Use Qlik Sense in Excel with AnalyticsGate: Benefits for your business!

Key Facts:

• Qlik Sense is a business intelligence software for data analysis and visualization.
• AnalyticsGate is an add-in for Microsoft Excel and Qlik Sense that combines the advantages of both tools.
• Scalability and flexibility allow adaptation to different company sizes and structures.
• Efficient data analysis and visualization promote informed decisions and save time and resources.
• Ease of use and collaboration support onboarding and encourage teamwork.
• Improved customer retention and satisfaction through comprehensive customer understanding and personalized reports.
• The combination of AnalyticsGate and Qlik Sense enables advanced functionality and real-time analytics.
• Application areas include sales and marketing, finance and controlling, and production and logistics, among many others.

BI and data analysis: key success factors

In today's data-driven world, business intelligence (BI) and data analysis are crucial for the success of companies. Given the increasing amount of available data and the complexity of decision-making, companies need powerful tools to help them extract valuable insights from their data. As experts in the field of BI and developers of AnalyticsGate, we have created a solution that meets these exact requirements.

What is Qlik Sense?

Qlik Sense is business intelligence software that enables organizations to collect, analyze, and visualize data from multiple sources. Users can create interactive dashboards and reports that help them gain insights into their business data and make informed decisions.  

The software features ease of use, flexibility and powerful data modeling capabilities. With Qlik Sense, users can create complex data relationships and hierarchies, and import and visualize data from sources such as Excel spreadsheets, databases, and cloud storage.

AnalyticsGate combines the strengths of Qlik Sense and Excel

By integrating Qlik Sense in Excel with AnalyticsGate, companies can take advantage of both applications. One of the benefits is the ability to integrate, analyze and present data from various sources such as Excel spreadsheets, databases and other sources in a clear and understandable way.

The software also offers real-time data connectivity, which allows data to be analyzed in real time and changes to be responded to quickly. This can help companies make better decisions and optimize their business processes.

What is AnalyticsGate?

AnalyticsGate is an add-in for Microsoft Excel and Qlik Sense that combines the advantages of both tools. With this application, users can use Excel functions to analyze and visualize data from Qlik Sense, including the use of pivot tables and the generation of fully formatted reports.

We developed AnalyticsGate to extend the functionality and flexibility of Qlik Sense and to encourage the engagement of users from different departments and experience levels.

1. scalability and flexibility

AnalyticsGate's scalability and flexibility help companies of all sizes successfully implement their business intelligence strategy. These benefits are evident in the following aspects:

Adaptability to company size and structure

Regardless of size or industry, AnalyticsGate can be customized to meet individual business needs. The application scales as your business grows, so your data analytics and reporting meet current and future needs.

Integration into existing systems

Thanks to its flexible architecture, AnalyticsGate integrates seamlessly with your existing Qlik Sense environment and other business applications. The open interfaces and standardized API connections enable optimal use of your existing systems and seamless communication between the different platforms to support the efficiency of your data analysis processes and contribute to cost savings.

2. efficient data analysis and visualization

AnalyticsGate for Qlik Sense significantly contributes to efficient data analysis and engaging visualizations, enabling informed decisions to be made faster

Improving decision making

AnalyticsGate transforms complex data sets into easy-to-understand visualizations to improve decision making. It leverages the powerful analytics capabilities of Qlik Sense, complemented by the advanced capabilities of AnalyticsGate, to dive deeper into the data and identify relevant relationships and patterns. This gives users the information they need to make data-driven decisions efficiently.

Time and resource savings

AnalyticsGate's intuitive user interface and pre-built templates enable teams to quickly create custom reports and dashboards, saving time and resources. Automated data preparation and real-time updating allow staff to focus on interpreting results and recommending actions, rather than performing manual, time-consuming data processing.

3. usability and collaboration

Ease of use and collaboration make AnalyticsGate an attractive solution for companies of all sizes

Simple operation and short training period

The intuitive user interface facilitates familiarization, even for users without extensive BI knowledge. Clearly structured menus and functions enable efficient work. Extensive documentation, tutorials and training materials support continuous competence development in using the software.

Team collaboration and authorization management

AnalyticsGate promotes collaboration between departments and teams by providing a centralized location for data analysis and reporting. Users can collaboratively create, edit, and comment on reports and dashboards. Permissions can be assigned at the user or group level to ensure that every employee has access to relevant information. This centralized, collaborative way of working promotes information sharing and transparency to effectively implement data-driven decisions.

4.better customer retention and satisfaction

AnalyticsGate helps companies improve customer loyalty and satisfaction by gaining a better understanding of their customers. By collecting data from multiple sources, companies gain a comprehensive picture of their customers that helps them make informed decisions. With personalized reports and dashboards, businesses can share important information with their customers and provide better customer care.

Synergy and integration

The combination of AnalyticsGate and Qlik Sense provides a synergy of the strengths of both solutions. By integrating AnalyticsGate with the Qlik Sense environment, users can create powerful analytics, reports, and dashboards tailored to their specific business needs.

Advanced features and customization options

Qlik Sense's ease of use is combined with AnalyticsGate's advanced features and customization capabilities, enabling organizations to respond faster and more accurately to market changes by making real-time, data-driven decisions.

Data modeling and Excel integration

AnalyticsGate allows collecting and modeling data from various sources such as classic ERP systems, relational databases, text and Excel files or web services. This data can then be imported into Excel spreadsheets that are responsive to the application of filters and bookmarks. Users can thus quickly filter and analyze data to make important business decisions.

Reporting-Suite

In addition, AnalyticsGate offers a reporting suite for creating and submitting complex reports. The suite allows users to quickly and easily create and share reports without having to access multiple applications.

User-defined functions in Excel formulas

Another benefit of combining AnalyticsGate and Qlik Sense is the ability to use custom functions in Excel formulas. With SenseEV or Qlik.SenseEV Excel functions, users can call any Qlik Sense function, including Set Analysis, in an Excel formula within a discrete cell. This greatly simplifies data analysis and processing in Excel.

Application areas and industry solutions

AnalyticsGate for Qlik Sense is suitable for a wide range of application areas and industries. In the following sections, we present some of the main application areas where AnalyticsGate can be particularly useful:

Sales and marketing

By using AnalyticsGate, sales and marketing teams can optimize their campaigns and sales strategies based on sound data analysis. They can identify customer and market segments, spot sales opportunities, and develop targeted marketing campaigns tailored to their customers' needs. Visualizing sales trends, revenue figures, and customer behavior helps identify opportunities and challenges early on and act accordingly.

Finance and Controlling

Finance departments benefit from AnalyticsGate's ability to analyze and visualize complex financial data quickly and effectively. The software enables the creation of meaningful reports and dashboards for budget planning, financial ratios and performance indicators. This enables financial professionals to identify trends and variances early, control costs, and better assess risks.

Production and logistics

AnalyticsGate supports production and logistics teams in optimizing their processes and supply chains. By analyzing and visualizing production data, inventory levels, delivery times and transport costs, inefficient processes can be identified and potential for improvement revealed. In addition, AnalyticsGate helps monitor quality standards and compliance with environmental and safety guidelines.

Human Resources

In HR, AnalyticsGate offers the possibility to effectively analyze and present personnel-related data such as employee numbers, fluctuation, sick leave or investments in further training. HR teams can thus develop targeted personnel strategies based on sound data. Identifying trends and bottlenecks supports workforce planning and helps improve employee retention and satisfaction.

Summary

AnalyticsGate is a powerful business intelligence solution that helps organizations gain valuable insights from their data and make informed decisions. The combination of Qlik Sense and AnalyticsGate offers numerous benefits, including integration of data from multiple sources, real-time analytics, improved decision making, time and resource savings, ease of use and collaboration, and better customer retention and satisfaction.

The solution is suitable for companies of all sizes and industries, and has applications in various areas such as sales and marketing, finance and controlling, and production and logistics. Thanks to its scalability, flexibility and integration with existing systems, AnalyticsGate is an attractive solution for companies looking to optimize their business intelligence strategy.

If you would like to learn more about how AnalyticsGate for Qlik Sense can support your business, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to advise you and show you how to successfully implement the solution in your company.