Qlik Sense Reviews

As a consultant, I used this for a wide variety of use cases. Mainly, the first thing people would look at would be sales and margin reporting, especially in retail (which is the area I work in now). I have also used Qlik Sense as an integration tool to gather data from multiple data sources to be exported and sent to AWS to be picked up by a web marketing tool.

It has improved the amount of time it takes to get information out to the business in a few ways. Firstly, by replacing reporting that was done manually in Excel by business users and giving them that time back. Next, by providing cleansed data to analysts so that they can create their own analysis.

The drag and drop UI has been the most useful to me. Working previously as a consultant, the self-service wizards for loading data weren't too important, as I knew how to load and manipulate data in the script. However, being able to see a list of the different chart types and fields certainly sped me up in terms of creating dashboards and visualizations.

The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy. The product updates that come out are fairly regular, which is always nice, but getting bugs here and there that you have to work around can be a bit of a pain at times. This can be taken into account by waiting for a month or two to see if any patches come out (much like with how you would treat Microsoft releases) but if you want to get the latest updates as soon as possible then you need to prepare yourself.

The stability is generally good. I haven't had the same sort of instability that I had with QlikView, but that may be a coincidence.

Scalability is pretty good, but it is very RAM and CPU intensive, so you need to keep on top of this.

Customer service/support is good through the partner, as this is the suggested way to receive feedback.

We used QlikView before (and still have some reports on this). We changed when Qlik ran a good promotion to get people to switch. I had used the product before and knew the benefits that come with Qlik Sense (i.e. the easier self-service for business users), so I was happy to get the chance to switch.

Setup is fairly straightforward. We had a single server to put this on, so we were able to just "next" through the setup wizard, other than supplying a few passwords for services.

We implemented ourselves, as I had previous experience doing this. Our partner, who we have used for work, is generally helpful and had a good understanding of the product.

We haven't really measured this, but this will improve once business users are trained to work for themselves.

Licensing can start to get expensive, but compared to other tools in this space it is about average.

We didn't evaluate any other options as the promotion on getting Qlik Sense whilst being a QlikView customer was too good.

I would say when you start with this tool, take the time to prepare the data first before creating reports and showing the business (especially if you are the only one doing this). This will help with getting ready for giving users the ability to create reports themselves, as opposed to them having to ask you all the time.

Our primary use case is making dashboards, executive summaries, and creating an interactive analysis for several teams. Some of these teams are tech-savvy and thus are able to analyze the data themselves. For them, we also provide complex and relational analysis. 

This solution has definitely improved our organization. People are able to drill down information, see visual maps, and create a robust analysis. We provide teams with useful information and analysis to aid in decision-making. Using these dashboards, teams are able to make decisions faster than they otherwise could. Also, in some cases, we have overlapping applications.

The most valuable feature is the drag-and-drop dashboard building, with many types of visuals. Users are allowed to present multiple reports, side-by-side, using dashboard components on a single dashboard page layout. Dashboard components come in a variety of chart types, and we can customize how data is grouped, summarized, and displayed for each component. The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports.

This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design. Maybe adding a module where we can drag and drop various models, test them in a sandbox, and test the outputs before putting them into production would be helpful. 

This is a very stable solution.

This solution seems very scalable in terms of data and sharing.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We implemented this solution with an in-house team.

I suggest talking to the Account managers, as they are very resourceful and responsive.

We did not evaluate other solutions before choosing this one.

Our primary use case is making dashboards for customers.

This solution has improved our organization by making our analysis results available to customers.

The most valuable feature is the drag and drop dashboard creation.

A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers.

Applications designed to provide fast and reliable access to financial reports and client profile analysis.

• It provides the ability to integrate our applications with ERP web-based frameworks. 
• It also gives us the opportunity to develop our apps to be used on mobile smartphones and tablets.

The fast and intuitive interactivity of charts and dashboards and the ability to create your own stories in a report.

Better visualization options on charts such as pivot tables, and better control over total lines in the pivot and straight tables without the need to download extensions to accomplish this task.

We use QlikView at the moment, but QlikSense is more modern and can be integrated with web-based systems.

• Building data models and dashboards for my company clients
• Installation and support of Qlik Sense servers
• Maintaining these servers 
• Building a new dashboard 
• What-if scenarios, according to business needs.

A great analysis tool helps us in many ways for showing the great potential of our ERP through Qlik tools.

• Drag and drop 
• Excel exporting on the same view and selection of exported graphs
• Multi-data source connectivity. 

• Real online analytics (OLAP)
• Better implementation of map charts
• Incremental data load solution for better time saving. 

We use this solution for analytical purposes, like business queries and service management queries. 

We can generate various graphs, various reports and we can mainly use it for dashboard related things. We can create a dashboard with live data and we can make decisions based on this information.

I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use. 

It should take less time to margin my reports and they should have reusability of existing data to make it easier for coding.

The stability is quite good, we have not experienced any downtime or slowness. 

In regards to scalability, we'll see if we can have a more concurrent user and speed will be as good as what we're experiencing now. As soon as we put more load connections, we hope that it has the same outcomes. Right now, we have less than 50 users but our plan is to increase by almost four times to 100 in our first year and down the line, it would be 300 plus.

Technical support is quite good. It's comparatively really nice. 

The initial setup was easy. It's easy to install and user-friendly. The deployment didn't take more than two weeks.

We deployed in-house. We required two staff members.

Licensing is quite good, easy, but slightly expensive. We'll keep increasing the number of users and then we can probably get better discounts.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

I am part of the advanced analysis team, and we use the tool for descriptive and predictive analyses.

It has improved the work of our team, thanks to the ability to manage complex models and thanks to the possibility of integration with different needs.

The most useful features are undoubtedly multi-device adaptability, extensions to predictive and geospatial analysis.

I believe that the area in which the product could be improved is the part related to programming and its language, which is certainly complex and still not very guided.

• Used by our business users for day to day reports
• Users build their own apps
• Users also consume apps built by the IT team.

Qlik has made our business users empowered to build their own reports with minimal IT intervention.

• Easy to use and learn: gets the users up and running with a basic training session
• Agile: quick to develop an app and iterate on
• Stable: stability with a large number of users.

All the above have made users very happy.

• More visualizations 
• Automated report delivery 
• Cross app data sharing 
• Easy app sharing options with specific users.

Great.

It's scalable but adds more coat.

Good so far.

No previous solutions.

Simple.

Vendor Axis. Good level of expertise.

Great.

• Setup time was very quick and easy
• The cost was similar to other vendors.

• Birst 
• Power BI
• Tableau 
• Oracle BI