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Implementing Qlik Sense

By : Kaushik Solanki, Ganapati Hegde
Book Image

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)

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and explanations of their meaning.

A block of code is set as follows:

REM Full Load from Excel file "Sales" ;

Sales:
LOAD
Region,
SalesID,
Product,
SalesAmt,
LastModifiedDate
FROM [lib://Chapter 6/Sales.xlsx]
(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet2);

REM Store the data into Qlik Data Mart i.e QVD;

Store Sales into [lib://Chapter 6/Sales.qvd];

Drop table Sales;

In-text code is highlighted in font and color as here: LOAD. The file and folder names are also shown in the same style, for example, Chapter6/Sales.xlsx.

At several places in the book, we have referred to external URLs to cite source of datasets or other information. A URL would appear in the following text style: http://finance.yahoo.com.

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: In order to download new modules, we will go to Files | Settings | Project Name | Project Interpreter.

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.