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

by Martin Mahler;Juan Ignacio Vitantonio, Juan Ignacio Vitantonio

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

514 pages, Paperback

Published March 16, 2018

Reviews

[Justpassingby]

From this book it may be inferred that the authors are experts at designing and developing Qlik Sense solutions; what it does not show, unfortunately, is that they can also explain that technology.

The table of contents looks promising enough. It appears to cover a sensible range of common techniques that are just beyond the horizon of elementary introductions; so far, so good. The execution, however, fails on several scores:

1. Four non-native English speakers reviewing an English book written by two equally foreign authors? Seriously? I know that I live in a glass house, but hacking a quick rant on GoodReads is hardly the same as authoring a full book for commercial publication.

2. Even content-wise, the book could do with a review to eliminate numerous substantial flaws, including a few glaring cut-and-paste errors in the code examples.

3. The text does not always appear to address what a reader like myself might want to know. The authors devote four pages to properties of the binary number system (how is that relevant to Qlik Sense?) but later on simply assume that the reader knows JavaScript. How many JavaScript coders have not heard about binary numbers?

4. Did I mention that the review process at Packt Publishing is flawed or nonexistent? Oh yes, I did, in a previous review

The good bits are mostly in the second half of the book. I rather liked the overview of the APIs, the introduction to the relevant JavaScript libraries (mainly Angular, Require and D3), the approach to extensions and the 3 ways of embedding objects in a mashup. None of these topics is fully covered (they could not be) but the description is sufficient to invite online searching and further reading.