Great tool for a non-IT driven deployment.
May 22, 2018

Great tool for a non-IT driven deployment.

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Score 10 out of 10
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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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
This is a great tool if you have several disparate sources and need to do some hands-on data blending. A challenge to use if you have data both in and out of the firewall, and operate in a highly secure environment. One of the best features of the tool is that you can spoon-feed users what you want them to see/use; it is definitely not a “build it and they will come” tool, you need to spend a lot of time up front tailoring what you are building to be highly successful.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10

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