Splendid data discovery and reporting tool, easy to use, but more complex to master completely.
July 09, 2021
Splendid data discovery and reporting tool, easy to use, but more complex to master completely.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Since our company has gone through its fair share of M&A, we have assembled quite a few reporting tools (Cognos, QlikView, Business Objects, ...) from their respective sources. However, Qlik Sense is the default go-to reporting tool supported by the BI domain, in which all new reports are made, and which will take over all other reporting tools eventually.
It is currently being used to monitor the performance of (processes in) a broad range of departments, most notably (but not limited to) sales, operational support, finance, marketing, customer support and so on.
Most of them are used as a follow-up on the day-to-day business, although some of them are already trying to predict where issues might arise should no action be taken, or where there is potential for new revenue (through new sales, upsell, cross-sell).
It is currently being used to monitor the performance of (processes in) a broad range of departments, most notably (but not limited to) sales, operational support, finance, marketing, customer support and so on.
Most of them are used as a follow-up on the day-to-day business, although some of them are already trying to predict where issues might arise should no action be taken, or where there is potential for new revenue (through new sales, upsell, cross-sell).
- Drilling down: it's easy to pinpoint a pain point by just drilling with the filters and watch how all the visuals follow.
- Dynamic/interactive
- Performant, even despite large data sets (if implemented well with QVD's)
- scripting language/set analysis can be complex; it takes quite some experience to figure out how to get a formula exactly right, with the different types of brackets, the $, the NUM#, Date, Date#, etc.
- case when: a simple yet for some reason missing feature
- a resume function when a load gives an error after 15 sections would be convenient, so you wouldn't have to go through all of them again.
Do you think Qlik Sense delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Qlik Sense's feature set?
Yes
Did Qlik Sense live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Qlik Sense go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Qlik Sense again?
Yes
- Customers at risk have been identified
- we had a good view on which marketing campaigns were successful, and which weren't
[I was not involved in the decision making process for the choice of the reporting tool]
Qlik Sense is - certainly on the front-end side - far more user-friendly than the other tools I've experienced, and allows for more dynamic reporting. It also has obtained a certain maturity, and yet new and interesting functionalities are still seeping in through the updates. That being said, the backend has a certain degree of complexity that takes some time to master, but is very powerful once understood.
Qlik Sense is - certainly on the front-end side - far more user-friendly than the other tools I've experienced, and allows for more dynamic reporting. It also has obtained a certain maturity, and yet new and interesting functionalities are still seeping in through the updates. That being said, the backend has a certain degree of complexity that takes some time to master, but is very powerful once understood.