Data democratization doesn't have to be scary. With Qlik, you might even say it's fun!
October 02, 2020

Data democratization doesn't have to be scary. With Qlik, you might even say it's fun!

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

Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Qlik is used to visualize supply chain data, provide KPI's and improve data literacy throughout our company. As a supply chain management company Qlik has enabled us to break away from "tribal knowledge" that is typically siloed by client and provide a holistic view of our our supply chain. Now, when our buyers, expediters and conformers need to make a purchasing decision or follow up with an order they have a wealth of knowledge and experience at their finger tips. The universal search functionality enables users to find a source, extract data and contact suppliers with a few clicks!
  • Visualizing trends over time.
  • Easily work with data from multiple data sources.
  • Build extractable reports or tables.
  • Learning curve with Qlik scripting language.
  • Licensing structure.
  • Confusing overlap between QlikView and Qlik Sense.
  • Reduce number sales leads we pursue by over 50%, focusing on selecting the right clients ahead of time.
  • 30+% increase in spend on contract.
  • Reduce implementation time by 30%.
While the same can be said for many of the other tools we evaluated, Qlik's robust community and free training programs were a major benefit to driving the democratization of data at our company. Qlik also offered local in person events (pre-COVID) that provided free training workshops that were very close to our corporate HQ. Ultimately the combination of ability to work with multiple data sources, ease of use, and local training created a sweet spot for us.
Qlik excels in many different areas, in many ways you are only limited by the questions you ask. Some specific use cases include monitoring contract compliance, monitoring pricing of commodities, recognizing trends, rationalizing spend in Supply chain.

Some areas where Qlik would be less appropriate include their automated reporting capabilities. Although the utility is good, the cost of the automation portion is significant.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
5
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
3
Publish to PDF
3
Report Versioning
3
Report Delivery Scheduling
3
Delivery to Remote Servers
3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
4
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
4
Mobile Application
4
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
7
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated