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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

Why use the cloud?


Deploying software in the cloud removes infrastructure challenges and provides access to data and computing power, software, and services from virtually anywhere. For Qlik Sense Enterprise customers, this might mean a large organization choosing to deploy Qlik Sense apps on a private (internal) cloud, using a platform such as AWS, for example. This could enable them to scale up their applications in a cost-effective and flexible manner. Deploying using a private cloud model is out of the scope of this chapter; however, it instead covers how Qlik Sense Desktop users can also get the benefits of the public cloud in two ways—through sharing apps and adding data content.

Cloud sharing

The key value of cloud enablement for Qlik Sense is bringing together data and people by deploying apps in the cloud. This fosters collaboration through the sharing of insights and allows more people to create and discover through Qlik Sense.

Qlik Sense Cloud allows developers to share dashboards...