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Version: v2.4

How to Select in an App

Qlik offers an entirely different technology for exploring your data: The Qlik Associative Engine.

Designed specifically for interactive, free-form exploration and analysis, the Associative Engine fully combines large numbers of data sources and indexes them to understand the associations – without leaving any data behind. It offers powerful on-the-fly calculation and aggregation that instantly updates analytics and highlights relationships in the data, exposing both associated and unrelated values after each click. This means that any user – at any skill level – can search and explore their data in any direction, following their curiosity wherever it leads. It’s like having peripheral vision, removing blind spots and uncovering hidden insights that aren’t available in query-based tools.

✓ All your data

  • Easily combine all your data sources, no matter how many, how large, or how imperfect. Qlik’s Associative Engine indexes all data relationships with no data left behind and no need to fully clean and model data in advance. It’s all available and ready to be explored.

✓ Explore without boundaries

  • Search and explore across all your data in any direction with no pre-aggregated data or predefined queries to hold you back. Quickly probe for insight with interactive selections and global search, and instantly pivot your thinking based on what you see. Take away the limits from your analytics.

✓ Insights as fast as you can think

  • Powerful, on-the-fly calculation and aggregation instantly updates all analytics with each click. Critical thinking is no longer derailed by slow queries or ongoing data preparation needs. This lets analysis move at the speed of thought, even with massive numbers of users and complex data sets.

In the following video you can see how you can select in the app - via filters, charts or the selection tool:

💡 Info: All selections are retained in all sheets.