Great for Data Vis, you'll never want to go back to Excel
November 03, 2021

Great for Data Vis, you'll never want to go back to Excel

Sean Ford | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Qlik Sense Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense

Using Qlik Sense as a pilot program for data visualization that will hopefully replace Excel and pivot tables. This is also being evaluated against Tableau.
  • Interactive visualizations.
  • Easy to use.
  • Intuitive.
  • Price.
  • Not a lot of external community help (forums, etc.).

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Qlik Sense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Qlik Sense again?

Yes

  • Yet to be determined, especially considering Excel is always going to be part of our ecosystem.
Our Tableau evaluation sort of happened by accident; we were actively pursuing Qlik when a C level suggested Tableau. So far it has not deployed as smoothly but does appear to be quite powerful as well. From my current perspective, Qlik is much more intuitive to use - even if that may mean it doesn't have quite the customization and in-depth options.
Qlik Sense is very good at taking smallish datasets and making visuals, but can become overwhelming if you feed it too much data. Haven't used the mobile features yet, but the option is very nice to have and I can see it being very useful. We were also able to get it to dynamically update when the underlying data changed, like pivot tables, but easier to configure in my opinion.

Qlik Sense Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
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