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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
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Implementing Qlik Sense

By: Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Example

In this section, we will try to understand how the business requirement gathering happens in a real scenario. We will continue with the same example which we used in the previous chapter, where the CEO Eric and CFO Lisa of a retail company had a similar vision to increase the profitability of the company.

To convert their vision into reality, they want to analyze their sales along with the margin for various stores and various products. They want to do this using the Qlik BI tool and they have hired a consultant, Jay (you), to do the requirement gathering and implement the BI tool to help them achieve what they want.

You decide to have a requirement meeting with the business user, Mr. Ravi. Following is the conversation which they have while doing requirement gathering:

Jay (You): Good morning, Ravi, thanks for joining this meeting. I am a Qlik consultant and our company...