Qlik Sense Valuable Features
Qlik Sense is essentially a web-based tool even though it's on-prem – you're working off an HTML page – so it's pretty quick. Your processing speed does not matter because you're using a lot of stuff through the web. That's great because it brings down the cost in regards to hardware.
At the same time, learning the language is quite easy. It's not SQL, it's not Python, it's natural database language, so you can pick up the usage pretty easily.
View full review »The most valuable aspects of the solution include:
Data Visualization. Qlik Sense provides a variety of options to visualize data, including charts, tables, and graphs, making it easier for users to interpret data and gain insights.
Associative Model. Qlik Sense uses an associative model that allows users to explore data relationships in real-time, enabling them to ask and answer ad-hoc questions without the need for pre-aggregated data.
Self-Service Analytics. Qlik Sense is designed to be a self-service analytics tool, allowing business users to create their reports and dashboards without requiring IT intervention.
Data Storytelling. Qlik Sense allows users to create data stories that provide a narrative around their data, making it easier to communicate data insights and analysis to non-technical stakeholders.
Collaboration. Qlik Sense provides collaboration features that enable users to share their insights with others, such as creating and sharing dashboards, reports, and visualizations, commenting on and discussing data, and co-authoring apps.
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Luiz DePaula
IS Sr Reporting Specialist at Community Health Network of Connecticut, Inc.
The ETL capability is great. It facilitated the integration of data from different sources without a true data warehouse. Being able to pull data directly from the ERP system and apply the business rules in Qlik, and combine it with the BI data, decreased the business process time. We had to send every request over to our overseas BI team. Being able to have at least one BI resource in-house who is an expert in Qlik, we decrease the development time and started delivering solutions in a much more timely manner.
The ease of use, providing a self-service environment, and high performance when interacting with the dashboards and reports are all great.
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Qlik Sense
March 2024
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reviewer1083624
Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information.
The super user can also make changes. It's very friendly to work with after you have had some training. It's very straightforward to make the changes that you need for everyday work.
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NizarAhmad
BI & EIS Manager at Almarai Company Limited
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.
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reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies. It is pure HDMI, eliminating the need for cache servers or translation engines, making it one of the fastest solutions compared to others. The direct connection between ML and data adds to its efficiency. Additionally, one standout feature of Qlik is its QVD data model, allowing the creation of data maps that are directly stored in memory, offering fast and efficient data service to consumers. Qlik's ability to handle large datasets with millions of rows is a significant advantage, although there are some limitations.
Qlik sense has a lot of advantages, including:
- For the final user it is a simple tool.
- You can develop a dashboard in hours.
- The changes in a dashboard are very easy. We don't have the common problems that we have using multidimensional cubes.
- The In-Memory engine helps to analyze big sets of that in seconds.
- The storage is small. Qlik compresses the data in QVDs.
- The ROI is very fast. The time of implementation is short and the infrastructure is not too expensive. Qlik uses Windows Servers.
It's the "ease of use," like the self-service aspect. My customers appreciate being able to analyze data on their own, without relying on IT for every query.
Additionally, the associative experience of the database and its intuitive data exploration capabilities are key features for users.
View full review »I found "Qlik application Automation" most interesting. It allows us to create automated analytics and data workflows. This helped us to create an end-to-end pipeline from raw data to Active intelligence. With Qlik Automation, we can reload multiple apps parallel and chain the app together to run one after another.
Importing/exporting the app script to Github, sending automated emails/reports or chat messages on Teams/Slack based on condition. These are some amazing things we can do with the Qlik application automation feature.
Qlik has a powerful load script that uses an enhanced SQL language which is excellent for loading and transforming the data.
Qlik can also store data out into a .qvd file format which is very highly compressed. This file format can then be ready by Qlik extremely quickly, allowing it to rapidly process thousands of rows of data. Qlik also has a range of useful visualizations and also allows for custom visualizations to be created and added as an extension. These can be found online or created by yourself.
View full review »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.
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.
View full review »The versatility and efficiency when processing data is great.
The ability to integrate data within the same solution makes it incredible.
It has high performance when interacting with dashboards and reports.
Integration of data from different sources is helpful.
As Qlik Sense is an in-memory solution, the performance is fast and provides real-time insights
It offers shorter development times.
The time to assimilate concepts to start developing applications is faster than other analytics solutions, considering that this tool has ETL and Visualization capabilities.
View full review »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.
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Petr Rusnák
BI Consultant at dolphin consulting
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.
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reviewer1904634
Operations Officer Team Leader at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The solution offers a lot of data you can use for analysis.
With Qlik Sense what I really do like is that I can see the status of the leads under the page of conversion. Once I use Qlik Sense, I can see the status of the leads and I don't need to use another platform or software. I can see how many leads an affiliate sends, and I can see the status of his leads. It is also very flexible for me as well.
It's user-friendly.
The product is very stable.
View full review »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.
View full review »The most valuable features are that Qlik has a very strong ATL available and the capacity to handle large volumes of data.
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reviewer2101050
Sr Data Analyst at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
I like to develop steps in getting a solution for any application, and they have a lot of time, and the application is very efficient.
It offers good control.
Loading the logs is also a good thing.
View full review »The product responds fast for data analysis.
View full review »The best features include ETL. Transforming data with complex logic can be done within the tool.
The Nprinting is useful. With it, we're scheduling reports directly to end-users.
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Qlik Sense
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Qlik Sense. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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