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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 consumption requirements


People's expectations of what technology should be and how it should work have been set high with the rise of mobile and touch devices. The notion of a fixed, predictable desktop has changed to a dynamic, unpredictable virtual desktop that exists on whatever device you have access to at the moment. This can include traditional desktop PCs running Windows, laptops, ultrabooks powered by Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, hybrid devices running Windows 8.x, tablets, Chromebooks, smartphones… the list goes on. This new environment requires new approaches in both architecture and application design that create smarter applications to meet the demands of a broader access from varying devices. Qlik Sense was designed from the ground up to meet the diversity of requirements that now exist in your enterprise when it comes to delivering data to support decision-making.

Qlik Sense adapts to very different devices, including a laptop via Microsoft Windows, Apple...