Overall Qlik Sense is a great tool with powerful data modeling and visualization capabilities
April 21, 2021
Overall Qlik Sense is a great tool with powerful data modeling and visualization capabilities
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is being used company-wide to do reporting for various business units, as well as centrally. Depending on the department, it can be used for management level only reporting, or all the way down to an individual-contributor level view of a certain persons metrics or coverage. The biggest problem it helps address is in visualizing and transforming data, then putting it in a format and tool that can be easily accessed by various people/groups/etc.
- It has a very robust back end, which allows for very complex data transformation.
- The system of filtering within the app is extremely powerful.
- The data model editor and viewer is very user friendly for those not experienced in scripting.
- The system by which the various streams and apps is very rigid; they need to introduce the ability to move things around, add sub-folders, etc. It gets cluttered very quickly when you have a lot of apps.
- There are often seemingly basic functionality on charts and tables etc. that just can't be done; an example would be having multiple measures on a chart with multiple dimensions. Right now you can only have one measure if you have more than one dimension. There are lots of other examples like this..
- Sometimes basic things are very inflexible and needlessly complicated; an example being changing the colors of a dimension in a chart. Right now you either have to use the color scheme the system sets, or write a formula to define the color explicitly for every dimension value. There should be some middle ground where you can have them apply a color scheme, then chose to edit the scheme they apply visually.
- One big limitation is using custom measures and dimensions within other measures and dimensions. The ability create a custom (master) dimension is great, but you can only use that as an explicit field, you can't reference that master dimension in a formula anywhere.
- Very positive from a Corporate level, provides insights that were previous done ad hoc and not nearly as in depth.
- Single source of truth for the organization - reduces the number of reports with different methodologies.
- Easy to track status of projects and ensure everyone is on the same page.
The only other one I've experienced is Tableau, and I've used that very sparingly. There's nothing that stands out to me about Tableau that is so much stronger that it would make me consider pushing for our organization to switch.