Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense was extensively trialed in order to effectively organize and present information for sales on product lines of interest. Product management utilizes the sheets in order to share visual documents with territory managers and to evaluate sales data. The cloud platform is able to be used via mobile devices but this is mainly for viewing. For effective editing, a laptop or desktop is preferred.
- Easy to use drag and drop platform for creating visual graphs. Additionally, the videos/guided prompts work nicely when first starting out.
- Importing semi-sophisticated Excel data files. It was an easy to find area, upload time was quick, and organization of the tables imported cleanly.
- The cloud hub is easy to access especially with mobile devices. This is especially important with travelling sales managers.
- The cloud platform tends to load slowly if you're not in a good wifi area. That is, LTE/4G data takes too long to move from sheet to sheet and it causes delays during remote meetings.
- Security is a lingering concern. Qlik is moderately supported in this area however I feel there should be more data surrounding this area. It feels that the platform has too much usability content, which is nice, but not enough focus on the practical sense. Businesses need to feel secure that their data won't be leaked.
- The structure is nice and works well enough, but in comparison to similar platforms such as Tableau, this lacks in effective mass-data management, speed, and graphic quality.
Qlik Sense is very reminiscent of Tableau when using it. I feel that the structure does lack in some aspects. For instance, the coding for the sheets is a bit too loose and the vocabulary for arranging data within a chart is confusing. Tableau is quicker to work with even though loading data is nearly three times slower in this scenario. Ultimately it was the security aspects and ease of sharing which took Tableau to the top spot in our particular product group.