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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

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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

Reviews

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Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Filtering by different layers of client types, regions.
  • Provides good data aggregation.
  • Flexibility on pivot tables.
  • End the "No Access Pass" issue. If people can't use Qlik, they will drop out.
  • Load scripts/QVDs can easily become too heavy, crashing apps when they run. Partial or layered loads would be welcome.
  • Give more ability to end-users to pick fields and order and allow them to extract reports (user stories don't work well) to known most common formats such as pdf and ppt.
  • Make Nprinting user friendly.
  • Better on-screen visuals.
  • Scalable embedding within software solutions.
Daniel Huddleston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I use the smart search feature often to help locate key parts of information across data sources.
  • The expression editor is fairly easy to learn even if you don't have an advanced background.
  • The data load editor has both advanced and basic functionality depending on your skill level and business needs.
  • App rendering can be a little slow at times.
  • Data model viewer does not save your layout.
  • Would like an easier way to publish apps for non-Qlik users to view.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very user-friendly dashboard experience.
  • Easy filtering process with the filters remaining on multiple pages.
  • Drill down features on the dashboards are detailed and easy to operate.
  • Exporting functionality needs to be much better. PDF exports do not look aesthetically pleasing.
  • Dashboard design can be complicated with the layout and data architecture.
  • Storyboarding needs to be revamped or adjusted. The concept of “snapshots” doesn’t seem to work and filtering on them keeps turning off.
Martti Kontula | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Connectivity - the data can be sourced virtually from anywhere.
  • Enrich-ability - sometimes you need add-on dimensions which would be really hard to implement in source systems. Add an excel file to the mix and voila - you have new dimension.
  • Cloud ability - the old Qlik Sense Enterprise was in a way a blast from the past. The new SaaS edition is fresh, agile and although a little limited feature-wise in cofiguration, much simpler and easier to use.
  • Linked reload tasks. Not yet implemented in SaaS version. We really miss this feature from the Enterprise edition.
  • Private / public sheets has room for improvement. This feels like over-engineered feature. When you want to edit an app, you need to first make the sheets private before editing. At least there should be a possibility to opt for simpler developer experience.
  • Custom domains.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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 10, 2021

Sensible Qlik Sense

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great visualization
  • Flexible and easy to use
  • Allows reuse of code/query logic
  • Creative dashboards
  • Headers should be bold in a table
  • More colors would improve visualization
  • More templates would increase the options for a wider range of presentations
August 02, 2021

JollyRoger2021

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Visual graphs
  • Drilling in for detail
  • Comparison based on categories
  • Carrying the same selection over multiple dashboards
  • Pivot expansion should have the option to select which level it expands up to instead of requiring user to click on the "+" sign.
  • More combo chart and graph options
  • Auto correct the label so they do not overlap
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Qlik Sense provides one of the most flexible data modelling experiences with Load Script and the Data Manager.
  • Qlik Sense continues to iterate on the user interface and provides new charts and features regularly.
  • Qlik Sense provides a true Enterprise-level administrative experience, especially for managing security.
  • Qlik Sense and NPrinting integration is weak and getting printable documents requires more effort than it should.
  • Qlik Sense can offer better support for notifications around failing tasks.
  • Qlik does not always publish a robust feature roadmap and there is some confusion on features between Enterprise and Cloud.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Handles a huge amount of data with little effort
  • Is easy to use for the end users
  • Has a good amount of different graphs to select from
  • Fairly easy to develop applications.
  • Set-analysis often becomes very complex. An "Set-analysis Assistant" would be helpful.
  • Graphs, as exported (PNG or JPG) for PP presentations, does not come out well with poor visibility.
  • The is a limited possibility to change color schemas.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Drilling down: it's easy to pinpoint a pain point by just drilling with the filters and watch how all the visuals follow.
  • Dynamic/interactive
  • Performant, even despite large data sets (if implemented well with QVD's)
  • scripting language/set analysis can be complex; it takes quite some experience to figure out how to get a formula exactly right, with the different types of brackets, the $, the NUM#, Date, Date#, etc.
  • case when: a simple yet for some reason missing feature
  • a resume function when a load gives an error after 15 sections would be convenient, so you wouldn't have to go through all of them again.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Combining data from different sources
  • Including robust security through the use of customizable rules and properties
  • Allowing for more complex analysis through variables, set analysis, and SSE
  • Visualizations that scale well on different display sizes
  • It's a bit too complex to perform simple operations, such as rolling counts and YOY analysis
  • Qlik Sense Desktop should be able to connect to an Enterprise instance. For example, people should be able to access applicable enterprise data sources in QS Desktop. Admins should have the option to publish from QS Desktop to QS Enterprise.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • can handle various data sources - Oracle, Google Sheets, etc
  • clickable chart objects provide easier filtering
  • view data table behind any chart object
  • customizing charts could improve - add more options
  • downloaded excel data file should remove all formatting - manually updating this is a pain at times
  • add more customization to the Stories
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Responsive to browser size due to JavaScript framework
  • Easy to build tables, charts, graphs
  • Clean, elegant looking visuals
  • Robust scripting language
  • Limited options when adjusting colors of graphs and charts
  • Limited options for adjust[ing] how graphs and charts look or [how] users interact with them
  • If QlikView has 1000 knobs to turn, Qlik Sense has 100. This hurts developers ability to build robust reports and applications
  • Many new features are cloud only
  • No unified hub for View and Sense for on premise solutions
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