Qlik Sense Room for Improvement

HT
Solution Architect at HSBC

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.

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Jennifer Sinn - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Pekin Insurance Company

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.

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Bruno Preti - PeerSpot reviewer
Direttore Progetti Speciali - Product Business Manager QLIK & Microsoft at Aldebra Spa

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.

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Buyer's Guide
Qlik Sense
April 2024
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Paweł Świadek - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Designer at Hapag Lloyd AG

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. 

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NA
BI & EIS Manager at Almarai Company Limited

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.

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Edgar Olmos Ascanio - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Intelligence Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have used this tool for more than 12 years. I did more than 1,000 Qlik applications (extractions, transformations, and dashboards).

I used this tool to analyze information in a lot of different kinds of companies, retail, laboratories, government, banks, goods, etc.

Qlik can be used in small, medium, and large companies.

I am starting to work with Qlik Sense SaaS these days. This environment has its own reporting service, however, one of the things that could be better for the people that are already using Nprinting, is to have a Nprinting in SaaS.

I'd like to see in SaaS some of the things that are running (best practices) in Qlik Sense. On-premise, if things are not working well I need to rebuild some parts of the dashboard. It would be useful to have some tool to analyze the dashboard before you do a migration.

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Surendra Kumar Podugu - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analytics Manager at Novartis Pharmaceuticals

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.                     

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Piyush Gaud - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Manager at We Love X GmbH

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.

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LD
IS Sr Reporting Specialist at Community Health Network of Connecticut, Inc.

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. 

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Ian Hume - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Business Intelligence Developer at Energetics

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.

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RahulGupta6 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate General Manager at HCL Technologies

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
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LesCampbell - PeerSpot reviewer
Audit Data Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

There is room for improvement in the storytelling mode and the report sharing. Qlik Sense also does not have a subscription base like Power BI. So a lot of the analysis is housed in community pages that are managed by either the author or a database administrator, or whoever the Qlik Sense manager is there. It doesn't lend itself to being shared quite easily, because it requires licensing for viewers to consume.

I would also like to see a PowerPoint integration introduced. Power BI, for example, offers a slide deck that can be downloaded and inserted it into your deck. I'm referring to Power BI because that's what I use the most and that's the standard for me. Tableau has this integration in addition to a superior visualization tool. I think Qlik Sense has a better engine than all the three that I've mentioned, but in regards to sharing the analysis, it's clunky; it's not as good.

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Steve C - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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PR
BI Consultant at dolphin consulting

They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc. 

I really like the new UI, which is sadly similar to Power BI. Why is there a simple mode for something that is simple at the beginning? I would add more capabilities first into advanced mode. Pixel-perfect solutions are still required, yet not possible in Qlik right now.

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Prashant Baste - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Solution Architect at Team Computers

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

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KT
Manager - Enterprise Analytics & Business Intelligence at Meritor

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.

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MS
IS Application Programming Manager at COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK OF CONNECTICUT INC

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.

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Fernando Tonial - PeerSpot reviewer
Arquiteto de dados at Toccato Tecnologia em Sistemas

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.

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Franz Grubmüller - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Manager at ELIN GmbH

What would help is an Excel sheet that is linked directly to Qlik Sense so that instead of having to produce an Excel file, you would already have an Excel file that is connected to Qlik Sense. I don't know why it is not already set up this way because it would be more convenient. Right now, it is complex and you have to understand the data model prior to analyzing it, so basically I would like to see an integration with Excel in the future.

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DE
Global Solutions and Data Innovation Manager at MAYBORN GROUP LIMITED

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.

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it_user724317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, BI Strategy and Architecture at PayPal

Qlik's data handling could still use some strengthening, flexibility, and overall improvement. As a long-time data architect, I cannot overly stress how much the product could be improved by the addition of a more powerful data engine.

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MK
Sr Data Analyst at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

There is room for improvement in some ways of increasing the power of visualization. The current visualization features feel incomplete compared to what's available with scripting tools.

The current visualizations feel limited. They lack the variety and richness needed for diverse applications. I'd appreciate more options for visually representing data.

More customization options would be very welcome.

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ML
Business Intelligence Developer at Bonduelle SAS

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.

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SD
Safety Data Analyst at Novo Nordisk

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.

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PF
Business Analyst at H-Hotels.com

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.

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it_user38577 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Global IT Architecture at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Ability for the administrator to approve Community Sheets in the QMC and then move them into base sheets.

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NB
IT Manager at a reseller with 51-200 employees

1. Qlik Sense (as for ver 3.1) is still missing some key functionality that Qlikview has.

2. Qlik has a fast learning curve due to great online training resources (Qlik continuous classroom), but those are lacking the advance features like building extensions and using the API.

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reviewer1412682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Management Specialist at Marsh Limited

Several things can be improved, including:

  1. Ability to add and customize reference lines (average, linear regression, etc.) on all charts.
  2. 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.
  3. Legends for charts that are being colored using a formula.
  4. Ease to add company color palette to Qlik Sense dashboard.
  5. 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!
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TP
Director de administración at Agrosana Servicios Agrícolas SL

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

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MG
Analytics Technician at Eurofragrance, S.L.

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.
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PV
Co-Owner at Alvarium

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.

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JV
Senior Software Engineer at Ingram Content Group

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.

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it_user668088 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Supply Chain Services Operations at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If Qlik can further unify its products into a single platform, there would be no stopping them!

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OM
Head Of Business Intelligence at Israel InterUniversity Computation Center

Adding a process tree so that we can see task dependencies would be an improvement.

The security rules should be made easier to use.

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Adam Abwat-Johnson - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Developer at Soak.com

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.

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reviewer1101450 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a university with 10,001+ employees

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. 

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AM
Pre-Sales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

None at the moment. Qlik Sense for me combines the power of QlikView and the ease of use of Tableau.

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KB
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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TS
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at LA JOLLA GROUP, INC

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.  

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AS
Solutions Architect at Pekin Insurance Company

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.

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DJ
Corporate ERP Manager at BEA Europe

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.

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TL
BI Project manager at Fixit Gruppe

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...)

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SP
Works

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.

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it_user632943 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Multi-server deployment: not just cloud, but on premise too, and hybrid. Needs lighter protocols to communicate between the different services and with the clients.

Multi-server computing: the QIX engine is still "limited" to the power of one single computer. While this power increases with better CPUs and bigger and faster memories, data demands even faster handling, only achievable by leveraging on several computers to crunch the numbers.

Data sources connectivity, natively: Drivers tailored to how Qlik processes data and how the sources provide it.

Governance: On the reactive side, see how each node in my development is doing, on the proactive side the ability to spin up new instances for the different needs in different moments (extraction, or data handling in memory or report distribution). Have a unique, central library of apps, but also measures and dimensions which can be used across the different sets of apps. Natively built in tools to analyze who is accessing where, when, providing better insights on apps seldom used and those who are massively accessed, and allowing to provision resources and make these apps more accessible and improve the user experience.

Licensing: Review the named model and move towards a usage model (e.g., cores, memory, computers, API calls, etc.).

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it_user421155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Engineer - QlikView/Qlik Sense at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It needs to allow for customization of the dashboard objects and tabs. They should add more chart options, which are still very limited. You have to use a lot of APIs to make up for the limitations. Also, I’d like to see live connections.

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FerranGarcia - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Red Hat

The product could be less expensive.

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Marco Antonio Sanchez Bustos - PeerSpot reviewer
Genral manger at Solintegra AS

The scripts available in the solution are not great and could be improved. Additionally, the setup should be more straightforward.

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Wilson Vargas Martinez - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultor BI at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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.

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WJ
HOD Analytics Department at OneLogix (Pty) Ltd

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.

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JA
Business Development/Medical Economics at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

Trending percentage volume over time in a new way, instead of using multiple pie charts, just have a percent scale and line that shows the percent change over time.

The ability to free form visualizations without coding, I know it is a tall order.  There is so much right about Qlik Sense that it is hard to ask for improvements.  

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DS
Operations Officer Team Leader at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

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. 

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ER
Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Qlik Sense is working very well on going to low code and development. They are trying to make their environment more user-friendly. However, the training is not free. When you want to learn more about the tool, sometimes you need to pay for the training. This does not make sense to me because training should be free because the more you learn about the tool the more you use it and the more you are loyal to the company and want to continue usage.

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MR
Project Engineer - Overhead Lines at University of South Africa

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

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it_user123129 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Visalization Architect at MSD

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.
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it_user123936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Programmer Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
  • Better data integration
  • Real ETL capabilities, such as storing end results data into a database instead of a proprietary file system

As of today, QlikView and QlikSense are only capable of storing the end result/staging data to a proprietary file (QVD).  No other tool, outside of Qlik, is able to read these files.

The tools perform very well but there is the inconvenience of being bound to only use Qlik tools in order to read your data.

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AK
BI Specialist at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

It needs a more robust way to connect and share the "big-data" origin. It also needs an easy-to-develop interface for creating new charts and tools in business dashboards.

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AP
Data Analyst Manager at Ho Chi Minh Securities Corporation

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.

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it_user864747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategy & Solutions Manager at Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation

It needs continued improvement on its visualizations and content customization. I would also like to more easily themed environments. 

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it_user491040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Support at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Possibly offering some more basic, simpler templates. We have some users who have some technical proficiency but others who may just want to create a simple graph or pie chart from the data they have been given. It would be nice to be able to break down the templates by user type: beginner, intermediate, or advanced. Therefore, the administrator can allow the end-user some flexibility based on their technical knowledge. This should allow the user to have more control over how they would like to see the data they need and be able to understand it easily.

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it_user38577 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Global IT Architecture at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Enables the approval of community sheets in QMC.

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it_user668328 - PeerSpot reviewer
P&C Underwriting Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

This tool is difficult for novices. You really have to have a good understanding of set analysis to put together a polished product.

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reviewer1246062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Providing the same basic capabilities as its competitors - such as an easy setup of colors, pixel-perfect reporting (if needed), better control of visual behavior of visualizations (currently legend and axis names are missing based on screen resolution), et cetera, is needed. 

They need much better server management. Currently, even a single application can crash the whole server. 

They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness. 

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DL
Application Specialist at Queensland Health

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

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LA
Sr Business Intelligence Analyst at Tampa General Hospital

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.

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it_user672036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Analyst at Rockford Orthopedic Associates, LTD.

There are still some functionalities that have not carried over from QlikView, but it is getting close. From where it was a few years ago to today is a dramatic improvement. 

Better searching capabilities would be a nice addition. 

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PN
Data Analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Making it as user friendly as possible
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it_user853770 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Application Development Manager at BorgWarner Inc.

Data modelling automation needs improvement. 

There are some tools like Alteryx, which are used for data preparation. These features can be built into Qlik to make the process smoother.

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it_user667326 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Research Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
  • More options in the non-scripting data load
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JT
Manager Business Intelligence at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

Set analysis "language" leaves a lot to be desired; non-technical users wanted full features but would get bogged down trying to set up expressions, requiring unplanned help.

Visuals change when exported; not compatible with other products other than Qlik.

Must have Qlik tools to use Qlik files.

I’m referring to the script expressions in the visualizations. Explaining or working through something like below to an everyday user was tedious, and time consuming. Plus, it did not leverage the skillset of our developers, and switching gears from our working environment (SQL Server, Visual Studio) to a Qlik scenario was a real pain.

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PR
BI Consultant at dolphin consulting

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.

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DT
Project Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts.

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TA
Data Analyst at Qosina Corp.

I wish the product had the ability for slightly more customization. The out-of-the box charts and visualizations are fantastic, but I want to be able to tweak it without having to add outside extensions and widgets.  

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it_user672036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Analyst at Rockford Orthopedic Associates, LTD.

Visually, Qlik Sense has some bugs that prevents the user from being able to customize fonts and certain layouts. When a total column is added it bolds the second column instead of the total column. It looks poor from a presentation standpoint. Additionally, you cannot customize the font type, color, or size.

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it_user665919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Intelligence Manager at a pharma/biotech company

The "vanilla" Qlik Sense tool is limited in some areas. There are extensions for nearly everything; however, it comes at a cost if you still want to be sure these extensions still work after a Qlik update.

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JF
Works

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

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it_user872292 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a financial services firm
  • The management console appearance needs improvement to its look.
  • The navigation is quite clunky and outdated.
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it_user852765 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Director at Tanimura & Antle Fresh Foods

The product is constantly being improved upon.

I would like to see more native features from QlikView integrated into Qlik Sense.

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JL
Managing Director at B2IT

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.

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it_user667338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Business Intelligence at Bridgehampton National Bank (BNB)

Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application.

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it_user667338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Business Intelligence at Bridgehampton National Bank (BNB)
  • Font management
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ED
Founder, CEO, & President at Krystal Sekurity

Being able to share and modifying on the fly can be improved.

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reviewer1109886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

The next version should include more standard integrations.

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PM
Senior BI Systems Analyst at PTC
  • More visualizations 
  • Automated report delivery 
  • Cross app data sharing 
  • Easy app sharing options with specific users.
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GA
Works at radical

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.

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reviewer1116270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

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.

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CW
Managing Director at aufinia consulting

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

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BR
Works

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.

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it_user867504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
  • Bookmarking
  • Data load screen
  • More real-time analysis, like Power BI
  • Easier ways to push data into product for viewing second-by-second data.
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it_user545430 - PeerSpot reviewer
Capacity Analyst at a security firm with 10,001+ employees

Training resources in print.

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JP
Operations and Delivery Leader at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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reviewer931206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user855171 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at Teachers Credit Union

Ultra-customization: It needs no limits on which charts can have x amount of dimensions, y amount of measures, z amount of color expressions, etc. Sometimes, it is frustrating when I want to add a field to an existing chart, only to find that it cannot be added and it requires a new chart type.

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it_user167142 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The one thing that I'd like to see added is the ability to store back data into the database based on the selections a user has made. For example, if I have segmented my consumers by certain dimensions using the dashboard, I'd like to be able to store my selected segments directly to the database instead of having to export the list out via PDF or XLSX.

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PE
Commercial Business Analyst at Asilia Africa

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.

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it_user469104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

It would be nice to have a better system for help tickets than a community forum. sometimes you just want some answers from someone who works for the company itself.

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it_user868080 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at L&T Infotech

Qlik Sense should have a conversion tool which automatically converts QlikView to Qlik Sense, so customers can easily migrate between the products of Qlik.

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reviewer1035873 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user319260 - PeerSpot reviewer
R&D Manager and Co-Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Predictive analysis is still not available and we need a different approach toward data analysis.

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it_user580359 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
  • Branding is not the product's strongest point. More control over the presentation colors would be great.
  • A basic printing function would also be good.
  • Easy connection to external tools like R Server would be nice.  
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it_user659991 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor of Business Intelligence at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Dates. My goodness, working with dates in set analysis can be a nightmare! Much room for improvement.

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it_user745797 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Reload time is a limit since everyone wants real-time data.

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it_user491532 - PeerSpot reviewer
Procesbeheerder - afdeling ICT at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

More options for the layout.

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it_user655716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead QlikView Architect/Manager at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • More functionality which can be built in instead of third-party vendor API/extensions
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reviewer1246062 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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.

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it_user121926 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a tech services company

I miss some of the functions found in their previous product, QlikView, such as dynamic (written by a function) expression or sheet name labels in order to create multi-language applications.

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MA
R&D Supervisor at Ofissoft
  • Real online analytics (OLAP)
  • Better implementation of map charts
  • Incremental data load solution for better time saving. 
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it_user388488 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees

It needs more statistical functions similar to those that Qlikview has.

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Qlik Sense
April 2024
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