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Published inOct 2017
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Kaushik Solanki
Kaushik Solanki
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Kaushik Solanki

Kaushik Solanki is a computer engineer by profession. He is working at Predoole Analytics Pvt Ltd as Qlik Architect & Delivery Manager. He holds overall 9 years of experience working on Qlik technology. His passion is to educate everyone about "Data Literacy" and "Qlik". He loves to spend time on Qlik community to help Qlik developers to learn and excel. He has a great understanding of project delivery right from the business requirement to final implementation. His experience in various domains has helped business to take valuable business decisions.
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Ganapati Hegde
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Ganapati Hegde

Ganapati Hegde is an engineer by background. He carries an overall IT experience of over 16 years. He is very passionate about technology and is always looking out to learn newer technologies. He started his IT career with SK International where he headed Software Services and worked with myriad of technologies, including programming, databases, IT security, application virtualization, and cloud services. During his stint with SK International, he was involved in lot of integration projects and thus has good knowledge on API/SDK. He was instrumental in setting up practices such as RSA, Citrix, Oracle, and Salesforce. He is currently working with Predoole Analytics, an award winning Qlik partner in India, in the presales role. He has worked on BI projects in several industry verticals and works closely with customers, helping them in their BI strategies. His experience in other aspects of IT, like application design and development, cloud computing, networking, and IT Security, helps him to design perfect BI solutions. He conducts workshops to increase user awareness and drive adoption. He works on analysis of unstructured time stamped data and IOT as well, allowing customer to get business insights and help improve efficiency. This is being done with the help of big data platform Khika, which does real time co-relation of log data across sources. This helps customers mitigate risk and help in IT Audit and Compliance. Ganapati is now working on improving his knowledge of advanced analytics using technologies like R and python.
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Use of Extensions

Extensions, as the name suggests, allow you to extend the power of Qlik Sense by creating your own charts and graphs using the Qlik Sense APIs. Assume that you want to show some analysis to your business users but it cannot be shown using the available visualization library. In such cases, Qlik Sense allows you to create your own charts and use them in Qlik Sense application.

Qlik Sense has exposed several APIs to extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense. One of such APIs is visualization API. These are the same APIs that are used by Qlik Sense to create its own inbuilt visualizations.

If you are well versed with web technology like HTML and scripting like JavaScript, then you can easily create your own extensions. You can also use third-party APIs and visualization libraries, like D3, Chart.js, Echarts, and so on.

Let us have a look at few extensions which will...

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Kaushik Solanki

Kaushik Solanki is a computer engineer by profession. He is working at Predoole Analytics Pvt Ltd as Qlik Architect & Delivery Manager. He holds overall 9 years of experience working on Qlik technology. His passion is to educate everyone about "Data Literacy" and "Qlik". He loves to spend time on Qlik community to help Qlik developers to learn and excel. He has a great understanding of project delivery right from the business requirement to final implementation. His experience in various domains has helped business to take valuable business decisions.
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Ganapati Hegde

Ganapati Hegde is an engineer by background. He carries an overall IT experience of over 16 years. He is very passionate about technology and is always looking out to learn newer technologies. He started his IT career with SK International where he headed Software Services and worked with myriad of technologies, including programming, databases, IT security, application virtualization, and cloud services. During his stint with SK International, he was involved in lot of integration projects and thus has good knowledge on API/SDK. He was instrumental in setting up practices such as RSA, Citrix, Oracle, and Salesforce. He is currently working with Predoole Analytics, an award winning Qlik partner in India, in the presales role. He has worked on BI projects in several industry verticals and works closely with customers, helping them in their BI strategies. His experience in other aspects of IT, like application design and development, cloud computing, networking, and IT Security, helps him to design perfect BI solutions. He conducts workshops to increase user awareness and drive adoption. He works on analysis of unstructured time stamped data and IOT as well, allowing customer to get business insights and help improve efficiency. This is being done with the help of big data platform Khika, which does real time co-relation of log data across sources. This helps customers mitigate risk and help in IT Audit and Compliance. Ganapati is now working on improving his knowledge of advanced analytics using technologies like R and python.
Read more about Ganapati Hegde