Qlik Sense

We visualize data in charts and graphics because we need information that is not readily available in tables of numbers or written reports. Until recently we have let the computer dictate how information has been presented to us. Computers like numbers and text. They are easily handled, don’t take up…

Domo Review Summary: Domo is a cloud BI solution that is targeted at larger businesses, and majors on ease-of-use, social sharing of information and transparent access to diverse data sources. The actual analytic capability is on a par with most other offerings of this genre, but since the platform is…

Sisense vs Qlik Sense Summary Sisense and Qlik Sense present users with easy-to-use, drag and drop interfaces for chart and dashboard creation. Sisense distinguishes itself primarily through its ease of use and performance. Much work has been done to exploit contemporary commodity hardware for maximum query performance on multidimensional data.…

Qlik Sense vs Microstrategy Summary Qlik Sense and Microstrategy are two wholly different BI platforms. Qlik Sense is a relatively new offering from Qlik and caters to self-service data visualization needs. It does not support production reporting, or any form of advanced analytics, and is targeted at the same market…

Qlik has announced the general availability of Qlik Sense Enterprise 2.0. It also announced Qlik Analytics Platform, which extends the already excellent developer toolkit, and will be of particular interest to ISVs, OEMs and systems integrators. It supports the embedding of visualizations into production applications and websites.  Here are the…

Business Intelligence Software Vendors 2015 The essence of a Fat Free Guide is brevity, and so there will be no feature-by-feature comparisons, which are fairly meaningless anyway. Each product is positioned for its particular strengths, and it is then up to the user to decide on the capability they actually…

Verdict: With the release of Power BI Designer Microsoft has stated quite emphatically that it intends to develop a BI environment outside Excel. Had this not happened then Qlik Sense would certainly have been the most suitable BI offering for many medium and large businesses. But this new development shows…

Spotfire vs Qlik Verdict: Spotfire 7 addressed any complaints users might have had about ease of use. But Spotfire is the thin end of a very thick wedge. It does the dashboards and data exploration that many users want, but it also addresses many other forms of analytics if needed…

Tableau vs Qlik Sense Verdict – Tableau offers a data visualisation platform that is easy to use, but limited in functionality. Qlik offers QlikView for production analytics and Qlik Sense for self-service analytics. Choose Tableau if your needs are ease-of-use and fairly limited. Use Qlik Sense if you need ease-of-use,…