Qlik Sense Reviews

• Easy to use

Set analysis "language" leaves a lot to be desired; non-technical users wanted full features but would get bogged down trying to set up expressions, requiring unplanned help.

Visuals change when exported; not compatible with other products other than Qlik.

Must have Qlik tools to use Qlik files.

I’m referring to the script expressions in the visualizations. Explaining or working through something like below to an everyday user was tedious, and time consuming. Plus, it did not leverage the skillset of our developers, and switching gears from our working environment (SQL Server, Visual Studio) to a Qlik scenario was a real pain.

I have used it for one year.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

Data must be well staged or Qlik has trouble loading and relating data sources.

Customer service is good.

Technical support is good.

There was nothing that was being created - except for some of the geospatial/map features - that couldn't be done in Excel.

A combination of a vendor team and an in-house team implemented it; mostly in-house.

• Sunset the product; moving on to another product.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options. A salesperson got a hold on some people outside of IT/BI; need I say more.

It's an easy-to-use, fun visualization tool; probably best suited for prototyping. We explained this to Qlik Sense sales and were told we probably over bought.

• Self-service BI capabilities

Faster information delivery and enhanced decision making are examples of how it has improved the way my organization functions.

• More functionality which can be built in instead of third-party vendor API/extensions

I have used it for one year.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Customer service is very good.

Technical support is good.

We previously used QlikView. We switched because QlikSense has better visualization capabilities.

An in-house team implemented it.

• More decision making
• Cost saving
• Program development for more sales and revenue generation

It has the best pricing and licensing.

Before choosing this product, we did not evaluate other options.

The charts and tables and how they interconnect. The speed at which you can drill down into a single row of data amongst 100s of millions like we have is amazing.

We can now view where and how we lose hours (ie. vacation, bereavement, sickness, training, union business, etc.)

Training resources in print.

1.5 years

No.

No.

They're good, but sometimes lack in responding on time.

5/10 - really needs improvement, we can't be expected to spend large amounts of money in consulting fees every time we need something, especially when you're not providing training resources.

No.

I'm not the IT administrator, so can't really answer that.

In-house.

Hard to measure that.

Yes, we looked at Domo and QlikView.

Extensions have been particularly useful in my opinion. The reason being you can simply find out if there are any other external graphs or charts out there that have been built by the community and you can simply add them into your dashboard. One nifty extension that I've discovered recently was developed by the folks at NarrativeScience (https://www.narrativescience.com/), which adds context to the diagram you have.

We've deployed to many of our internal stakeholders and they simply love it, due to the simplicity and ease of use. From the development side, we enjoyed using it because you can easily visualize the data that you have into something consumable to the business users.

The one thing that I'd like to see added is the ability to store back data into the database based on the selections a user has made. For example, if I have segmented my consumers by certain dimensions using the dashboard, I'd like to be able to store my selected segments directly to the database instead of having to export the list out via PDF or XLSX.

I've been using it for about a year now.

The only issue with scalability that I can see is that you can't export more than 1,000,000 cells at a time.

I was not involved in deployment. The setup of the desktop version, however, is your standard Windows installation process - nothing fancy.

We evaluated Tableau and Qlik View prior to using Qlik Sense. The reason we didn't use Tableau was its limitation from the extension perspective: It wasn't able to produce the sort of graph that we wanted. QlikView and Qlik Sense did have the graph we needed via it's extension feature, but we deemed Qlik Sense to be more visually appealing and thus opted for the latter (plus it's also much cheaper).

• · Enhanced data profiling – Improved profiling and auto creation of geographic data, plus smarter algorithms for identifying associations

  · More powerful data prep – New graphical capability for loading pivot tables, pre-filtering of data, and a more powerful scripting environment

  · User experience improvements – A new UI theme, drag-and-drop coloring, and improved search performance

It has empowered business users. Less dependence on IT for reports and analytical charts.

Being able to share and modifying on the fly can be improved.

I've only recently started using QlikSense. Now its been 9 months-it is amazing and intuitive, very easy to use.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's excellent.

It's very good.

We switched because of the ease of use and it's ability to update on the fly.

It was straightforward.

We implemented it in-house.

It's to early for us to tell, but it's very exciting.

It didn't cost us anything to setup or use on a day to day basis.

• Tableau

QlikSense is really intuitive, easy to use and implement with very rich graphics. Adding the ability to share print and export is a great plus in v2.0.

Fast implementation, easy to use and allows users to make their own analysis in a very simple way.

I miss some of the functions found in their previous product, QlikView, such as dynamic (written by a function) expression or sheet name labels in order to create multi-language applications.

We have been implementing Qlik Sense for two years.

There were some bugs. Most of them were fixed with newer versions.

This area has to improve. Technical support is at a low level.

I used to implement QlikView. The main advantages of Qlik Sense are responsive design and that it is easier to use.

Installation and other setup are really straightforward.

I work for a tech services company and I would say there are still more "in-house" implementations with our support and guidance.

I like the pricing because it is very clear.

No specific advice, but I would say "go for it". :)

I have never had a disappointed customer.

• Rapid application development
• Easy visualization
• User-friendly interface
• Quick deployment

We can prototype immediately during a meeting with internal clients, and within hours have the first release candidate.

• Better data integration
• Real ETL capabilities, such as storing end results data into a database instead of a proprietary file system

As of today, QlikView and QlikSense are only capable of storing the end result/staging data to a proprietary file (QVD).  No other tool, outside of Qlik, is able to read these files.

The tools perform very well but there is the inconvenience of being bound to only use Qlik tools in order to read your data.

We have used it for POCs for about one year, and on department projects for about six months.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Excellent customer service experience.

• Oracle BI (OBIEE)
• Cognos (IBM Advance Analytics)
• SAS (for data visualization)

A development environment was up and running within minutes.

The first proof of concept was implemented in house, then we switched to a third-party contractor (SME). It was an excellent choice; projects move much faster and ROI improved too.

You can appreciate major ROI within three months.

In terms of pricing, start small, create your first prototype, make it very local, and then expand as much as needed for your organization to consume and adopt.

Install the product, try it. If you can get a hold of a third-party consultant or professional services, go ahead and do it. I recommend SME.

Modern user interface and integration capabilities are the most valuable features of the product, to me.

This product has improved the way my organization functions by spreading the use of BI.

I have used Qlik Sense 2.2 for one year.

We have some problems with sessions closing down before the timeout limit.

I rate technical support 10/10.

We used MS Analysis Server & MS Reporting Services for some years and compared to Qlik products, it was inflexible, old-fashioned and slow.

Initial setup was straightforward as an all-in-one product, compared to Microsoft’s product stack.

An in-house team implemented it.

In the starter pack, you get a lot and the ROI is definitely less than a year.

I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an online reporting and analysis BI product. Not to use only as a report generator; it's far more useful than that.