Item: Qlik Sense
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 and Cons

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

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.

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, QlikView and SAP Business One

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.

Other Software Used

QlikView

Likelihood to Recommend

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 Newcomer but already a Fan

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense