Qlik Sense Newcomer but already a Fan
July 29, 2020

Qlik Sense Newcomer but already a Fan

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

As an organization, we have been QlikView users for over 10 years. With the Qlik development efforts moving towards supporting Qlik Sense, we decided to add Qlik Sense as a dual license. We had QlikView as a great foundation and created a meaningful data lake for multi-department use. Our approach to Qlik Sense was to tailor each application to targeted department KPIs, needs, and goals. For example, we have a pick management application designed to track warehouse performance and capacity. These metrics and reports are utilized throughout the day by warehouse and operations staff.
Our retail team has a different application that is tailored to their KPIs. It pulls from the retail POS system and supplements information from our ERP. We built out several more applications based on department requirements. Qlik Sense is a great solution for our reporting needs.

Pros

  • Easy deployment
  • Flexibility and low effort to build reports
  • Qlik's investment in new tools and features

Cons

  • Ability to export images from reports
  • Ability to add images to reports
  • Basic Pivot Table styling options such as header background selection and border width and darkness selections. It can be difficult for some of our users to read.
  • Ability to quickly react to how COVID impacts our book of business
  • Quickly react to the increased demands of our warehouse
  • Visibility of data sources that were otherwise part of a manual download process
Since we were existing users of QlikView and developed intricate data models over the years, we decided to use what we have in place rather than go through the effort of creating similar data lakes in SQL.
Our company uses multiple systems for different department needs. Qlik makes it easy to combine our data sources.
Real-time data is not there yet. It is getting there and will be very soon. For most applications in our organization, we do not need access to real time data in Qlik Sense. We are fine with an hour or two of delay. In our retail application, our stores report data at the close of the day. In this application, our data is refreshed once a day in the early morning hours.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.3
Pixel Perfect reports
7
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
6
7.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
6
9.8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
9
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
8
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
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
8.2
REST API
9
Javascript API
7
Java API
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
9

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