Book Image

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

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

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

Realities of the data discovery contributor


One of the strengths of Qlik Sense applications is the ability to share and extend the value of applications with other members of the stream. As noted in Chapter 2, Overview of a Qlik Sense® Application's Life Cycle, there are a number of useful ways to share key business discoveries. These include the following:

  • Bookmarks

  • Private sheets

  • Stories

Each of these capabilities helps analysts not only to consume Qlik Sense applications but also to share and spur additional conversation and insights. The stream administrator covered in Chapter 9, Administering Qlik Sense®, enables these contributor capabilities. Let's take a closer look at each of these capabilities through the role of an analyst named Pat.

Creating private bookmarks

A private bookmark is the beginning of an analysis that drives collaboration across an organization. Bookmarks allow an author and a contributor to save the state of a sheet within a Qlik Sense application. In the previous example...