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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)

Transitioning from QlikView to Qlik Sense

If you are reading this book, it is very likely that you have heard of or worked with QlikView before. You will likely be an expert in manipulating data in the load script and juggling with set analysis to perfect expressions to give you the result you wish to see in a visualization or dashboard. But since Qlik Sense has come along, how different is it to the skill set you have in QlikView and how much of that can you transition to the new technology? From a technology point of view, Qlik Sense, being web-based and predominantly run under HTML 5 and JavaScript as opposed to the .NET framework, is still the same sauce you are cooking with. The great Qlik engine has remained almost identical, to the extent that you can blindly take over loading scripts or expressions as they are from QlikView applications.

This chapter will take you through...