Qlik Sense: Only for power users
October 12, 2021

Qlik Sense: Only for power users

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is being used by multiple departments across the organization. It provides information to our Consulting and Program Management teams to use with our customers, it provides business insights to support our executives, and it provides product utilization information to many other departments such as Technology and Sales.
  • Filtering by different layers of client types, regions.
  • Provides good data aggregation.
  • Flexibility on pivot tables.
  • End the "No Access Pass" issue. If people can't use Qlik, they will drop out.
  • Load scripts/QVDs can easily become too heavy, crashing apps when they run. Partial or layered loads would be welcome.
  • Give more ability to end-users to pick fields and order and allow them to extract reports (user stories don't work well) to known most common formats such as pdf and ppt.
  • Make Nprinting user friendly.
  • Better on-screen visuals.
  • Scalable embedding within software solutions.

Do you think Qlik Sense delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Qlik Sense's feature set?

No

Did Qlik Sense live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Qlik Sense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Qlik Sense again?

No

  • Provided data visualization to most of the organization
  • Due to its limitations, created a fear of spending more money [on] Qlik [Sense] or any other solution that would be customer-facing
  • Provide data across customer segments and allowed easy drilling down
I did not select Qlik Sense. Both Tableau and Power Bi are better solutions than Qlik. Tableau provides better data visualizations. Power BI provides much better ease of data extraction and is more scalable for embedding into software solutions. Both provide better licensing deals (=cheaper) than Qlik. Overall, I would choose Power BI, Tableau then Qlik Sense in that order.
Qlik is suited for "power" data analytics users. It is not appropriate for 90% of the business-world population that can barely run spreadsheets and cannot use the more complex features of Qlik. It is not appropriate at all for situations where data extraction and submission are necessary. Also, it is not cost-effective or scalable for embedding into other applications. Licensing is too expensive.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
5
Report Formatting Templates
1
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
2
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
3
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
1
Report Versioning
2
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
4
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
3
Predictive Analytics
2
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
3
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
2
Single Sign-On (SSO)
1
Responsive Design for Web Access
2
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
1
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated