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Qlik Sense is Qlik's analytics application for building interactive apps, sheets and dashboards, sold as a service through Qlik Cloud Analytics and also available for client-managed deployment. It suits teams that want free-form exploration where every selection filters the whole app. If the question on your desk is why a number moved, and your data arrives as exports, there is a lighter way to answer it.
Qlik Sense is Qlik's analytics application for building interactive apps, sheets and dashboards, sold as a service through Qlik Cloud Analytics and also available for client-managed deployment. It runs on the Qlik Associative Engine, which holds data in memory and keeps track of how every value relates to every other, so selections show both related and unrelated values. Qlik Answers adds an AI chat assistant over Qlik apps and document knowledge bases.
None of these is a fault in Qlik Sense. They are situations where a team needs something narrower, sooner or lighter than what it is built to do.
| The situation | How Covirage approaches it |
|---|---|
| Building apps involves load scripts and a data model designed by trained developers | The measures ship with the product and we map your exports to them |
| Pricing grows with the data capacity loaded | Three tiers on one sheet, with set up included |
| Qlik Answers uses apps that have been prepared for it | The assistant answers from the measures for your desk as soon as the file is loaded |
| Free-form exploration is the strength; explaining a variance is still analysis someone does | The explain block does that analysis, with a bridge that sums to the change |
| Qlik Sense | Covirage | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Teams that want free-form exploration where every selection filters the whole app; Organisations combining many data sources through a scripted load and data model | The person waiting for the answer: one desk, then the next |
| How it gets data | Most apps load data into the in-memory associative engine through data load scripts, from files, databases and applications. Direct Query instead generates SQL against a supported cloud database (Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Google BigQuery, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Snowflake) without loading it into memory. On-demand app generation is available for very large datasets. | Files and sheets now; scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business; connections built with your team on Enterprise |
| Needs before the first answer | App developers to write or configure load scripts and build the associative data model; Connections to sources, or a supported cloud database for Direct Query; Apps explicitly made available to Qlik Answers, plus knowledge bases for document content | The exports your systems already produce. No warehouse, no modelling language, no data team |
| Typical setup | Not published | Minutes on a file you already export; set up for you within a week |
| AI | Qlik Answers is an agentic chat assistant that answers questions from Qlik analytics apps (structured data) and from indexed knowledge bases of PDF, Word, HTML and text files (unstructured data), and lets users see the sources the agent used. It is English-only and not offered in Anonymous Access subscriptions or Qlik Cloud Government. Qlik's analytics platform also includes Insight Advisor Chat for conversational questions and Qlik Predict for machine learning. | The AI model chooses a measure and writes the explanation; our tools do the arithmetic and check every total |
| Published pricing | Qlik Cloud Analytics lists Starter at $300 per month (10 users, 10 GB data capacity), Standard at $825 per month (25 GB, no charge for additional users), and Premium at $2,750 per month (50 GB), all billed annually. Enterprise is quoted and starts at 250 GB of data capacity. | Three tiers on one sheet, shared in a conversation |
| Getting data out | Visualisation data can be downloaded as Excel files (up to 1,048,566 rows, 16,384 columns and 100 MB), visualisations and sheets as PNG images or PDF, and stories as PDF. Some objects, such as maps and filter panes, cannot be downloaded as data. | Export every table as a workbook or JSON at any time |
Many teams use both: Qlik Sense for what it is built for, and Covirage for the recurring question a desk would otherwise hand to an analyst.
No. Qlik is built for free-form exploration, where every selection filters the whole app. Covirage is built to answer a known, recurring question and explain it, with filters for period, comparison and scope.
Sometimes, and often not. Qlik Sense is built for teams that want free-form exploration where every selection filters the whole app. Covirage answers one desk's questions from the files that desk already exports, set up for you in a week. Many teams keep Qlik Sense for what it is built for and use Covirage for the question it would otherwise leave to an analyst.
It starts with the exports those systems already produce: files and sheets now, scheduled delivery by API, S3, Azure, SFTP or email on Business, and connections built with your team on Enterprise. We never hold credentials to your systems.
No. The AI model chooses which measure answers the question and writes the explanation. Our tools do the arithmetic, and every total is checked before it is shown. If a question needs a measure we do not have, the assistant says so.
Bring an export you already produce. The data map opens next, every column mapped once, and the first question is answered in minutes. Free, in your browser, no account. Or talk to us and we will set it up for you.
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