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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson
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Learning Qlik Sense??: The Official Guide Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Christopher Ilacqua, QlikTech International AB, Henric Cronström, James Richardson

Overview of this book

The intuitive and powerful Qlik Sense visual analytics software allows anyone to engage in data discovery, to explore your data, and find meaningful insights to empower your business. Qlik Sense lets you easily create personalized reports and visualizations and reveal essential connections to show new opportunities from every angle. Written by members of the Qlik Sense team, this book is the official guide from Qlik to understanding and using their powerful new product with fully updated coverage to the latest features of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense. Benefit from the vision behind the development of Qlik Sense and get to grips with how Qlik Sense can empower you as a data discovery consumer. Learn how to create your own applications for Qlik Sense to customize it to meet your personal needs for business intelligence, and how to oversee and administer the Qlik Sense data architecture. Finally, explore utilizing Qlik Sense to uncover essential data, with practical examples on finding and visualizing intelligence for sales figures, human resources information, travel expense tracking, and demographic data discovery.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Qlik Sense® The Official Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

Data discovery—the evolution of BI


Data discovery is the future of business intelligence. With data discovery, users pursue their own path to insight, make discoveries collaboratively, and can arrive at a whole new level of decision-making. Users are not limited to predefined paths or precalculated numbers. They do not need to formulate questions ahead of time. They can interact with data, find the questions, ask what they need to ask, and explore up, down, and sideways, rather than only drilling down in a predefined hierarchy.

Organizations might still need standardized reporting for many cases, but data discovery is the approach that ultimately fulfills the promise of business intelligence for everyone.

Data discovery is the inevitable consequence of demands from active users who want information from the ever-increasing amount of data. From the very beginning, the core of the Qlik philosophy was the empowered user. It affects both the view of how BI solutions should be developed and how the user interface of the tool should be designed.

In summary, data discovery is user-centric; it is BI for the empowered user. It means total freedom in how data is explored. It should be simple and have as few limitations as possible. Data discovery means a user-centric development process so that user feedback can be implemented instantaneously.