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

Key Features

• Create compelling dashboards and visualizations by themselves on your data by truly leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service model
• Get a proficient understanding of Qlik Sense's APIs, its limitations and caveats and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizations and other components.
• Uses Qlik's best practices for data modeling, data loading and expressions for faster performance, better governance and smaller app sizes.

Book Description

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

This book will be your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, for catering to all your organizational BI needs. You will see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of organizational data from multiple sources and create smart visualizations that meet your unique business needs. Take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and components for guided analytics. You will also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards. Other concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense, and working with Qlik Cloud are also covered. Finally, you will implement enterprise-wide security and access control with regard to the resources and data sources.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create and deploy scalable and business-friendly BI solutions with visually appealing dashboards and extended self-service capabilities for your organization.

What you will learn

• Understand the importance of self-service and the "Ikea-effect"
• Explore all the available data modeling techniques and create efficient and optimised data models
• Become proficient with the security rules and translate permission requirements into security rules logic
• Familiarise yourself with different types of Master Key Items(MKI) and learn how and when to use MKI.
• Learn to 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 to deploy successful mashup projects

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.