Qlik Sense
by QLIK TECHNOLOGIES INC. | Founded 1993, Lund, Sweden
Categories:
- Business Analytics Tools
- Big Data Analytics Tools
- Big Data Visualization Tools
- Business Intelligence Tools
- Cloud BI Solutions
- Data Analytics Software
- Data Cleaning Tools
- Data Discovery Tools
- Data Management Tools
- Data Preparation Software
- Data Warehouse Tools
- Diagram Software
- Ecommerce Analytics Software Tools
- Embedded Analytics Tools
- Enterprise Reporting Software
- HR Analytics Software
- OLAP Tools
- Predictive Analytics Software
- Qualitative Data Analysis Software
- Self-Service BI Tools
What is Qlik Sense?
Industry Specialties: Serves all industries
Qlik Sense is a self-service data analytics software that enhances human intuition with the power of artificial intelligence to enable better data-driven business decisions. It allows organizations to explore their data and create intuitive and compelling visualizations from data insights with drag-and-drop simplicity.
As the next-generation advancement of QlikView, released in 2014, it expands analytical possibilities to support the entire insights life cycle and helps businesses modernize their approach to intelligence. It has two editions: Business and Enterprise, offered on a per account annual subscription. Enterprises can choose between a hosted SaaS public cloud or multi-cloud, on-premise or private cloud deployment. Qlik Sense Business comes with a free 30-day trial. Its desktop version is available for free for personal use.
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Qlik Sense Pricing
Based on our most recent analysis, Qlik Sense pricing and cost details are described here:
- Price
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- Starting From
- $30
- Pricing Model
- Monthly, Quote-based
- Free Trial
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Training Resources
Qlik Sense is supported with the following types of training:
- Documentation
- In Person
- Live Online
- Videos
- Webinars
Support
The following support services are available for Qlik Sense:
- Phone
- Chat
- FAQ
- Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 Live Support
Product Information and Resellers
Qlik Sense Benefits and Insights
Why use Qlik Sense?
Key differentiators & advantages of Qlik Sense
- Stay Competitive: Get insights into internal operations, processes and profits, and monitor market trends. Build and publish apps; customize tables and charts as necessary without needing additional developmental work. Set benchmarks to track performance metrics across the organization. Choose where to direct resources and where to capitalize on profits by analyzing changes in empirical data.
- Find Answers Independently: Glean data results with an intuitive, self-service interface and code-free visual tools. Take in information at-a-glance and probe insights on the fly with data updated instantly with every click. Foster a data-driven culture to empower all employees to build collective knowledge. Share insights directly, both within and outside of the platform.
- Get Automated Visualization Recommendations: Leverages machine learning (ML) to gather information from customer insights and industry knowledge for a smarter, accelerated analytics experience. Receive automated context-aware insight suggestions, prioritized based on personalized criteria, as well as recommendations on visualization types.
- Deploy Flexibly: Deploy it anywhere — on-premise, in a single private cloud or across multiple clouds and everything in between — with the ongoing freedom to modify the infrastructure as business requirements change. Deploy seamlessly on the Kubernetes cluster running in the public or private cloud.
- Scale As Business Grows: Scale while maintaining consistent performance, fast response times, reliability and security. Deploy consistent, predictable self-service BI at scale — start with Business and seamlessly upgrade to Enterprise as business needs evolve. Test performance and scalability with free tools available on the Community webpage.
- Get Insights On the Go: Access all features anywhere on any device, with the same functionality, either through a responsive HTML5 based client that adapts to web and mobile browsers or the native mobile app. Ensure a consistent, unrestricted experience of self-service BI on the go, enhanced by native mobile push notifications.
- Upgrade from QlikView: Unlock significant business value, gain more control over the platform and future-proof for the digital age through self-paced adoption. Seamlessly upgrade from QlikView to Qlik Sense at a fraction of the cost. Opt for a subscription or perpetual licensing model with SaaS or client-managed on-premises deployment.
- Globalization Support: Supports fifteen languages and currency conversions natively and detects which language to use based on the operating system and browser.
- Security: Secure proprietary information through data encryption at rest, with the industry-standard AES-256 GCM as the encryption algorithm. Generates periodic reports on CPU and RAM usage metrics. View necessary data with row and column-level permissions through login-specific section access.
- Value-Added Products: Add extra features such as conversational analytics, data indexing, location-based analytics and more through value-added products like Qlik NPrinting, Qlik Big Data Index, Qlik Insight Bot, Qlik DataMarket and Qlik GeoAnalytics.
- Regular Updates: The vendor releases updates five times a year.
Industry Expertise
Qlik helps enterprises of all sizes in all industries transform business data into actionable insights. Their industry solutions span a wide range of expertise that includes healthcare, retail, financial services, marketing, sales, manufacturing, the public sector, high tech, energy, communications, utilities, life sciences and consumer products.
Qlik Sense Reviews
Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Qlik Sense:
Synopsis of User Ratings and Reviews
Based on an aggregate of Qlik Sense reviews taken from the sources above, the following pros & cons have been curated by a SelectHub Market Analyst.
Pros
Cons
Researcher's Summary:
Qlik Sense is a powerful cloud-based BI application that performs quick and insightful analytics. Its associative engine and in-memory processing enable remarkably fast queries and analyses. Most users are satisfied with its data analysis and data visualization functions. They cite the tool’s ability to unearth deep connections between data points and display them in interactive, responsive visualizations, accessible from all devices. It excels in connecting to large data sets, as several reviewers note. Featuring drag-and-drop functionality, the platform is user-friendly; though some reviewers note it’s still less simple to use than some competitors’ solutions, and writing scripts and queries can be difficult. While it’s a strong analysis tool overall, it has a high learning curve to unlock its more powerful features; users can find this difficult to overcome due to lack of good training material, especially videos. As such, businesses with IT resources might find this tool more useful.
On the flip side, many users say customizing visualizations is difficult or impossible. The solution lacks a number of desired features, and depends on plug-ins from the older QlikView offering to add functionality. However, these plug-ins can incur additional costs or sometimes lack compatibility with Qlik Sense. Additionally, small to medium-sized businesses might find the pricing models to be restrictive. Some users find it difficult to configure security capabilities, and version control isn’t available. Users mention it’s difficult to export information to share with others or use in presentations.
Overall, even with its drawbacks, Qlik Sense is an extremely capable platform that offers a myriad of fast and powerful data analysis and visualization capabilities worth consideration.
Key Features
- Multi-Node Architecture: Deploys a modular architecture ubiquitously – on physical hardware, virtual platforms and cloud environments with horizontal and vertical scaling. Scales linearly with the addition of every extra node, thanks to in-memory processing, to accommodate twice the number of users. Ensures efficient load-balancing by distributing applications onto specific nodes.
- Data Connectivity: Pull and combine data from all sources, including databases, files, spreadsheets, websites, sources that connect through standard ODBC, OLE DB or REST APIs, big data lakes, cloud-based and on-premise applications and custom sources. Supports native integrations with popular technology partners, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Salesforce and SAP.
- In-Memory Storage: Leverages columnar storage to provide significant data compression, more data in RAM and faster response times. Stores unique entries only once and presents data relationships as pointers.
- Data Mining: Identify hidden patterns in vast data sets and detect outliers through exploration, statistical analysis and ML-based algorithms. Get interactive, self-service visualizations, and search and calculation results at runtime with its associative, in-memory data indexing engine.
- Self-Service Data Preparation: Get AI-powered recommendations to combine, visually transform and ingest data from multiple sources. Surface complex data relationships through techniques like associative indexing. Organize and enrich data to make it more suitable for analysis.
- User Environment: Develop applications, create content through easy drag-and-drop and consume data insights with the Hub, its web browser interface. The Qlik Sense Management Console enables administrators to manage data connectivity, application and task management, security administration, monitoring and auditing.
- Responsive Design: Build and deploy to any platform, thanks to current standards of HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and web sockets. Automatically display and resize visualizations to fit any device, be it a browser, laptop, desktop, tablet or smartphone.
- Data Visualizations: Create smart visualizations based on chart suggestions, allowing for search, drill-down, zoom out and filter actions. Transform information from complex data sets into beautiful, digestible dashboards and charts. Present data in the form of bar and area charts, grid charts, heat maps, multi KPI charts, Sankey charts, Word Cloud charts and more.
- Interactive Dashboards: Design and distribute dashboards on which every element is interactive, encouraging viewers to dive in and explore data for themselves. Enhance interactivity with drill-down, tooltip, filtering, lasso selection, range selection and more visualization capabilities.
- Reporting: Drag and drop line items from a basic report view into custom visualizations on the fly without needing extra development work.
- Qlik NPrinting: Build canned reports using QlikView documents and Qlik Sense apps in Microsoft Office, PDF and web formats.
- Shared Insights: Share reports on-demand or set the delivery frequency through an email client. Subscribe to receive specific reports or access them from a specified folder location or the Qlik Sense Hub.
- Predictive Analysis: Predict what is likely to happen and decide what to do in the future with scenario and what-if analysis. Integrates with the KNIME Analytics platform to import data and export reports in a variety of formats that include CSV, XML, XLSX, JSON and more.
- Embedded Analytics: Add custom visualizations, data sources and reports into portals, applications, intranet and extranet sites through API integration. Or embed the platform into users’ workflows in the host applications. Integrates with edge-computing devices to analyze data where it lives. Supports embedded multi-tenancy with row-level security (RLS) to isolate tenant data.
- Streaming Analytics: Automatically integrates streaming data in real time across a wide range of databases, data warehouses and big data platforms through Qlik Replicate.
- IoT Analytics: Analyze data collected by IoT devices such as sensors on manufacturing equipment, trucks, pipelines, weather stations, smart meters and more.
- Collaborative Storytelling: Share interactive data stories that leverage live data, time-based snapshots and engaging visual effects. Interact on data insights with others by adding snapshots, narrative and context into analytics workflows, and tag and invite team members to discussions. Capture and share data dashboards within the enterprise community, contributing to the organization’s collective intelligence.
- Insights as a Service (IaaS): Query business data and discover insights through natural language processing and conversational analytics. Identify spike anomalies by analyzing patterns in historic data.
- Ask the Insight Bot a question and instantly receive relevant visualizations, insights, recommendations and links. Integrates seamlessly with many favorite messaging and collaboration tools like Slack, Salesforce, Skype and Microsoft Teams.
- Smart Search helps search across the entire data set within an application.
- Forecasting: Leverage advanced calculation and machine learning through engine-level sharing with third-party tools such as R. Make predictions using time series analysis of historical and near real-time data through an extension, Vizlib Line Chart.
- Animations: View changes in datasets over a range of values through animation. Display specific values by picking them manually on a progress slider on the sheet.
- Hub Spaces: Develop apps collaboratively and share them with others in the same space. Store and reuse data files and connections across various spaces and control access through strict permissions.
- Built-In Data Alerts: Get alerts for outliers and data anomalies based on advanced statistical calculations and complex logic. Request context-aware alerts for data that matters through self-service configuration, or get data-related broadcasts at the enterprise level.
- Web Connectors: Extract all data that includes a specific search term from Twitter. Get content metrics — likes and shares for comments and posts in the page feed — for multiple Facebook pages. Track statistics for YouTube videos that include channel comments, shares and downloads.
Limitations
At the time of this review, these are the limitations according to user feedback:
- Can’t install on Linux and Mac OS.
- Doesn’t provide dashboard and report templates.
- Doesn’t offer powerful reporting functionality.
- Doesn’t offer much control over visualization design.
Suite Support
Before reaching out to support, go through the product documentation, knowledge base and the community forum for answers to queries and self-paced resolution of issues. Support is available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Friday EST.
Sign up for Signature Success for access to personalized onboarding and training, a dedicated customer success manager, 24/7 coverage for critical issues, priority case handling and guidance on releases and upgrades. Get assistance with business practices, installation, security, implementation, project management and more with the vendor’s consulting services.
mail_outlineEmail: Not specified.
phonePhone: 1-877-754-5843.
schoolTraining: Go through the onboarding “Get Started” step-by-step guide available on the community forum. Sign up for self-paced and instructor-led courses — virtually as well as onsite — on the Continuous Classroom learning platform for free or for a fee. Developers can also pursue specialized Custom Application Training with a learning consultant and instructional designer, customized training videos and a best practices launch kit.
local_offerTickets: Submit a technical support request by logging in to the support portal.
Cost of Ownership
License/Subscription Cost | On-Premise:
Cloud-Based/SaaS:
Cost may vary depending on the Qlik Sense Pricing plan selected:
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Maintenance Cost | On-Premise: Maintenance cost is over and above the upfront fee
Cloud-Based/SaaS: Maintenance cost is included in the service fees charged at the time of purchase
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Installation/Implementation Cost | On-Premise: Included in the upfront cost/subscription cost
Cloud-Based/SaaS: None
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Customization Cost | For both on-premise and cloud-based/SaaS, customization costs vary depending on the product and pricing tier chosen, and the level of customization requiredCosts will vary depending on the package selected
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Recurring/Renewal Costs | On-Premise: Annual recurring fees to be paid over and above the upfront cost include annual renewal, upgrades and ongoing support
Cloud-Based/SaaS: A recurring monthly fee is charged, which typically includes maintenance, monitoring, upgrades, training and support
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Valued-Added Benefits
How Copley Consulting Group adds value to Qlik Sense
- Depth of Experience: Copley’s business analytics expertise focuses solely on Qlik, including Qlik Sense. The reseller has received the highest accreditation from Qlik as an Elite Partner and offers decades of experience in leveraging Qlik’s platform to accelerate business value with data and drive data transformation for their clients.
- Flexible Implementation Options: The Copley Consulting Group collaborates closely with clients in developing their deployment strategies. It helps clients structure an individualized implementation approach that works best for them, including self-managed, full turnkey and hybrid options.
- Structured Deployment Methodology: Provides a blueprint for success through a personalized, structured deployment methodology, using Qlik to deliver answers to their clients’ problems.
- Program Management: Copley helps develop a formalized approach to program management, execution and reporting based on detailed budgets, scheduled tasks and activities specifically developed for each engagement.
- Vertical and Micro-Vertical Focus: The Copley Consulting Group brings its demonstrated competencies in specific vertical market sectors and micro-vertical segments, such as its State, Local and Education (SLED) practice which has achieved great success in a variety of state agencies such as those in Departments of Health, Human Services, Transportation and more, as well as K-12 and higher education institutions.
- Data Transparency: Copley's SLED clients are able to promote data transparency through embedded, interactive analytics that allow interested parties to query data on public websites.
- Technical Excellence: Copley’s team of data specialists makes their technical acumen accessible to their clients, assisting them in understanding how to unify, cleanse and secure their data, building a stable foundation for accessing and mining data. The reseller helps customers evaluate their platform’s data source integrations, implementation, data security and more, and ultimately understand how to maximize the value of their data investment.
Industry Expertise
The Copley Consulting Group has a 30-year history of serving clients in diverse public and private sectors, with experience in deploying Qlik for mission-critical applications in life science, aerospace and defense, high tech and general manufacturing operations, among others. The reseller has assisted hundreds of companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, in digitally transforming their data.
Support and Services
Data Strategies: Copley offers consulting and advisory services to help Qlik clients with program management, the definition of critical business needs, increasing productivity and developing strategies for data integration, big data, data lakes and the security and governance of data.
Qlik Help Desk and Support: For technical support, users may fill out the support ticket on Copley's support page, call 855-884-5305 or email qliksupport@copleycg.com. Copley provides Help Desk and Support Services to their clients, offering resources and timely answers regarding functional and technical questions as they arise during and after deployment. With their expertise in Qlik, the reseller serves as the initial support vehicle for any challenges their clients face and has priority access to vendor support to augment and resolve client issues.
Advice: Copley’s Qlik-certified team of instructors aims to empower users with self-sufficiency in Qlik Analytics through formalized, on-site classroom training, virtual online training, hands-on workshops or customized training programs.
Hosting & Managed Services: In addition to supporting the SaaS-based Qlik offerings, the reseller offers hosting and managed services for those operations desiring to off-load IT responsibilities to a third party.
Value-Added Benefits
How CHAMPS Analytics adds value to Qlik Sense
- Cost Savings: Reduce wastage with a clear view of spending and profit margins through live reporting and analytics. Build client trust by consistently providing reliable data.
- SaaS Deployment: Deploy securely and reliably in the cloud with high availability.
- Data Aggregation: Derive actionable intelligence from workforce management, scheduling, ERP and inventory systems. Optimize work schedules by consolidating large data volumes from CMMS systems.
- Business Predictions: Gain visibility into company data by collecting it in one place. Perform demand planning, sales and operations forecasting with data you can trust.
- Focus on Action: Effectively target leads with in-depth insights. Track company sales performance by keeping KPIs front and center. Train employees using the achievement metrics of top performers.
Industry Expertise
CHAMPS Analytics provides Qlik deployments to clients in many industries in North America and globally. These include nuclear power, energy, farm equipment, wastewater treatment, medical devices, processed foods manufacturers, aerospace, defense, semiconductors and manufacturing.
Support and Services
Training: Foundation-level training with certification is available.
Post-implementation Support: The vendor offers remote and onsite support after deployment.