Qlik Analytics Platform

Score8.1 out of 10

67 Reviews and Ratings

What is Qlik Analytics Platform?

The Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP) is a developer platform for building custom analytic applications based on rich frontend and backend APIs. It gives full API access to the Qlik associative engine to build rich data-driven analytic applications, for example when building web applications for extranet and Internet deployment.

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Peter Nyffels View profile

Digital Community Content Manager in Information Technology at KBC Bank & Verzekering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Qlik Analytics Platforms to set up reporting on our chatbot interaction.

Pros

Fast setup of analytics report
Easy tweaking of build dashboards
Perfect integration with other data software
Vast possibilities on setting up dashboards

Cons

The learning curve could be less steap
Very big sets of data are harder to process with the alike software
There could be a better role based setup posibilities

Most Important Features

Easy tweaking
Easy setup
Vast posibilities

Return on Investment

It made our analytics better
Dashboards for strategic decisions are changed and setup faster
We spend more time on learning the tool than we thought to need

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), Autodesk Fusion 360

Filippo Orlando View profile

Advanced Analytics Manager in Information Technology at Unieuro S.p.A. (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Complete tool that meets all the needs of use and analysis
Integrates seamlessly with any data source, from the oldest to the new.
It allows different levels of complexity of use, from simple consultation to the most advanced analyzes.

Cons

Certainly, it turns out that implementation and data modeling are sometimes complex.
There are still many graphic and representation limits that need complex customizations to be overcome.

Return on Investment

Simplification and adaptability of analyzes according to the type of user
Integration with data sources and direct via rest API, allows for simplification in modeling
Need for a lot of specific knowledge of the instrument and the range of products in order to best meet the needs

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Server and MicroStrategy Analytics

Other Software Used

KNIME Analytics Platform, IBM InfoSphere DataStage, Talend Data Integration

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as our Business Intelligence tool to help visualize our data to make better business decisions. We can use it to more easily spot trends and discrepancies. Can also trace the data back to the source and see where any issues may arise from. It is easy to use and fairly intuitive. I personally use Qlik Analytics Platform to automate extremely manual time consuming report generation. I work with stake holders, understand the process they take their data through, determine what business answers they are looking for, and then mimic the process in Qlik Analytics Platform. This not only saves time and resources but also allows us to have more live data without needing additional input.

Pros

Visualize data
Share data
Display data

Cons

Would like more chart features
Self service could be made better
Load time could be improved

Most Important Features

Visualizations
Exportation
Collaborations

Return on Investment

Smarter business choices
Fast alerts
Easy report generation

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Prep

Other Software Used

Snowflake, Alteryx, Microsoft BI (MSBI)

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to analyse our sales performance and see the number of users subscribing to our solutions. Can see the past trends across different solutions and systems.

Pros

analytics
dashboard
trends

Cons

hard to customize

Most Important Features

analytics
trends
insights

Return on Investment

gives us better insights on our sales performance
easy to see how many total customers we have

Verified User

Analyst in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

It's flexible in allowing the development of fully-fledged analysis tools and dashboards, but also smaller "widgets" to embed in our websites to bring stories to life, and enables us to develop things once and then re-use them in different contexts.
The development platform and management console are both easy to use, and, with proper data development by our expert developers, can be used by relatively junior colleagues to produce great-looking and very useful products.
The way the platform handles a mix of data sources from different APIs and internal data stores is good.
We like the visualizations and from a corporate perspective find it easy to develop one-size-fits-all visualizations that present a wide range of data items well in a responsive way.

Cons

Some of our team feel that the licensing model was really too restrictive for us when we made the purchase and that given the same choice again, we might think twice about jumping in, but because we've already made that initial investment it's worth sticking with it. We don't think we get great value out of it because we only use it for a relatively small number of deployments. With that said, Qlik's licensing model is changing/has changed, so that might not be as much of an issue for new customers.
The Qlik Sense engine which powers the visualizations is in constant development, which is good, but in our current installation still lacks some capabilities -- for example, it only recently got the ability to change the thickness of lines in line graphs! The default options look good but more presentational flexibility obviously will help us tailor and align our public offerings to our corporate brand and presentation.
I'd really like them to look again at how they segment their product licenses to make the basic tools more appealing to low-complexity/low volume users like our local government setting.

Return on Investment

Relatively high additional cost to our BI team's budget compared to other areas of spend (though some colleagues believe this is because we underspend in other areas)
Greater transparency as a publicly accountable organization, with data accessible to non-experts
Integration with internal corporate reporting framework leading to better challenge of leaders around stated corporate goals, and demonstrably improved performance in some areas as a result

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI, Power BI For Office 365, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform and SQL Server Business Intelligence Manager

Other Software Used

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, Microsoft Power BI, Power BI For Office 365, Tableau Public

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