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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
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Implementing Qlik Sense

By: Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Choices of Objects

One of the important reasons why most of the dashboards and reports fail in getting the users' attention is the wrong choice of objects to represent data. It is not that the business users always look out for jazzy dashboards, but what they look for is useful information helping them to get actionable insights. This is possible only with the help of proper representation of the data, using proper charts and graphs.

Jazzy dashboards do attract users, but if those dashboards fail to provide proper insight into the data, they would not be useful .

Let us have a look at the various objects available in Qlik Sense, along with best suited data for them:

  • Bar Chart: One of the widely used graphical representations is bar chart. Bar charts are very easy to understand. They are used when you want to compare values side by side; for example, comparison of sales...