An Introduction to Qliksense

- BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOL

What is Qlik Sense ?
 Imagine an analytics tool so intuitive, anyone in your company could easily
create personalized reports and dynamic dashboards to explore vast amounts
of data and find meaningful insights.

 That’s Qlik Sense !!!

 A revolutionary self-service data visualization and discovery application

designed for individuals, groups and organizations.

 With Qlik Sense, everyone in your organization can easily create flexible,
interactive visualizations and make meaningful decisions.
Unique Capabilities?
 Make stunning data discoveries and explore simple and complex data to find the hidden data
relationships you didn’t know you could find.

• Smart visualizations reveal hidden insights

• Smart Search gives you ultimate flexibility

• Explore multiple data sources in a single app

• Rich data storytelling helps you collaborate and share insights

• Extendable capability using APIs

• Info-graphics using Extensions

• Easy to Use

• In-Memory Solution and Direct Discovery

• Associative Engine
Qlik’s Associative Model
 Qlik’s associative model provides everyone with a simple and powerful way to
explore analytics and refine context, discover new data relationships, and
gain the right insights to make the best decisions.

 People can freely explore using simple searches and selections, asking
questions in any direction without restrictions or boundaries.

 Unlike query-based visualization tools and traditional BI, Qlik products do not
limit users to predefined hierarchies or preconceived notions of how data
should be related, allowing them to fully explore and understand how it truly
is related.
The Advantages of Associative Model
• Dynamic Association
 Associative Model extract complete data from the main dataset.

• Explore Freely in any direction

• See Actual relationships.

• See the whole story.

• Correct results

• Optimal performance
Associative (vs) Query Based Tools
Associative (vs) Query Based Tools
The drawbacks of query-based tools
 Partial views
 Query-based tools extract a subset of data from the main dataset and return it in
the form of a query result set.

 Limited flexibility
 If a business user wants to ask new questions or move in a direction beyond
simple filtering, the only choice is to build a new query or visualization.

 No context
 As a user interacts with a visualization to apply filters, other visualizations and
objects are not automatically kept in context. This is because each object is fed
by a discrete query result set, divorced from the others.
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 Data loss

 Incorrect results

 Poor performance

 Query based tools require users to have strong familiarity with the data model
in order to ensure correct results.
Qlik Sense Desktop and What it offers ?
 Use the Qlik Sense Desktop to create personalized, interactive
data visualizations, reports and dashboards.

 Drag-and-drop makes integrating data from multiple sources easy.

 This will empower you to discover more insights in your data in

just few minutes.

 Explore multiple data sources: Connect and view data from

multiple sources for a more comprehensive view.
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 Rich data storytelling:
 Collaborate and share analysis insights visually. Better communicate your
findings to your team. Move directly between stories and live analysis to
answer questions and speed up decision making.
Pre-Requisites for QS Installation?
Pre-Requisites for QS Installation? - Browser
Qlik Sense Product Information:
 Qlik Sense Desktop ports:
 Qlik Sense Desktop uses port 4848 by default.

 Qlik Sense Desktop storage

 This section describes where the Qlik Sense apps are stored when running Qlik Sense Desktop.

 Default storage:
 By default, Qlik Sense stores apps in the local file system
under C:\Users\{user}\Documents\Qlik\Sense.

 Portable format:
 A Qlik Sense app can be stored in the local file system in the proprietary .qvf format, which is a
portable format.

 A single app is stored as <AppName>.qvf, where <AppName> is the title of the app.
Opening Qlik Sense Desktop in a browser
 By default, Qlik Sense Desktop runs in a window of its own. But
you can also open it in a web browser.

 Do the following:
 Start Qlik Sense Desktop from the start menu.

 Open a (supported) web browser.

 Type http://localhost:4848/hub in the browser address bar.

 Qlik Sense Desktop opens in the web browser, showing the hub with all
your apps.
DEMO LAB - 1
 Creating the First App in Qlik Sense:

 Steps to be followed:
 Start Connecting to the Data Source

 Select the Tables/Fields

 Loading the Data and Data Model Viewer

 Create Sheets and Objects

 Add the Visualizations

Connecting to Different Sources
 Qliksense can seamlessly connect to various formats of Data:
 Connecting to Flat Files

 Connecting to Database
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