What needs improvement with Qlik Sense?

In our company, we found a few requirements in the tool, which we directly shared with Qlik's team through our account manager. With the May 2024 release, the tool has covered a lot of products, but I feel there is more to come. I am expecting new updates in the tool. Qlik Sense requires one to have a lot of technical knowledge. It is an area where improvements can be made.

The communication with the solution's sales managers in Europe is not the best, making it an area that requires improvement. My company usually gets no response from the tool's sales managers. In Qlik Sense, some improvements are required in QMC since it hasn't improved much over the years. QMC is related to the management console, and though it works, it needs improvement. Some improvements in the data load editor should be considered. The load manager has different sections, and it should be possible for the user to deactivate/activate code by commenting/uncommenting at a section level.

Qlik Sense is not meant for writing something from the user interface, which is a major challenge because our company wants users to interact with the reports and to input some comments or data that should get stored into some database. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product. With Qlik Sense, there is a need for it to provide good performance because if there is a large volume of data, then its performance becomes slow. User interaction or user experience is not that great in that case if the data size or reports are huge. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product. Right now, we are trying to follow up with some best practices recommended by Qlik Sense, but to be honest, it is not helping us much because we have very large data in a single application, and we are struggling with it. The product should have an interactive and friendly user interface. The use of APIs is not as friendly as it should be in the first place, especially when considering Python scripts and all other scripts, making it an area where improvements are required. There should be some easy way to integrate the product with the aforementioned areas.

I would like to see improvements in the Qlik Sense SaaS version, particularly in the front-end capabilities. Currently, the visualization options are limited, allowing only basic actions like adding dimensions and measures with restrictions on the number. Compared to older products like QlikView, there is room for development in enhancing the features available on the front end for widgets and visualizations. Enhancing the formatting options in the SaaS component and making it more visually appealing would be a nice enhancement. Additionally, expanding the library with more versatile widgets would be beneficial. While you can add components from a marketplace or develop your own, there is a need for Java front-end developers to handle this aspect of Qlik Sense.

The reporting solution recently added to the latest Cloud version, since December or January, is not fully developed. The ability to use tabular reporting, like in dashboards, would be a great feature. So, tabular reporting needs development.

The product could be less expensive.

I'd like to see more end-user-friendly UI designs and the ability to layer objects one by one would make a huge impact.

I am not sure what improvements could be made. Qlik Sense is very user-friendly. The only thing I would like to see is the ability to create a master app that opens when a user creates a new app that has all the master items, colors, logos, etc., that my organization uses. This would help with keeping master items the same across the apps and would make development a little quicker. This feature would also make it easier for our business users when they want to create an app since they wouldn't need to worry about adding all the needed data sources to it, it they were already there, and they could just press load.

I'd like to see the following improvements: Improved Data Preparation and integration. Qlik Sense could include additional features for data preparation and integration, making it easier for users to clean, transform, and integrate data from various sources. Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning. Qlik Sense could include more advanced analytics and machine learning features, allowing users to build predictive models and perform advanced statistical analysis on their data. Enhanced Collaboration and Sharing. Qlik Sense could improve collaboration features, such as real-time collaboration and commenting on visualizations. It could also improve sharing capabilities, such as embedding visualizations and reports into external websites or applications. Mobile Optimization. Qlik Sense could include more mobile-optimized features, allowing users to access and analyze data on-the-go, on any device. Natural Language Processing. Qlik Sense could incorporate natural language processing (NLP) technology, allowing users to ask questions and receive answers in natural language, making data analysis more accessible to non-technical users. Improved Security and Governance. Qlik Sense could include additional features for data security and governance, such as more granular access controls, audit trails, and compliance reporting.

There are a lot of points to be improved. Mostly when it comes to the loading of the data and reload times of the reports, it could be better. Also, we got some feedback from the users in our company that say they would like to have some new features in the objects on the sheets of the reports. What is nice is that the tool has a lot of updates. Every few months, new stuff is available. That it is one of the most important aspects and why we have chosen this particular product for our business intelligence needs.

We are planning to move to Qlik SaaS to mitigate the below issues - * The app performance is a challenge for all users * Section access and other security parameters are complex * Managing the environment is a major task for company upgrades are not being leveraged to the recent releases * Regularly maintaining all the environments with the same version and implementations * Auto ML is a need as this will help businesses make data-driven decisions. * Use cases about salesforce embedding is critical * Real time data ingestion and automaton of the ETL are becoming important * Alerting and reporting for the business users for their analytics requirements is needed

What needs improvement in Qlik Sense is the support. It could be faster. My organization had already talked to Qlik management and has escalated multiple times, so management is looking into the support.

We need more types of visualizations. We'd like more integration of free extensions. Even though the solution is a self-service solution, many non-technical users still struggle to create their reports. Even though the solution is a self-service solution, many non-technical users still find it challenging to create their reports. Having a report publishing feature is also very important and is not native to the local version. I feel that more dynamic practice-oriented documentation is required that allows non-partner users to get to know the tool and learn about it. The latter also influences the point of self-service that I mentioned earlier. It would be good if the dynamics for constructing self-service reports oriented to non-technical functional users could be further improved.

Qlik application automation needs additional work and features. However, it is still a fairly new development. It appears it has been brought on to replace many of the Qlik management console's functionality for on-premise Qlik solutions. However, it lacks a lot of the same functionality. It is worth noting that it does have additional functionality in some areas compared to the Qlik Management Console. An interesting development to Qlik Application Automation would be the addition of functionality that allows writing to .qvd files.

Sometimes the refreshing it's not so updated. It's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to refresh sometimes. They're basically taking ten minutes or 15 minutes to refresh. It's got to refresh faster.

In my opinion, collaborative development of the Qlik Apps is a bit tricky and difficult in the Qlik Sense Cloud. For example, the developer who is not an owner of the app cannot see the app script. The user needs to duplicate the app, and then he should be able to see the app script or make any changes in the app script. I see that two developers can not work collaboratively on one app. Moreover, Qlik sense cloud does not provide an option to create a folder on the platform to save the relevant Qvd's/files in one folder. I believe this is something the product should focus on.

Ad-hoc reporting capabilities would be ideal. Despite the solution being a self-service solution, many users still struggle to create their reports. With an easy drag-and-drop style report, it would make a huge difference. There are extensions for that, however, you have to pay them separately. Having a report publication feature is also very important, and it is not native to the on-prem version. However, Qlik has made huge advancements on the cloud version, and adding the hybrid capabilities, in which we can maintain the data in-house and just publish the dashboards to the cloud, will allow us to soon go to the cloud and have access to all those extra features we are missing on-prem.

Areas for improvement include user-friendliness, self-service, and some of the visualization options for generating reports.

More focus needs to be on data streaming/real-time data reporting. This is currently too slow to use outside of very small data sets. More focus on CI/CD integration is needed. Having Dashboards stored as very static binary files does not lead itself well to the modern DevSecOps standards and processes. To compete with other tools in the sector, more focus on the commenting/feedback abilities of users would be beneficial. For example, at an object level, be able to have users add comments to certain data points that other users can view and also comment back on.

The product is easy to use and provides us with more than what we need. The data is incredibly easy to share with colleagues. There is no downside.

More pivot table options, like the ability to have the totals row at the bottom of the table, would be helpful.

The SaaS offering is being enriched quickly in order to attract new customers to that space and encouraging existing customers to make the switch. The Enterprise solution is therefore lagging behind SaaS in features. As such, the user needs to invest additional expenditure to ensure that all the services are available for the Enterprise solution. A lot of the features available in QlikView have now been introduced to Qlik Sense so it would be good to see that effort continue to go into developing front-end capability further still.

Error handling is an area that needs to be improved. There is not much help on that and some of the error messaging is not very helpful. On many occasions, we have struggled to figure out what's wrong, as the error message did not help and we had to go through the hoops of going to a Qlik partner and then going to the support. Provide some built-in functionality to migrate apps from one environment to another and make it easy for organizations that are pushing for self-service analytics. I would like to see them make the Hub better in terms of usability, like adding personal preferences, favorites, etc.

The augmented intelligence features don't work well for the analytical user. They are difficult to set up correctly and often don't generate anything insightful. The SaaS options often include these extra features and they are rolled out sooner and automatically. Unfortunately, this is not an option for my organization at this time. There have been updates that include some new chart times but it's still lacking some common modern ones.

We have faced some issues with NPrinting, so I feel there is some improvement needed such that it would allow the use of variables and calculative fields from Qlik. The reload error could be explained a bit more in detail, and if they can also include a debug mode in the load script while writing code, that could also advance the performance and minimize the effort. Lastly, if the Qlik Continuous Classroom could be available for free for trained users, that would be great.

Adding a process tree so that we can see task dependencies would be an improvement. The security rules should be made easier to use.

As a developer, the biggest area for improvement is in the realm of source control. If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it. Doing manual version control is error-prone and does not lend itself to simple rollbacks in many cases. One other area for improvement would be discoverability. There are a lot of advanced capabilities in Qlik that are not easily discovered. Even some of the more 'mundane' features are sometimes hard to find or require a fair amount of explanation before users can take full advantage of them.

Several things can be improved, including: * Ability to add and customize reference lines (average, linear regression, etc.) on all charts. * There are features of QlikView that have still not come to Qlik Sense. These include "Always one value selected", option buttons, and checkboxes with extended functionalities in the Qlik bundle. I am currently using an external plug-in for this, but its performance is poor. * Legends for charts that are being colored using a formula. * Ease to add company color palette to Qlik Sense dashboard. * The on-demand report generation button in Qlik Sense currently doesn't work if NPrinting requires Okta verification, which our company uses. So, we are not able to deliver this to our business users. This is a very powerful functionality and we want to use it!

The cost of the Qlik ecosystem is higher than other competitors. The license mechanism of Qlik is quite complicated and not exchangeable. Such as 2016, they charge licenses by token, 1500$ for a token / 1 user. 2018: they change to 2 kinds of licenses: professional 1500$ / user, analyzer 800$ / user. 2019: they support subscription with 70$ Monthly for professional, 40$ monthly for analyzers, but for those you’re using perpetual licenses, they don't support acquiring more subscription licenses. The maintenance fee yearly are also high, 20% of the perpetual license. Qlik dashboards are not friendly with end-users, but they have been enhancing this shorted in some recent releases and next releases hopefully.

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 position to gain the benefits of some powerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provides no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options.

Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size. This can be done with extensions, but without knowledge of JSON and/or HTML these can be difficult to use. We would like to add images using inherent Qlik Sense without the use of extensions.

I would like to see Qlik add more DevOps functionality to their product. Currently, we have to turn to 3rd party products to handle things like Source Control, Code Deployment through environments, etc. This should align with the DataOps focus Qlik has been moving towards with all of their latest acquisitions, such as Attunity and Podium. Without 3rd party products, managing code, promoting it from one environment to the next, rolling back code, allowing shared development workspaces, all are very challenging and manual with the out of the box solution.

The QMC needs more work. Some of the features should be available directly from the hub. Too many duplicates/publish. Intelli-sense when loading a stored qvd would help so much with remembering column names. The pop-up windows are too small when working in the QMC. There is no reason why all the front-end is responsive but the publish windows are too small for most app titles to show up completely. I wish you could work directly in a published app instead of having to duplicate it to your content then publish it again when done. I also wish you could create folders in your own content to make sorting your apps easier.

From the initial setup of the product, we had some struggles getting connections to some of our databases to function, this indicated that some of the data extract drivers can be improved and the addition of some of the older database engines needs to be added in Qlik Sense. One of the features that would add amazing value to us if we could have a mix of perpetual licenses and subscription licenses. This would give us the benefit to have less frequent users rather on a subscription license and use the perpetual licenses for frequent users.

The real-time capabilities need to be improved. What I mean is, the solution needs to have the ability to leave the data where it is. This is actually something that Qlik has been working to solve, however, traditionally, the way that 99% of Qlik customers use the product is in an offline data cache. This means data gets copied into Qlik, into this Associative In-Memory Engine and then the analysis can be done. Obviously, that means data is duplicated. It also requires a certain lead time, from the time the data is changed to when the data is available in Qlik. Traditionally, that was something that was a little bit of a hurdle for customers. My understanding is that Qlik is working on several features in this area. They acquired some new products. For example, they acquired a product called Utility in the last nine months or so, which has fixed the real-time data replication change, data capture, that type of thing. I don't think I can think of any new features it needs right now. The solution needs to make improvements to the licensing model. They need to make it more affordable at scale, and to make it more affordable for those companies at the low end of the market as well.

Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though. Moreover, I'd personally be delighted with a hover function over the certain buttons in an app, I'm sure it will soon be a part of the package like many other ideas coming directly from customers and developers.

Qlik Sense advertises itself as a more focused solution so that the end-user can carry out their own reporting, in contrast to its other Qlik View application, which would be for a use more directed at IT professionals who launch static reports that are then used by the entire organization. From my point of view, the possibility for end-users to make their own reports in Qlik Sense is limited to very advanced users who have deep knowledge of the application. I think that in this sense the application could be improved much more so that a less advanced user could get more out of it

The areas that we feel Qlik Sense can be improved are: * The administrator tools such as user sessions, active users, task sessions, and the ability to kill, provide insufficient power over what is happening on the platform. * There is an inability to effectively manage (pre)caching (scheduling, assigning for respective user groups, etc), especially without community extensions or your own development. There is simply no way to automate. * This solution needs inbuild versioning, backup, dependency analysis, and regression testing. * This is an imparity between Windows and Cloud versions with respect to functionality. * Shared development would be a helpful inclusion. * Core functionality delivered by extensions (Telemetry, CLI) is in need of improvement.

Performing data transformations required a lot of programming, which is something that should be made easier.

I would like to have the ability to better customize the visuals including changing fonts, sizing, colors, axes, and titles. Additional functionality would improve this solution.

We want the next version of this solution to be cloud-based so that each user can access it from anywhere in the world with their phone, tablet, or computer without a VPN connection. This is very important for us because we have an initiative called 'Cloud first', and in five years, all software must be in the cloud and easy to access. Essentially, we want to stop using a physical server and avoid on-premises maintenance.

It would be nice to have more native features from QlikView built into Qlik Sense. Better control over Pivot tables, which should be made more customizable especially in terms of Totals, would be an improvement.

We would like to have connectors without the need for the Web Connector service. Report generation without the need for NPrinting, which has limited capabilities anyway, would be an improvement.

Some of the charts are still a bit basic and screen rendering on different sized monitors can be an issue. It is also somewhat difficult to customize the charts with the opening and closing of the different panes, making it time-consuming.

As we are a very process-oriented company, we would like to see more extensions maintained from Qlik, because it's a huge budget problem to choose the right one. Also, a small set of Qlikview features would be appreciated (such as a simple PDF report directly from Qlik Sense...)

Currently, we are not very happy with the iPad or iPhone app because it is not working as we want. It is not very friendly and we very often have login errors. GeoAnalytics is getting better in each version, but from my point of view, GeoAnalytics has a lot of points to improve.

There is room for improvement in the learning curve when getting started, but training resources have been growing.

The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system. This would inspire the new development to be prioritized by the community so that the most requested features would come first. Power BI (Microsoft) currently uses this solution.

I would like to have support for table formats without having to use an extension.

I would like to see real-time data feed into the dashboard, or report, without any limitations. The new version upgrades should not contain bugs in the basic, required features. Advanced graphs or visualizations must be in the built-in product, instead of building with open API extensions or mashups.

The next version should include more standard integrations.

The only thing I would say that comes up is that sometimes it can be a bit buggy. The product updates that come out are fairly regular, which is always nice, but getting bugs here and there that you have to work around can be a bit of a pain at times. This can be taken into account by waiting for a month or two to see if any patches come out (much like with how you would treat Microsoft releases) but if you want to get the latest updates as soon as possible then you need to prepare yourself.

This solution would be improved by adding some Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) components that are easier to interpret and design. Maybe adding a module where we can drag and drop various models, test them in a sandbox, and test the outputs before putting them into production would be helpful.

A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers.

Better visualization options on charts such as pivot tables, and better control over total lines in the pivot and straight tables without the need to download extensions to accomplish this task.

* Real online analytics (OLAP) * Better implementation of map charts * Incremental data load solution for better time saving.

I believe that the area in which the product could be improved is the part related to programming and its language, which is certainly complex and still not very guided.

I would like for it to be more of a plug and play with all of the tools and sources. It would make it much easier to use. It should take less time to margin my reports and they should have reusability of existing data to make it easier for coding.

* More visualizations * Automated report delivery * Cross app data sharing * Easy app sharing options with specific users.

I am not really a fan of the set analysis. It's its own language that doesn't quite make a whole lot of sense to me at this point. I wish it were more intuitive.

* The management console appearance needs improvement to its look. * The navigation is quite clunky and outdated.