current pace the business world is changing and moving we needed to be very agile. Qlik is very agile to work with.
- Performance: being in memory tool Qlik sense performance is at par with our business expectations. The data loads are very fast using the native connectors as well
- Report delivery: Printing is offered as a solution which is not user friendly and needs a lot of improvement.
- Extensions: need a certified extension process so that we can trust them before bringing into our Qlik environment
- Way to make a data model using 2 apps. Rather than creating a 3rd app, we should have a way to connect 2 apps
October 13, 2021
Qlik Sense drives business decisions.
Our whole company uses Qlik Sense. We are a very data-driven company, and Qlik Sense gives us a great tool to look at data and visualize and analyze data in different ways. An example is Sales where we drill down on Product and Color level to see what Brand and Products perform during each season.
- Data visualization.
- Access to aggregated data.
- Version handling of scripts.
- Integrations to 3rd party systems in and out.
September 14, 2021
A surprisingly light, robust, flexible and scalable solution to all analytical and reporting needs
Qlik Sense is being used at our organization as a single self-service business intelligence and reporting solution across all our geographical locations worldwide. Users in each department are served with both standard and customized analytical solutions that are published to their individual streams. Ad-hoc reports are churned out using the NPrinting ad-on of Qlik Sense. Our business analytics and reporting team manage the entire multi-server enterprise Qlik Sense environment from a central location.
Most of our business problems were the availability of accurate data and speedy access to standard reports. Qlik Sense has helped achieve these goals.
- Intuitive and easy to use dashboards.
- Pixel perfect reports.
- Scalable analytics.
- Centralized management of user access.
- Advanced analytical features require third party extensions.
- Building own extensions is not easy.
- Multi-developer environment is not well supported.
- Version control is missing.
April 22, 2021
Combine data for hidden insights
Qlik Sense is currently being used in in the elderly care and social services departments. Main uses are for follow up and analysis across a multiple of areas, especially powerful in combining data from various data sources.
- Powerful functions for combining data from various data sources
- Very good user interface
- Great community
- Independent vendor
- A better management console
- Further improvements in big data analysis welcome
December 15, 2020
Reliable Enterprise tool that can help promote a data driven culture
It is used across the organization governed by IT. Qlik is a valuable tool that helps business gain insights across various domains from marketing to operations. It is empowering business users to get relevant timely information. Qlik has helped move the organization from legacy reports that would run once a week or month to more timely updates as needed.
- Associative engine that makes connected data and filtering easy to achieve.
- Strong enterprise focus and product suite that can expand capabilities to cover the entire data spectrum.
- Good extensibility via API and community - ability to enhance through third party extensions.
- The support team and service tier could use improvement.
- API for exposing raw data is tricky.
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.
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.
Qlik Sense is used internally to provide different departments with views of system data that they need for their role. It addresses issues with systems where reporting is limited or the need to combine different sources of data into one view. We use it primarily to analyse manufacturing and sales data, to analyse trends.
- Combine multiple sources of data
- Deal with large datasets in a timely manner
- Ease of use, it takes a while to get used to Qlik Sense.
- Being able to print to PDF natively without a third-party app.
November 04, 2019
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Qlik Sense is being used across the organisation from HR, finance, retail functions to custody and funds services. Dashboards are available not just to internal users but external clients also. Qlik Sense allows us to provide our internal operations teams and external clients with valuable insights in a self-service manner.
- Users can self-service their visualisation needs within Qlik Sense with ease. No longer are centralized analytics teams the bottleneck on new dashboards/reports.
- Qlik Sense makes stitching of data together from different sources an absolute breeze. Qlik Sense can be used as a Data Warehouse without any great difficulty. It can become your organisation's single source of truth.
- Qlik Sense APIs are extremely robust. We have been able to extend the functionality available in the UI and customize the back end to our specific needs. There are very few limits with powerful APIs at your fingertips.
- Data Lineage is difficult to determine and relies on trailing logs using 3rd-party scripts or pushing from a vendor.
- Section access (entitlements) is quite efficient, but quite often our products want a finer level of control .e.g applying across multiple different fields, enabling/disabling fields for certain users.
- I would like to see changes to the Qlik Sense load script to allow better parameterisation of functions, try/catch blocks and other behavior that comes as standard with other languages. User-defined functions should be passed to the QMC for use in all reloads, instead of loading into every script using library files.
- I would like to see an emphasis on real-time dashboarding capabilities. BDI does not solve all real-time dashboard needs. Provide ability to upsert using partial reload feature etc. We ultimately want to treat in-memory dashboards like a relational database.
September 24, 2019
Great for combining multiple sources!
I was using it to automate reporting processes by developing the Qlik Sense dashboards and making these dashboards available to the regional sales management team, enabling the leadership team to have real-time dashboards developed using multiple sources of data. By having access to dashboards, regional sales management team would have access to relevant data at all times. They were looking for interactive visualizations and being able to make better meaningful decisions.
- Efficient way to connect to multiple sources of data, making it easy to build dashboards.
- Making dashboards available on all devices and having responsive design.
- Giving a user the ability to customize dashboards by allowing third-party modules. They can also be customized which gives a developer the option to build dashboards tailored for the organization.
- I had an issue relating different objects. It would create an infinite loop. Sometimes it was difficult to relate data from different objects because of it.
- Giving the option to format titles of the dashboards to make it more visually appealing for leadership to look at. Currently, they are not well visible, so I get a lot of requests to customize dashboards because of it.
- Give the option to choose a dark background for charts. Some of our leaders did not like plain white backgrounds. A lot of customization was required because of the simple request.
- Please create a waterfall chart functionality. Big need for it.
September 15, 2019
Great Product, Insignificant Deficiencies
Management, executives, and sales people primarily use Qlik Sense to make decisions. Managers pull information out and distribute it to their teams while they also use it to analyse their team members' productivity. All users analyze customer performance and track revenue. Accounting uses it to locate transactions quickly and efficiently.
- Technician productivity reporting - using dashboards to track KPIs and performance metrics like first time fix, billable time spent on jobs and contracts.
- Equipment analytics - using dashboards and tables to see what types of equipment we work on the most and track what parts are needed the most to keep work trucks properly stocked.
- Financial statistics and at-a-glance daily reports for managers to post for their branches. This is used heavily by everyone in the company to track monthly performance and rewards to given to those who do well.
- Field names are case sensitive - I find this to be an unnecessary nuisance.
- No real date range picker to speak of. There is a third party add on that barely works. Sometimes performance reviews really need a date range instead of selecting whole months or worse - hand selecting 365 dates.
- Limited to no visual customization. Some of our older users never use Qlik Sense because it is difficult to see.
August 21, 2019
A good user-friendly BI
Qlik Sense is being used mainly for sales and inventory monitoring. The main benefit is visualization and being able to drill down to data. Also, the flexibility to customize and edit each component is very important, this way you don't have to rely on a third party to adjust every change you make.
- Flexibility
- Easy to understand interface
- Fast data calculation
- The user rules and roles are not user-friendly
- Automatic mail reports would be useful
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 15, 2017
Brief assessment on Qlik Sense
Qlik sense enables any user to produce analysis and use it to support decision making. It also enables one to create a presentation/story that integrates such analysis with a presentation story flow. The great strength of Qlik Sense is to be able to explore and discover information, leveraging on Qlik association capability, and ability to integrate data from many silo data sources to give a complete view to information.
- Associative technology to provide a "complete" discovery and view to information.
- Support integration from many common enterprise data sources.
- Bundled story board that integrates presentation and analysis all in one.
- Provides third party extensions to create more attractive visuals.
- More bundled attractive visualization objects.
- Incorporate some form of decision workflow/path-ing capability into the software to enable more organised discovery-path to surfacing relevant analysis as users interact with data/information.
- Further improve the ease of software use.
September 23, 2016
Qlik does qlik
Qlik Sense is being used as a visualization tool for product demos. We use fast moving and slow moving data to combine insights and help users visualize it to make business decisions.
- Data management
- Matching table attributes
- Vizualizations
- Speed of app loading
- Customizations for basic charts
- Better support for third party extensions
February 11, 2016
Qlik Sense for Enterprise Self-Service BI
We were already using Qlik View as our enterprise dashboard solution. When we were looking for a self-service BI solution for our business users, Qlik Sense was chosen as it dovetailed nicely with our current architecture and offered several features that we are looking for.
Qlik Sense is now currently deployed for a pilot set of users across the organisation. Together with the deployment, we also rebuilt our data models, made granular data available, and provided training to our users so that they can help themselves to get answers to questions they have without having to wait for IT to service their requests.
- Ease of use: Qlik Sense is relatively simple to pick up once users start playing around with it.
- Works on mobile devices: Unlike Qlik View, Qlik Sense is designed to work with mobile devices.
- Listening to customer feedback: Qlik Sense seems to be listening to customer feedback and addressing missing features and issues with every release.
- Fast release cycle: Qlik Sense comes with a fast release cycle - new release every 3-4 months, if an important feature is currently missing, it may be in the next release.
- Still maturing: Qlik Sense is still a relatively new product and there are missing features. The good thing is the fast release cycles that addresses some of these issues. E.G. Users were not able to upload data files themselves initially but this is now addressed in a later release. The issue now is that the data file that is uploaded sits in the C drive and cannot be reconfigured within Qlik Sense and has to be fixed using a Windows junction which is not ideal.
- Fast release cycle: The fast release cycle has a negative impact as well. Internal testing efforts to certify everything continues to work is not insignificant.
- Controls: There are 2 sides to the control issue. There is a lack of ability to control stuff like how much space a user is using. There is on the other hand to much restrictions on users in published apps - they cannot even see the data model, create their own dimensions etc which severely limits the amount of self-service they can do.
- Map layer support: The current control supports only a single geo-spatial data layer. It would be great if it can support 2 or more - this can be done currently by buying 3rd party products (but support for those products in our area is not good) or building an extension ourselves (but we would rather not be doing that).
February 01, 2016
Useful, Easy, Attractive and Fast.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have been using Qlik Sense for just over a year. I work on team with other database administrators and we have begun to develop some nice and excellent dashboards in an incredibly fast and easy way. A lot of the reports can be easily replaced with dashboards which are much faster and convenient to use.
- Interactive filtering.
- Data discovery.
- Usability and intuitiveness.
- They should make more editable charts.
- The grid has to be smaller or even editable.
- Improve the enterprise and tasks.