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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

Point In Time Reporting


One of the most common use cases of Set Analysis is Point In Time Reporting. Having the ability to perform period-over-period analysis is a basic requirement in any BI tool and is easily performed in QlikView with the aid of set expressions. However, needless to say, Set Analysis is also amazingly useful for the fulfillment of other special requirements.

Let's combine the acquired knowledge and apply it to add Point In Time Reporting to our Airline Operations document.

The challenge

HighCloud Airlines' executives require a dashboard to easily compare different performance indicators in a period-over-period basis. The different period comparisons they need are:

  • Current Year-To-Date indicators versus the same period last year

  • Current month versus same month last year

  • Current month versus previous month

The comparisons should be dynamic and based on the user's selections. So, if the user selects October 2010, the corresponding comparisons should be:

  • From January through October...