Qlik Sense Enterprise with License

I am working in data analytics. They are the best solutions in the industry. With Qlik Sense , there is a way to integrate it within the company for sharing. It is good for certain use cases, though there are positives and cons for it as well.

I am working with QlikView  mainly, and with Qlik Sense , the whole Qlik environment. It is licensed by the company I work for.

QlikView  is highly manipulable, so you can build on top of the environment they already have to create your own solution for the problems you have. That is the positive for it compared to something Power BI.

Everything depends on the use case, but I would prefer Power BI because of how mainstream it is.

There is not much information available. It is not a mainstream tool that many companies use, so if you are doing something that has not been done before, you can find it challenging to get an answer. Unlike Power BI, where there are many examples of what you want to do elsewhere, with QlikView this is not the case.

The support for it could be improved. Growing the support online would be beneficial for Qlik. Having more guides on complex tasks you want to do with Qlik would help. There is support online and a Qlik community that shares solutions for common problems, but for quite niche requirements, it does not have that sort of support.

It has been almost a year now.

When the company I work for was installing the environment, it took them a long time to do it. The company did not have the scale to get it up and running efficiently. It took them a year or two to get everything working properly because the way we use it in the company is very specific to our professional services. It took them a while to get it working the way they wanted it.

Power BI has the edge on scalability. The Microsoft environment has the advantage because of its size. It is easily scalable with Microsoft, with other services Azure  and other tools they provide.

I have never contacted Qlik myself.

Positive

It is based on SQL and T-SQL mainly, so if you are experienced with those languages, you would find your way easily.

It is not about performance. It is just about how expensive it is to implement.

For the company I work for, I have heard that Power BI would be a cheaper environment. That is why they are moving forward by integrating Power BI.

I think something Power BI has the edge over Qlik Sense. I am not working directly with certain aspects, so I cannot comment further on those. On a scale of 1-10, I rate this solution a 7.

What do you like best about the product?

Changing QlikSense to customer requirements.
Dashboard and data exploration are easy.
Data connections with multiple cloud platforms allow for easy insights.
Customer support is superb.
Activation and implementation are easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

Limitations for users due to the cost.
Data exploration with multiple users is not easy.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dashboards
Charts
Data extraction
Data Manipulation

The main use cases involve getting data in an analyzable format. Clients should be able to analyze it through a self-service tool, which is why Qlik Sense  was the better choice. Self-service is the primary use case they had as clients wanted to perform self-service analysis.

Additionally, they wanted to automate workflows along with the analysis. They aimed to have action-driven analysis, focusing mainly on dashboard analysis and automated workflows depending on the analysis they perform.

The self-service capabilities that Qlik Sense  offers are significant. They offer natural language processing, allowing users to ask questions in layman language, and Qlik Sense will create charts and narratives automatically. Users can access any dashboard developed in Qlik Sense from familiar portals such as Okta or other company portals through embedding features.

The integration with chatbots, particularly Microsoft Teams , allows users to access dashboards and ask questions directly within Teams. The collaboration feature enables users to share analysis by taking snapshots and tagging team members within the Qlik Sense interface, eliminating the need for lengthy emails or screenshots.

The storytelling feature allows users to create presentations directly in Qlik Sense using dashboard analysis, making it easier to answer questions during meetings. The subscription feature enables users to receive charts and sheets via email instead of navigating to the dashboard, facilitating monitoring purposes.

Qlik Sense offers alerting capabilities where users can set thresholds for KPIs and receive notifications when these thresholds are reached. The platform also includes AI/ML features for predictive modeling through a no-code component, allowing business users to create and deploy AutoML models without depending on data scientists.

The Qlik Answers component, featuring generative AI capability, enables users to get answers from unstructured data including Excel, HTML documents, or Microsoft Word documents by creating a knowledge base.

The user-friendly interface operates on a drag-and-drop approach, with Qlik Sense suggesting appropriate charts based on selected dimensions and measures. The associative engine capabilities allow data association between tables, implementing selections across related tables. The platform uses a color-coding system (white, gray, and dark gray) to show related, excluded, and unrelated data selections, providing insights beyond traditional BI tools.

The support aspect could be improved, particularly in terms of response time for high-priority issues, especially when dealing with production environment client issues that require immediate attention.

Qlik Sense Cloud pricing is relatively high. While on-premises versions work with user-based licensing effectively, the cloud version's capacity-based pricing needs more clarity. There should be more comprehensive documentation and explanatory videos available to help clients understand and calculate capacity-based pricing, making it easier to predict costs before implementing Qlik Sense Cloud.

I have been working with Qlik Sense for 10 years.

I have not encountered any deployment issues.

It is pretty stable.

Qlik Sense helps analyze data and can handle larger amounts of data compared to other BI tools. Qlik Sense has never had issues related to large data sets. For deployment options, it works in two ways: on-premises and Qlik Sense Cloud. Qlik Sense offers a public cloud where dashboards can be hosted, which is becoming the more feasible option that most organizations are choosing.

Setup has always been straightforward. The Qlik Sense help site provides comprehensive information for setup support.

Most organizations had scattered data across many legacy systems. Qlik Sense has consolidated all the data in one place and provided answers to all their questions, helping to make better decisions and enabling faster collaborations.

If you have a scattered system and want to analyze your data, structured data, along with the unstructured ones, Qlik Sense is the best option where you can collaborate both data formats into one and perform analysis on top of it. This eliminates the need to rely on multiple systems to get answers.

On a scale of 1-10, this solution receives a rating of 9.

Public Cloud

Other

What do you like best about the product?

I like most about this product for its user friendly interface, in memory storage, robust visualization and scalability. Its ability to create dynamic and easy to use dashboards allows users to discover information. Its associative data engine allows users to browse around data without being limited to pre-defined searching is one of the strongest offerings. It also has a great Qlik Community to support different issues related to Qlik.

What do you dislike about the product?

Auto ML part can be improved by adding different types of algorithms to analyze the data.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

QlikSense unifies and integrates data from different sources with in a central platform. It also speed up decision making with real time data analytics and fast insights.

What do you like best about the product?

Associate data model is most helpful aslo Qlik Insight advisor provides us with charts and visualization suggestions according to our data

What do you dislike about the product?

Struggle to learn new things and advances concepts

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Qlik Sense solves data visualization, analysis, and reporting challenges by enabling intuitive, self-service analytics. It benefits by improving decision-making and providing insights quickly, saving time and enhancing productivity.