QlikView South Africa used its annual user conference at Vodaworld, Midrand on 11 November to introduce the latest member of the Qlik product family – Qlik Sense.
The next-generation data visualisation and analytics application wowed the audience of 700 users and partners with powerful, intuitive self-service features enabling users to easily build a wide range of interactive and flexible visualisations that drive ongoing business discovery.
Jeannine Boot, Qlik marketing director for Benelux, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, said Qlik Sense stands alongside Qlik’s core business intelligence (BI) platform, QlikView – currently in its 12th version.

“Qlik Sense puts powerful BI in the hands of users across the organisation while continuing to leverage the core strengths of the QlikView engine,” she says.

Sunil Kenth, pre-sales team lead for Qlik Middle East & Africa, demonstrated the user-driven analytics of Qlik Sense as well as its gorgeous-out-of-the-box visualisations and ease of use.

“Qlik Sense is analytics so intuitive that anyone can easily create personalised reports and dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts of data while drawing on consistent, secure libraries and governed data for peace of mind in the IT department.”

Smart Visualisations in combination with the Qlik data indexing engine uncover all the relationships between data dimensions, revealing insights that would have been hidden in traditional hierarchical, query-based data models, Kenth said.

Not sure where to begin looking? Kenth demoed how users can simply type in search strings to uncover data relationships and information in unexpected places, prompted by the tool along the way.

Qlik Sense connects to multiple data sources to provide more comprehensive views, without compromising performance.

Move seamlessly from desktop to tablet to smartphone, while Qlik Sense automatically adapts to the device.

Data storytelling makes it easier to share analysis visually, communicate findings with teams, and collaborate more efficiently, Kenth said.

While users create their own data visualisations, dashboards and reports, IT can take confidence from drawing upon consistent, secure libraries and governed data.

MD of QlikView SA Davide Hanan says the new release builds on Qlik’s pioneering concept of self-service BI and continues an innovative tradition going back 10 years.

“This new direction forms the vanguard of Qlik’s total penetration of the organisation onto every desktop and device. Just as Qlik pioneered and leads the business discovery segment of BI, Qlik Sense will help define the market going forward and ensure Qlik’s continued leadership in a user-defined market.”