Qlik Sense: Great for business users - needs work for other industries
August 24, 2020

Qlik Sense: Great for business users - needs work for other industries

Jonathan Vitale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is used by the school district to collect, analyze, and display vital student and employee data to our central office administration and school administration (e.g., principals). Qlik Sense was purchased to provide an intuitive way to give our employees the data they need to make important strategic decisions about schools and student subgroups. It is used in multiple ways throughout or organization, but one of our priorities is for principals to use the data to develop specific action plans.

Pros

  • Responds well to user's inquiries - very flexible.
  • Enables deep connections between disparate sources of data.
  • Allows users to bookmark specific selections for easy navigation.

Cons

  • Developer tools need work - the script editing interface is very minimal (look at VS Code by contrast).
  • Ability for developers to create custom functionality.
  • Needs more look-and-feel customization on the front end.
  • Streams (application repositories) are difficult to navigate - no nested structure.
  • We are not a business - we don't have a traditional ROI.
  • Difficult to say - school scores have increased over last 3 years, but this is due to multiple factors.
  • Principals using data more often.
I was not involved in the selection process.
Qlik Sense is great for an organization that has multiple sources of data that must be combined in a reasonable way. The user interfaces - if created properly - can be very simple and intuitive. Therefore, it is great for employees who may not have extremely strong graph literacy. I would be less willing to use it in a research environment where a lot of customization is required. Also, Qlik caters strongly to financial and traditional business organizations.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
6.5
Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
7.0
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Not Rated
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
6.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
5
7.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
5.3
REST API
6
Javascript API
7
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
3
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

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