Norma's Take on Qlik Sense
November 15, 2019
Norma's Take on Qlik Sense
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
It is being used for tracking inventory turns, forecast analysis, for sales compensation reporting and reconciling, purchasing, tracking phone surveys for customer service, pricing analysis, scheduling metrics, and for executives to get a quick glance at the health of the company. We started slow but now more and more departments are using Qlik Sense and depend on it every day. Departments include AR, Marketing, Finance, Efficiency Reporting, and Manufacturing. We also use the NPrinting extension for emailing daily and monthly reports.
- I love how you can put files from various mediums together and create a virtual database fast and easily.
- And I love that once you have your QVDs set up you can use them interchangeably with very predictable results. And it's very easy to debug.
- Qlik Sense is so user friendly the users are now beginning to create their own sheets the way they want them. And we get more and more requests from the users because now they can easily see what they need or what can help them do their job better. Before Qlik Sense, It was mainly the programmers feeding the user daily reports from Oracle. So they only got updates once a day. Now they get hourly updates on orders and inventory.
- We had 2 apps get corrupted on us. My colleague probably reported it. it became impossible to use them we had to recreate from scratch.
- We have had instances where users go into an application and the screen takes a long time to refresh, I'm guessing because of too much data. We do use the data handling to limit what the user can search on but I don't like it much because it looks like a blank screen and confuses the users.
- I actually don't like the new auto save feature because I have accidentally added code that I didn't mean to.
- Employees have a clearer picture of where they need to go and are getting their data quicker.
- Time saved from manually gathering their own data.
Tableau was the only other we tried. At first it seamed much easier and simple to use. but as my colleague kept digging and digging into what each could do he realized there was so much more the Qlik Sense could do.