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作       者:Ganapati Hegde,Kaushik Solanki

出  版  社:Packt Publishing

出版时间:2017-10-20

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Become a full-fledged Qlik Sense Consultant with the help of this unique guide About This Book ? Become a successful Qlik consultant with the help of this insightful guide ? Build what is in line as well as exceeding your customer’s expectations from your Qlik Sense solutions using this highly practical guide ? Build result-driven optimized BI solutions using Qlik with the help of industry examples Who This Book Is For If you have basic familiarity with Qlik Sense and want to upgrade your skills to become a full-fledged Qlik Consultant, this book is for you. With this book, you will be able to create efficient business intelligence solutions that would fetch client satisfaction, and in turn, more projects. What You Will Learn ? Understand the importance and expectations of a consultant’s role ? Engage with the customer to understand the ir goals and future objectives ? Design the optimum architecture, using the best practices for the development and implementation of your projects ? Ensure successful adoption using real-life examples to make your learning complete ? Learn about the important stages of a Qlik project’s life cycle In Detail Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards. Style and approach This book will be a hands-on guide that will teach you all the what-to-do’s, when-to-do’s, and how-to-do’s for becoming a successful Qlik Sense Consultant. With the help of various business scenarios, the book will cover real-world problems that you can relate to. Various solutions in the book will be backed up by the thought process of why are these solutions used and how you can implement them in your own business environment.
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Title Page

Copyright

Implementing Qlik Sense

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who is this book for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Consultant - An Introduction

Understanding who is a consultant

Importance of being a consultant

Difference between a developer and consultant

Roles and responsibilities of a consultant

Roles of a consultant

Interacting with business users

Understanding the data sources

Setting the expectations correctly

Designing the perfect solution

Plan the Go-live

Plan for the future road-map

Responsibilities of a consultant

Doing value adds

Documentation

Implementing best practices

User Acceptance and Training (UAT)

Post Go-live

Strategy that a consultant should follow

Size of the company

What system do they use currently?

Why do they want a new system?

What are the objectives and goals?

Are the stakeholders identified?

Is there a project champion?

What are the data sources?

Is the data clean?

Future road map

Summary

Preparing for the Project

Knowing about the company

Understanding the existing landscape

Existing data sources

Customer Relation Management

Help desk applications

Human resource systems

Enterprise Resource Planning

Social media

Data warehouses

Miscellaneous

Existing BI systems

Manual reporting

Traditional BI tools

Next generation tools

Understanding the need for change

Challenges with manual reporting

Challenges with traditional reporting

Challenges with new age tools

Understanding organizational hierarchy

What you need to study and prepare

Identifying your champion

Summary

Prerequisites to Start a Project

Understanding business process

Looking at the sales function

Business to business

Direct sales

Indirect sales

Business to consumer

Direct sales

Indirect sales

Mixed mode

Product companies

Services companies

Product and services mix

New age companies

Understanding finance

Financial planning

Spend analytics

Cash flow management

Profitability analysis

Risk and compliance

Understanding human resources

Hiring and on-boarding

Reward management

Workforce management

Training and development

Understanding supply chain management

Material sourcing

Forecasting and planning

Production

Warehouse

Transportation

Material returns

Others

Understanding marketing

Understanding information technology

Understanding procurement

Gathering brief requirements

Brief project scope

Planning risk and its mitigation

Identifying risk

Evaluating the risk

Plan of action to tackle risk

Control and monitor

Documentation

Example

Summary

Requirement Gathering

Understanding requirement gathering

Importance of requirement gathering

Focused deliverables

Project timelines

Resource planning, roles, and responsibility

Milestone and task definitions

Success criteria

Executing requirement gathering

Functional requirement gathering

Technical requirement gathering

Infrastructural requirement gathering

Brainstorming

Requirement workshops

Document analysis

Reverse engineering

Questionnaires

Must have, should have, and good to have strategies

Must have requirements

Should have requirements

Good to have requirements

Questionnaires

Functional questions

Sales module

Technical questions (database)

Technical questions (non-database)

Must ask information

Business objective

Current business challenges

Success criteria

Key stakeholders

Common mistakes in requirement gathering

Lack of business understanding

Assumptions

Communication problems

No participation in meeting

No recurring conversations

Gap analysis

Documentation

Sign off

Authentication and authorization

Documentation

Front page

Introduction page

Introduction to document

Scope of the document

Assumptions and constraints

Meetings held

Abbreviations used in documentation

Requirement category

Functional requirement

Business use case

KPIs

Dimensions

Functionality requirement

Current reporting data flow

Data sources

Tables and fields listing

Other logic and mappings

Visualization requirement

Authorization requirement

Risk and mitigation plan

User acceptance

Example

Summary

Architecture Design

An introduction and importance

Parameters for infrastructure design

Hardware infrastructure

RAM (Random Access Memory)

CPU (Central Processing Unit)

HDD (Hard Disk Drive)

Number of concurrent Users

Number of Applications

Things to remember

Example calculation

Software infrastructure

Operating system

Microsoft office

Microsoft .NET Framework

Relevant ODBC/OLEDB Drivers

Qlik connectors

PostgreSQL

Security infrastructure

Network infrastructure

Hardware and software requirements

Installation architecture

Node

Site

Single node architecture

Multi node architecture

Qlik sense repository database

Synchronized persistence

Shared persistence

Backup and restore design

DR (Disaster Recovery) server setup

Physical backup

Applications

Application data

Log files

Qlik Sense certificates

Repository database

Example Scenario

Hardware requirements

Calculation

Software requirements

Security requirements

Network requirements

User access requirement

Installation architecture

Backup and recovery

Data architecture

QVF

QVD

Parameters of data architecture

Data source

Business logics

Frequency

QVD Tier Architecture

One Tier

Two tier architecture

Three tire architecture

QVF Architecture

Two Tier QVF Architecture

Three tier QVF architecture

Hybrid architecture

Example case study

Data Sources

Business logic

Frequency

Data flow diagrams

External entity

Process

Data store

Data flow

Example of creating a DFD

Summary

Development

Data extraction process

Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)

Extract

Full Load

Incremental Load

Building Data Model

Common challenges of Data modeling

Synthetic Keys

Removing the Fields

Renaming the Fields

Concatenate

Link Table

Circular Reference

Multiple Fact tables with different Granularity

Match the granularity

Generic Keys

Script Management

Separate Code

Comments

Naming Conventions

Best Practices in Data Modeling

Data modeling Validation

Row Count

Field Meta Data

Security Strategy

Visualization Strategy

Choices of Objects

Use of Extensions

Visualization best practices

Story Telling

Finding the insights for the story

Creating the story

Adding the Screenshots

Adding Text

Add shapes

Add effect library

Add images

Add sheets

Story presentation

Sharing the story

Summary

Validation, UAT and Go-Live

Introduction and importance

Data validation

Data type

Null values

Duplicate values

Script validation

Business logic validation

Visualization validation

Chart type validation

Dimensions and expression validation

Business flow validation

Performance validation

User acceptance testing

Go-Live Strategy

Summary

Post Go-Live

Adoption strategy

User training

Train the trainer

Qlik Sense Administration training

Training Process

A single long training

Multiple short trainings

Training Methodology

User Manual

Technical document

Administration

Product Usage

Functional document

FAQs

Top management use

Videos

Technical Videos

Functional videos

Maintenance strategy

Application performance

Upgrade infrastructure

Application optimization

Review visualization

How much data to keep

On-demand app generation

Data quality check

New updates and versions

Source changes

Auditing strategy

Documentation

Summary

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

The art of listening

Importance of documentation

Avoiding Over-Committing

Preparing for the Unexpected

Avoiding last minute surprises

Missed timelines

Infrastructure

People changing

Data Validation Issues

Hand-holding

Summary

Knowledge Sets

Getting to know Insurance

Insured

Insurance Companies

General Insurance

Life insurance

Re-Insurer

Terms frequently used in insurance

Insurance organization

Distribution

Sales

Marketing

Service (Post Sales)

Front Office

Product Management

Underwriting

Investments

Operations

Policy Administration

Claims Processing

Back office

Finance

Collections

Risk

HR

IT

Analytics

KPIs which are used in Insurance

Use cases in insurance

Sales performance

Marketing Performance

Investments

Risk

Underwriting and Claims

BI/IT/Reporting

Knowing Pharmaceuticals and Life-sciences

Vendors

Pharmaceutical company

Distributors

Pharmacy

Online pharmacies

Doctors/Physicians

End consumer (patient)

Terms frequently used in pharmaceutical industry

API

Batch Processing

Brand Name

Continuous Processing

Expiry

FDA

Generics

KOL

New Drug Application

OTC

Primary Sales

Secondary Sales

Tertiary Sales

Therapeutic Areas

Pharma organization

Sales

Marketing

Finance

SCM

Research and development

IT/Reporting

Manufacturing/Distribution

HR/Training

Clinical

KPIs which are looked at by Pharma industry

Use Cases in Pharma

Sales and marketing

Executive management

Supply Chain Management

Finance

Human resources

Knowing Retail

Retail organization

Sales

Marketing

Finance

IT/HR/Analytics

Merchandising

Supply Chain Management

Summary

A Real Life Case-Study

Introduction to Adventure Works

Preparation

Studying AWC Website

Understanding the Business Process

Getting to know Organization Hierarchy

Identifying Business Champion

Understanding the existing system and landscape

Understanding Business Challenges

Gathering Business Requirements

Defining approach and solution architecture

Execution of project

Extraction

Extraction in our example

Data modeling

Dashboard

Story

Post Go-Live Steps

Summary

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