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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about resolving data modeling challenges by loading a Crosstable and a link table. We also learned about the importance and creation of a master calendar.

Slowly changing dimensions are also handled using the IntervalMatch function.

Once done with all the data transformations, we loaded tables in QVDs, as reading data from QVDs is faster than reading from a database. We learned about optimized load to improve data load performance. This finished the scripting and data modeling in QlikView. This chapter also provided the best practices of data modeling that should be followed in order to create a better performing data model.

In upcoming chapters, we will learn about creating visualizations in QlikView using the data model we created so far. In the next chapter, we will learn about data visualization best practices and will create different charts and tables.