Qlik Sense Review
May 16, 2019
Qlik Sense Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is used across the broader WBA company. I was involved in the implementation and subsequent use in our New York office. The use case was to consolidate information from our third party distributor and internal finance solution (SAP) to enable a balanced scorecard for the management team and more detailed analysis for finance, supply and commercial functions. The first phase of the project utilised QlikView. Subsequent phases migrated to Qlik Sense.
- Qlik Sense is very easy to use - which made it very easy to justify the benefits case and drive adoption as we released subsequent sprints.
- Qlik Sense addressed the issues we faced to develop a single solution that would work for the office-based community and remote sales force using QlikView.
- Qlik provided extensive support to help us decide the roadmap for Qlik products in the context of our IT landscape.
- Qlik integration with SAP was a real bonus.
- Qlik's associative engine is both a strength and a weakness. For a single solution like the one I describe here, it makes the development process quick without compromising performance. However, when the larger data and analytics strategy was considered for the group (which for such a large company involves handling vast quantities of consumer and operational data) other solutions proved to offer better value for our requirements.
- The solution step changed the business units' ability to make informed decisions. The business case easily justified the initial investment. Once the first phase of the project had delivered the benefits from the business case and proven the use of an agile approach there was incredibly strong support from the local management team to fund the next phases - incorporating additional data sources and deploying to different user communities
- Incorporating new data sources (eg. third party sales when we acquired a new business) was relatively inexpensive and delivered significant savings