Quick Qlik Review
August 06, 2019
Quick Qlik Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Cloud
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
We use the Qlik Sense app across the organization at Air Products. From sales, operations, procurement, finance, business management, we have created a lot of different apps to address various needs. Whether it is revenue-related data (sales, price, volume), or costs/spend data, or other metrics that are of use from a distribution standpoint (miles, number of deliveries, etc.).
- It is very easy for an individual to quickly adjust and manipulate views. Allows folks to feel comfortable beyond spreadsheet reporting.
- Creating an app is easy enough once the back end data is created (QVD). This allows folks to create reports that will be auto-generated and managed by IT, versus having spreadsheets that lose their integrity when staff changes.
- The ability to have security allows for better protection of data as compared to a spreadsheet which can be cumbersome.
- Sometimes, too much data can be an issue, and the app slows down significantly.
- Clicks or filtering can be cumbersome, turning off potential users. Having better voice recognition commands could alleviate.
- Better mapping capability would be nice. I would like to be able to overlay store points along with customers as an example.
- The Qliksense apps have allows questions to be answered more quickly and consistently.
- It has allowed insights into decisions that historically would've been guesses.
- Allows broader access to folks in remote locations to be able to make decisions locally.
I did find Tableau was easier to use, and from a mapping feature, more easily manipulated to get the output I desired. We did not have a Tableau enterprise license and so I ended up using Qlik Sense. Air Products also uses QlikView, and frankly, I think both are good, although perhaps Qliksense easier to modify. I have heard counter-arguments to that.