Great tool for a non-IT driven deployment.
May 22, 2018
Great tool for a non-IT driven deployment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is a great product that fits well with any business. We use it as a BI Roll-out driven and managed entirely by a team in finance. From this platform, we are able to support sales, marketing, and even manufacturing while still maintaining control over the data and integrity of the measures and key indicators. It enables a team of 3 to provide analytics and self-service data to a business network of several thousand people. With write-back functionality, it also gives each department the ability to enter and maintain their own budgets and forecasts, saving us countless hours of managing that process alone.
- The ETL layer within Qlik allows someone with no IT background and little knowledge of any programming languages to immediately fetch data and start using the tool.
- The Data Loading script gives power users the ability to model the data they bring in to be maximized for efficiency and speed.
- The Web interface allows us the ability to use custom URL’s to direct traffic into various different points of interest.
- The license structure is bizarre. The use of tokens is very confusing at first but does get easier to manage the longer you are operational. Knowing when to name tokens or keep them un-named is very tricky.
- More customization of color and layout/design aesthetics is much needed.
- Price is a factor as well. It’s hard to see the value proposition up to senior management when Other Tools have a lower entry price threshold.
Overall, a much better product and sales experience than any other vendor/tool. When you look at Total Cost of Ownership, Qlik beats out Power BI, simply because you need fewer FTE's to support the same level of output. Tableau, while very popular, has an awkward sales experience, and as a manager rolling this out that carried a lot of weight in my decision making.