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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 have learned about deploying your application on the QlikView server. We learned about different components of the server and different options available to the administrator to manage the application. This chapter also gives an understanding of different Client Access Licenses, which are important when setting up the QlikView environment. Finally, we learned about creating tasks and triggers.

With this chapter, we have reached the end of this book. In this book we have learned the full life cycle of a typical QlikView implementation.

Over the course of this book we have learned essentials pertaining to different aspects of QlikView. We have learned the complete ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) cycle by writing scripts in script editor. We also learned how to create an interactive visualization application and learned about the use of different functions and comparative analysis. Finally, we learned about securing the application and deploying it on the server...