Qlik Sense as a system-wide solution
May 30, 2019

Qlik Sense as a system-wide solution

Sherry Dreher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

The intent is to use Qlik Sense across the whole organization. Currently, it has been launched within a few departments. We provide dashboards to make outcomes and processed data available to executives and managers in an effort to make one source of "truth". Historically, each department was responsible for pulling their own data and we would have multiple "answers" to the same question. In the future, we're hoping to provide drill-down levels with the data and to educate the user base to take advantage of it.
  • Qlik is more IT or programmer-friendly for data load scripts.
  • Qlik makes it easy to "lock down" data views, so that the occasional user doesn't get into trouble by applying filters, etc, that don't make sense.
  • We're a bit behind the curve when it comes to educating our end users on using the Qlik app, so we still need to use pdf views to distribute. Qlik doesn't have a lot of options for this venue.
  • Qlik requires more IT knowledge to get the data loaded appropriately than I would like.
  • I find the interface more difficult to use than the competitors.
  • We are in the "building" phase right now, so I can't say we've had an ROI.
Qlik Sense seems to work better when launching an app to a system-wide audience, that needs to compile a great quantity of data. Once the data is loaded, the "structure" of it doesn't change often. While our company has chosen to launch Qlik system-wide, I personally use Tableau Desktop. I refer to it as "Excel on steroids". I get asked a vast variety of questions (no two quite the same!) and I need to be extremely agile in not only my data analysis, but my data preparation, and I find that Tableau affords me the flexibility. I think of Qlik as producing the "shiny online app" whereas Tableau is the work-horse for one-off questions, using one-off data dumps.
Qlik Sense seems to be well-suited to launch an app for a broad audience that doesn't need to do much drilling/analysis. If the data needs to be manipulated on the front-end (aka behind the scenes), Qlik seems to have good developer options. It is well-suited for viewing dashboards online, versus producing pdfs.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
6
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
3
Formatting capabilities
3
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
4
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated