Qlik Sense - would I recommend it?
September 27, 2018

Qlik Sense - would I recommend it?

Mark O'Donovan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

We have currently completed a 2 month evaluation of Qlik Sense, one of several evaluations in the past few years.
It will be used eventually to provide Cloud access for Qlik Sense documents and on-premise for internal users to benefit from an update and more modern interface when compared with QlikView. Our company currently has had QlikView for about 8 years.

Pros

  • The responsive design for Qlik sense is excellent especially when you might not know what device will be accessing the site.
  • For developers they will benefit for the data manager which has features that will help them gain confidence in their data model and make changes easier.
  • Qlik Sense allows users to create stories that are powerpoint-like presentations. Because these are saved with the document it is easier to refer back to the source data when presenting to users. If you have ever been in a meeting where someone is presenting information from an Excel spreadsheet, is then asked a question and says 'We will have to get back to you on that one' , you will see the benefit of this feature.

Cons

  • Only promote features such as multi-cloud deployments when they are available for all customers to use.
The company I work for already has a mature installation of QlikView. But comparing the user interface between QlikView and Qlik Sense you can see that Qlik Sense is a modern interface and more features to help developers as well as users that wish to create their own Qlik Sense documents.
Qlik Sense is an excellent product for analyzing and especially viewing your data on a variety of devices thanks to its responsive design. Qlik Sense also has many excellent features for managing and preparing your data.
A scenario where you might want to consider using QlikView instead of Qlik Sense would be where you have a large number of reports that users require. At the present time in this scenario you might be better off using the container object within QlikView or deciding whether or not you can reduce the number of reports
and still use Qlik Sense.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Customizable dashboards
7
5.8
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
5
Report Output and Scheduling ()
Not Rated
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Access Control and Security ()
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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