Driving Performance Intervention with Data Visualization
March 31, 2020
Driving Performance Intervention with Data Visualization
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Desktop
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
While many teams within our organization utilize Qlik Sense for business analytics and visualizations, our learning and development function that supports our customer service teams has recently begun using Qlik Sense to determine and prioritize needs within our teams that can and should be addressed with performance interventions.
- Data Modeling. I really appreciate how Qlik Sense is a truly approachable professional tool. Loading and connecting data tables into an app can be as simple or complex as your project requires. This allows both novice and expert users to effectively develop data visualizations.
- Wide Userbase. The fact that Qlik Sense has so many users around the globe means that there are a plethora of training materials available online from many sources. Qlik's training materials are helpful, but I also found valuable resources at Udemy.com and even on YouTube.
- Consistent Visualizations. The process for creating nearly every type of visualization is very similar, meaning that it does not take long for a new user to learn the basic processes of the program and to become an efficient report/app developer.
- Simplicity. Being a PowerBI user as well, I think Microsoft does a better job concerning the simplicity of layout and cloud integration of their product.
- Modern Design. I also think PowerBI does a better job of making aesthetically attractive visualizations right out of the box. Some of Qlik Sense's visualizations are very practical, but lack of design without a lot of finicky adjustments.
- As a Learning & Development team, Qlik Sense has allowed us to target our resources on data-driven performance needs and solutions, rather than needs we simply assumed or felt we had.
- As a Learning & Development team, Qlik Sense has allowed us to chart our impact on organizational performance and publish the level of that impact to business leaders.
- As a Learning & Development team, Qlik Sense has given us insight into behaviors and contexts of our best performers, enabling us to champion them and model trainings for lower performers after their examples.
While I found it a much quicker process to become fluent in Power BI, Qlik Sense allows me to develop much more robust reporting of my data. Also, since the organization I am a part of utilizes the enterprise Qlik Sense tool, collaboration has been much easier for me with Qlik Sense than it was with Power BI in a non-Microsoft dominated environment. I also feel that mastery of Qlik Sense will be much more difficult to attain than mastery of Power BI, which, from my perspective, speaks to the higher-reaching capabilities of Qlik's tool.