Qlik Sense Enterprise - BYOL
Qlik | QSE_August_2023_BYOL_1694087203Windows, Windows Server 2019 Base 2019 Datacenter - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Cool but no big news
It has been a great tool to cross data and drive our sales and operations
Qlik Sense is a diamond compared to other competing software!
I realized that we gained a lot of time in analysis and decision-making, reducing the time to correct possible operational errors.
Qlik has a universe of solutions that will serve an end-to-end company.
Qlik Sense
BI Solution with powerful engine
Business Analytical Solution
With a dedicated reporting solution, collecting all data allows a single source of truth.
Additionally data sources from different kinds can be connected for reporting
QlikSense is such a powerful analytics tool
I've been using Qlik in general for over 8 years now. While Qlik Sense initially had it's growing pains it has become a tool that you can do almost anything with. The out of the box visuals are great and can complete with any tool but if you need more, the extensions that you can build or buy are almost limitless.
I use it for cleansing and housing the data needed by everyone else as the ETL capabilities are very powerful. I've been able to do things in Qlik that I couldn't do in SQL which is saying a lot.
It can also fit any level of person using a BI tool from the beginner with basic data to the advanced with challenging data and visualizations.
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.
Qlik Sense
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