Item: Qlik Sense
Rating: 8
Author: Adam AbwatJohnson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used to analyze our sales data, drill down into the categories that we focus on, and look at trending data and vs budget. It is being used across the company to see high-level sales and also to look into department-specific KPIs and ad-hoc data analysis. Reports are consumed across the company and specific users are able to build their own chart with the potential to have them create their own reports in the future.

Pros and Cons

Scripting language
Easy to create visualizations
Drag and drop UI
Presentation is simple and clean

A little buggy.
Set analysis can take some time to get your head around.

Return on Investment

Measuring our sales vs budget and forecast by category gives great insight into our trading meetings.
Automating report generation gives time back to users.
Having data ready when users need it is great versus having to wait for people to produce (static) reports.

Alternatives Considered

QlikView and Tableau Desktop

Qlik Sense offers the best of both worlds in my opinion. Tableau is superior in UI and usability but with Qlik Sense there has been an effort made to have a clean, easy to use presentation. QlikView works well and has the same scripting engine as Qlik Sense (which is not in Tableau) but improves in functionality and ease of use.

Other Software Used

QlikView

Likelihood to Recommend

Qlik Sense is very well suited to situations where you need a simple way of presenting complex data. It has a lot of visualizations which can be dragged and dropped onto the page, which also means it is fairly easy to set up some self-service analysis. Being able to take the visualizations and sheet created and embed them in a web page helps to get them onto large screens in the department offices.

It make Qlik Sense

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense