Item: Qlik Sense
Rating: 6
Author: Connie Ho

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's used across the whole department (NSW Health). My department just uses Qlik Sense as our main BI tool at the moment while the other departments use other tools as well like Power BI or Tableau. Our department uses Qlik Sense for our KPI monthly reports replacing our static PDF reports.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Can access different data sources directly.
Easy to learn to build simple reports.
Continual support from Qlik Sense team.

Cons

Cannot change font size in the graphs, hard to read the graph titles especially when projecting to larger screens. Just the graph size becomes bigger not the titles at all!
It's not really that easy to build the data model behind, steep learning curve. The built-in data manager is no use for serious analysts.
Hard to visualise clearly on big screens, very faded and white on big screens.
Data security model is complex.
Cannot use version control software on Qlik Sense files, harder on collaborative work.
Set analysis is powerful and useful but complex.