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Extend Qlik’s Capabilities for Budgeting, Planning, & Forecasting

insightsoftware’s tools enhance and augment Qlik’s competencies and effectiveness from within the interface you’re already familiar with. From Vizlib to Fiplana, get more value out of your Qlik investment.

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Solutions to Get the Most From Your Qlik Deployment

Empower Your Business With Real-Time Insights & Writeback in Qlik

insightsoftware solutions unlock the full potential of your Qlik data.

Unlock the Power of Data

Leverage Qlik's powerful integration capabilities to seamlessly combine diverse data sources, fostering a unified platform for comprehensive insights. Empower your organization to make informed decisions with confidence, driving strategic growth and innovation.

Drive Insightful Decisions

Harness the transformative power of Qlik’s innovative analytics and cutting-edge AI to reveal hidden insights within your data. insightsoftware solutions streamline and automate decision-making processes to keep your business nimble, well-informed, and ahead of the competition.

Grow With Confidence

Establish a scalable analytics foundation designed to grow alongside your evolving business requirements. Vizlib, Fiplana, and Write! seamlessly integrate advanced features to unlock even more robust capabilities and drive exceptional results.

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Use Cases for Qlik Extensions & Solutions

Elevate Your Qlik Experience with insightsoftware Extensions & Solutions

Transform Data into Stories

Vizlib elevates your Qlik dashboards, transforming them into interactive and engaging visualizations. Vizlib empowers users to create compelling data stories that effectively communicate insights and drive informed decision-making, enhancing the overall impact of your business intelligence efforts. Its intuitive features extend Qlik’s capabilities, allowing teams to collaborate seamlessly and make data-driven decisions with confidence. Unlock the full potential of your data visualization today.

Results

80%

Reduction in Data Access Time

75%

Reduction in Monthly Board Reporting

35%

Positive Impact on Growth & Revenue

Optimize With Precision

Fiplana seamlessly integrates with Qlik to boost financial planning and analysis (FP&A). It centralizes data, enabling accurate forecasting, budgeting, and efficient resource allocation. With Fiplana, organizations can streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and quickly adapt to changing financial landscapes, ensuring comprehensive and up-to-date financial insights. Its intuitive interface and robust features make it a powerful tool for optimizing business performance within the Qlik environment.

Results

80%

Reduction in Data Access Time

75%

Reduction in Monthly Board Reporting

35%

Positive Impact on Growth & Revenue

Collaborate and Discuss

Write! enhances Qlik by enabling real-time data editing and commenting. This feature promotes cross-departmental collaboration and ensures high data quality, leading to more informed and agile decision-making. By smoothly integrating with Qlik, Write! transforms data management processes. This allows teams to work together more efficiently and effectively, breaking down silos and fostering a collaborative environment that supports quick response to changing business needs. The result is smarter strategies and improved operational outcomes.

Results

80%

Reduction in Data Access Time

75%

Reduction in Monthly Board Reporting

35%

Positive Impact on Growth & Revenue

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Transform your Qlik experience with Vizlib’s suite of extensions. Discover strategies to enhance data visualization, streamline reporting, and boost ROI. Learn integration, dashboard creation, and advanced analytics for impactful decisions.

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Qlik Reporting FAQs

What are common challenges when customizing visuals in Qlik?

Qlik’s relatively basic visualization options typically end up requiring various extensions. While this solves the visualization gap, it often introduces operational overhead and management of these various plugins. Instead of installing several extensions for different types of visualizations, Vizlib has a huge library of pre-built components, templates, and guidance to simplify your Qlik ecosystem.

What insightsoftware tools enhance Qlik’s capabilities?

Our product offerings for Qlik users include:
  • Vizlib: Suite of visual and collaboration tools to extend Qlik’s capabilities via writeback tables, input forms, comments, pre-built finance objects, enterprise back-end for security, and much more.
  • Fiplana: Qlik-native FP&A system for structured budgeting, top-down and bottom-up planning, automated forecasting, real-time consolidations, and more.
  • Write!: Writeback-focused tool that builds on Qlik’s basic native functionality, enhancing planning.

How do insightsoftware tools improve Qlik’s collaboration and planning workflows?

Vizlib Input Form enables business users to enter assumptions, drivers, comments, or other in-line item adjustments directly from Qlik apps. Safe and auditable writeback supports SQL, Oracle, REST, file, and QVD destinations and provides role-based control, locking, and audit trails. Vizlib Teamwork adds in-app commentary and threaded discussions attached to specific insights, facilitating more contextual decision-making.

Is Qlik easier than Tableau?

This depends on the user and the use case, but we typically break these products down into two categories:
  • Tableau is easier for beginners: Has a fast ramp-up for users looking for drag-and-drop visuals without a steep learning curve.
  • Qlik is better for enterprises: Offers more comprehensive data modeling and exploration for multi-directional analysis, but takes time to learn.
Tableau usually “feels” easier, but often lacks the deeper exploration (especially across multiple business sources) that Qlik can provide. However, even Qlik has limitations that modern businesses struggle with, which is where extensions like Vizlib come in. Vizlib provides no-code visuals, templates, and more to shorten Qlik’s otherwise steep learning curve.

What are the disadvantages of Qlik?

Although Qlik has deeper functionality than Tableau, it also has several major weaknesses that are worth considering:
  • Learning Curve: Many users have cited the time it takes to learn Qlik as being a major drawback, with complex interfaces, data-loading scripts, data-model design, and more. This limits the usability for non-technical users (especially without dedicated training).
  • Resource-Intensive: When used at scale, Qlik’s in-memory associative engine can use a lot of RAM. The result is that poorly-sized or inefficient models can quickly degrade performance and responsiveness.
  • Limited Writeback: While Qlik does have native writeback, it was only introduced recently and has significant limitations. The native writeback lacks adequate governance for many organizations, as well as multi-destination writeback and concurrency controls.
  • Licensing Complexity: For smaller businesses and teams, Qlik often ends up being unnecessarily complex and expensive to operate compared to more intuitive tools like Tableau, Logi Symphony, or Spreadsheet Server.

Is Qlik intuitive and easy to learn for new users?

Partly. Basic tasks may be approachable for new users who have prior experience with data visualization tools, but more complex use cases are often not intuitive and result in usage barriers. If you’re considering trying Qlik as a new visualization platform, we recommend planning a short pilot program to see how users adopt and feel about the tool. You could even run this pilot to include Vizlib’s UX enhancements to see if that changes sentiment.

Can Qlik connect to Excel?

Yes. Qlik can connect to Excel via an Excel add-in for the platform, but this integration is fairly rudimentary and still relies on Excel’s basic templates. You could also connect Qlik to Excel with an extension like Vizlib to enable read/write integration with SQL targets and automated exchanges. Note: For teams that still rely on spreadsheets for planning, Fiplana makes it easy to move spreadsheet-based FP&A into Qlik while preserving your ability to import/export when needed.

Does Qlik have native writeback?

Yes, but the practical reality is that it has very basic functionality and is only relevant for certain use cases (e.g. very simple workflows). For larger organizations with more complex workflows and multi-source data, specialized planning and writeback tools are required. Qlik extensions like Vizlib not only provide this advanced writeback functionality, but also add enhanced data governance, approvals, audit trails, and more. When it comes to real-world planning and collaborative workflows, Qlik’s native writeback just doesn’t cut it for most businesses — Vizlib resolves this by going beyond basic native writeback, enhancing other areas of the Qlik platform in the process.

What performance or scalability issues does Qlik have?

While Qlik’s associative engine is a powerful foundation for the platform, it keeps data in memory to deliver fast interactive exploration. This architecture causes RAM and CPU to become the primary scaling constraints as your model grows. In other words, teams that have very large row counts can easily hit memory thresholds that cause long reload times, high resource consumption, and other performance issues. Vizlib automatically uses best practices from Qlik to create visual components that are engineered to maintain concurrency for writeback, so UX features don’t cause scalability issues.