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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 case study

Let us continue the same example of the fictitious company, AB LLC. In the previous step, we had given an estimate of hardware and software to the client. Depending on our input, the client has made available the hardware and all setup has been done successfully.

Let us look at the various input parameters from the client and the best approach for designing the data architecture.

Data Sources

The client has mentioned that they would need data input from multiple sources, like SAP, Excel, and few CSVs:

  • SAP: Contains all the transaction data captured from various locations (stores). This data is at a daily level and has information of all the products which the company is selling
  • Excel: Excel contains the...