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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
Book Image

QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

What is new in the Qlik product portfolio?


Since the publication of the previous version of this book in 2012, the Qlik product suite has changed and expanded significantly, both through acquisitions and the introduction of new products. In this section, we will look at some of the most important changes and we will look at how these fit into the bigger picture.

Qlik Sense Enterprise and the Qlik Analytics Platform

Initially billed as QlikView.Next and anticipated to be an update of QlikView, Qlik Sense was launched as a new, separate product in September 2014. Regular users of QlikView will immediately notice that the frontend of Qlik Sense looks very different from QlikView:

With the introduction of Qlik Sense, Qlik suddenly had two similar products out in the market, which they dubbed the two product strategy. This strategy positions Qlik Sense not as an updated version of QlikView, but rather as a separate self-service visualization solution that co-exists with QlikView. At the same time...