I've been an user for many years and also a developer that's working as a consultant. I use Qlik to develop apps to extract, load, and transform data from different sources and then use this data to make apps for different departments in my organization.
I am a consumer of this data as well, as I work for the Controlling Department. We also use NPrinting to send reports to different people in the organization and this saves us a lot of time on manual tasks.
We extract data from: SAP, SQL DB, Excels, Success Factors, Sharepoint, Oracle, and more.
Qlik Sense is highly used in my organization as it helps our users to derive insights from the data accurately.
The visualization objects in Qlik Sense are really good and interactive and help my users to get an understanding of the whole story behind the data.
Unlike query-based BI tools, the associative model of Qlik Sense has helped them a lot in deriving insights and metrics for the business. Also, it has helped to reduce the time consumed in doing complex reports and sending them to different people.
Qlik Sense has a lot of features that I find valuable.
It's easy to use. As a user, you can learn the basics very quickly and they provide you with free material that makes it easy to learn.
As a developer the tool is easy to learn as well. They keep making improvements to make it easier for users to make their own reports without knowing too much about coding.
You can accurately manage a large volume of data in less time.
Qlik Sense uses an in-memory data model.
It can read a wide range of different sources.
The visualizations are good and keep improving.
The customer support is very good.
I would love to see some improvements in the following areas:
- They need to make it easy to generate documentation of apps, giving information about legacy.
- They need to make security rules to access applications and data security easier and customizable.
- I would love it if they could make a "recycle bin" as users sometimes may delete an app and then cannot recover it unless they have made a backup of the server recently.
- There needs to be better pricing options for on-premises clients Right now, they are focusing more on SaaS.
- NPrinting needs more enhancements in its configuration and error handling.
I've used the solution for more than five years.
We've never had problems with stability due to the fact that we use an on-premises deployment.
The scalability is very good.
Technical support is very good and quite fast; they have always provided help when I needed it.
We did not use a different solution previously.
It's really easy to install and they make it easier each year.
In some companies yes, we did get help and they were very capable.
We have not measured ROI.
I'd advise that users always try to have more RAM than they think they will need to make it easier to expand in the future. This also applies for CPU cores.
Really Very helpful review. I would like to know Real Time data capabilities how Qlik Sense helping to business users and Technical Person. I have been using Qlikview around 6 years but whenever we compared with Qlik to Other BI like Power BI and Tableau they are having good real time data capabilities