KMS QlikView to Qlik Sense Migration Services

Many organizations are faced with the question of moving their existing QlikView applications into Qlik’s more modern product offering, Qlik Sense.

The reason most often quoted is that users will have more freedom building their own lay-outs and charts and Qlik Sense works better on mobile devices like tablets and Mobile Phones.

KMS Offers Licensing, Architectural and Application Migration Services to democratize and empower users across enterprise

Benefits of Migration

HTML 5

Qlik Sense is built on HTML5 and so it is mobile friendly. All applications dynamically resize to fit your screen regardless of the device, unlike in QlikView.

Self Service

There is an emphasis on self-service in a controlled manner. Super users can create charts and tables and publish to dashboards while other users consume the dashboards.

Better Visualization

Improved look and feel, especially with regards to charts and visualizations.

Extension Support

Able to connect to D3 and other JavaScript libraries to create extension objects and extended functionality.

Smart Search

Qlik Sense has smart search functionality so that you can type in some keywords and see corresponding results instantly. You can also tag fields with synonyms so that they can be found easier

Improved Security

Better Security using Management Console over Data Connections and ability to give role based security access to dashboards

KMS Approach to Migration

With over 15 years of Qlik experience and having implemented over a 1000 projects KMS has created a proven methodology to migrate QlikView to Qlik Sense. The KMS methodology consists of a Qlik View to Qlik Sense conversion pack to help Customers make this transition seamlessly.

The Conversion pack includes:

Conversion Templates, Extensions, Themes
Governance Utilities /Applications
Tagging and Conversion Services
Data Connection Migration
Script Changes for Data Migration
Section Access/Hidden Scripts Migration
Loading Schedule Migration
Self-Service Framework
Installation and configuration of Qlik Sense Environments (Including Nprinting)
Co-Existence of QV and QS Environments during large migrations
Teaming and Consulting Services for large Scale migration projects
Security and Architecture Frameworks
Self Service Enablement & Knowledge Transfer Sessions

Our migration process includes the following:

1

Set up and Architecture Workshop

KMS conducts Architecture and consulting services for customers to ensure smooth transition between QlikView and Qlik Sense environments

2

Collecting Initial Statistics and metadata for documents

Look at your current QlikView solution – determine how your ETL processes are performed and what needs to be migrated.
Backup all your existing QlikView apps, for all tiers of your architecture.
Run Document Analyzer on the Source QV Documents and Collect statistics about the conversion process using the Document Analyzer tool.
Use the Batch Script to mass generate statistics and QVD Files for the corresponding application

3

Quality Check

Ideally, existing QlikView dashboards would run alongside newly built Qlik Sense dashboards and quality checks would be performed between the two to make sure the data model, measures, and objects are returning the same results as before.

In cases where there are 100’s of apps that need to be migrated, a data governance framework that allows you to connect both QlikView, Qlik Sense, and your underlying source systems (both RDBMS and Hadoop), and compare both data and components may be required