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Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

By : Pablo Labbe, Clever Anjos, Kaushik Solanki, Jerry DiMaso
Book Image

Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

By: Pablo Labbe, Clever Anjos, Kaushik Solanki, Jerry DiMaso

Overview of this book

Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple-to-complex data to reveal hidden insights and data relationships to make business-driven decisions. Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense begins by helping you get to grips with underlying Qlik concepts and gives you an overview of all Qlik Sense’s features. You will learn advanced modeling techniques and learn how to analyze the data loaded using a variety of visualization objects. You’ll also be trained on how to share apps through Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud and how to perform aggregation with AGGR. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore the stories feature to create data-driven presentations and update an existing story. This book will guide you through the GeoAnalytics feature with the geo-mapping object and GeoAnalytics connector. Furthermore, you’ll learn about the self-service analytics features and perform data forecasting using advanced analytics. Lastly, you’ll deploy Qlik Sense apps for mobile and tablet. By the end of this book, you will be well-equipped to run successful business intelligence applications using Qlik Sense's functionality, data modeling techniques, and visualization best practices.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Qlik Sense and Business Intelligence
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Section 2: Data Loading and Modeling
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Section 3: Building an Analytical Application
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Section 4: Additional Features

Configuring Qlik Sense for ODAG applications

ODAG is not enabled on Qlik Sense Enterprise by default. Instead, you have to enable it in the QMC.

To enable it, follow these steps:

  1. Log into your Qlik Sense with administrator rights and go to QMC:
  1. Find the option to enable On-demand apps service under MANAGE RESOURCES:

When you select that option, you're going to see this screen:

The most important option here is the first one, where you enable the service that handles on-demand requests. The other options are as follows:

  • Logging level (Off-through Trace): This is where we set how verbose our log messages will be.
  • Number of apps that can be generated at one time: This option is important if we have a large user base, so you can configure how many apps (and requests) are generated at once. The default number is 1 and the maximum is 10. This affects the response time...