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QlikView 11 for Developers

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QlikView 11 for Developers

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView's disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers. This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach in a practical environment, and apply proven best practices on each topic. Throughout the book, we will build a QlikView app based on real data about Airline Operations that will help "HighCloud Airlines" make informed business decisions and analysis-guided strategies. HighCloud Airlines executives are evaluating if entering the US market is a good strategy and, if so, which line of business should they focus their investments on; they need QlikView to make the best decision. The application will be evolving chapter by chapter, along with your skills, going from a simple proof of concept to creating a Data Model, adding a custom style, building a Dashboard and handling and manipulating the source data via script. We will meet the "HighCloud Airlines" requirement by using many different data visualization objects and time-saving techniques. The whole application uses real data taken from the Bureau of Transportations statistics of the US and encompasses the operations of Airlines both domestic and international. With three years worth of data, you will help HighCloud Airlines discover where people travel the most, which are the Carriers with the most market share, what is the average load factor per airline, which aircraft is the most used to perform flights, which are the busiest airports, and a whole universe of new insights.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Accessing custom data sources


OLE DB and ODBC are the most common types of connectivity you will find in corporate environments. However, there are certain data sources that cannot be accessed naturally via any of these standards. For these few (but increasing) scenarios, QlikView provides the ability to integrate what is called Custom Data Sources, and extract data from them and manipulate it as any other source.

We can access custom data sources just as we access any other common database: with a connector or a driver. In this case, we can either build our own custom provider, or buy it from a third-party. The former typically requires using C or C++ code to create the communication architecture between the custom data source and QlikView. QlikTech provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) to facilitate the construction of these programs, sometimes even including sample code.

An example of a custom data source would be Salesforce.com. The connectivity for Salesforce.com is provided by QlikTech...