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Qlik Sense

Overview

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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Qlik Review: Qlik Sense Houses Business Data In One Place For Easy Analytics Discovery
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Pricing

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Standard

$20

Cloud
per month per user (10 user minimum)

Premium

$2700

Cloud
per month unlimited basic users & purchased full users

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows

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On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.qlik.com/us/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $20 per month per user (10 user minimum)
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Product Demos

Qlik Sense ESRI Extension Demo

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Tableau VS Qlik Sense VS Power BI : (EP 1) - Performance: loading ~40 million records

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Integrate Maps in Qlik Sense: GeoQlik for Qlik Sense demo (English language)

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QLIK Sense OEM Integration.qlik.com - Concept behind the demo platform

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Demo Tableros de Control con QlikSense

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Crea una Aplicación con Qlik Sense desde Excel

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.1
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.1
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

9
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.5
Avg 7.9

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.3
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.5
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.8
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

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

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization BundleScreenshot of Help Desk case analysisScreenshot of Concentration analysisScreenshot of KPI DashboardScreenshot of Geographical Accident Analysis

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Qlik Sense Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Kubernetes
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAmericas, EMEA, LATAM, APAC
Supported LanguagesThe 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.

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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 Report Delivery Scheduling highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of Qlik Sense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great for the End User, Steep Developer Learning Curve

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 30, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense
3 years of experience
It is used internationally and primarily it is used for data visualization. The main functionality I like to use is to easily apply filters and drill down. I use this platform for advanced analytics and for partner meetings. I am now implementing it to manage our innovation portfolio in terms of general overviews, data driven insights and portfolio management.
  • Drill down.
  • Data visualization.
  • Intuitive for user.
Cons
  • Non intuitive for developer.
  • Steep learning curve (developer).
  • Issues loading zip codes for map.
Qlik is a great tool for data visualization and intuitive analytics so I would recommend that to any company or user looking to have a better understanding to the how/why of their data rather than just the what, which the data shows. Easy applied filters to apply this insight across your data sets.

Steep learning curve but the end result is a powerful tool.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 21, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense
1 year of experience
Our agency recently implemented Qlik Sense and is trying to move in the direction of business intelligence to supplement more traditional reporting practices. We plan on using Qlik Sense to provide dashboards to the general public on key issues and track internal data issues. One of the key reasons we are implementing this tool is to reduce workload on repetitive reports.
  • Data visualization
  • Speed
  • Performance on large data sets
Cons
  • User access control
  • Learning curve
  • Collaborating during dashboard development
Qlik Sense was sold as being designed for both the general business user and the developer. I would concur with this statement. It has some basic functionality that requires little help to get started. Making the jump from basic to advanced user can be pretty steep and takes some time.

Qlik Sense Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 22, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense
2 years of experience
Qlik Sense is currently being used in all our subsidiaries around the Asia Pacific region. In addition, within the organization itself, the BI tool is being used by a few departments for internal analysis and planning. Departments such as After-sales Service Management and Business planning are among the more frequent users of the BI tool.
  • reports can be easily shared across platforms
  • able to handle report customization
  • device compatibility
Cons
  • make it similar to MS Excel formulas
  • improve on new user learning curve (to learn Qlik Sense at the early stage is a steep learning curve)
  • simplify the scripting process
The drag-and-drop charts/tables in Qlik Sense speed up report generation and allow a user to experiment with the way to make the data presentation more effective.

Good Software Needs Some Improvements

Rating: 7 out of 10
November 16, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense
3 years of experience
We use Qlik Sense for data reports and inquiries. I use Qlik Sense most often for data visualization.
  • Speed of loading data
  • Accommodation of data formats
  • Accommodation of changes in data structure
Cons
  • More styles of maps
  • Allow developer to create their own color theme
  • Allow developer to change font
Qlik Sense does a good job if you need it to share a dataset in your organization. Yet, compared with Tableau, its data visualization is not as beautiful. Not to say it gives little room for developers to be creative.

Qlik Sense is a solid product

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 20, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Qlik Sense
1 year of experience
It is being used for financial performance and utilization trending. It is used to produce dashboards used by users at many levels within the organization.
  • Graphics are aesthetically pleasing.
  • Color palette is broad.
  • Intuitive dashboards.
Cons
  • Learning curve to develop new content.
  • Relatively inflexible to introducing minor changes to visualizations.
It is suitable for scenarios where an organization has a large IT or analytics workforce that can be dedicated to developing and supporting content to users. Workflows need to be developed so that feedback from users can be swiftly implemented in the product.
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