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After Alteryx announced a partnership with Qlik®, our consultants at BIPB set out to prove integration between Alteryx and QlikView®. The Alteryx Visual Analytics Kit for Tableau was already a huge success, so we only needed to build out the corresponding kit for QlikView to achieve the goal. This meant building nine marketable QV dashboards utilizing the same underlying data. It was a fun challenge to meet aesthetic expectations set by the initial release, but it worked quite nicely!
Upon the official release of Qlik Sense a few weeks ago, we set out to prove Alteryx integration with Sense too. Sense is a separate product from QlikView, and although the scripting is largely compatible between the two tools, the front ends are completely different. Sense is Qlik's answer to the rapidly growing market for self-service data visualization, touting users' abilities to make custom visualizations on the fly. We see the strengths of Sense and made an effort to highlight them in the Sense Kit. We included a number of measures, dimensions, and even pre-configured objects in the new 'Items' menu that users can drag and drop onto the canvas to create their own dashboards. We also created 'Storylines' on each dashboard which highlight business value in the data while quietly doubling as a tutorial to new Sense users.
Wait, we're 250 words in and haven't said anything about Alteryx yet. What gives?
The total effort within Alteryx is negligible. We switched one setting on the Output node to generate .QVX files for Qlik products. Once we had .QVX files for QlikView, we didn't need to change a thing for Sense, since Qlik products read the same files. So there was virtually no work done in Alteryx at all for these projects. And that's just the point, isn't it! Alteryx allows the ability to build a single repository of transformed data files to use with any data discovery tool, all produced from one golden source ETL process. In this way, an organization can deploy any combination of presentation tools, point them all to the same data repository from Alteryx, and create "apples to apples" comparisons between environments.
There are many reasons to like Alteryx. We hope our work on the Visual Analytics Kits highlights this one – download it today.
