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QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover
Book Image

QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen, Stephen Redmond, Karl Pover

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful business intelligence platforms around, and if you want to transform data into insights, it is one of the best options you have at hand. Use this Learning Path, to explore the many features of QlikView to realize the potential of your data and present it as impactful and engaging visualizations. Each chapter in this Learning Path starts with an understanding of a business requirement and its associated data model and then helps you create insightful analysis and data visualizations around it. You will look at problems that you might encounter while visualizing complex data insights using QlikView, and learn how to troubleshoot these and other not-so-common errors. This Learning Path contains real-world examples from a variety of business domains, such as sales, finance, marketing, and human resources. With all the knowledge that you gain from this Learning Path, you will have all the experience you need to implement your next QlikView project like a pro. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • QlikView for Developers by Miguel Ángel García, Barry Harmsen • Mastering QlikView by Stephen Redmond • Mastering QlikView Data Visualization by Karl Pover
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
QlikView: Advanced Data Visualization
Contributors
Preface
Index

Common QIX Engine


The main difference compared to previous versions is that the underlying engine of QlikView has been replaced with the updated QIX Engine 2.0. This is the same engine that powers the other products in the Qlik portfolio (Qlik Sense Enterprise and the Qlik Analytics Platform, discussed later). Besides performance improvements over the previous version, this common engine makes it easier to share data models between QlikView and the other Qlik products, notably Qlik Sense. The shared code base of the engine also ensures that future investments that Qlik does in features, performance, security, and connectivity can be easily back ported to QlikView.

64-bit only

Where previously there were both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the QlikView software, QlikView 12 desktop and server are only available in the 64-bit version. The 32-bit QlikView desktop version, with its memory limited to 2 GB, has become outdated. If you have a hard requirement to still use a 32-bit version of the software...