Qlik Sense

Pros: Visual appearance (e.g. compared to Power BI - it's much more appealing)

Cons: Your possibilities and "custom" settings of visuals are limited and much worse (e.g. comparing to Power BI). You can do only a few pre-defined appearance/behavior changes to your visuals (unless you want to JavaScript your own extensions..)

Pros: Qlik sense can be easily modified to create custom objects such as widgets and mashups.

I also like the way it can easily be used to explore data from multiple sources all in one single app.

Another thing is the ability to use it on mobile apps.

Cons: The only con I can think of it that, while it's an easy tool to use, there's an initial learning curve before you get used to it

Pros: I really like the amazing interface that provides organized data using dashboards. It is necessary to have a tool for all kinds of analysts dealing with many data, as it provides a simple but powerful way to get an idea of the business. Most analytical software packages take quite a long time while this platform took less than 2-3 hours to feel some kind of skill over creating a dashboard. You do not need to contact technical support for information about using the product. First, call your sales representative and see if you can get one of the technical experts in your location to help you find out about the products. The support is also quite strong, and online forums already have a lot of information and questions. The program supports many standard data sources. I recommend everyone to try Qlik Sense, this is an excellent solution that is suitable for companies of any size, it is very easy to integrate, deploy and configure, and most importantly the price is very good.

Cons: There are limitations with some mapping (It is impossible to show ""streaming"" cards between the source and the receiver), but in general the software provides ample opportunities for most graphic and visual needs. Security rules can be very large, because they require the creation of scripts. Developers do not always know how to show a date that allows business analysts to make maximum use of the program.

Pros: Qlik Sense is a lot easier to pick up and get going with than QlikView, but has most of the same underlying capabilities and benefits. It is also more of a self-service tool for business analysts as there's less technical skill required to build charts/graphs in Qlik Sense.

Cons: Qlik Sense is great, but to get the real power from it, you still need to learn Qlik's scripting language. It doesn't have quite the same level of functionality that QlikView has, but is catching up quickly. If you're dealing with large volumes of data, the hardware requirements can be quite large.

What do you like best?

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Recommendations to others considering the product

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Pros: It allows us to analyse data in ways that other packages were not capable of. You can produce some really visually impressive visuals and they are really easy for the end user to interact with. The software performs really well and navigation is really smooth.

Cons: The advanced capabilities come at the cost of being fairly difficult to use. It is recommended to work with a partner to get some expert advice in implementation. The server software is fairly resource intensive too. Some of the addon software is very expensive.

Overall: A great product for if you have some fairly advanced BI requirements.

Pros: What I like most about Qliksense is the ease in which you can portray the information, also the duplicate function helps you to customise your sheet until you like it over and over again.

Also it's really easy to convert an information table into a pivot, graph (any kind), filter, etc.

Also the export feature as well as the filter can help you greatly to get just the information you want in the format you want.

Cons: Sadly when you work with a lot of information lines or put to much formulas into a report it will limit how you can export it (you have to filter by parts to get the full report) or it will not show the information and you will have to filter the overall report to just visualise the information you need.

Overall: Thanks to Qliksense we are able to provide easily the information the user wants and to personalise it depending on their needs. Sometimes a given report can be used as base to create another which saves you time to deliver critical information in the least amount of time with the best results.

Pros: Ease of use, useability

Dynamic list of features and functions

Visualization improvements from QV, prior versioning (including geoanalytics / maps)

Cons: It was slightly more difficult for some of our users to learn than other competitors, however, I personally like it overall the best for data visualization tools available today

Overall: I work for a consulting company and one of our specialities is creating custom QS applications for our clients.

What I've seen from QS since I've joined the firm is a very powerful application that can make it easy for technical and business executives alike to adopt to and grow to rely on for making business decisions with their data.

Pros: unique dashboards, accurate data, data vizulaiation

Cons: large data recovery exporting is a problem sometimes

Overall: presenting accurate data to the management, unique dashboards are helpful to analyse and forecast the future sales data and other reports

Pros: Visually much more slick that Qlikview, and the screen layout is much more dynamic and intelligent. New visualisations are keeping up with the times.

Cons: Ironically the intelligent layout system that I like so much does limit the amount of visualisations that can fit on a particular screen.