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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense is a business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics platform that supports a range of analytic use cases. Built on Qlik’s Associative Engine, it supports a full range of users and use-cases across the life-cycle from data to insight – with self-service analytics, interactive dashboards, conversational analytics, custom and embedded analytics, mobile analytics, and reporting. The solution comes in three different editions - Qlik Sense Enterprise, Business, and Team. Qlik Sense can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises.
The Qlik Sense analytics platforms aims to empower everyone in organizations to make data-driven decisions. People of all skill levels get analytical power, with associative exploration and search, AI-powered insight suggestions, AI-accelerated creation and data prep, advanced analytics integration, and natural-language, conversational interaction. They can share and communicate the insights they discover and get answers anywhere they work – with interactive and secure online and offline mobility. And for the enterprise, users get a platform with open and standard APIs for customization and extension, data integration and connectivity, centralized management and governance, and a Kubernetes based SaaS / multi-cloud architecture driving scalability across combinations of on-premise, private, and public cloud environments.
Qlik Sense Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Sage 500
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Additional Features
- Supported: In memory data indexing Associative Engine
- Supported: Machine Learning with the Qlik Cognitive Engine
- Supported: Augmented Intelligence and insight suggestions with Insight Advisor
- Supported: Conversational Analytics with Qlik Insight Bot
- Supported: Open APIs, in addition to Qlik Analytics Platform
- Supported: Multi Cloud Architecture with docker containers deployed and orchestrated within Kubernetes
- Supported: Data Catalog & Data Ops Management with Qlik Data Catalyst
- Supported: Public and syndicated data as a service with Qlik Data Market
- Supported: Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data
- Supported: Flexible deployment options including Enterprise SaaS and combination of cloud and on-premise options
- Supported: Enterprise reporting and distribution with Qlik NPrinting
- Supported: Advanced geopolitical calculation and geotagging with Qlik Geo Analytics
- Supported: Embedded analytic capabilities to build, extend and deploy custom solutions that are scalable and cloud-ready with Qlik Core
Qlik Sense Screenshots
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The Qlik Associative Difference
Working with Qlik Insight Advisor
What's New Qlik NPrinting
2019 Gartner Bake off
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Qlik Sense Integrations
- DataRobot
- Azure
- Cloudera
- SAP
Qlik Sense Competitors
- Microsoft Power BI
- Spotfire
- Tableau
Qlik Sense Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Kubernetes |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, LATAM, APAC |
| Supported Languages | The Qlik Management Console is English only. The Qlik Sense client supports the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, simplified Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. The language Qlik Sense uses depends on the language preferences of your browser. The default reading order in a Qlik Sense app is left to right. You can change the reading order to right-to-left in your app preferences if your data or labels are in a right-to-left language such as Arabic or Hebrew. |
Qlik Sense Downloadables
- Qlik Sense Data Sheet Qlik Sense® is our governed, next-generation visual analytics product, supporting a full range of BI use cases for individuals, groups, and organizations, including self-service visualization, centrally deployed guided analytics apps and dashboards, custom and embedded analytics, and reporting. Business users of all types and skill sets get powerful, flexible visualization and discovery on any device, all within a governed framework that drives enterprise scalability and trust for IT.
- Qlik NPrinting Qlik NPrinting is Qlik’s next-generation reporting and distribution solution, helping spread knowledge and insight across the organization and beyond. This data sheet provides an overview of the product and its capabilities for report creation, distribution, and enterprise deployment.
- Qlik's Statement of Direction
- Qlik Insight Bot The Qlik Insight Bot provides an AI powered, conversational analytics experience, giving people a faster and easier way to ask questions, generate insights, and make data-driven decisions using natural language. It can be readily accessed from within Qlik Sense as well as through popular collaboration tools such as Slack, Skype, Salesforce Chat, and Microsoft Teams. Natural Language Processing (NLP) automatically trains itself and learns from user inquiries over time, and Natural Language Generation (NLG) delivers insights for not only what is happening, but also why – and where to go next. Insights include auto-generated charts, interpretations, key drivers, period-over-period calculations, predictions for measures, and even comparative analysis. Users can set alerts for KPI thresholds, share and collaborate conversationally, and even interact using voice – with Amazon Alexa integration.
- Qlik APIs A short data sheet describing the Qlik Sense APIs
- Qlik Data Catalyst Qlik Data Catalyst™ is a modern enterprise data management solution that simplifies and speeds up how you catalog, manage, prepare, and deliver your trustworthy, actionable data to business users across your enterprise.
- Qlik Scalability Tools
- The Qlik Associative Big Data Index The Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data, allowing users to freely explore and search Big Data repositories while leaving the data where it resides. This capability provides a governed, high-performance associative engine that can be deployed within sources such as Hadoop based data lakes, eliminating the need to transfer and prepare the data elsewhere before it can be analyzed.
- Qlik Connectors
- Qlik Analytics Platform - the power of the Qlik® Associative Engine and visualizations in the hands of application and web developers through powerful, open, and modern APIs – allowing you to see all the connections among all the values in all your data.
- Qlik Core - With Qlik Core, you can take advantage of Qlik's powerful associative engine to build, extend and quickly deploy custom interactive data-driven solutions that are highly scalable and cloud-ready. And built for Linux and running in a Docker container, Qlik Core applications can easily be embedded into any stack, IoT device, process, application, web page, or portal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
Qlik Sense starts at $20.
Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire are common alternatives for Qlik Sense.
Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Qlik Sense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Qlik Sense, a widely used data visualization and management tool, has proven to be invaluable for organizations in various industries. Users have praised its ability to provide consistent and visually appealing information, ensuring that everyone within the organization is on the same page when it comes to business performance. By reducing the manual workload of repetitive reporting tasks, Qlik Sense allows users to transition to more strategic business intelligence practices. This makes it a go-to BI tool for different departments and functions across the organization.
One of the standout features of Qlik Sense is its efficiency in processing large volumes of data and its flexibility in combining data from multiple sources. This enables users to create simple yet powerful dashboards that track impact and outcomes, financial performance, and cost modeling data analysis. Not only does Qlik Sense address reporting needs, but it also provides valuable insights that can inform decision-making processes. It has become an indispensable enterprise reporting tool, supporting management reporting and facilitating data exploration.
From inventory tracking and forecast analysis to providing executives with a quick overview of the company's health, Qlik Sense proves its versatility across various use cases. Its self-service business intelligence capabilities allow users to create personalized dashboards and analyze complex datasets without relying on technical expertise. By improving decision-making processes and saving time for users, Qlik Sense has established itself as a trusted companion in the realm of data visualization and analysis.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Qlik Sense. The three most common recommendations are as follows:
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Conduct thorough research before selecting Qlik Sense: Many users suggest exploring other tools in the market and comparing them with Qlik Sense. They recommend conducting research to ensure that Qlik Sense aligns with specific business requirements and needs.
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Take advantage of available resources and demos: Users recommend taking advantage of the free trial and demo apps provided by Qlik. They suggest testing the ease of use and functionality of Qlik Sense before making a decision. Additionally, users recommend exploring resources such as Qlik Branch or GitHub for extensions and add-ons to enhance the capabilities of Qlik Sense.
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Understand business processes and define requirements: It is recommended to have a clear understanding of the business processes and requirements before selecting any BI software, including Qlik Sense. Users emphasize the importance of defining evaluation criteria and having a list of requirements handy during the evaluation process.
Overall, users believe that Qlik Sense offers a robust BI platform with extensive capabilities, particularly suitable for large business setups in industries such as retail and manufacturing. Users appreciate its interactive visualization options, excellent data integration, adaptability to multiple devices, and ability to analyze data from various sources quickly. They also suggest investing in training and ensuring thorough knowledge of all features before attempting complex tasks.
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November 25, 2022
Qlik Sense makes sense
Qlik Sense itself is quite easy to implement to support BI activities in the organization. We develop Qlik apps in a mixed-mode. Something we do in-house, but for bigger tasks we ask a partner to help. Each app covers its own company area or process to support managers and their teams. It's quite important to think about actual needs when you decide to develop a new one. Deep analysis of current information and forecasting almost always provides more value to the company than analyzing historical data. Try to focus on that and Qlik should help.
- Easy to start
- Easy to use
- Fast and agile
- Experts are needed to implement and use it in a right way.
- Less benefits without trained users.
November 05, 2022
One Qlik is all it takes
The goal of using Qlik Sense in our organization is to make the organizational data easily accessible, reliable, consistent and secured to support and improve business planning, decision making processes and measure strategic KPIs of business in real-time.Qlik Sense is leveraged for development and use of Management and Functional Metrics and Dashboards to measure our KPIs and progress towards strategic goals. These metrics are agreed upon in advance and endorsed by senior leadership.
For example -
Sales Module: Country Sales Performance, Growth analysis, Sales Performance, Sales by business segment, Regions/Country/area, Sales by product brand, Sales by new product, Salesman performance, Intercompany sale and purchase by product, Margin analysis, etc.
Finance Module: Account receivable and collection, Profit and Loss, Cash flow, Financial key ratio, Credit note control, OPEX analysis, OPEX by function, Functional report, Management report, Investment Report, etc.
Inventory and Stock Module: Inventory listing, Stock movement at country level, Inventory aging etc.
SOM Module: Inventory, Budget-Forecast-Actual Sales in each country, OPEX Analysis, Logistics etc.
For example -
Sales Module: Country Sales Performance, Growth analysis, Sales Performance, Sales by business segment, Regions/Country/area, Sales by product brand, Sales by new product, Salesman performance, Intercompany sale and purchase by product, Margin analysis, etc.
Finance Module: Account receivable and collection, Profit and Loss, Cash flow, Financial key ratio, Credit note control, OPEX analysis, OPEX by function, Functional report, Management report, Investment Report, etc.
Inventory and Stock Module: Inventory listing, Stock movement at country level, Inventory aging etc.
SOM Module: Inventory, Budget-Forecast-Actual Sales in each country, OPEX Analysis, Logistics etc.
- Self-Service Visualization and Discovery
- Fullstack BI from ETL to Visualization, its built-in ETL engine can transform disparate data sets into a common data structure
- Uses HTML5 based responsive design which visualization automatically adapt to the screen size and orientation of the users device
- Actively engaged community and resources to help you learn this software in the best possible manner
- Scalability is RAM limited, all data is associative and in-memory so server's RAM is directly proportional to performance
- Limitation on advanced analytics capabilities in the form of R integration to perform complex statistical and analytical calculations
- Can have more intuitive interface
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
We accumulate data concerning our service provision via a system that stores data in a Postgresql DB. We use Qlik Sense to aggregate and analyse the data to establish metrics and track outcomes for our services. We use analytics to create a wide range of measures and annual outcomes generation, and ad hoc queries.
- Flexible data visualisations
- Easy to manipulate to provide for alternative scenario modeling
- Good for exporting query results eg to Excel for further analysis
- I would like to see the authentication for access to the software improve (to be more flexible)
- It would be good sometimes to get more context-sensitive hints and tips to do with data modeling
- Better tuition on good practice use of the software for non DB specialists
December 30, 2021
Qlik Sense SaaS at a small beverage sales startup.
We use it to track the sales and profitability of our retail beverage startup business. Some special use cases arise from time to time such as reporting on the status of large customer orders.
- Available for all users and developers without installation.
- Easy to set up and follow alerts.
- Combine multiple sources of data.
- Easily program automatic actions.
- Include a "dark mode", especially for developers. Sometimes the white screen is too tiresome on the eyes.
- A simpler way to connect to on-premise ODBC sources.
November 27, 2021
Time-saving, report-pushing goodness
Qlik is used to push reports out to line areas in an easy to use way. The usage of reports differs across business areas, with some preferring to take visualisations at face value, and others preferring to use filters to export relevant data. Specialised data areas are required to build the reports from SQL tables.
As a sweeping generalisation, I would characterise contract managers as the biggest users of the visualisation. Program managers will check the reports for accurate data, and will export the data for compliance and pattern checking.
As a sweeping generalisation, I would characterise contract managers as the biggest users of the visualisation. Program managers will check the reports for accurate data, and will export the data for compliance and pattern checking.
- Some of the visualisations are very convincing. I have particularly enjoyed plotting on maps.
- Very easy to export data with filters.
- Easy for anyone to build a report from a variety of sources.
- I have not been able to publish a report just for my team (publishes only to a wider audience). This has limited its usage in my current role due to sensitive data.
- Some of the coding language can be very confusing, requiring un-intuitive approaches to solve conditional problems (it has been a while since I have coded).
- I would appreciate the ability to roll back to previous versions more easily - having multiple backups can be a hassle.
November 20, 2021
Getting Closer
We were and are, still, heavy QlikView users. While QlikSense is making great strides, it has not caught up with the features that our users have come to love and expect from our guided analytics products.
- Visuals
- Responsive Design
- Web authoring
- Layering
- Custom visual control
- Large amounts of data on screen
November 12, 2021
Qlik Sense at a produce distribution company
Qlik Sense is used by our company for management dashboards of company performance, for analyzing sales and financials of the company, and for reviewing market data, among other things.
- Provide quick informative views of company performance and activity
- Highlight outlying accounts, commodities and transactions
- Allowing drill down into details behind these items
- Integrating multiple data sources
- Exporting to both PDF and Excel could be improved in terms of formatting and control over what information is included
- Analyzer capacity minutes are expended even if a user is idle, users have to remember to close the app
November 08, 2021
Making sense of data with Qlik
Very robust and user friendly. Strong tools for data analysis. Helpful in data democratization with tools like data catelog. Will is able to handle large amount of data with out any processing lag. Even complex data models with require heavy calculations are handled quickly by Qlik. The learning curve for new users is not steap.
- Large data processing.
- Easily build data models.
- Excellent visualization tools.
- User friendly.
- Better AI assistant.
- Version control.
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 19, 2021
Qlik: The tool for quick insights
It is being used across the whole company. I primarily use it to develop risk monitoring dashboards used to help identify and mitigate risks within our division. We also use it to track partner volume and performance. Another benefit provided our Relationship Managers the ability to rind potential opportunities for new partnerships.
- Allows you to create your own data models.
- Customizing the loading of data to fit your specific need.
- Plenty of objects to work with.
- More control over headings, titles, and column labels. Font size, boldness, and color.
- Ability to set an object to specific size.
- Allow for copying of measures for similar columns with minor changes.
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.
August 20, 2021
Qlik Sense is the best BI tool I ever worked with. It opened my mind on the data world we live in
Qlik Sense is used across the whole organization to help our manufacturing plants to collect and access data easily and quickly. It also helps automatize a lot of excel reports and save time for people in order to analyze data instead of just preparing it. We now use it for our safety, Quality, Logistic, Production, Sales, Human resources KPIs. This system is a huge help in terms of centralizing a lot of information in a common place.
- Qlik Sense is very user-friendly and does not request strong coding knowledge. A non-IT person can easily take control and manage this platform with some training. Only SQL basics are enough to start. Plus the drag and drop system to create charts is very intuitive.
- The Qlik community is huge and when we have a problem that we can't solve it is usually very simple to find the solution online. Plus they have a training program and documentation online which is very helpful and useful.
- This system allows you to set up your own ETL process and data warehouse if you do not have too much data to handle. The QVD files which are specific to Qlik Sense are very easy to understand and convenient to use.
- More charts and visuals would be a plus. Also, some objects do not have enough options to color the way we want (filter / button / combo chart for example).
- Adding the option to have a box text when we hover an object would be great as well.
- A write-back function integrated into the platform would be a plus. Some company proposes an extension that we have to pay, but if Qlik could offer this for free it would be a great plus.
- Maybe in the future adding some algorithm and statistics to allow to do some predictive analytic would be a huge plus.
August 02, 2021
JollyRoger2021
QlikSense is being used by the network planning community to visualise data formed from various primary data sources of inventory and customer information to formulate decision making on growth and future investment. It is used to monitor and provide a window for planners to view possible "network at risk" issues or demand changes that require short term remedial action. It solves many of the issues of establishing a single source of truth, that planners can rely on. The volume of data that is processed daily/weekly/monthly makes heavy use of pre-processing and date dependent versions of data allowing comparison of versions.
- Out of the box [makes it] easy for Excel / Access user to get started
- Visual interface easy to use from novice to expert
- The flexibility to perform data ingestion and pre-processing into QVDs
- In organisation with a large number of teams and apps, a better front end category based or hierarchy based menu to find and execute the app.
- More flexible tiling on the app selection to scale tab cascade roll through etc.
- Data column selection could be improved to allow table, field drop view / expansion
Qlik Sense Enterprise is used by two divisions of our corporation and is used by the majority of the departments within those organizational entities and in a very self-empowered way.
We have other business intelligence applications (from other vendors) as well that allow MS Excel Add-in functionality to review enterprise performance results, but for visualizations and dashboards, we selected Qlik Sense as the preferred tool in that domain.
We segregate the creation of enterprise quality transactional system sources of data so that the QVD files (i.e. data warehouse) is one layer managed by IT Support staff (including myself) but once the datasets of the correct data quality are made available as QVD files then the business staff in any of the departments has the access to build visualizations and dashboards from the data contained in those files in any way they see fit (including the blending of datasets as appropriate with either other enterprise-quality data or with their own spreadsheets).
We have other business intelligence applications (from other vendors) as well that allow MS Excel Add-in functionality to review enterprise performance results, but for visualizations and dashboards, we selected Qlik Sense as the preferred tool in that domain.
We segregate the creation of enterprise quality transactional system sources of data so that the QVD files (i.e. data warehouse) is one layer managed by IT Support staff (including myself) but once the datasets of the correct data quality are made available as QVD files then the business staff in any of the departments has the access to build visualizations and dashboards from the data contained in those files in any way they see fit (including the blending of datasets as appropriate with either other enterprise-quality data or with their own spreadsheets).
- Qlik Sense reports the data from the QVD files really well so the end-user experience is always optimum. Hardly any wait time is ever noticed at all which is magnificent compared to some other products in this space.
- The fact that Qlik Sense is also already fully mobile device-ready is a big bonus. Other applications have to have different variations either declared upfront or at least tested but Qlik Sense works really well whether via the designated proprietary Qlik Sense Mobile App (from the App store) or just in a standard browser like Safari.
- Data ingestion times are really optimum too since millions of records can be added to a QVD file in only a few minutes. This helps our organization with optimizing the overnight loading window.
- The background loading tasks scheduling is also user-friendly and robust with good error logging and failure/success monitoring available.
- We use SAP for transactions and SAP BI for data warehousing so it is very useful to also use Qlik Sense along with the proprietary Qlik Sense SAP Connector so that data can be retrieved as datasets from BW Query results. This helps leverage all our investment in the BW modeling including the full SAP BW query catalog when ingesting data into the QVD files. At the same time, the SQL connector can retrieve data from our SAP HANA database with ease too.
- The ability to develop on the iPad is also a bonus that is often not available in other tools in this domain.
- The security modeling is relatively easy to maintain and integrates well with our Azure identity management system. This all makes user management tasks very seamless and robust, ensuring that only those that really need access to the Qlik Sense system are granted hat access and if they leave their access is quickly revoked.
- The PDF printing of dashboards is part of a secondary product called NPrinting and we did not choose to additionally purchase this product. This means that broadcasting the results of a dashboard (in the enterprise on-premise product) is not really available to us, but I guess that was the trade-off. It would be great if that functionality was at some point built into the design/licensing of the main Qlik Sense Enterprise product.
- The fact that all loading is via proprietary syntax scripting is a little cumbersome and has a reasonably high learning curve. SQL is the standard and while some SQL statements can be used in the data ingestion process it is also then the mix of two syntaxes in one script.
- Some of the design concepts (such as table concatenation) in the scripting syntax are a little non-intuitive. I prefer to not have things happening in an automated way (others may disagree since it means less coding rather than more) but it just adds to the learning curve when things are automatically occurring in the background (which might come as unexpected outcomes to a developer that is new to the Qlik Sense product).
Qlik Sense is used primarily by our Delivery and Testing Services teams to track and manage customer health, margin analysis, a view of bugs over time, and project progress. We are currently rolling out more functionality to the sales and sales support teams to better track territory coverage, manage prospecting activities, and whitespace analysis.
- Data modeling
- Visualizations and pivots.
- Connecting to and combining multiple data sources.
- Ability to better control use of colors and fonts within table headers.
- Creating better looking visualizations.
- Ability to have end users reload an app without giving them powerful permissions.
July 09, 2021
Qlik Sense Review
Qlik Sense is being used across [the] department and across [the] company. We have implemented Qlik view before.
The problem we face when implementing Qlik Sense compared to Qlik View is sometimes with the display on mobile is too big and how should we explain it to the user. For example we used KPI, only 2 KPI almost fills the cellphone screen for the Qlik Sense version in February.
The problem we face when implementing Qlik Sense compared to Qlik View is sometimes with the display on mobile is too big and how should we explain it to the user. For example we used KPI, only 2 KPI almost fills the cellphone screen for the Qlik Sense version in February.
- Augmented Intelligence
- Ease of use
- Associative Engine
- For Statisctic
- Machine Learning
- Better improvement display on mobile
- Animation
We are using Qlik in a lot of different ways. All the way from monitoring our facilities' fire code standards to how our hospital contracts are performing. The facilities team wants to know how often fire hydrants are serviced to maintain code, so they map out locations and needs of servicing as one simple task. On the hospital and healthcare contracting side it becomes a lot more complicated. We look at how our negotiated contracts with our major payors are performing using multiple sources of data. Qlik handles different sources of data very well.
- 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.
- Qlik Sense provides a quick and efficient way to scan data immediately and helps businesses make better decisions.
- The dashboards also provide great flexibility with a lot of options. Instead of having to pore over millions of data.
- Qlik provides way to discover or undercover hidden connections.
- Qlik has great performance
- The trial version of the product limits user space to a limited amount.
- Set analysis is strong but takes time to learn.
- NPrinting could use some enhancements to make it easier to admin (e.g., .xls spreadsheet for both input & output for all items).
May 24, 2021
The number one in BI
We bought Qlik Sense six years ago and implemented more than 50 apps, for all departments.We currently use it for
We also use Nprinting with more than 50 reports, distributed on TV screens (via HTML pages) or sent by email.
- Sales
- Top management
- HR
- IT (Qlik logs)
- Operations
- Finance
- Accounting
- Purchases
- Quality control
- R&D
We also use Nprinting with more than 50 reports, distributed on TV screens (via HTML pages) or sent by email.
- User experience
- Scalability
- Easy of use
- Data catalog
- Qlik cloud version
- NPrinting distribution limitations
April 29, 2021
CEO
We are using [Qlik Sense] in order to better understand and manage our sell channels, retail wholesale and on line. We are also following our stock in the various warehouses and taking long term purchase decisions with it on a regular base. We have started with only 2 users but now as we grow all managers will use it
- The data is quick and friendly to read
- You can present the numbers as you wish for your convenience
- All company’s channels can be reviewed
- Add or remove variations
- Some reports cannot be downloaded to excel
- Better combination of sales and stock reports for the entire organization
April 09, 2021
Getting insight of your data using Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is used across the whole organization with different maturity degrees of adoption. Within my own department, I don't use it only for monitoring, but also for gaining insight related to server performance. By using Grey-Green-White features in Qlik Sense, I was able to get the usage behavior of all programs running in a server. For example, the peak time, the most used apps, the relationship between time. and certain program usage. I was also able to find the root cause of some problems. For example, finding the root cause of a performance problem case is in lack of memory instead of a lack of CPU.
- Simplicity and easiness
- Speed of analysis
- Green-Gray-White feature
- The desktop version is longer free. It makes it hard to recommend it to everyone.
- Lacking interoperability. Only Qlik is able to access QVD Data. Should make a connector to another program.
- Need a mobile version app with simple authentication (like current the desktop version) which can directly connect to get data in the cloud.
December 09, 2020
A good tool for quickly assessing small smart thoughts
In whole organization we use QlikView Server, but for personal use to create more useful visualization we use Qlik Sense and are thinking about purchasing a dual license.
- Fast development (t2m)
- Good self-service (only for well created models)
- Product functionality growth
- Not very large set of native visual objects
- Terminated QlikSense Desktop free version
- Not comfortable for wide visualization tables (QlikView better)
September 25, 2020
The “Real” Next Generation Analytics Solution for the Business. The Analytics “AI”
It is working well in our organization. We were using Qlik Sense in all major business sectors. As we are one among five of biggest jewelry retailer in the world, Qlik Sense helps us a lot to get the real time sales reports for hedging and others. It helps us to make decisions on time and reduce losses.
- Definitely the first one is, Qlik Sense is an in-memory tool. It helps the users well on detail analysis like product performance and stock aging, expiry indication, etc...
- Product reports have millions of line in dataset. Searches are very fast and get any report in detail.
- Mobile app will be the second strength of Qlik Sense I feel. Because it helps send notifications of Market fluctuation and even interaction between users. None of other products in the market have these features. And the main point is, there is no additional spend for mobile app from the customer side.
- Qlik Insight bot and AI researches are very brilliant in Qlik Sense. It gives information as per their thoughts. And the trust on the reports/analytics are increasing. There is no Man dependency on reports.
- Still there are things to improve. But it does not stop Qlik Sense anywhere. I feel there could be more features needed in table formatting, front end designs.
- Some extensions and buttons are taking more space in mobile apps. If it is more adjustable, then it will give a good feel in mobile also.
- Qlik Sense partners should have detail and through knowledge about the Qlik back end engine. Because it effects the performance a lot. Also the customers or organizations are evaluating a products by look and feel, information and performance. My suggestion is, Qlik has to restrict or direct Qlik Sense back end development activity for better future. A bad development will be a loss for product.
September 04, 2020
Secure your data handling and processes with Qlik Sense
We are using Qlik Sense from the shop floor persons to top management. It goes from very frequent use in operational matters to nightruns with data extracts and consolidations to management views across the whole company. And it is used in all areas where we need to analyze or handle data. Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Manufacturing, Finance, Quality, HR. Everywhere.
- The look and feel for end users are "always" good. You don't need to think about screen size.
- For 99.9% of our cases I don't need to think about the data size. Qlik handles it very well.
- With Qlik scripting you can do ANYTHING with your data. For example creating history files of data is very easy. And also linking that into the applications and present it to end users. No more saving Excel files every where.
- The Qlik Sense management console can definitely be improved. QlikView management console was MUCH better and powerful. Especially regarding task relations.
- In the Management console there should be better integrations of triggering tasks in for example NPrinting and QlikView.
- They always refer that it is possible via API, but as business user those things should not require API scripting consulting to get it working.
- Extensions is VERY useful and gives more power to Qlik Sense. But some of those should be standard built-in features.
- We are using some extensions from Vizlib that is very powerful.
- Sync of applications between different distant nodes should be improved. Due to network we have nodes in EU and CN. Those we need to sync manually or via API scripts, Powershell and xcopy scripts depending on what to move.
July 14, 2020
Confusing product for a nonprofit that needs dedicated technical expertise to fully utilize
Qlik sense is being used for our organization to capture demographic data for clients served across all programs, as well as provide outcome data, fidelity data (adherence to our program model), and tracking of strategic initiatives for clients within our flagship program. Additionally, Key Apps and sheets that we use internally have been "templatized" and are being offered as part of the "deep evaluation and learning experience" we provide to other organizations who adopt our flagship model (within their own organization in different states) as part of our Network Affiliate model.
- Interactive visualizations.
- Customization to add your own company branding (logo, color schemes, etc.).
- Allow for multiple cuts or filters of data depending on user needs (region, time frame, client type, etc.).
- Use Standard SQL so that new staff can build sheets and apps quickly using existing knowledge
- need to be able to select specific dates for filtering data (i.e., show data for all clients served between 7/1/2019 and 6/30/2020) as this would address the majority of our data requests from contracts and development
- Provide a "user training" section of the site that allows end-users to have a guided training on how to navigate QilkSense and use Key features like the snapshot tool or how to apply multiple filters to a particular view using the organization's data, not a random dummy data set.