Qlik Sense Reviews

My company uses the solution in 60 municipalities in Norway. In my country, the public authorities mostly use the product for municipal planning.

The most valuable features of the solution in terms of data analysis need to revolve around the speed that the tool offers. The product of analytical capabilities and the speed for all the applications are good.

The communication with the solution's sales managers in Europe is not the best, making it an area that requires improvement. My company usually gets no response from the tool's sales managers.

In Qlik Sense, some improvements are required in QMC since it hasn't improved much over the years. QMC is related to the management console, and though it works, it needs improvement.

Some improvements  in the data load editor should be considered. The load manager has different sections, and it should be possible for the user to deactivate/activate code by commenting/uncommenting at a section level. 

I have experience with Qlik Sense since 2017. My company has a partnership with the solution.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

My company's customers who use the product are medium-sized municipalities, although some municipalities are large.

I have used the community support offered by the product.

Neutral

I rate the setup phase a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means it was difficult, while ten means it was easy.

I rate the product's deployment phase a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means it was difficult, while ten means it was easy.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model. We consider to move the product to the cloud.

The product is reasonably priced. You need to pay 5,000 Norwegian kroner per user. Microsoft Power BI is slightly more expensive than Qlik Sense.

In terms of ROI, my company's clients in municipalities who use the solution are very satisfied with it.

My company noticed the AI functionalities associated with the product, but we don't use them.

My company's customers use the analytical capabilities offered by the product. The product offers virtualization in the form of line graphs, maps and bar charts.

I would say before using Qlik Sense, consider that its main competitor, Microsoft Power BI, also costs money if you want to deploy it for use outside of the organization. Though Microsoft Power BI pretty tends to be cheap, it is not. If someone wants to deploy Microsoft Power BI the way my company has deployed it, then it can be an expensive affair. Microsoft Power BI pretends to be a free tool, but it is not available for free.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

We are right now migrating the QlikView environments (PROD, TEST, DEV) to Qlik Sense. 

Each of the environments is a multiple-node environment. That is the first step of the migration. The second will be to migrate all of the reports to the new tool. 

In parallel, we are also working on some other important aspects, like designing the schedule for the reports (so that they will be refreshed every day in the correct order), also designing security concepts, etc. 

The project is really interesting and gives a lot of great experience. 

It did improve the organization. 

Qlik Sense, in comparison to QlikView, is a more modern tool and gives a lot of new possibilities. 

The reports are better looking than in QlikView. 

What is also important is that QlikView is not supported that much, unlike Qlik Sense. It also does not get the nice updates and new features that Qlik Sense does. In the coming years, that will only become more visible for the users of the reports. 

When it comes to the users, they like lots of data and new ways to look at the same data.

For me, as an administrator/developer, the management console is more user-friendly, so the solution is easier to maintain. Also, some of the features are easier to create - for example, the tasks (they are needed for the reports to be refreshed). 

For the users, the reports look way better, which is quite important as it's easier to find some interesting conclusions based on the data when you have a better-looking dashboard in front of you.

There are a lot of points to be improved. Mostly when it comes to the loading of the data and reload times of the reports, it could be better.

Also, we got some feedback from the users in our company that say they would like to have some new features in the objects on the sheets of the reports. 

What is nice is that the tool has a lot of updates. Every few months, new stuff is available. That it is one of the most important aspects and why we have chosen this particular product for our business intelligence needs. 

I've used the solution for one year.

Qlik Sense is a dashboarding tool, so you can use it for any enterprise-wide dashboarding in areas such as sales, supply chain, HR, etc. If you want to see some KPIs on the dashboard, you can use Qlik Sense.

What I found most valuable in Qlik Sense is its flexibility. It's a very flexible tool, and it has a lot of capabilities compared to Tableau and Power BI. In Qlik Sense, you can take data from any of the systems, and you can do data transformation, prepare the data, then present your KPIs. Data transformation isn't present in Tableau, Power BI, and other tools. In Qlik Sense, you're able to get the data and directly present that data. The presentation layer is also very good in Qlik Sense. My company is very happy with this tool.

What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support.

I started using Qlik Sense three years ago, and I'm still using it now.

Qlik Sense is very good, stability-wise.

Qlik Sense is a scalable tool, and though it requires a lot of memory, it's still scalable.

The technical support provided by the Qlik Sense team isn't great as it's very slow. My team doesn't get many issues from the solution, so the need to contact support only happens once in a while, for example, every six months. At the moment, support is pathetic, and my company just has connections with Qlik management, so the issues get solved. Normally, you don't get a lot of issues with Qlik Sense.

The main reason we went with Qlik Sense is that we have multiple systems, so we take data from multiple systems then we present the data in a single dashboard on Qlik Sense, so it's a very good tool for that particular purpose.

Deploying the Qlik Sense server took ten to fifteen days because it required a huge infrastructure. If you require very heavy dashboards, you need a very huge infrastructure, and once that is done and all infrastructure is ready, you just need to install Qlik Sense and start using it, which means you can go on building different dashboards.

You can quickly build normal dashboards within the console, but some dashboards, particularly the very heavy and complex ones with a lot of KPIs, required six months to complete, so deployment time would depend on how big the dashboard is and its use case.

We have an in-house team for implementing Qlik Sense, but we also use consultants, especially if our team is busy with other projects. We didn't face any problems with the Qlik Sense consultants.

Normally, we do deployments internally, but the Qlik consultants deployed all the Qlik infrastructure here in our area, then they built one or two dashboards, then left the rest of the dashboard building to our team.

I'm not able to reveal the licensing cost for Qlik Sense, but because it was a huge deal, the cost was less than the usual cost. The license wasn't that costly. It was the infrastructure that was very costly.

I evaluated Power BI and Tableau.

My company is using the dashboarding tools of Qlik called Qlik Sense and QlikView.

I can't remember exactly which version of Qlik Sense I'm using, but it's the version released in November 2021.

My company is happy with Qlik, in particular, QlikView and Qlik Sense, and as of now, there's no drawback identified, or anything creating problems, but because I belong to an SAP-driven company and most of the ERP is SAP, my company is looking into an SAP product such as SAP Analytics Cloud, but my team has not started any project, just looking into the solution.

My company has around two thousand Qlik Sense users now. Right now, because my organization has five thousand licenses, with just two thousand licenses being used, there's no plan to increase Qlik Sense usage.

I would recommend Qlik Sense to anyone looking for a reporting tool.

My rating for Qlik Sense is eight out of ten.

We use this solution for standard reporting for cost and finance accounting. It creates VAT reports, balance sheets reports, and a lot of cost reports. You can split the company into departments and produce individual reports to deduct or extract, for example, German projects, which have to be brought for tax collection for Germany. Since ELIN is an Austrian company, we have to take out the part that has to be allocated to the German tax authorities.

From what I understand, we have data tables in proALPHA and then we have a kind of intermediate bridge, which is the Microsoft environment where this data is copied, and then from that database it is brought into Qlik Sense.

Some of the valuable areas of this solution include producing individual reports and closing the gap. Within proALPHA, it is not possible to implement a link of information from separate parts. This link can be done by Qlik Sense.

What would help is an Excel sheet that is linked directly to Qlik Sense so that instead of having to produce an Excel file, you would already have an Excel file that is connected to Qlik Sense. I don't know why it is not already set up this way because it would be more convenient. Right now, it is complex and you have to understand the data model prior to analyzing it, so basically I would like to see an integration with Excel in the future.

I have been using this solution for two years.

The solution is stable and reliable. 

The solution is easy to scale and about 20 people work with it in my company.
The rollout should be for the full user amount, which is roughly 200% from 20 to 200. But one main report is missing, and it doesn't make sense to roll it out because if they desperately need this one report and if it is not included or not completely correct in this new tool, then we would have understandable complaints from the users.

Integration was my colleague's responsibility. It wasn't easy, and altogether it took about one year. My colleague used some consultants for support because it wasn't easy to understand, collect, and integrate the data in the correct way, but the rest he did himself. 

As far as I understand, there is a very low level of maintenance because he does as much as possible by himself.

Some reports are not fully translated from the old QlikView version into the modern Qlik Sense, including some basic reports in the construction business. One main report is missing because if it was completely deployed in the new Qlik Sense system, QlikView could be closed forever because QlikView's so old.

QlikView only produces aggregated amounts, so you can never trim down in it. In Qlik Sense, it's the opposite. The results are produced by collecting the specific entries, so you always have to trim down, which is obviously the better approach.

Qlik Sense is a good tool for BI in order to connect in normal circumstances, but not for integrated data tables in big ERP systems. I would rate this solution as a seven out of ten.

Using Qlik Sense, we created many CXO & Senior Leaders dashboards. Qlik Sense is really helpful to leaders to get insights on time, and they can see granular level data easily. UI is superb and easy to navigate from one sheet to another.

Our company has a plethora of source systems, and providing a single source of truth via a common platform was a challenge. There was also a need for a self-service analytics platform that allowed businesses to make decisions on time using any device.

We needed to build a Common Reporting Platform that talks to multiple source systems and are:

• Visually intuitive
• Integrate Analytics with Mobile App
• Set up Data Governance and create an enterprise data warehouse

Multiple products were considered, but we chose QlikSense.

Initially, data was kept in silos and business users were reporting at their business level. It was a really cumbersome process to collate data at the company level. After Qlik Sense, we prepared data in one place and transformed it to create Qlik UI. 

The company has a plethora of source systems, and providing a single source of truth via a common platform was a challenge. There was also a need for a self-service analytics platform that allowed businesses to make decisions on time using any device.

Proposed Solution

We worked to build a Common Reporting Platform that talks to multiple source systems and is visually intuitive, integrates analytics with mobile and has Data Governance.

The most valuable aspects of the solution include the :

• ETL and visualization, user stories, and insight advisor
• Self-Service - a clean and modern user experience with Global Smart Search, Associative Exploration, and Advanced Navigation
• Data Visualization  or rich charting, visual interactivity, and smart visualizations
• Data storytelling
• Rapid API development
• Embedded analytics
• Custom extensions
• Powerful, multi-source data integration
• Direct discovery
• Qlik admin  from the Qlik Management Console
• Qlik Sense Monitoring
• Deployment Console
• Data Governance

Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis.

We are planning to move to Qlik SaaS to mitigate the below issues - 

• The app performance is a challenge for all users
• Section access and other security parameters are complex
• Managing the environment is a major task for company upgrades are not being leveraged to the recent releases
• Regularly maintaining all the environments with the same version and implementations
• Auto ML is a need as this will help businesses make data-driven decisions.
• Use cases about salesforce embedding is critical
• Real time data ingestion and automaton of the ETL are becoming important
• Alerting and reporting for the business users for their analytics requirements is needed

Previously We were using Qlik Enterprise onPem, but we moved to Qlik SaaS last year. 

The product is stable with very good features.

This is very easy to scale. 

Customer service support was good bit not extraordinary. 

Positive

It was complex migration process - Qlik Onprem to Qlik SaaS. 

Through Qlik Services, we migrated our dashboards to Qlik SaaS

We are able to save many manhours by automating the solution.

Qlik Sense is excellent for Leadership reporting purposes. Its specialty is quick data rendering, and data drill-down, which has been quite useful. The GUI is excellent.

Our organization moved to Qlik Sense Enterprise to provide real-time data to our business users. 

Most of the data could only be viewed at month's end, and now users can view their data daily. A lot of the reporting has been created and has replaced mainframe reports that were printed on a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis. 

We also use Qlik Sense to join our legacy systems data to our most current system so the users do not have multiple reports to look at to get the same data. Qlik Sense also gives them the ability to create their own reports and not wait on IT to get them for them.

Our organization is able to make data-driven decisions now by using Qlik Sense. Users are also able to view the data in a way that makes sense to them besides just a table view. 

The ease of use of Qlik Sense has been invaluable. Our business users are able to create their own reports and visualizations in Qlik. This has helped them become more familiar with the data. 

We've also been able to provide more robust reports that have all the data the business could want to see. Being able to filter down to certain dimensions provides a deeper dive into the data.

All the visualizations have been so valuable. And being able to convert them on the fly with minimal changes so the data can be viewed in a different way is nice as well. 

I have been in many meetings to go over a report, and the business wants to see what the data would look like displayed differently, and it is so convenient to be able to convert an existing visualization to another one. The ability to search the fields that are in an app is a great feature if you need to filter something quickly. 

I am not sure what improvements could be made. Qlik Sense is very user-friendly. 

The only thing I would like to see is the ability to create a master app that opens when a user creates a new app that has all the master items, colors, logos, etc., that my organization uses. This would help with keeping master items the same across the apps and would make development a little quicker. This feature would also make it easier for our business users when they want to create an app since they wouldn't need to worry about adding all the needed data sources to it, it they were already there, and they could just press load.

I've used the solution for five years.

We built a reporting platform across the organization. The business needed people with Qlik knowledge to develop the solution. As Qlik is Self-Service oriented, even business people can create their own quick solutions. We are using a proper QDF structure and versioning system, which gives us many benefits such as reusability, backup availability, control versioning, etc. We created best practices for development purposes. Our community is comprised of several hundreds of users, and it works like a charm!

There have been always requirements for reporting. At the very beginning, the only way we could report the data was via SQL and Excel. Now, there is a robust but flexible reporting platform that gives lots of opportunities to the end users, and the solutions are still integrated with other systems like Collibra, SageMaker, Airflow, etc. 

We would like to start with big data processing and shift it a bit ahead. We have discovered it is possible to have a data-driven organization as almost all decisions are based on data from this platform.

It is mainly easy to use. It is simple to develop, which is good. However, on the other hand, there is a lack of functionality. 

The self-service capability allows even less IT-oriented people to build their solution as quickly as possible for their next meeting in several hours. The ETL is another benefit of this tool as it is not the standard functionality of reporting tools. You can manipulate and clean the data directly in the tool without dependency on a DB team.

They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc. 

I really like the new UI, which is sadly similar to Power BI. Why is there a simple mode for something that is simple at the beginning? I would add more capabilities first into advanced mode. Pixel-perfect solutions are still required, yet not possible in Qlik right now.

I've used the solution for five years.

We used QlikView, however, it was too old and unsupported.

We'd like it if they could provide a discount.

We looked into Spotfire, PowerBI, and Tableau.

We have 2 primary uses:

1. Technology-created, defined story-driven analytics providing Dashboarding to users that allow drill-down of information to pre-created aggregation levels.

2. Self-service reporting that allows data SMEs to create and manage their own visualizations.

Both use cases are heavily catered for in our business, and we have 80,000+ users across the company.  

Utilizing the Qlik API layer, and a set of React components we are also able to embed Qlik reporting into existing web applications providing fantastic opportunities to bring multiple data sets together into highly customizable portals.

It has provided much more widely available MI to senior stakeholders. Before rolling out Qlik Sense, much of the reporting was completed from incredibly manual spreadsheets or old and slow COGNOS reports.  

Qlik Sense has opened up a new quick-to-market BI tool, that allows business requirements to become a production-ready reality within days rather than months.

Qlik Sense lends itself very well to creating large centrally managed platforms to make better use of scalability. This reduces direct infrastructure requirements, leading to more sustainable solutions.

The extensibility of the Platform with either internally created extensions or the use of third-party provided items really opens the platform up.

Drag and drop objects create a quick learning curve to create basic reports that still provide business benefits.

Continued development for on-premises versions to enable companies with more restricted data sets that cannot move to Saas/cloud solutions to still benefit from new product enhancements

Ability to highly customize infrastructure/environment set-ups to open huge possibilities.

More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting. This is currently too slow to use outside of very small data sets.

More focus on CI/CD integration is needed. Having Dashboards stored as very static binary files does not lead itself well to the modern DevSecOps standards and processes.

To compete with other tools in the sector, more focus on the commenting/feedback abilities of users would be beneficial. For example, at an object level, be able to have users add comments to certain data points that other users can view and also comment back on.

We have been using Qlik Sense in various guises since version 3.1 - for about 6 to 7 years now.

The tool scales with infra fairly well. For performant applications on large data volumes, utilizing tooling to hold applications in memory leads to the best results, however, it also requires large infrastructure to support.

Prior to Qlik Sense, we were using QlikView, and shifting to Qlik Sense provided a much more modern architecture. Prior to QlikView, COGNOS was heavily leveraged.

The switch moved us from a very manual, spreadsheet/PowerPoint-based reporting to a much more fluid, dynamic, and interactive solution.

An in-house team was used. Having existing Qlik product knowledge helped make this viable. However, I am aware of other teams within our organization who have used vendor teams to great success as well.

The ROI is high as there are large financial reporting solutions built into Qlik. They have brought large money-saving insights from data and visualizations.

Economies of scale come into play very quickly, especially with no enterprise/infrastructure-specific licensing for Qlik Sense.  

With on-premise solutions, there can be a requirement for some heavy hardware, however, moving into the cloud means this can be reduced.

Tableau, PowerBI, and Looker were all reviewed and clear choices brought Qlik Sense out on top.

Its ability to score highly across the board makes it the best all-around tool, although the others score higher in very specific areas.