If you are reading this book, it is very likely that you have heard of or worked with QlikView before. You will likely be an expert in manipulating data in the load script and juggling with set analysis to perfect expressions to give you the result you wish to see in a visualization or dashboard. But since Qlik Sense has come along, how different is it to the skill set you have in QlikView and how much of that can you transition to the new technology? From a technology point of view, Qlik Sense, being web-based and predominantly run under HTML 5 and JavaScript as opposed to the .NET framework, is still the same sauce you are cooking with. The great Qlik engine has remained almost identical, to the extent that you can blindly take over loading scripts or expressions as they are from QlikView applications.

This chapter will take you through the journey from being a QlikView developer to becoming a Qlik Sense developer. In brief, it will cover the following topics:

• Typical journey from QlikView to Qlik Sense
• The different approaches to projects
• The differences in the loading script
• The differences in the frontend
• Which new skill sets are required to transition to Qlik Sense
• Qlik Sense on mobile