Learning Qlik Sense®: The Official Guide, 2nd Edition

Get the most out of your Qlik Sense investment with the latest insight and guidance direct from the Qlik Sense team

About This Book

• Updated with new coverage on Qlik Cloud, Qlik Sense Modeling, and Extending the Qlik Analytic Platform.
• Get insider insight on Qlik Sense and its new approach to business intelligence
• Explore practical demonstrations for utilizing Qlik Sense to discover data for sales, human resources, and more

Who This Book Is For

Learning Qlik Sense®: The Official Guide Second Edition is for anyone seeking to understand and utilize the revolutionary new approach to business intelligence offered by Qlik Sense. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence will be helpful when picking up this book, but not essential.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the vision behind the creation of Qlik Sense, and the promise that data discovery offers to you and your organization
• Get to grips with the life cycle of a Qlik Sense application
• Load and manage your data for app creation
• Visualize your data with Qlik Sense’s engaging and informative graphing
• Administer your Qlik Sense system and monitor its security
• Build efficient and responsive Associative Models
• Extend the Qlik Analytic Platform with the Dev Hub
• Optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book is a practical guide to understand what Qlik Sense is and how to implement it. This is an example-rich, step-by-step book to implement and optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Qlik Sense® and Data Discovery
Chapter 2. Overview of a Qlik Sense® Application’s Life Cycle
Chapter 3. Empowering Next Generation Data Discovery Consumers
Chapter 4. Contributing to Data Discovery
Chapter 5. Authoring Engaging Applications
Chapter 6. Building Qlik Sense® Data Models
Chapter 7. Qlik Sense® Apps in the Cloud
Chapter 8. Extending the Qlik® Analytic Platform
Chapter 9. Administering Qlik Sense®
Chapter 10. Sales Discovery
Chapter 11. Human Resource Discovery
Chapter 12. Travel Expense Discovery
Chapter 13. Demographic Data Discovery