An overview of the Qlik Sense product

This chapter will provide an overview of several of the major facets of the Qlik Sense software and what you need to understand to get started with Qlik Sense. We will not be covering the administration components or delving too deep into the advanced extensibility capabilities, but, by the end of this chapter, you will understand what Qlik Sense is and how you can use it.

The components of Qlik Sense

In the following sections, we will cover four major components of the Qlik Sense software:

• In-memory associative database
• The Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) engine:
  • Data manager
  • Script
  • Data model
• The visualization platform:
  • The hub
  • Applications
  • Sheets
  • Objects
• API and extensibility capabilities...