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Bring back Free Qlik Sense Desktop

simonaubert
Partner - Specialist II
Partner - Specialist II

Bring back Free Qlik Sense Desktop

Hello all,

First of all, thanks Qlik to let us (customers, users, partners) speak out and suggest new ideas. This one may be a little controversial.

I think the free Qlik Sense Desktop was one of the best ideas you ever had : it allowed a huge amount of users to test, develop extension, train before making the purchase decision. But more, from a partner perspective, it allowed us to show Qlik Sense with just a connection required. Another common use case I have : I can spend sometimes 10 hours in train during a week and I would like to go further on some work, such as a hard set analysis or some cosmectic changes on an app, while the connection is not available.

Another thing : on QlikView, we had a personal edition, nothing required. Great way to introduce the product to customers.

The idea is to be even freer than before :
-totally free QSD
-connection not required.


Best regards,

Simon

Bi Consultant (Dataviz & Dataprep) @ Business & Decision
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simonaubert
Partner - Specialist II
Partner - Specialist II

Hello all,

A little update : I was yesterday with an old QlikView customer.  His brief story : he once worked in a solar company and used QlikView Personal Edition for some report on solar farms. His choice was guided by one thing : "I have to find an easy, free to try, free to develop sofware" and found out QPE after few search. In his next work at a fishing accessories company, he was a proud QlikView proponent and made his new employer buy a QlikView Server with a huge quantity of named cal.

I also read here people that have to move to PowerBi...

So to make it clear : there are already free offers (PowerBi, Tableau Public...) and there are users of free offers. Either you prefer to be a part of their life today (and potentially a part of their life in a near future when they will have to go to the Enterprise offer), either you prefer not to be a part of it and loose visibility.

Also : can i point out that you closed an idea with 70 votes, in the top 10 of open ideas? Maybe this idea is not so dumb (not that I believe in mob rules but voters are partners, and luminaries..)



Best regards,

Simon

paulyeo11
Master
Master
I have try PBI , and I find that the IOS app is very powerful and will never turn back to qlik.