Mastering Qlik Sense: Expert techniques on self-service data analytics to create enterprise ready Business Intelligence solutions - Softcover

Martin Mahler;Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783554029 ISBN 13: 9781783554027

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Master the capabilities of Qlik Sense to design and deploy solutions that address all the Business Intelligence needs of your organization

Key Features

• Create compelling dashboards and visualizations with your data by leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service model
• Perform data loading and model efficient solutions with faster performance and better governance
• Master Qlik Sense's APIs and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizations and other components that run across all platforms

Book Description

Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it.

This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples.

With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense.

What you will learn

• Understand the importance of self-service analytics and the IKEA-effect
• Explore all the available data modeling techniques and create efficient and optimized data models
• Master security rules and translate permission requirements into security rule logic
• Familiarize yourself with different types of Master Key Item(MKI) and know how and when to use MKI.
• Script and write sophisticated ETL code within Qlik Sense to facilitate all data modeling and data loading techniques
• Get an extensive overview of which APIs are available in Qlik Sense and how to take advantage of a technology with an API
• Develop basic mashup HTML pages and deploy successful mashup projects

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Business Intelligence professionals and Data Analysts who want to become experts in using Qlik Sense. If you have extensively used QlikView in the past and are looking to transition to Qlik Sense, this book will also help you. A fundamental understanding of how Qlik Sense works and its features is all you need to get started with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Qlik Sense Self Service Model
2. Transitioning from QlikView to Qlik Sense
3. Security Rules: Attribute Based Access Control
4. Master Key Items in Qlik Sense
5. Qlik Sense on the Cloud
6. Qlik Sense Data Modelling
7. Best Practices for Loading Data in Qlik Sense
8. Advanced Scripting in Qlik Sense
9. Advanced Expressions in Qlik Sense
10. Qlik Sense API Overview
11. Working with the Qlik Dev Hub
12. Coding in Qlik Sense
13. Creating Extensions in QlikSense
14. Integrating Qlik Sense in Web Sites via Mashups

About this title

About the Author

Martin Mahler, a rocket scientist by education, is a multilingual Qlik consultant with vast experience in championing Qlik Technologies across financial services and investment banks.

An engineer by education, IT consultant by work experience and with additional studying done in finance (Passed CFA Level 1), Martin is bridging the gap between IT and the business and can mediate between the two worlds providing valuable data insights to business users. He is leveraging Qlik's data analytics and self-service capabilities by following the concept of bringing IT closer to the business.

Being very passionate about what he does and an energetic individual, he also regularly shares his knowledge at presentations within the QlikDevGroup in London and is regularly being invited to attend visualization conferences.

Recently, Martin has founded his company Vizlib which provides an easy-to-use, highly configurable and supported visualization library as an add-on to Qlik Sense. With Vizlib sitting on top of Qlik's powerful associative engine, he aims to disrupt the way data is consumed by empowering the business user to do more data analytics themselves, without having to write a single line of code or help from IT - for a genuinely real self-service capability

From the entertainment industry in Los Angeles to global banking in London's financial hub, Juan Vitantonio, originally from Argentina has more than 10 years of global experience in driving results in data and analytics projects.

Juan's vast international exposure to different industries and sectors has established him a strong career in the analytics and data world. The depth of his knowledge and passion for insight and data has made him an expert consultant in the field.

A passionate and avid globe-trotter, Juan is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish. He graduated with a Bachelor in Software Engineering and a Masters in Engineering from the University of Bologna.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783554029
• ISBN 13: 9781783554027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514