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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

Chapter 1. QlikView Fundamentals

If you are reading this book, then you are already familiar with the power of QlikView. You are on your way to utilize the in-memory and associative power of QlikView to build better insights for your organization. Business intelligence applications developed in QlikView are helping organizations worldwide in transforming their raw data into useful information.

Before jumping into creating data transformations and visualization in QlikView, we will cover the basics of this book. This book will cover all the essentials of QlikView designer and developer concepts. It will start with basics of QlikView, and then dive into loading data, performing transformations, creating visualizations, and deployment of the application. In each chapter, you will understand the key concepts and follow step-by-step exercises.

The first chapter will cover the development life cycle of QlikView, an introduction to a fictitious company Adventure works Inc., and an introduction to the adventure works data model.

In this chapter, we will learn about:

  • QlikView components and installation

  • QlikView basics

  • Problem definition of a fictitious company

  • Understanding existing data model and tables

  • Development environment setup