Qlik Sense - the platform for enterprise (and web scale) data analytics!
August 27, 2019
Qlik Sense - the platform for enterprise (and web scale) data analytics!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is used across all departments as our enterprise standard data visualization and analysis tool. We produce automated dashboards, report packs and email alerts for use across the corporation as well as embed graphs into the internal and external website and use the core engine to provide data APIs for download to allow our information to form products for external stakeholders to use. We use the product for data preparation, modeling, and visualization. Increasingly we are using Qlik Sense and a data lake to avoid the need for a data warehouse or database layer.
- Rapid data visualization.
- Powerful data modeling capabilities.
- Supports a wide range of output formats e.g. interactive dashboards, static reports, email triggers, API downloads of data, web embedded content.
- Adaptive visualizations to fit on any screen or device.
- Provides a licensing model for using the content within external-facing sites (with unlimited user numbers).
- Some level of basic scripting knowledge is required.
- Some features are not always readily available in the UI, you need to dig a bit deeper into their APIs to use the features.
- Licencing model although starts basic gets very complicated with a number of add ons or user types.
- Investment in platform costs paid back in 18 months.
- Ongoing development work of dashboards provides ~£1m of benefits per year (team of 6 developers).
- Enabled us to radically change how we share data and insights with our business stakeholders.
--Advantages--
Qlik Sense offers much more powerful data preparation capabilities.
Qlik Sense offers the licensing model to support external users.
Qlik Sense often offers faster and more performant dashboards so allows you to scale to enterprise (or web-scale) use.
Qlik Sense allows API access to the core engine so you can use it as a data API provider.
--Competitor strengths--
Tableau can do more beautiful dashboards.
Power Bi enterprise can integrate faster with Microsoft 365 products (but your data needs to be in the cloud)
SAP Lumira has some funky inbuilt data quality tests upon loading data but not many strengths overall.
Qlik Sense offers much more powerful data preparation capabilities.
Qlik Sense offers the licensing model to support external users.
Qlik Sense often offers faster and more performant dashboards so allows you to scale to enterprise (or web-scale) use.
Qlik Sense allows API access to the core engine so you can use it as a data API provider.
--Competitor strengths--
Tableau can do more beautiful dashboards.
Power Bi enterprise can integrate faster with Microsoft 365 products (but your data needs to be in the cloud)
SAP Lumira has some funky inbuilt data quality tests upon loading data but not many strengths overall.