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QlikView Essentials

By : Chandraish Sinha
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QlikView Essentials

By: Chandraish Sinha

Overview of this book

This guide demonstrates just how easy it is to get started with QlikView and create your own BI application. Featuring an introduction to its core features before exploring how to load data and model it, you’ll soon become more confident that you can take full advantage of QlikView’s capabilities.. You will also learn how to use QVD files with QlikView – and how they offer a simpler way of handling data. After digging deeper into data handling, as you learn how to use mapping tables and create a master calendar, you’ll then find out how to get the most from QlikView’s visualization features – vital if you are to use your data insights effectively. From accessible and user friendly dashboards to strategies and best practices for subjecting data to further analysis, you can be confident that you’ll be prepared to get the most out of your data with QlikView. With details on how to finally secure your application and deploy it for a successful integration in your organization, QlikView Essentials underlines exactly why QlikView is becoming more and more popular for businesses that understand the value of data.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
QlikView Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

QlikView application deployment


Once the QlikView visualization application is developed, it is deployed on the QlikView server. Users access dashboards from the server through the access point:

  • QlikView applications/Qvw are developed using the QlikView Desktop. These applications contain data load scripts that generate QVDs and QlikView dashboards with visualization objects. A developer can use their desktop or laptop to develop these applications.

  • Once Qvws are developed, they are placed in the Source Documents folder. A Source Documents folder is a Windows folder located on the QlikView server. A folder structure may be created and maintained to host multiple applications catering to different business units of an organization.

  • The Source Documents folder and other server management operations are performed from the QlikView Management Console (QMC).

  • Admin or authorized developers use the QMC to create tasks. These tasks are scheduled to run data load scripts and dashboard applications.

  • These...