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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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Recent Reviews

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Qlik Sense, a widely used data visualization and management tool, has proven to be invaluable for organizations in various industries. …
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Qlik Sense makes sense

9 out of 10
November 25, 2022
Incentivized
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

2 videos

Qlik Review: How Qlik Sense Opened the Door for this Business Analytics Manager
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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.

8.4
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

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use; easy for beginners to pick up.
  • Many visualizations are included in the pack which provide options for users.
  • Great community for resources sharing.
  • Expression coding easy to pick up.
  • While most commonly expressions are easy to pick up, there are certain expressions that can be certainly included in the library like 'grouping' of dimensions.
  • Enable more colour schemes for charts.
  • Percentage calculations.
  • Enterprise data to be exported out in qvf files.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We were able to see which suppliers that had negative cost trend while the material and industry had a positive trend.
  • It's very simple to deal with the long tail of suppliers with few products and low spend.
  • We can easily take care of the suppliers that were still invoicing in USD and change them to CNY by a simple filter.
  • I lack the functionality and customization of Tableau.
  • Sometimes we need to use Excel to do some things that Qlik Sense is unable to do.
  • I wish we could resize the graphs to fit all kinds of resolutions, graphs can look good on high res and then useless on low res monitors.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy of use, even in the mobile.
  • Easy filtering data from entire set
  • Fancy, dynamic dashboards
  • Customer can deeply examine the reports
  • Like other competitors, it is easy to design reports but it is not easy to create AND design.
  • To deeply analyse, you need to know basic computer languages such as SQL.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sales data - Qlik Sense can help you understand how a partner is performing globally, or all the way down to the individual store level.
  • Qlik Sense is user friendly - after a few short training modules, you can begin to understand how to use the tool.
  • Qlik Sense is very customizable - it helps you to use data in a way that makes sense for your business.
  • The amount of data that can be pulled from Qlik Sense can we overwhelming - learning how to get what you need and to customize apps for your use takes practice.
  • Qlik data can be hard to figure out, i.e. what date the data you are looking at is from.
  • Currently at my organization, Qlik data downloads go to Excel - we have moved to G-suite, and have to switch back and forth between apps.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data visualization
  • Data model creation
  • License management
  • Pperformance for parallel report generation
  • Non-interactive report creation
  • Email is separated into a complete new product called nprint, it would be nice to have email as a built-in feature of Qlik Sense
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Realized results
  • Overviews over time
  • Possibilities of different dashboards
  • I sometimes convert data to exel, then numbers are often displayed as text; it would be nice if that is no longer necessary
  • Possibilities to visualize data in even more ways
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data Linking - ability to pull data from a wide variety of applications and database is a powerful feature.
  • Charting and visuals - heart of the product is the variety of out of the box visualizations (charts, tables, pivot, etc.) that give developers supported tools to tell department stores.
  • Security - ability to prevent sets of data for view by groups of users is powerful.
  • Email - lack of email functionality for reports and visuals is a miss. NPrinting adds in the functionality - but should be part of the core product. Requires the use of other products like SQL reporting services to accomplish this key business need.
  • Reporting - Visuals are great - the reality is we still need to print or export a visual for users to memorialize data. Lack of ability to produce a report or set one up is a miss.
  • Speed - at times the set up is slow. I believe this is likely more related to the development environment/setup than the product itself.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Visibility. Attractive visual objects.
  • Self-service functionality.
  • Web-based technology.
  • Security rules - make more user friendly in terms of configuration.
  • More focus on big data, not in-memory apps.
  • Additional useful actions that are available in QlikView.
John Delligatti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Visualizing trends over time.
  • Easily work with data from multiple data sources.
  • Build extractable reports or tables.
  • Learning curve with Qlik scripting language.
  • Licensing structure.
  • Confusing overlap between QlikView and Qlik Sense.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Connect lots of "messy data" together
  • Easy ability to "click" and modify tables to identify patterns
  • Fairly easy learning curve
  • The syntax is ugly, using {< for set expressions, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust features for displaying data.
  • Ingesting data from multiple sources.
  • Cross referencing that data from multiple sources to develop internal metrics and benchmarks.
  • Steep learning curve.
  • It would be nice to have training for users that need help setting up personal dashboards.
  • The phrasing or the lingo/jargon in the application can be difficult to understand.
August 25, 2020

I like it

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data modeling is incorporated in the product, allowing for a "no warehouse" approach to smaller reporting solutions. This means we can get off the ground with new reporting projects (or replacements of currently manual processes) without cross-organization coordination, and our analysts don't have to become experts in multiple tools to deliver useful outputs.
  • The Data > Analysis > Story workflow allows for precise analysis reports/commentaries on specific areas, with the ability to drill back to the analysis screens for broader exploration.
  • Without much thought at all, simple data models just "happen". With proper design, complex data models function well, too. Data processing within Qlik Sense data files happens dramatically faster than the equivalent processing on our Oracle database servers, meaning we can pull raw data in bulk and process it more quickly in Qlik Sense, removing the need for a lengthy warehousing time slot in our nightly database schedule.
  • Visualizations can be difficult to customize. For example, while it's possible to select specific colors for chart items, it's not immediately obvious how this works, so there's either a bit of a learning curve for what's a basic task in any other tool, or you end up with every report following the Qlik default scheme. This isn't just an aesthetic preference; color can be crucial in guiding a user through a series of complex reports, and Qlik makes this harder to manage than some other tools I've used (though not impossible).
  • Selecting a reseller is more opaque than it needs to be. We happened to land on an excellent reseller when re-procuring our licenses, who brought with them a whole approach to modeling data in Qlik Sense which we otherwise wouldn't have known about, and which, despite the licenses costing about the same, has saved us months of development time. Other customers will presumably be less lucky.
  • I'd really like it if my having purchased the QAP license for publishing dashboards externally meant I was also covered for my internal customers. As it is I still have to buy "viewer" licenses for internal users. If we weren't already locked into the Qlik Sense contract because we've already made the big payment and are now only paying maintenance, it would be hard to justify buying this product over cheaper competitors. I still think it's a good product, but in ways that it's hard to articulate in a local government procurement process.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of visualisation creation, Qlik sense allows fast and easy data visualisations for easy consumption of data.
  • Unification of data presentation across the organisation, apps and sheets can be managed and used across many aspects of the business
  • Intuitive. For the curious few it allows growth within each department for how the data is used and presented which can then be utilised for a wider audience if there is consensus that the data analysis gains strength from the way it is presented.
  • Shared bookmarks is a function that most users want, mainly to recreate quick "go-to" visualisations for particular focus meetings.
  • Renaming tabs where seta analysis is used based on selection criteria.
Jonathan Vitale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Responds well to user's inquiries - very flexible.
  • Enables deep connections between disparate sources of data.
  • Allows users to bookmark specific selections for easy navigation.
  • Developer tools need work - the script editing interface is very minimal (look at VS Code by contrast).
  • Ability for developers to create custom functionality.
  • Needs more look-and-feel customization on the front end.
  • Streams (application repositories) are difficult to navigate - no nested structure.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy deployment
  • Flexibility and low effort to build reports
  • Qlik's investment in new tools and features
  • Ability to export images from reports
  • Ability to add images to reports
  • Basic Pivot Table styling options such as header background selection and border width and darkness selections. It can be difficult for some of our users to read.
July 27, 2020

Qlik Sense Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We can change very easily the level of our analysis, from very superficial to very detailed data.
  • Works very fast with huge amount of data
  • We can join data from very different systems and applications.
  • So far I haven’t found any, honestly.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Filtering data and updating dashboards
  • Easy user interface
  • Data manipulation
  • Data association
  • More flexibility when creating charts
  • More customization tools
  • Better link between data load editor and data manager
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