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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)

Qlik Sense on the Cloud

With the emerging trend of software sitting on the cloud and the associated new concept of selling software as a service (SaaS), Qlik did not miss the trend and has extended its platform by offering Qlik Sense on the cloud. Especially attractive for personal use and small businesses, Qlik Sense for business use can be available to you for as little as $15/month/user (as per 10th March 2018).

While much cheaper than buying Qlik Sense tokens, Qlik Cloud comes with some technical limitations, which this chapter will discuss. It will give you an overview of the product offerings with a list of features in comparison, including a description of how the cloud model works, its benefits, and to what extent it's different from both the Qlik Sense Desktop Client and the Server edition. It's important to note, however, that Qlik Sense's Cloud offering...