Qlik Sense is a great visual analytics tool for global leaders or hyper-growth companies
October 07, 2019

Qlik Sense is a great visual analytics tool for global leaders or hyper-growth companies

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is being used across all my organization - Finance, HR, PMO, Sales. It is our default reporting tool. We have predefined dashboards build on top of generalized data models which also allow users to do self-service.

Pros

  • Full ETL - form Raw Data, through Data Transformation, to Data Models.
  • Super easy to use front end. The associative experience is great. The simple green, white, gray give our users the ability to just get in and start analyzing the data. Almost no user training is needed. The front end is super intuitive.
  • Self Service capabilities are great, easy to use and require minimal training.

Cons

  • Qlik Sense still lacks some of the capabilities of QlikView which is a bit frustrating.
  • Qlik Sense has no inbuilt advanced analytics capabilities.
  • Qlik Sense still has a room for improvement around the integration with other Qlik products like NPrinting, Data Catalyst, Attunity. Now, these are all separate products and this makes it a bit difficult to maintain.
  • Our users have access to all relevant data and have the ability to create their own reports instead of waiting for IT to do it.
  • Reports combine data from all our systems.
  • Qlik Sense does not have all Qlik products in one platform and licensing, installation and maintenance can be improved.
PBI has decent dashboarding capabilities, but cannot be compared to Qlik in terms of governance of the self-service. The Associative Experience of Qlik is super valuable for us and Power BI does not have it. Power BI also does not have the powerful backend of Qlik. I would say it is a nice tool for simplistic entry-level reporting or if you are ready to sacrifice functionality for the seemingly lower price of Power BI. Not great for bigger companies or companies which want to grow quick.
Qlik Sense is a great tool for descriptive and diagnostic analytics. It does it all from raw Data to fancy visual reports. Combining data from multiple sources is a great strength. Self-Service is particularly great. There are features like the insights advisor which try to serve more advanced use cases, but in case you'd like to do predictive analysis, correlations, clustering, etc., you need to integrate Qlik with another tool/platform. Integration with R, Python, Data Robot, Databricks.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

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Supported Data Sources ()
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8.7
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
9.3
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
9
7.2
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
5
Delivery to Remote Servers
5
9.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
10.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
iFrames
10
Java API
10
Themeable User Interface (UI)
10

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