Qlik Sense Reviews

It helps enterprises all over the world work smarter, move faster, and place advanced analytics in the hands of everyone. It merges, visualize, explore, and load data easily no matter how small or large the data is. It makes and shares interactive dashboards in a manageable environment. It empowers everyone in the organization to make better decisions. It supports a broad variety of analytic use cases including self-service visualizations, guided dashboards, mobile analytics, reporting, and many more.

When it is not configured appropriately, it provides false data that is difficult to spot. It lacks the analysis side. It is best suited for simple analytics but it is hard to set up custom stuff, what-if scenarios, and advanced statistical analysis. The equations coding is a bit complex. It does not allow the production of pdf files and standardized reporting. The navigation handling is very tough.

With Qlik Sense I can analyze several different databases. These databases can be of the most diverse type. Even programmed data mining is possible. The georeferencing is integrated and functions very well.
I was able to do several crossings without any course or study. The program is very intuitive.
However, it is possible to discover many new features by taking specific courses for QLik Sense.
A new experience with Qlik Sense

I found difficulty with the sellers of the product, which were invasive and sometimes inconvenient. Besides the product being more expensive than the competitors

- Rapid development and strong supportive community.
- You can build a very nice dashboard and/or reports very fast. Simple reports can be built in matter of minutes! even if your data
is scattered between different files or even different platforms (excels, DB, etc.).
- You can extend the basic (out of the box) platform with Widgets and Extensions
- 'QIik Branch' - open source community sharing Widgets and Extensions that you can embed into your installation.

- Running in memory DB is fine on the server but on the desktop edition might be a problem for large DB.
- While "Associative Model" is what give Qlik the ease of rapid building dashboards and reports it might cause some odd
results if you are not truly understand this and pay attention while building the data model.
- While there is great training for how to use the basic features, there are not a lot for how to build Widgets and extensions.

We have been using Qlik for more than 2 years now and I would say that the transition has been smooth though there was a learning curve involved which is there with any tool. Some of the features which we like are the on demand app generation and mash ups.

Since the software is an in memory tool i.e. it uses physical memory (RAM), as and when the data volume increases it tends to slow down. You have to get a machine with higher configuration to support data volume.

Qlik Sense is a self-service visualization tool which users can learn to use within a short span of time. Adding the data sources is a smooth experience. Select the columns that's required, drag and drop into a new dashboard and we have a dashboard ready in minutes. The data model component helps to create associations/joins between the columns/fields of a table/file. The associative data model of Qlik Sense keeps the data associated across visualizations in a dashboard. Change a parameter and the whole dashboard gets reflected immediately. Qlik Sense also supports 3rd party extensions for visualizations and they are regularly monitored and approved by Qlik. Qlik Sense load scripts can be overridden to include custom code.

1) Cyclic Groups feature is missing. It was present in QlikView. We have to depend on qsVariable which is a 3rd party extension.
2) Trellis Chart is missing.

Easy to use interface for data consumers and the ability to generate meaningful measures and KPIs quickly. We can post large amounts of data for our decision makers to digest and analyse without resorting to reams of spreadsheets. Uptake and feedback has been really good and most if not all users are pleased with the development so far and are looking forward to more applications in the pipeline going forward. Being able to find other user created plugins to manipulate data has also been really useful.

The data connections out of the box don't contain MDX and SSAS connections which would have been nice. The data designer isn't as good as some of its competitors and needing to learn another scripting language slowed down some of the early progress.

Among many good features, Qlik Sense has a very good data load interface. The scripts are very easy to learn and also very powerful. You can transform and validate data at load step without have to know any programming language neither SQL, of course, if you know SQL you can make even more complex and complete scripts. The built-in and graphical data load tool is enough in many scenarios, you can even use it to generate the "gross" script and then refine it with your own rules.
Another good point is the customer support and knowledge sharing which exists in their forums, you can find almost anything you ever need there. I never needed to open a customer ticket for technical reason, but some questions regarding licensing and product availability has been quickly and completely answered by e-mail.

Some minor features which is already available in other BI tools, even on Qlik View, is not available in Qlik Sense. As an example, I miss some kind of "share expression/measure" function in this tool. When we create a measure, we cannot use this as a source to another measure, or to an expression, instead, we must replicate that logic any and everywhere it is required.

Strong Technology, Great Support. Very easy self service capabilities enabling 3rd Gen BI

More custom visuals and dashboard creation freedom

Easy to use and quick intuitive dashboard builder.
Seamless data connectors to any of the source system.
Powerful ETL capabilities which will helps to shape the data for presentation.

Collaboration and annotation is not that great.
No in built data governance options.
Master data management is not available.

Ease of use for data connection and visualizations. Administration of the product is very straightforward and security model is very tight.

Had a range of experiences with Qlik Support technicians. Sometimes passed from one to another until the correct person at the correct level was reached. Does seem to be getting better.

Qlik having all the kind of functionality to show all types of Analytical Visual and very easy to user with minimum time and afford so Business user can analyse simply at granular level.

As per my experience and i faced it, while using line chart if there is no data in between any period , that chart is using straight line instead of blank. already submitted case to qlik team.

In Memory engine
Associative data modelling
Single and Multi-node deployments
Ease of use
Supports Self service BI

Customer Support
Data management and Governance
Security

In built ETL functionality. If your data is not super clean forget other BI software like Tableau etc.

Would like to have more in built visualisation objects...

It is self service analytical tool based on the business intelligence plate form
This tool open source community , user community is very good and also great people

It support for mostly new business users but existing not that much support
Architecture in the back end is very good

A very good Community

Relatively easy to pick up and use

Satisfies a lot of use cases

Qlik Continuous Classroom is a great feature

not as many visualisation types as other tools

sense is not that customisable

have to reply on extensions

The visualizations were nice and the partner community was pretty big.

It took forever to implement and was very expensive. We also had frequent crashes.

A very useful software with fast usage and simple interface. It provides fast access by taking large data into memory.

The analysis side is missing. Compared to MS Power BI, it remains incomplete.

The product it's really easy to use and powerful. It has a lot of data connection provider (also twitter, facebook and so on), and the setup it's quick and easy.

REally nothing. the software is great. just some little bug in the earlier version, in the console management for the server version, but nothing of really important. With this great software You have fast analysis, great interactive dashboards and also cool maps. It's also cool Qlik Branch, where we've found a lot of cool extensions to use in our dashboards.

Easy to use. Personal Edition is free - it's good for evaluating and testing product for different areas (even for personal needs like getting overview about physical activities or personal finance etc.)

Some powerful functions are missing comparing with QlikView but fortunately the product develops so quickly that I'm not worrying about that quite much :-).

It's pretty amazing what can be done using a web browser to develop dashboards.

Not enough granular control over presentation, such as bold fonts.

Visual appearance (e.g. compared to Power BI - it's much more appealing)

Your possibilities and "custom" settings of visuals are limited and much worse (e.g. comparing to Power BI). You can do only a few pre-defined appearance/behavior changes to your visuals (unless you want to JavaScript your own extensions..)

The product it's really easy to use and powerful. One of the best tools available today for self-service BI.
Ease of use
Self Service Capabilities

Integration with other tools
Governance & Security
Frequent releases and needs some stability of the functionality

It provides Insights and also Chart Suggestions to make our visualizations more meaningful.

It needs extensions in order to incorporate any new feature as in Qlik View.

Qlik sense can be easily modified to create custom objects such as widgets and mashups.
I also like the way it can easily be used to explore data from multiple sources all in one single app.
Another thing is the ability to use it on mobile apps.

The only con I can think of it that, while it's an easy tool to use, there's an initial learning curve before you get used to it

QlikSense is one of those applications that you always hear about when looking for great tools for interactive report generation. It is just 'good' overall, not the best, from my own personal experience at least. Comparing it to Tableau, it stands no chance.

Very weak customer service, don't expect to get much help when you are stuck, unless you are part of an online community that might help you. Overall it's just OK, but I personally would consider other applications.