QlikTastic Product
May 24, 2018
QlikTastic Product
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Desktop
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Currently using QlikSense across multiple B2B departments/media areas. With so many data sources both internal and external it allows us to knit these together to provide a seamless single customer view for our marketing and sales teams to exploit customer trends and opportunities and of equal importance is ensuring we maintain robust data protection rules with the new General Data Protection Regulation just days away at the time of writing.
- Makes it very easy to dive in and get started with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface
- There are some great built in geo tools that can help you do things like heat maps without too much effort - a nice improvement from there other main product QlikView
- Great attention has been paid to the user interface to make it fast, easy and flexible to use and helps to give you confidence when using the product
- Provides self generating code - for example creating calendar fields based on any date fields in your data sources automatically
- If like me you were previously using there other product QlikView for years before dabbling with the newer QlikSense it has a very different feel to it that can make switching a little uneasy - the interface for example is completely different
- It can be a bit fiddly to get some of the geoanalytics maps up and running with the need for sourcing external kml files from other websites for example
- Some of the auto generated code is not as efficient as it could be and can lead to you needing to potentially want to rewrite it
Have used its still widely used (and loved) predecessor QlikView for many years before QlikSense appeared on the scene - identical coding makes porting from QlikView to QlikSense fairly easy if your application is not too complex as there are some differences that can cause issues. QlikView does rely on you getting a better handle on the coding side of things than the more intuitive drag-and-drop style of QlikSense and rivals.