Course Overview
Qlik’s free training offering is aimed at people and organizations getting started with its analytics and data-integration tools. The practical starting point is creating your first Qlik application. For someone exploring Qlik, that gives the learning a concrete purpose: move beyond reading about the platform and begin working toward an app that uses data.
The page also introduces Qlik Sense learning around business insight, visualization, and analysis. Alongside this product-focused material, Qlik highlights broader data-literacy education and several ways to assess knowledge. These serve different purposes. Free training helps you learn; skills assessments help you evaluate your ability; qualifications and expert certifications provide separate ways to demonstrate knowledge. Keeping those distinctions clear makes it easier to choose a useful next step without mistaking the free offering for a subscription or certification package.
What You Will Learn
The learning areas highlighted on the page include:
- Getting started with a Qlik application: Use introductory training and supporting resources to work toward your first app.
- Working with Qlik Sense: Develop familiarity with using the product to explore data and support business understanding.
- Data visualization and analysis: Learn how visual exploration and analysis can help you interpret data.
- Data analytics and integration: Access introductory learning across the two areas named in the free training offering.
- Data literacy: Explore product-independent education about understanding, analyzing, and using data.
These are the learning themes presented on the page, rather than a module-by-module syllabus. The useful distinction is between learning to work with Qlik tools and learning to reason about data more generally. Both can matter, but they address different needs: one supports product use, while the other supports interpretation and decision-making.
Who Is This Course For?
This offering is a sensible starting point if your immediate goal is to build a first Qlik app or begin exploring Qlik Sense. It is also relevant to organizations introducing employees to Qlik, particularly when some people need product knowledge while others need a stronger understanding of data.
Learners who prefer a practical objective may find the first-app focus helpful. Instead of choosing training solely around a credential, you can begin with something you want to create and use the available learning resources to support that goal.
For experienced Qlik practitioners seeking to demonstrate expert-level capability, the certification route described elsewhere on the page is more directly aligned with that objective. Those exams target people with hands-on experience across Qlik applications or deployments. Introductory training and expert assessment should therefore be treated as different stages, not equivalent outcomes.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- There is no training charge for the free offering. You can explore the introductory resources without choosing a paid learning subscription.
- The first-app objective is practical. It connects learning with an identifiable task rather than presenting analytics only as a collection of concepts.
- Qlik Sense learning covers useful analytical activities. Visualization, analysis, and business insight are directly relevant to working with data.
- The wider learning ecosystem offers next steps. Skills assessments can provide personalized training recommendations, while qualifications and certifications address different assessment goals.
Cons
- The product-focused training is tied to Qlik. If your main goal is to learn another analytics platform, the Qlik app and Qlik Sense material will not directly serve that objective.
- The introductory focus is not an expert-level pathway. Learners seeking to prove advanced Qlik expertise should consider the separately presented certification exams.
- Learning and credentials require different choices. Qualifications belong to the Qlik Learning Subscription, so the free training should not be selected as though it were that qualification package.
FAQ
Is this training free?
Yes. Qlik presents the analytics and data-integration training as available at no charge, including learning and help aimed at creating a first Qlik app.
What is the main practical goal?
The clearest starting objective is building your first Qlik application. The page also highlights Qlik Sense learning for visualizing and analyzing data to support business insight.
Does free training mean an included Qlik qualification?
No. The page places qualifications within the Qlik Learning Subscription. It presents expert certifications separately, with exams intended for learners who already have hands-on Qlik experience.
How can I decide what to study next?
Qlik offers skills assessments that evaluate your ability and provide personalized training recommendations. These can help you choose a next step based on your current knowledge rather than selecting learning material at random.
Explore Qlik’s official free training resources if building your first app or getting started with Qlik Sense matches your current goal.
