Sense Enterprise
May 26, 2021
Sense Enterprise
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Apps are built centrally at HQ, driven by data directly derived from our core IT systems, to provide insights across the organisation. Are a variety focusing on the many areas of the business. Some apps can be management/target focused, others provide insight into demands/organisational process, some inform the business on how best to focus resources.
- Handles large datasets very well.
- Easy dimensional selections; in other words, is easy to drill down, select sub-sets of data for analysis.
- If the data modelling is done well; is good at cross-referencing/joining multiple datasets - this appears seamless for an end user.
- (Especially on larger screens) the front end looks clean, fresh, modern, consistent.
- The front end visualisations/charts are mostly easy to create/change.
- Our Organisation seem to struggle with the infrastructure/setup of the Enterprise environment. A simple example in last three years we have never got our multi-node load balancer working.
- We seem to spend a huge amount of time cleaning/transforming/modelling our data. The actual front-end development is a fairly small part of our efforts. I don't think our Organisation quite realise the effort required to prepare the data. From the outset Sense was sold as; drop your data in, let Sense handle the management, quickly create charts. Its turned out to be more effort than anticipated. You need good data modelers to get the most out of Sense.
- As its web-based you're obviously subject to the performance/restraints of your local intranet/internet setup.
- The set analysis is a really powerful part of Sense; unfortunately most users will not understand how to correctly write the set expressions. You need trained individuals - who also understand the data - for this.
- Multiple front-end visualisations do not fit well on smaller (e.g. laptop screens). They often appear squashed or missing vital components. Even simple drop-down boxes and filter lists suffer.
- It has helped inform the business on "what is happening," "what should we be doing."
- Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (discontinued)
Sense is completely different to Discoverer. Discoverer is basically data selection/filtering/flat-tables. Sense adds flexible selections, visualisations, KPIs, data-prep.