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Qlik Sense pricing
Qlik Sense has a free version and offers a free trial. Qlik Sense paid version starts at US$30.00/month.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics
In short, the best cloud-based business intelligence and analytics platform. I would say that the entry cost can be the only limitation when implementing QlikSense. I would also recommend that the existing QlikView (older version) users should upgrade to QlikSense to enjoy the latest interface, user experience, easier implementation and additional functionalities.
Pros
- Responsive and intuitive Interface- Ability to drill down to the data line level- Ability to export the Dashboards to various formats- Ability to use the Dashboards in presentations- Integration and Data Import capabilities
Cons
- Pricing structure- Automatic distribution of reports requires another licence- Somewhat steep learning curve- Can require high processing power for complex dashboards
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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A Good experience with Qlick Sense
I was using Qlik sense to present the Retail sales status in a project where a chain of 130 convenience store were using this tool, it gave the retail managers the ability to see daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly sales, in addition it helped manage the stock and helped plan the inventory future.
Pros
Qlik Sense can be installed both on prem and on cloud, which give the organization using it the ability to have better control of where the data will be stored and accessed from, which is a great benefit when you want to keep your data safe and local.
Another great thing about qlik Sense is that with a bit of time one can create very clear and good dashboards presenting the business data in the organization.
Cons
Qlick Sense is quite expensive compared to other tools existing in the field such as Tableau, in addition, it's not an easy tool to onboard and it can be costly when dealing with big teams using the tool.
- Industry: Package/Freight Delivery
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Qliksense: Best Buisness intelligence tool with advanced features
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.
Pros
Associate data model and insights advisor
Cons
Issues while learning new things and advanced concepts
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Good Analytical software
Pros
It has all features making it easy to visualise the data
Cons
The scripting language is different and it could be improvised and additional programming languages options can be added
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Qlik Sense Review
It is a very good application for creating Dynamic Dashboard
Pros
We can easily perform data transformation and Dashboard Designing capabilities
Cons
The Cost is a little high and they can reduce it .
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great for small project management
Pros
I love the user i9nterface, it makes it so easy to use. The pricing is also unbeatable.
Cons
It is working well, I do not have any issues using it.
Alternatives Considered
TableauReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
The pricing is a bit cheaper than the others- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Magnificent platform for unlocking actionable visualizations
Pros
The collection of interactive dashboards, graphs, and charts detailed in Qlik Sense makes it easy to demonstrate otherwise complex data in a straightforward manner. The platform offers a distinctive approach to associative data exploration, which equips the users with the ability to ask further questions and go deeper into their data.
Cons
Adding capabilities such as making full custom visualizations or integrating outside libraries could be enhanced to fulfill specific storytelling requirements.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A dynamic platform for data analysis and data visualisations
Pros
I like its advanced data exploration capabilities whereby we can easily extract the data that we need through the smart search function.
Cons
Working with complex data visualisations can affect the overall performance but we have noticed improvements on this.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Amazing data visuals and analytics
Pros
The visuals are great and are very supporting towards good storytelling dashboards. The ease of use is also good as compared to other available reporting and visualization tools.
Cons
I personally feel that more data connectors should be introduced to make it more competent with other visualization tools
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Qlik Sense your best ally for the control and compliance of your indicators.
Pros
Qlik Sense is a powerful tool that allows you to monitor the evolution of your management indicators, it has interactive graphs that allow the user to analyze the data intuitively. In addition, it allows you to extract analysis of the indicators in real time and facilitates the implementation of strategies or collaborate in decision making.
Cons
The cost of the license is a factor to consider, and the degree of difficulty will depend on the user's experience, even for new users the learning curve can be quite steep.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Qlik Sense: Empowering Data-driven Insights
Pros
Qlik Sense is a powerful data analytics and visualization tool that empowers users to gain valuable insights from their data. One of the standout features of Qlik Sense is its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, which allows users to create interactive and dynamic visualizations without the need for complex coding or scripting. This feature enables users to quickly build and modify visualizations, making it a highly flexible and efficient tool.
Cons
However, one aspect where it falls short is its user-friendliness. The tool can be challenging for new users to navigate and requires a significant learning curve.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Good data visualisation software
Pros
Reporting and analysis features.Easy to use.Good UI
Cons
Working with multiple data sources is difficult in qlik.Increases the server load for large datasets.

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Powerful and user friendly business intelligence tool
Pros
Qliksense has a wide range of features that include interactive data visualisation, advanced analytics, data integration etc. I find it quite versatile in terms of capability in connecting to various data sources such as cloud based, big data etc.
Cons
There could be performance issues at times depending on the size and complexity of the data being used. Also, it requires a bit of training for someone new to this tool to get used to and explore the features.
- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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We needed simple data visualization
Pros
QikSense can get you up and running in a few hours. We connected a few databases using the connectors, added some excel sheets and in a few minutes the data model was ready to be used with dozens of widgets and charts that can be personalized.
Cons
There are still many missing formulas and functions that are available for instance in Excel but not in Qlik, so you have to work around a little bit. Avoid using custom extensions because at every version upgrade you'll find yourself with a broken dashboard.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Qlik Sense On Premise Enterprise
We use Qlik Sense to deliver enterprise wide analytics covering various business units, including Commercial finance, demand planning, after market performance, ICT, eCommerce, procurement, master data management, sales forecasting and market share analysis.
The flexibility of Qlik Sense and addition of 3rd party extensions allows us to extend the use of Qlik Sense beyond analytics and bring the platform to the core of our digital workplace, augmenting analytics with workflow, and team collaboration.
The intuitive associative engine and powerful visualization capability within Qlik sense as provided a powerful platform which allows us to develop user engaging, intuitive and agile data analytics tools which drive informed, timely and impact business decision making.
The flexibility of Qlik Sense and addition of 3rd party extensions allows us to extend the use of Qlik Sense beyond analytics and bring the platform to the core of our digital workplace, augmenting analytics with workflow, and team collaboration.
Pros
The adoption of Qlik Sense has provided the business with a solid platform to build upon, moving from a silo approach to reporting through a multitude of large, static, cumbersome spreadsheets to an accessible, intuitive, powerful analytics platform capable to dealing with large volumes of data. For the first time, providing the business with a single version of the truth, the ability to see everything in one place. In itself the efficiency gains of this has offset the adoption costs by a considerable amount.
Cons
There is a direction currently with feature releases within QLik Sense which are focused towards the SaaS or Cloud offerings of Qlik Sense. This leaves those who have invested heavily in on premise enterprise deployments in a difficult possitrion, to gain the benefits of some pwoerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments, or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provide no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Best in class ETL capabilties combined with great visualizations and ergonomics
Qlik Sense is problably one of the quickest if not the quickest BI solution to implement. With Qlik Sense we were able to design and implement advanced business apps within days. The ability to go back and forth between data sources, data modeling and dashboard within the same interface enables a seamless production of even the most complex KPIs.
Pros
Qlik Sense is a powerful solution with best in class ETL capabilities, which simplifies and speeds up developments and enables a collaborative approach to data. Qlik Sense not only delivers great data visualization features but also offers a comprehensive set of tools which helps to collect data from various sources and deliver insightful dashboards. When it comes to interactivity Qlik Sense set the standard while the competition truly lies behind. I recommand any company on the market for a BI / data viz solution to consider Qlik Sense no matter what their size or industry.
Cons
I hope in the future Qlik will embed Nprinting features in order to generate pixel perfect documents from the Qlik Sense platform. Automated alerts also would be nice as well as a centralized data management for common dimensions and kpis between apps.
Reasons for Choosing Qlik Sense
We were missing out on data visualization as we were using a rather traditionnal software using an older technology. It was time for a change and Qlik Sense was a huge step up- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best BI tool on the market
Excellent, the best BI tool on the market
Pros
Handles any Complex ETL possible
Can connect to any data source
Easy to use
Cons
Interoperability can be better and improved by added more data sources specially Microsoft products
Alternatives Considered
TableauReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
Complex ETL
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Qlik was an great starting point on the company path to meaningful Business Intelligence
It helped us greatly simplify our monthly management reporting and has been earmarked for a number of Reporting options going forward
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good analytics tool
I like the system overall; it let's me look at my historical sales as well as my current sales and open orders.
Pros
Once you get use to the different widgets, it is a good system to use. If you have accessibility to all of the functions, it can make your day easier when looking for sales data.
Cons
It won't save any of your preference. It logs you out kindy quickly, it's not a system you can leave open the entire work day, you have to constantly log in if you step away for a few minutes.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Data analytics for the masses
Qlik Sense is not QlikView. For those of us who have been working with both might seem like the next iteration of the latter. It is not. It uses websockets instead of HTTP and this has a huge impact in performance and usability. The cloud solution is still a work in progress, but for the needs of most users, enough and recommendable. Disclaimer, I'm a former Qlik employee and current Qlik customer.
Pros
Proven in-memory engine and robust data extraction language. Drag and drop user interface, responsive, ready to create, not just consume, from mobile devices like tablets. Overall performance and very complete integration with web technologies. Open sourced libraries. Fine-grained user access engine.
Cons
Applications are limited to the power of one single computer, although several computers (nodes) can be clustered, they act, at the end, individually (i.e.: not adding up resources from all the servers available). As of version 3.2 lacks a full governance tool and a central library across applications, so what is created for one can be reused in another. Built-in objects are basic, leaving more advanced visualizations to extensions or development of some kind, usually far from the advanced user knowledge (e.g.: widgets).
- Industry: Building Materials
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Great, modern BI and Data Vis tool
A great tool that helps us make sense of our data day to day.
Pros
It is a great data tool with a modern UX and strong functionality - both for the user and the data back end. Lots of flexibility to build and connect data, and powerful tools for visualization & BI.
Cons
No major concerns. There is very deep functionality, so any issues are likely our own.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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Dashboard and Analytics tool Qlik Sense.
Pros
With Qlik Sense we can analyze data from different sources. It can connect to more than 40 types of data sources, such as Excel files, databases, and cloud-based applications. This makes it easier for you to access your data and understand it better.
Cons
Overall had a great experience, very useful software

- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Stylish Dashboarding Solution
Pros
I like the most on this software is the reason why it is build, to provide eye candy dashboard solution. A beautiful and stylish dashboard with amazing functionality on dashboard navigation. Drilling down of data can be done with ease. Creation custom formula is very flexible. Sorting on what field you like is also possible.
Cons
I like the least on this software is price and the exporting of dashboard into image or pdf is not that nice.
- Industry: Civic & Social Organization
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A work in progress, though it will get you there!
Though it really has its place in the market for simpler deployments, do take care when planning bigger or complex deployments as the servicability of such a deployment is difficult and tricky (but doable).
Pros
-Qlik code is easy, Qlikview-code is easy reusable
-InMemory works!
-Lots of help online
-In the end it will get you allmost there...
Cons
-Visualisation not on par with 'the other big-ones'. No proper customisation, and a lot of basic visualisations are not available (Band chart, Radar chart, Combi-plot).
-No analitics/statistiscs toolkit.
-Presenting data/apps takes forever in a citrix-environment.
-Developing a set of dashboards/apps in Sense feels clumsy and messy. There is no hierarchy, keeping track of sequential apps.(Extract/Translate/Presentation) is quite a thing. Think debugging...
-No check-in/check-out tooling, no folderstructures for unpublished apps but a cluttered personal workspace so a lot of discipline and creative thinking is needed.
-Building a corporate environment in Sense feels actually quite 'dirty'.
- Industry: Sports
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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Among the top three data visualization software
Pros
A great mix of UI and Data management makes this software one of the top in the market, especially because of the BI power that allows manipulating a huge amount of data without suffering slowness or reduction in visual quality
Cons
I would suggest choosing this software just for advanced users who are already confident with deep analysis and visualization
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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Feature Rich BI Solution
It was very positive, however we didn't proceed as there were other options which met our needs at a slightly better price point
Pros
It was very feature rich vs some of the alternatives we reviewed
Cons
It was at the higher end of our budget.

- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Provides smarter data visualizations.
Qlik Sense has significantly improved my ability to visualize data with greater efficiency. By merging all of our data sources and creating a real-time data pipeline, Qlik Sense provides us with access to in-the-moment data intelligence, which has fostered an insight-driven decision-making culture throughout my organization.
Pros
Qlik sense ability to bring artificial intelligence to my data visualization experience is what I like best about it. By incorporating artificial intelligence into my data visualization process , Qlik Sense has significantly enhanced my data visualization and reporting capabilities. This integration has resulted in a reduction of cognitive biases in my analyses and visualizations, while also streamlining the discovery of data intelligence and automating the relationship between natural language interactions and search queries.
Cons
I often find that uploading large datasets can be a slow process and rarely meets my expectation of a speedy upload.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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User-friendly
Pros
I like that it supports the drag-and-drop functionality besides it being able to handle large volumes of data and perform complex calculations.
Cons
It can be expensive to license and maintain, so if you want to use it, use it fully.

- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Simple & Powerful BI Tool
It has been good learning experience since an year to work on Qlik Sense. There are lot of things to explore like predictive analysis etc. This tool is simple for even non - technical user to create insightful visualization. Integration of data is easy and can handle large amount of data
Pros
The important and most interesting feature of Qlik Sense is the interactive visualization with customizable dashboards that allows for dynamic data exploration. It helps us and supports wide range of data sources and can easily integrate with other tools . It also provides story telling features that enables us to create compelling narratives around the data and this helps us to provide better actionable to the clients
Cons
As compared to other BI tools, Qlik sense has limited customizations and does not offer tailor made needs. Graphs can have better UI.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Qlik Sense Review: A Comprehensive Overview
Overall, Qlik Sense is an incredibly powerful and user-friendly data analysis tool that makes it easy to quickly understand and analyze your data. Despite some of its more complex features, it is still relatively easy to use and can provide valuable insights from your data.
Pros
Qlik Sense is an incredibly powerful and user-friendly data analysis tool that makes it easy to get insights from your data. The drag-and-drop nature of creating visualizations makes it simple to quickly understand and analyze your data, and the data integration capabilities allow for easy integration with other data sources.
Cons
While Qlik Sense is a powerful tool, it can be difficult to learn due to its complex features and user interface. Additionally, there are some features which can be difficult to use, such as the scripting language and data modeling capabilities.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I really liked Qlik sense software.
The overall Qlik Sense experience can be positive, with a few bumps along the way. On the plus side, Qlik Sense's simple drag-and-drop interface allows even inexperienced developers to create visually appealing and interactive dashboards and reports. The software also includes a plethora of resources and tutorials to help users get up and running quickly.The learning curve for some of Qlik Sense's more advanced features and functionality, on the other hand, can be steep, making it difficult for junior developers. Furthermore, when working with large data sets, the software's performance may slow down, which may be an issue for some users.
Pros
User-friendly and intuitive interfaceCapability to work with large and complex data sets.Data visualization and analysis capabilities that are robust.Team and organizational collaboration features.
Cons
When working with very large data sets, the software can be slow.For new users, the learning curve can be steep, especially when it comes to advanced features and functionality.The software can be expensive, especially for enterprise-level users.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for Free Trial
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Great Help in a World Full of Numbers
Pros
Its highly interactive and customizable visualizations bring life to my data. Qlik Sense's ability to handle diverse data sources is a game-changer in my analytics workflow.
Cons
Despite its power, the learning curve can be steep, particularly for non-technical users. While it connects well with various data sources, some connections might require additional effort with ODBC drivers.

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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A powerful Business Intelligence tool
Pros
I use it mostly for analyzing the data which can be huge and overwhelming. Qliksense helps me summarize the data and obtain essential insights which eventually helps in decision making.
Cons
I didn't find any limitations so far using the product. The only thing is there could be some lag in processing huge datasets.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Qlik analysis
Pros
It is very visual and easy to use, lot of graphics are available and easy to learn.
Cons
Sometimes it is difficult to change some features and this can cause confusion.
- Industry: Newspapers
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A Comprehensive Look at Qlik's Data Visualization Software
Overall, Qlik Sense is a great data visualization tool. It is highly customizable and provides a wide range of data sources and connectors. The software is quite expensive and the learning curve can be steep, but once users get the hang of it, they can create beautiful interactive visualizations with ease.
Pros
Qlik Sense is an incredibly powerful data visualization tool. It allows users to quickly create interactive dashboards, charts, and graphs that are easy to understand. The software is highly customizable, giving users the ability to tailor the visuals to their preferences. It also has a wide range of data sources and connectors available, making it easy to access and integrate data from multiple sources.
Cons
One potential downside of Qlik Sense is its pricing structure, which can be quite expensive. Additionally, the learning curve can be steep for those who are unfamiliar with the software, making it difficult for users to get up and running quickly.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Automated Advanced Data Analysis
Qlik Sense is easy to use, however, requires some training. Really helpful in sorting, consolidating and analyzing data. It is compatible with all devices like desktop, tablet, mobile, and laptop.
Pros
Qlik Sense enables powerful filtering and capabilities to model comparisons. It is user friendly, helps to generate central reporting solution with governed security rules.
Cons
Syntax of expression is different from other languages makes it inconvenience. In case of large data, loading speed of app may be slow.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Still a market leading Data & Analytics end-to-end solution
QlikView was the best in market and with Qlik Sense, Qlik continue to be the best in market from data import, transformation, visualisation and now into alerting and machine learning
Pros
The amount of features that come out of the box within the cloud offering which is far over and above the nearest competitors which rely on third party tools and services
Cons
The price is higher than competitors like Power BI but the total cost of ownership is lower in the medium term as you do not require additional data transformation tools or extensive development time
Reasons for Choosing Qlik Sense
Modernising the end user self service experienceSwitched From
IBM Cognos AnalyticsReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
It is the only Data & Analytics leader that provides a single end-to-end data journey without the need for third party tooling and extensive, costly services- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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A very effective tool for us in our search for the best analysis to get the right solutions
Qlik Sense Contributes to the automation of the majority of periodic reports, as well as the reduction of the time required to compile those reports and the improvement of the overall quality of the work team's performance. Because of the ability to utilize it on all types of phones and tablets, we were able to rely on it at all times and use it for a variety of different analysis procedures and tasks. It is an extremely effective tool for us in our search for the best answers.
Pros
Qlik Sense is a tool that adds power to the organization, as it has many options and tools for analyzing and sorting data, and most importantly, it enables business teams to create all business intelligence projects using it, from ideation to final visualization. The platform is ideal for everyone and suitable for them with different experiences, as it is professional and easy to use and contains many integration options with many other applications, which facilitates the import and export of data. Qlik Sense allows you to explore, discover, and display data dynamically, and non-technical managers can easily consume reports and interact with dashboards. It also provides all the data on the cloud, which allows all members to further collaborate between them to achieve the best results.
Cons
Qlik Sense merely requires adequate training, and once you have the requisite skills, it's a terrific program, from which you can extract the best analytics.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best BI Tool available
My overall experience with Qlik is great, i love using this daily, it has become my number 1 used app at work, and even for things at home. i now track my spending in an app, my shopping and my exercise. all using different apps. the exercise app i have integrated with the maps function and can now even track distances and plot the out on a map.
Pros
Qlik sense is an epic platform for any level of developer / user requiring insights from data. the platform is aimed at everyone. for advanced users this platform is incredibly powerful, the speed to insights is amazing. i can take data from any source and generate insights in a matter of minutes. which in the past would have taken me a long time. i am a skilled developer so this comes naturally to me, but for other users this is a tool that comes with ease.
Cons
the lack of alerting within the console to alert me to failed tasks is the part i find the most frustrating, if it had a way of alerting to these failed tasks, then this would be even better. the other thing i find a struggle with is the Security ruloes, these ca be very frustrating, and limited online resources makes it a tough job.
Reasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
Just loved the fact it was in memory, and that it would allow me to seamlessly build out pages and have the power of the qlik engine.- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The best Bussiness Intelligence Tool I ever used
We used to have problems to know the profit of the company. Now we just open Qlik Sense and we know it, the overall profit of the company, also per costumer, brand or even product
Pros
You need some training to work in a efficient way with Qlik Sense, but once you know the tool, you can design complete reports wich allow obtain critical information about your bussiness fast.
Cons
Maybe is more expensive than Microsoft Power BI
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best BI Solution for Large Data Sets
We have millions of rows of data in our apps so we needed a BI tool that could handle the volume. Qlik is the right tool for us in that regard. The support from Qlik is frustrating to say the least. We end up going to our partner and paying them hourly rates for support rather than reporting issues to Qlik. Vizlib really makes Qlik shine, though it is unfortunate that we need a third party add-on to do that. Overall I would recommend Qlik and would look to implement it again in my next company.
Pros
Qliksense allows us to easily relate data from many data sources with little effort. We have deployed over 40 apps to the business that are used by hundreds of users from all departments. We are able to easily show both detail and summary information for all of our data sets.
Cons
Qlik should spend more effort on allowing users to better format the visualizations and text within the tables and charts. We had to purchase a third party product called VizLib to to make it look better.
Reasons for Choosing Qlik Sense
Our instance of DOMO was not implemented properly. It had nothing to do with Domo.Switched From
DomoReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
We reviewed all three solutions and had demos with all three vendors. Our decision came down to Tableau and Qliksense and we chose Qlik due to the ability to handle large volumes of data and because of its data modelling capabilities.- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Analyze data fast and make decisions quickly with Qlik Sense
Our goal was to have everyone reviewing business analytics in one spot and making decisions based on explainable data. We were Excel users for analytics at first. It was OK but we couldn't scale. We dabbled with Tableau. It was dreadfully slow and awkward. We demo'ed a couple more software and chose Qlik Sense due its speed, scalability and performance on mobile devices. Within days of using Qlik, our staff was able to convert 10 most used Excel dashboards into excellent dashboards that gave a much clearer perspective into business operations and finance. On modest server, we have been running Qlik Sense to provide enterprise-wide data analytics and our ability of decisioning has improved significantly due to Qlik.
Pros
Speed. Qlik Sense loads data quickly into memory and analysis is stunningly fast. It is very easy to get the information you need quickly and begin to make decisions. Slicing and dicing the data is very fast as well. Having used competing software like Tableau, Qlik Sense is a breath of fresh air. There's no waiting time during analysis and that keeps a person focused on the application and gets the person curious about information being presented.
Cons
The software's support model is horrific. Qlik uses value added resellers (aka VAR) for the most part. Most VARs I have talked to aren't exceptional and provide absolutely no valuable support after selling the software. They basically add zero value. Qlik has no idea what VARs are doing and VARs have no idea what Qlik is trying to tell them. Getting a license key correctly can take a few tries. Great software, horrific delivery. If I were the CEO of Qlik, I'd change the business model and remove VARs altogether and bring sales, marketing and support right into Qlik.
Alternatives Considered
Infor OS, Sisense, Domo, Tableau, MicroStrategy Analytics, Spotfire and Microsoft Power BIReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
We shortlisted Tableau, Sisense, Qlik and Spotfire. They all had their benefits in different industries and settings. We eliminated Spotfire first due to the look-and-feel and feature set. Tableau was next to go because it was just slow. Tableau had fancy graphics that we were unlikely to use. Sisense and Qlik were the fastest of the lot and had an easy-to-understand ETL model. Both were fast to develop, scalable and clean. Sisense had several little bugs and felt like it was not quality controlled enough, but Sisense also fixed issues fast. Sisense had support built into the product cost. Qlik was just exceptionally fast. There weren't any apparent bugs. Everything worked as expected. There were fewer features in Qlik Sense than Qlik View, but Qlik Sense development was very fast using web UI (similar to Sisense). Qlik Sense's growth and developer community was thriving. Sisense and Qlik were parallel until we did visualization on mobile phones and tables. Qlik won hands down. Licensing options were wider with Qlik in that we could do perpetual licenses or subscription. Qlik also had a product we could try out, and that further helped our selection. We've been very pleased with our selection.- Industry: Financial Services
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Top notch scalable self-service BI tool with cutting-edge visuals
Pros
Qlik Sense is a self-service analytical tool based on the same in-memory technology as QlikView. It's associative engine allows for snappy selections, filtering and prompt re-calculation of all charts and aggregations on the fly as the user navigates throughout the dashboard, even on datasets of over 100 million rows.
Qlik Sense focuses more on the self-service aspects of BI, where users are encouraged to build their own Adhoc visualisations without the use of keyboards simply by drag & dropping various elements, making the technology utmost business friendly. Also, as the whole technology is fully web-based, it embeds the latest visualisation libraries (D3, Raphael etc.) and allows for a seamless integration of customised extended JS charts (so-called extensions). The latter enables for unlimited possibilities when it comes to visualisations (http://d3js.org/) and further integration with web-services (R servers, real-time analytics, Hadoop etc.). Also, the Qlik Sense Server deployment is tailored to facilitate a multi-node deployment, allowing for a very scalable enterprise solution, even cloud-based.
The data security technology (Section Access) is the same one as in QlikView and is customisable, secure and robust.
All in all, when it comes to deploying a scalable and business-friendly BI solution, which has very presentable dashboards, a fast and robust aggregation engine with extended self-service capabilities, Qlik Sense is currently the best product of its kind on the market.
Cons
Qlik Sense is still a new product and not very mature yet, as it has only been released a year and a half ago. The review is based on Qlik Sens version 2.1 which is important to emphasise, because QlikTech is constantly updating the software and publishing releases with enhancements and bugfixes.
Qlik Sense is not the right tool, if you requirement is:
1. To have a guided analytics dashboard, where the user is constraint in the way he views his data.
-> This can be overcome by creating mashup websites, however you will need a web developer to do this.
2. Standardised reporting via Qlik Sense and production of pdf files is not possible (yet).
-> An integration with nPrinting, QlikTech's latest acquisition, could change this and it's on Qlik's roadmap for the next year.
3. Your BI solution needs to accommodate flexible data extraction capabilities (e.g. to Excel).
General current disadvantages:
1. The story telling functionality is not mature yet - users have more benefit using PowerPoint directly. In my opinion it's missing a live connection of the snapshots used in the story to the underlying chart objects.
2. Security settings (NOT on data level) are governed centrally via the management console and are complicated to comprehend.
3. No guided analytics aspects, even navigation between sheets can't be controlled.
4. No supported data extraction capabilities. It's almost impossible to get comprehensive extract of it's underlying data, something that was possible with QlikView (Export functionality e.g.)
5. The vendor has little practical knowledge on how Qlik Sense is deployed enterprise wide within a business and is not really able to support.
6. The vendor is focusing more on the data story telling and collaboration aspects of the Qlik technologies and almost imposes those on the business. Personally, I would prefer if QlikTech listened to its customers a little bit more.

- Industry: Medical Devices
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Probably the most powerful BI software
Qlik Sense is probably the most advanced and powerful BI software on the market. Creating advanced data visualisation dashboards is easy and critical in a big and dynamic organisation such as ours. The decision making process is faster and it enables you to react quickly to the market.
Pros
Being able to connect to very diverse data sources, the ease of creating new dashboards and reports.
Cons
The only con I can identify is that we don't have enough time to keep up with all the features that Qlik Sense brings, and further develop the data analysis capabilities. But in time we will manage :)
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BIReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
After being presented with a demo for both Qlik Sense and Power BI, the decision was natural :)- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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good tool for data visualization
this platform has helped me a lot to know my different analytical data.I recommend
Pros
It is a very powerful data visualization and analysis platform. It is known for its intuitive user interface and powerful data modeling capabilities. It allows us to easily create interactive dashboards and reports, and explore and analyze data from multiple sources.
Cons
I have not encountered anything wrong with qlik sense.works very well
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The prime Dataviz application
I love qliksense because i have been using it during my studies and i am using it in my company now. a very amazing dataviz tool
Pros
Qlik Sense has a very different approch when its come to collect and analyse data. I really like the features to collect data like using ArcSQL, you don't need to be an expert to get started. the interface is really amazing and it's very easy to explore and analyse data.
Cons
you need to use N'printing for you to generate report but it is still okay.
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Cetralised analytics ready data in a cetralised location
We have been able to move away from spreadsheet based reports where we had various manipulated versions of the data that were not up to date and took hours to prepare to a centralised reporting platform that is updated on a regular basis ready for the users to use and act on the insights gained.
Pros
Qlik Sense have enabled us to use more of our data and bring the data together in Dashboards that were a very difficult task to achieve in the past using spreadsheets. Using spreadsheets made it difficult to analyse tracking data where you ran out of space before you really got started.
Cons
After initial setup we got in creating connections to uncommon databases that proved very difficult to get setup in Qlik.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BIReasons for Choosing Qlik Sense
The Qlik View software has a place in the market but is not built for mobile and Qlik Sense is a lot easier to develop and deploy and auto adapts to any screen size to give the user the best view or readability of the reports.Reasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
We had been working with Qlik View before and a lot of our reports could be easily migrated to Qlik Sense and the proof of concept done by the consultants were was exactly what we were looking for.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best data analytics software
Pros
QS is a very useful tool for creating tables, graphs and especially data analysis. In the company where I work, we are dedicated to the development of QS extensions, which means that QS is a fully modifiable software full of versatile possibilities. QS is used by many large corporations around the world and is considered one of the best software for analyzing vast amounts of data.
Cons
The only disadvantage of QS is that when processing a huge amount of data, you can see a slower system response, but this is something that can be expected.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Decent BI tool - A good package for quick and easy reporting
It's being used across the whole organization, and it helps change data from multiple sources to information for better decision making. This has also given us better access to transnational level data. Which has improved our scope and insights as well as improved our decision making.
Pros
Qlik Sense is very well suited for companies without a proper data warehouse.
- It is fairing very well in sales analysis and KPI management.
- Mini QVDs can act like a mini data warehouse.
- It builds mini data warehouses.
- It's good for the merging of data.
- It connects well with other systems.
Cons
Qlik Sense is good for simple analytics. However, it is not that easy to set up "what if" scenarios, more advanced statistical analysis, and custom stuff.
- The coding of equations is quite complicated.
- Better customer service from sales.
- Better customer service help with solving problems with the tool and upgrades.
- Better user-friendliness for writing equations by the end-user.
Reasons for Choosing Qlik Sense
- Superior product - Advancement - More real time decision makingReasons for Switching to Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is very well suited for companies without a proper data warehouse.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Business Intelligence software
It provides beautiful, eye-catching dashboards with astounding functionality on navigation. It enables you to provide info the user needs and to personalize information depending on their requirements. The customer support is very good and responsive. A given report can be utilized as a base to make another report so it saves your time to convey necessary info in minimal time with top outcomes. It can handle datasets of larger size in comparison to other tools like power business intelligence and Tableau. It has made it easier to transform info tables into a graph, filter, pivot, etc.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.