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After three years and transferring to Qlik Sense SaaS edition, at my wits' end
What do you like best about the product?
Associative engine is great, the end user interface is great, well-trained users can conduct lots of investigative and simple analyses using the globally applicable selections tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Good god where to begin.
App development is tremendously difficult/expensive. Qlik uses its own proprietary scripting language to design load scripts which is a tremendous pain to learn and use. The data manager is a colossal waste of time as you basically need to run your full reload script to open it and make changes. In order to do simple calculations that are out of the box in many other tools, Qlik requires that you use "set expressions", a nightmarish scripting system
We recently transferred from an enterprise deployment to a cloud deployment. Users considering this transition should be aware of a few major limitations which are not advertised and not mentioned in documentation:
1) apps cannot be larger than 5Gb
2) there is a hard timeout limit of 2 hours on the back end which cannot be changed by the user
3) the management console is a pale shadow of the functionality available in Qlik Sense Enterprise; where before we had rule-based security, the ability to create roles, full management of published apps, etc, we now have basically no security policies, no roles, and a confusing amalgam of app management features which are scattered between the management console and the front end so you have to keep switching back and forth to do basic tasks. As a particularly egregious example, when I have a new person onboarded now, I instruct them to sign in via SSO, and then I have to wait for them to sign in for the first time, at which point they have no access rights to any of our shared dashboards, and then I have to *one by one* go through all our shared spaces and add users individually to each of them in turn.
4) You can only use one identity provider at a time, so if you have external stakeholders you're going to have to create identities for them on your own IdP system.
5) There is zero ability to track usage by individual users or with individual apps. There's no way to audit which apps can be deprecated for lack of use, and if you're using capacity licenses, you have no ability to audit which of your users are expending the most minutes.
Qlik support is awful: it takes multiple days if not weeks to respond to any simple request, you have to constantly hound them for updates, the support staff is not knowledgeable about the product, and, perhaps most infuriatingly, you have to get into the habit of providing a ton of additional information which you'd *think* they would definitely already have every single time which is not requested in the ticket submission form, because if you don't, the first reply from the rep (usually about a week after you submit) is "could you please provide your license number and tell us which instance you're running on" etc. I can only assume they really don't *want* to be providing support and have created a system which is hostile enough to users that they hope it will discourage its use.
App development is tremendously difficult/expensive. Qlik uses its own proprietary scripting language to design load scripts which is a tremendous pain to learn and use. The data manager is a colossal waste of time as you basically need to run your full reload script to open it and make changes. In order to do simple calculations that are out of the box in many other tools, Qlik requires that you use "set expressions", a nightmarish scripting system
We recently transferred from an enterprise deployment to a cloud deployment. Users considering this transition should be aware of a few major limitations which are not advertised and not mentioned in documentation:
1) apps cannot be larger than 5Gb
2) there is a hard timeout limit of 2 hours on the back end which cannot be changed by the user
3) the management console is a pale shadow of the functionality available in Qlik Sense Enterprise; where before we had rule-based security, the ability to create roles, full management of published apps, etc, we now have basically no security policies, no roles, and a confusing amalgam of app management features which are scattered between the management console and the front end so you have to keep switching back and forth to do basic tasks. As a particularly egregious example, when I have a new person onboarded now, I instruct them to sign in via SSO, and then I have to wait for them to sign in for the first time, at which point they have no access rights to any of our shared dashboards, and then I have to *one by one* go through all our shared spaces and add users individually to each of them in turn.
4) You can only use one identity provider at a time, so if you have external stakeholders you're going to have to create identities for them on your own IdP system.
5) There is zero ability to track usage by individual users or with individual apps. There's no way to audit which apps can be deprecated for lack of use, and if you're using capacity licenses, you have no ability to audit which of your users are expending the most minutes.
Qlik support is awful: it takes multiple days if not weeks to respond to any simple request, you have to constantly hound them for updates, the support staff is not knowledgeable about the product, and, perhaps most infuriatingly, you have to get into the habit of providing a ton of additional information which you'd *think* they would definitely already have every single time which is not requested in the ticket submission form, because if you don't, the first reply from the rep (usually about a week after you submit) is "could you please provide your license number and tell us which instance you're running on" etc. I can only assume they really don't *want* to be providing support and have created a system which is hostile enough to users that they hope it will discourage its use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Qlik as a visualization and exploratory analytics solution. When it works, it does that. We can have most end users answer most of their own questions once we've built an app whose data model supports answering that question.
Useful data analytics tool
What do you like best about the product?
This is a useful tool for business analytics. You can easily pass query or add a filter to get the required data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially, you will need a bit of hand holding to understand the features of the tool. But once you get hands on then it becomes very easy to work with the tool.
Another disadvantage is that it gets freeze at times.
Another disadvantage is that it gets freeze at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do a lot of data analytics with QlikView.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is more of an advanced version of MS Excel and VB.
Qlikview - Helping us in solving large data complexities & Making analysis easy
What do you like best about the product?
Well this software helps me in organizing large data into presentable manner. Also I am able to make small data sets by running the query also it has features of processing multiples of lacs of rows in very less time. You can use multiples pictogram to represent your data such as Tables & Pivot Tables etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well its a little complex software to use but with time you can win over that issue. Also, for finance professional like me initially it was very difficult to make understanding of this software but now i am using it to process my data in very efficient manner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well the first issue resolved by this is the drawback of MS Excel that it can more than 10.7 lacs rows which excel can not. And secondly It helps in running query which helps you to get the desired data in a desired format.
Far better than Tableau in many Aspects!
What do you like best about the product?
Qliksense is absolute beast when it comes to true ETL capabilities. As compare to Tableau and Power BI it can handle much larger datasets. Qlik scripting is too powerful and easy to master. Self- service capabilities are also great in qliksense as it was designed to be self service analytic rather than a guided analytics tool. Qlik is also offering cloud deployment of their qlik products on all the popular cloud platform including their own cloud offering. Visualization is also good but compare to Tableau it lags behind.
What do you dislike about the product?
The most important thing that I did not like in qliksense is that most of the features that was available in qlikview natively has not been made available yet. So, to bring some qlikview like functionality we have to rely on extensions which are hard to build and master as it require front end tech stack skills set like js, angular ,nodejs etc. Also, it lags behind in visualization capabilities and native support of other analytical language like python and R is not supported yet which is there in Power BI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are providing guided and self service MI to our stakeholders in an automated fashion which used to take lots of manaul effort to build earlier. Lots of manual task have been removed and replaced with automatic reporting solution with qliksense
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Condiser qliksense for its unmatched ETL and large datasets handling capabilities. Qlik is adding new features in every new release which happens every 3 months so I beleive once it has python and R integration embedded it is going to be a master in BI.
QlikSense is awesome Enterprize Visualization Analytics Reporting Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Enterprise level integration, Version control, Security
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any dislike items, I like it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Senior Leadership Team Visualization, Analytics presented in real time on daily basis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is much better than Tableau and Other Analytics tool out there in the market
QLIK VIEW IS PRETTY DYNAMIC TOOL
What do you like best about the product?
Look and Feel, Drag and Drop, Across Geographical Report and Quick Reporting Solution
What do you dislike about the product?
Understanding Schema and build solution takes time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrated with different applications to produce Dynamic reporting across all functions.. Benefits are Turn Around Time and Accuracy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use, Highly Customizable
Qlikview- A Good data extraction and analysis tool
What do you like best about the product?
Its help you run even more than 60 lakhs of row data. And even at a faster pace. Also there are a lot of presentation tools which help you fetch data in user friendly manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such but one needs to be skilled to operate such system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like in excel we can put our data in limited manner as we can only put upto 10.7 lakhs rows but not with qlikview we are processing more than 60-70 lakhs rows of data and even without any delay.
Great for connecting custom applications to marketing automation
What do you like best about the product?
Blendr has a lot of standard connectors to all kinds of tools available and is always willing to add others. It really helps us to connect marketing automation platforms (like Hubspot, Marketo, Act-On, etc) to custom applications like CRM. The functionality is much broader and more intelligent than for example Zapier.
What do you dislike about the product?
The website does not show all the possible fields that are available for mapping, you really need to login to the tool to see every possibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Connecting marketing automation to custom applications like CRM. All major automation solutions have standard integrations to the 'big' CRMs (like Salesforce, MSDynamics, etc) but Blendr makes it possible to connect any other tool, as long as it has an API.
Qlik Sense a pionner that evolves through time
What do you like best about the product?
Qlik Sense is an excellent option because it has been in the BI business for a long time, nevertheless, it continues to evolve according to actual trends. Always focusing on the user and business needs, Qlik continues to evolve each year taking into account this needs and technology evolution. No matter how years passes Qlik is always in a good position in the Gartner Quadrant. In Qlik World we learnt how Qlik is taking cloud and artificial intelligence as a priority, over the past years this two concepts have gained position in IT business. Qlik has been working with both concepts over the past few years and they have shown a constant and positive evolution.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the disadvantages that Qlik Sense may have is the limitation on the creation of visualizations. It's not much a limitation since we have the option of creating extensions or mashups. However, this creation implies learning a new code language and this activity can be time consuming. Remembering Qlikview days the visualization creation was a little bit more flexible on the native menu of the program.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Merging two different data sources. Qlik Sense is quite flexible when it comes on data inputs and data changes to merge different sources that doesn't speak the same language and sometimes requieres some data transformation. The flexibility of Qlikview can be quite useful when it comes to the creation of new business rules or changing the previous business rules.
Clean Stylish Dashboard With Functional Features.
What do you like best about the product?
Great streaming analytical solution and it provides the users with wide data analytics and extensions customization ability.
Qlik Sense deployment on Windows its more functional and also Web-based version. Easy developing of various Application, and excellent mobile reporting capabilities.
Qlik Sense deployment on Windows its more functional and also Web-based version. Easy developing of various Application, and excellent mobile reporting capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
No main usability issues and the tool implementation can be done by any user with technical knowledge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Product development, easy to analyze and visualize data, reporting among many more depending with the user industries.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Powerful solution, easy to set and the data processing and performances are great and functional features.
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