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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 Sense makes sense

9 out of 10
November 25, 2022
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Qlik Sense itself is quite easy to implement to support BI activities in the organization. We develop Qlik apps in a mixed-mode. Something …
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10/10 recommend!

8 out of 10
November 19, 2022
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We deal with a lot of data to manage student experiences and numbers which can be overwhelming to manage especially for new hires, Qlik …
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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (310)
    8.9
    89%
  • Drill-down analysis (319)
    8.8
    88%
  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (304)
    8.4
    84%
  • Formatting capabilities (312)
    8.2
    82%

Video Reviews

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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.

8.4
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.6
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.7
Avg 8.4

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.

8.6
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

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

8.9
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.5
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

8.5
Avg 7.9
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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 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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December 15, 2020

Qlik Sense - Intuitive and easy

JF
Juncong Fu
Manager
Singapore Pools (Gambling & Casinos, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik Sense is especially suited for high level reporting where dashboard of important key performance indicators can be created and with appropriate filters, the presenter can sift through data quickly and present important points to the audience.
If the need is to analyse data or simple data operation, then perhaps Qlik Sense is slightly less intuitive compared to say Excel or Python.
December 15, 2020

Reliable Enterprise tool that can help promote a data driven culture

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to get BI up and running quickly at an enterprise scale then Qlik Sense can get you there. It's great for connecting data from various systems quickly and delivering a solution. It does require Qlik Sense technical team to install, configure, write ETL to build and deliver for the on-prem but you can go the cloud route and eliminate some of the steps. The associative engine makes working with data intuitive and the performance is also decent due to an in-memory database. The native color scheme and UI of Qlik Sense does not pop like some other competing products but it can be customized and you get a better server side infrastructure for enterprise scale. Qlik Sense needs to have data reside on the server for it to deliver a solution - if you have requirements where the data needs to be queried on-demand from an external system for real time reporting, it probably can be achieved but would require some good amount of work.
December 15, 2020

Qlik Drives Change

Verified User
Manager in Customer Service
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe Qlik Sense is well suited for situations where there are a variety of data sets that are related but are not published via the same reports. It allows for those data joins to gain insight that would otherwise be a manual process. Similarly, it is a good tool for databases that do not have good reporting functionality.
December 03, 2020

QlikSense Desktop for purchasers

PL
Per Lyngemark
Cost Manager
ASSA ABLOY (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I like to use Qlik Sense to view large amounts of data, it's much more useful than Excel that would choke on that amount of data. It's very fast and easy to set up some parameters, filters, and charts. You can quickly see where you want to focus and build dashboards that make your life much easier next time.
December 02, 2020

Use power of Qlik Sense - Affect with Fancy Reports

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Consumer Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Dynamic reporting abilities in the reports and dashboards. In a large volume of data, there is still a need for process and waiting time. Filtering easy and uses in all reports in one. If there is a need to deeply analyze, you need to write some codes to specify logic. Easy for simple - medium queries.
November 24, 2020

Great tool for understanding your business and for sharing sales data with your customers!

Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Banking Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik Sense is an excellent tool, and as mentioned is very customizable. Qlik can help you to harness all the raw data that your company uses, and put in a format that is easy to understand and can also be shared easily, either inside or outside your organization. Qlik can be used across the entire organization sales, customer service, data analysis, accounting - it has many uses.
November 12, 2020

Qlik Sense review after few years of use.

ND
Nabajyoti Dutta
Systems Software Engineer
Polymershapes LLC (Plastics, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If someone is looking for a data visualization tool alone, Qlik Sense is a suitable product. However for legacy enterprise reporting structure which has its own values (eg: where end users get pre-defined report outputs on their email), Qlik Sense should be thoroughly reviewed to determine if it meets most of the needs.
October 26, 2020

Qlik Sense Business Utility Review

Verified User
Manager in Other
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik Sense is well suited for bringing together different sets of data. A strong point for Qlik Sense is that it allows us to visualize data from different sources. The challenge is on the report/email functions. Qlik Sense does not recognize the need to produce reports or email reports for users. Without this functionality, the heart of our decision-making becomes a challenge right now.
October 02, 2020

Data democratization doesn't have to be scary. With Qlik, you might even say it's fun!

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John Delligatti
Director of Digital Transformation Strategy
SDI (Logistics & Supply Chain, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik excels in many different areas, in many ways you are only limited by the questions you ask. Some specific use cases include monitoring contract compliance, monitoring pricing of commodities, recognizing trends, rationalizing spend in Supply chain.

Some areas where Qlik would be less appropriate include their automated reporting capabilities. Although the utility is good, the cost of the automation portion is significant.
September 25, 2020

The “Real” Next Generation Analytics Solution for the Business. The Analytics “AI”

JM
Jimshad Muhammed
Deputy Manager BIS
Malabar Gold & Diamonds (Luxury Goods & Jewelry, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
On analytics side there are many products available in market, but there is only one in memory tool, Qlik Sense. There is no data warehouse need to build a BI solution, only if it is Qlik. I suggest it strongly.
September 04, 2020

Secure your data handling and processes with Qlik Sense

CA
Christer Andersson
Business Intelligence Manager
Enics (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need to dig into some data set with thousands or millions of lines, do it in Qlik Sense. You will immediately find the outliers and odd data. Somehow it will pop up in front of you when start sorting and doing selections. There are no unapproved ways of looking at the data.
I promise, every time I start digging I find "funny data." Doesn't matter what kind of data I look into.
If there is something you do with data "every day" and you do the same every day, add it to Qlik Sense and spend time on the value add instead.
And with data I mean any kind of data. By scripting and automating it you will also secure data handling.
If there is some data you wonder what happens with it, create some history files and do the analyzing.
If it's just some smaller amount of data and you need to do decisions and subjective tweak of data that is hard to adjust to script and logical rules, perhaps not Qlik or any other BI tool is the best. Keep it in Excel.
Otherwise data tweak that is logical you can always add and use in Qlik Sense.
August 31, 2020

Game changer for organizing sales data, identifying metrics, insights, and arriving at actionable outcomes

Verified User
Executive in Sales
Furniture Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for creating a holistic and real-time sales dashboard that can be integrated with a company's ERP system. And I also like that you can take data from various customer portals and tie it together with your own data.

I would be less likely to suggest it is used for information that would be sensitive within other departments in that company.
August 25, 2020

I like it

Verified User
Analyst in Corporate
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Interactive reporting and multi-dimensional analysis. The product is well suited to a technically literate team who don't want to maintain data warehouses but do want to work in detail with their data. With proper data modeling, it can also serve less technically skilled users as a drag and drop analysis tool, but this is probably less useful.
August 24, 2020

Qlik Sense helps us make better decisions through easier analysis with a wide scope.

JA
Jeremy Annable
Business Systems Manager
IAE (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik is well suited to viewing historic data and quickly slicing that data up in various ways to present a full picture, allowing for in depth analysis quickly and easily. Not really appropriate for bang up to date or fast moving very current data due to the length of time to collate sometimes lots of data sources.
August 24, 2020

Qlik Sense: Great for business users - needs work for other industries

Jonathan Vitale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jonathan Vitale
Dashboard Developer and Data Coach
The School District of Philadelphia (Education Management, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik Sense is great for an organization that has multiple sources of data that must be combined in a reasonable way. The user interfaces - if created properly - can be very simple and intuitive. Therefore, it is great for employees who may not have extremely strong graph literacy. I would be less willing to use it in a research environment where a lot of customization is required. Also, Qlik caters strongly to financial and traditional business organizations.
July 29, 2020

Qlik Sense Newcomer but already a Fan

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Apparel & Fashion Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Real-time data is not there yet. It is getting there and will be very soon. For most applications in our organization, we do not need access to real time data in Qlik Sense. We are fine with an hour or two of delay. In our retail application, our stores report data at the close of the day. In this application, our data is refreshed once a day in the early morning hours.
July 27, 2020

Qlik Sense Review

Verified User
Director in Finance and Accounting
Chemicals Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
When you have well-prepared data and a vision of what you want to show, Qlik Sense will help you and even suggest how to present it. When the hygiene of your data is pure and your team is not willing to improve it, Qlik Sense will not help you. But even when you have a mess in your data, Qlik Sense will help you to find a way to start cleaning the data.
July 17, 2020

Qlik just makes Sense

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good for beginners wanting to get hands on experience with data and good for sharing with other organizations. It could allow for more customization. If someone wants more customization, other BI apps would be better.
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