 "Qlik Sense: A self-service Business Intelligence tool for enterprise")
Qlik, a data discovery company, has introduced general availability of Qlik Sense – the first self-service visualisation and discovery product engineered for enterprise-class governance and performance.
Qlik Sense is the first offering to deliver self-service BI based on a server-side development and distribution model; and empowers every user with the full capability to create, customise, or extend visualisations from any device, at any point in time.
The product lets users create apps through a drag-and-drop experience that delivers relevant analysis, interactive reports, and dashboards critical to decision-making and operations. The Qlik associative data indexing engine allows users to expose relationships among data dimensions, uncovering insights that would have been hidden in traditional hierarchical, query-based data models.
Smart Search allows users to simply type words or numbers to begin analysis of a data set. In addition, intuitive Smart Visualisations uncover all the relationships between data dimensions, revealing insights that would have been hidden in traditional data models.
Its touch-driven interface and responsive design automatically adapts visualisations for the best possible experience on any device. Data Storytelling allows multiple users, on any device to share their insights at a point in time in presentation format. Users can add commentary and narrative and drill down directly from the presentation to Qlik Sense to answer questions on the fly.
With Qlik Sense, users can build their own visualisations from a centralized library of pre-built data sets, expressions, and visualisations to ensure consistent use of data and values. It’s open APIs give developers the ability to embed Qlik Sense into web pages and custom applications, and extend core capabilities to meet custom needs.
“Our vision for Qlik Sense builds on our belief that anyone in an organisation should be able to easily create dynamic dashboards to explore their data to uncover meaningful insights,” said Lars Bjrk, Qlik CEO. “When we set out to create Qlik Sense, we envisioned a world where every knowledge worker, from any device, could rapidly create visually rich analytics to explore theories, prove hypothesis, or discover new trends that can change the trajectory of their business.”
“The problem with self-service BI has always been that you either get rich BI capability with weak usability, or a very approachable product with limited analysis capability,” said Anthony Deighton, Qlik CTO and SVP of Products. “With Qlik Sense, we set out to change that. That’s why we built Qlik Sense on the second generation of our patented associative data indexing engine, but gave it a rich, modern visualisation front-end that is intuitive, yet powerful.”