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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)

Summary

Security rules using access based attribute control is a new and a compelling feature to Qlik Sense. It gives a lot of flexibility, full control, and, using the audit feature, a good overview of who has access to do what within your Qlik Sense environment. It allows you, as the administrator, to apply governance to the level acceptable in your organization: from pure, open self-service to very strict and controlled deployment of applications, anything is possible.

With Qlik Sense's multi-node scalability, it is straightforward to segregate mini project environments while maintaining everything under one hood. Security rules allow for that flexibility by enabling administrators to apply different rules to different projects, user types, even to different nodes.

While robust, security rules in Qlik Sense need to be designed carefully for the platform to be scalable...