Qlik Sense - Intuitive Design for Analysts, Clean Web Reports for Users
Updated May 08, 2018
Qlik Sense - Intuitive Design for Analysts, Clean Web Reports for Users
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Qlik Sense Cloud
Overall Satisfaction with Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is currently in use, as a pilot program, within three discrete business units.
Our Enterprise Business Intelligence group is implementing Qlik Sense alongside QlikView (6+ years) to provide self-service BI analytic and visualization capabilities to our more advanced users with specific requirements and a solid understanding of the underlying data model and KPIs. These users are also guided to our published internal guidelines for Qlik Sense development and solution department.
The other two business units are large departments with advanced analytics staff, fluctuating reporting requirements, and security considerations beyond the norm (even for a finance company). These business units often consult with the EBI group for assistance.
Our Enterprise Business Intelligence group is implementing Qlik Sense alongside QlikView (6+ years) to provide self-service BI analytic and visualization capabilities to our more advanced users with specific requirements and a solid understanding of the underlying data model and KPIs. These users are also guided to our published internal guidelines for Qlik Sense development and solution department.
The other two business units are large departments with advanced analytics staff, fluctuating reporting requirements, and security considerations beyond the norm (even for a finance company). These business units often consult with the EBI group for assistance.
Pros
- Qlik Sense allows analysts to create their own polished dashboards, whether intended to stand on their alone or be presented alongside the more professional solutions produced in QlikView and Qlik Sense by our BI and visualization experts.
- Qlik's Associate Model, which leads users through the data selection and modeling process, is much easier for most analysts to use to develop and tune their data models. At the same time, the availability of SQL within the script allows power users to create their own extract statements when desired.
- Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud both allow users to develop and share their analytic solutions while supporting a security frame that allows the architect and administrators full control over data availability.
- Qlik's visualization tools and options are awesome across the entire application suite.
Cons
- The Qlik Associate model is extremely powerful and very intuitive, especially for novice users. However, the restrictions inherent in the model (e.g., no more than one common field between joined tables) create extra steps for skilled data analysts and architect.
- Qlik Sense Cloud provides a subset of the features of the Enterprise Suite. While the Cloud offering is sufficient for many business needs and use cases, the differences make it difficult to present "Qlik Sense" as a single product with variant offerings. The Cloud platform could be expanded to provide more Qlik Sense 'Desktop' capabilities in the Cloud environment.
- Loading and display of Qlik solutions with extremely large data sets, often required to support dynamic filtering and comparative analysis, can lead to extremely slow performance from the user's perspective. Thankfully, Qlik has announced recent initiatives to ameliorate this issue.
Both Tableau and Power Bi provide direct, guided tools for data access for analysts and others with some knowledge of database design and report definition. Their visualization capabilities, while sufficient for most day-to-day business needs, do not allow the same flexibility and control that Qlik Sense supports.
Zoomdata is more difficult to use from data design through visualization. Its process is guided and controlled to the point of limiting the users' options.
Zoomdata is more difficult to use from data design through visualization. Its process is guided and controlled to the point of limiting the users' options.
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