Qlik Sense Enterprise - BYOL
Qlik | Qlik Sense Enterprise September 2020Windows, Windows Server 2016 Base 20016 Datacenter - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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After three years and transferring to Qlik Sense SaaS edition, at my wits' end
App development is tremendously difficult/expensive. Qlik uses its own proprietary scripting language to design load scripts which is a tremendous pain to learn and use. The data manager is a colossal waste of time as you basically need to run your full reload script to open it and make changes. In order to do simple calculations that are out of the box in many other tools, Qlik requires that you use "set expressions", a nightmarish scripting system
We recently transferred from an enterprise deployment to a cloud deployment. Users considering this transition should be aware of a few major limitations which are not advertised and not mentioned in documentation:
1) apps cannot be larger than 5Gb
2) there is a hard timeout limit of 2 hours on the back end which cannot be changed by the user
3) the management console is a pale shadow of the functionality available in Qlik Sense Enterprise; where before we had rule-based security, the ability to create roles, full management of published apps, etc, we now have basically no security policies, no roles, and a confusing amalgam of app management features which are scattered between the management console and the front end so you have to keep switching back and forth to do basic tasks. As a particularly egregious example, when I have a new person onboarded now, I instruct them to sign in via SSO, and then I have to wait for them to sign in for the first time, at which point they have no access rights to any of our shared dashboards, and then I have to *one by one* go through all our shared spaces and add users individually to each of them in turn.
4) You can only use one identity provider at a time, so if you have external stakeholders you're going to have to create identities for them on your own IdP system.
5) There is zero ability to track usage by individual users or with individual apps. There's no way to audit which apps can be deprecated for lack of use, and if you're using capacity licenses, you have no ability to audit which of your users are expending the most minutes.
Qlik support is awful: it takes multiple days if not weeks to respond to any simple request, you have to constantly hound them for updates, the support staff is not knowledgeable about the product, and, perhaps most infuriatingly, you have to get into the habit of providing a ton of additional information which you'd *think* they would definitely already have every single time which is not requested in the ticket submission form, because if you don't, the first reply from the rep (usually about a week after you submit) is "could you please provide your license number and tell us which instance you're running on" etc. I can only assume they really don't *want* to be providing support and have created a system which is hostile enough to users that they hope it will discourage its use.
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Qlik Sense is a very powerful BI tool that enabled us to do targeted marketing by analyzing customer buying behavior and by plotting sales per region on the built in maps in Qlik Sense
Far better than Tableau in many Aspects!
QlikSense is awesome Enterprize Visualization Analytics Reporting Tool
QLIK VIEW IS PRETTY DYNAMIC TOOL
What do I think about Qlik Sense and its associative model?
I use Qlik Sense to build applications for users to support their daily operations, to power business and strategy development, and to explore their datasets with, and share visualizations to accompany their analyses.
What I like:
1. It is easy to combine different datasets, to prepare data models to begin exploring the data.
2. The tools provided make it simple to quickly build and deploy effective and engaging dashboards. Selections made on visualizations propagate to the rest of the visualizations throughout the application, without having to write code to connect them. As the associative model stores relationships between all data points in all the tables used in a model, selections result in colors being applied to data values across data fields. These highlight values that are related, and values that are unrelated, to current selected values, to prompt further exploration. A video that illustrates this well is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-m0_8dT3XM .
3. More hands on users can follow their train of thought and pull together adhoc analyses using curated dimensions, measures and visualizations. The Insight feature offers sample visualizations based on the dataset and selections.
4. The associative engine helps one discover information, and questions, that maybe hidden while querying data using a traditional tool. Here is an example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuxKfp7PW1o
Something to keep in mind for Qlik application developers is that when coming from a lifetime of working in a relational world, one needs to reorient their approach, to grasp the associative model and the unique strengths it provides. It is worthwhile to spend a little time and effort to get familiar with using associative relationships and set analysis. Qlik has spared no effort in providing plenty of free training materials, in addition to their official classes, to help with both data literacy aspects, as well as technical knowhow with sample exercises and applications. The user community and customer stories are insightful in discovering solutions and creative applications of the tool.
In the end, one needs to try it for themselves, and for this, Qlik offers trials of its hosted environment to experiment in, along with access to its library of samples and how to training materials.
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powerfull, easily embedded end to end BI tool
Qlik Sense can be a great solution for organizations seeking an all-around tool that enables them to develop ETL procedures as well as GUI development all in the same place.
the product keeps evolving rapidly and as a third-year Qlik developer I can tell Qlik sense improved a lot over the years while being very attentive to the needs of developers in the Qlik community.
although It still Limited at times, especially for customizing Visualizations, which requires adding half baked extensions or paying extra for high-quality extensions to companies such as Vizlib
Qlik Sense a pionner that evolves through time
Clean Stylish Dashboard With Functional Features.
Qlik Sense deployment on Windows its more functional and also Web-based version. Easy developing of various Application, and excellent mobile reporting capabilities.