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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)

Data architecture

Like infrastructure architecture, data architecture is also an important activity which you should plan before starting the project, or make changes as needed during the course of the project. Data architecture involves planning the data fetching from source system, data manipulations and transformation as per the requirement and storing the output in Qlik Data format. This becomes an input for the Qlik Sense application.

Before actually starting to design the data architecture, you should know a couple of important file formats, like QVD (Qlik Sense application) and QVF (Qlik Data Files).

QVF

When you create an application on Qlik Sense Desktop, Qlik Sense creates a file on the machine with .qvf extension...