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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

Master Items are a new feature introduced with Qlik Sense which allow a developer to democratize the data and visualizations within an app. They permit you to effectively predefine, control, and maintain metrics, dimensions, and pre-canned visualizations, to make them readily available for the end users in the dashboard.

Next, to improving the self-service capabilities of a deployed app, Master Items also provide a way to deploy governance and control on self-service. By predefining available metrics and dimensions, you can prevent an inexperienced user from creating inefficient aggregations and calculations in the frontend, which could result in a RAM hit of the underlying server.

This chapter outlined typical strategies and use cases for deploying Master Items, as well as showcasing, step-by-step, how to create them in Qlik Sense. It concluded with the advantages and...