What you can do in Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes

Qlik’s products let you work with apps and visualizations to get an overview of your data. You can make informed decisions and new discoveries by seeing the relationships in your data.

As you can see on Qlik Demos, our products serve many different purposes. You can map a supply chain, track medical equipment costs, or manage your fantasy sports draft.

Qlik Sense is a data analytics platform that lets users of all skill levels explore data and make discoveries. There two main areas of interaction in Qlik Sense: the cloud hub and apps. Your user role determines what you can and cannot do in Qlik Sense.

User roles

All members of a Qlik Sense tenant have a user role. Qlik Sense has two user roles that can be assigned to Qlik Sense cloud hub users: analyzer and professional.

Analyzer

Analyzers are app consumers. You can use the cloud hub to access and explore apps shared by other users, but you cannot create your own apps.

You can explore and make data discoveries in apps. In some apps, you can add your own private sheets and stories, but you cannot share these with other users.

As an analyzer, you can collaborate with other users in shared spaces. You can view the apps in the shared space.

Professional

Professionals are users who need access to all the features in a Qlik Sense deployment. A professional user can create, edit, and share apps. Professional users can also create shared spaces.

If you are a professional, you can have many different roles within the cloud hub. You might be an app creator, creating apps by yourself or collaborating with other members. You might be an administrator of shared or managed spaces, coordinating access to content in the spaces.

Tenant administrators

Tenant administrators are users who manage and administer Qlik Sense deployments. Tenant administrators have similar permissions to professional users in the cloud hub. They also have additional administrative abilities. Tenant administrators are the only users with access to the management console.

To learn more about administering Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes, see Administer Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes on Kubernetes.

Apps

The core of Qlik Sense data analysis is the app. Apps let you make data discoveries using the visualizations in the apps. Apps are made from data sources, sheets, and stories:

• To learn about making apps, see Creating apps.
• For a tutorial about building apps, see Tutorial - Building an App.
• To learn about exploring apps, see Using apps.

Data sources

Qlik Sense apps have two tools for adding data sources and loading data: 

• Data manager: Offers a visual experience for adding data to your app. You can drag and drop data tables to associate and transform your data.
• Data load editor: Lets you edit the load script directly.

App creators can use a combination of these tools to create their data load script. Data sources can also be added directly to personal and shared spaces.

App creators can define relationships between data sources in an app, building a relationship between different data sources. When you load data, it is loaded into your app using the parameters defined in the load script. The data is available as fields for analysis in your app. For more information about data sources, see Managing data.

Sheets

Sheets are the primary area for exploration, analysis, and discovery in a Qlik Sense app.

Sheets are where app creators add visualizations containing app data. Visualizations can take the forms of charts, such as bar charts, pie charts, and tables. Visualizations in Qlik Sense are interactive. To learn more about creating visualizations, see Choosing and using visualizations.

You can monitor visualizations from apps in the cloud hub. This enables you to view visualizations without opening apps. For more information, see Monitoring visualizations in cloud hubs

App consumers can make selections within visualizations. As selections are made, other visualizations will update to reflect these selections. For more information about exploring sheets, see Using apps.

Stories

Stories are a tool for sharing your data insights. Stories enable users to combine reporting, presentation, and exploratory analytics.

Stories are presented in a timeline of slides. Slides contain snapshots users have taken during data analysis. Snapshots are a graphical representation of the state of a data object at a certain point in time. The state of the snapshot does not change when the state of the source visualization is updated. As stories are part of the app, users can return to the live data in the story.

Stories can also contain live data sheets, which function in the same way as sheets outside the story view, enabling users to explore the data as part of their story. For more information about stories, see Data storytelling.

The Qlik Sense cloud hub

The cloud hub is the central point for accessing content created by yourself and other members of your tenants. The cloud hub is divided into three main sections:

• Home: The landing page when you access the cloud hub. You can view and create apps.
• Explore: Displays the apps and spaces that you can access.
• Profile: You can view your favorite apps, personal collections, and apps you have added to the cloud hub.

To learn more about the different sections of the cloud hub, see The cloud hub.

Spaces

Spaces are work areas within the cloud hub that enable different degrees of collaboration and sharing of apps. There are three kinds of spaces:

• Personal: Only you can see the content in your personal space. You can share content from your personal space with other members of the cloud hub.
• Shared: Shared spaces are for collaborating with other members of the cloud hub. In a shared space, members have different roles that control what they can do in the shared space. Some members might be able to create and edit apps in the space while other members can only view the apps in the space. Shared spaces are private to members.
• Managed: Managed spaces are for controlled access to apps. If apps contain sensitive data and access must be carefully controlled. Like shared spaces, managed spaces, where they have strict controls for governed access to content within that space.

For more information about spaces, see Working in spaces.

Management console

Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes is administered from the management console Tenant administrators can manage license, user assignments, spaces, themes, and extensions.

The management console is divided into four sections:

• Governance: Manage users, licenses, spaces, schedules, events, and links.
• Content: Manage custom content, such as themes and extensions.
• Integration: Manage security aspects for integration.
• Configuration: Enable feature settings and configure identity providers.

For information on management console with Qlik Sense Enterprise on Kubernetes, see Management console.