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Mastering Qlik Sense

By : Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
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Mastering Qlik Sense

By: Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Working with the Qlik Dev Hub

Mastering Qlik Sense is about learning new skills or upgrading the ones we learned in the past when using tools such as QlikView. In this book, we refer to QlikView as little as possible because it is important that you get used to the idea that even though there are similarities between the tools, they are different, and new skills must be learned.

This, however, does not mean that you must become an API expert, or change what you like doing most in a business intelligence project to become a web developer. On the contrary, any skill that you have learned in the past is still useful. This book gives you the tools to discover what's out there in the Qlik Sense world. It is up to you to grab what you like most and deepen your knowledge by adding more reading and training.

To make the transition and to introduce you to Qlik Sense as smoothly as...