The data is growing at a higher pace so does the need to understand data. There are many applications that perform data analysis and design, but QlikView takes Business Intelligence to the next level. The ability of QlikView to extract and present the data in a way that the human mind thinks, has made QlikView hugely popular. The associative nature of the QlikView data model has made business discovery fairly simple.
This book is being designed in a way that provides equal value to a novice BI developer and a seasoned practitioner. This book starts with the basics of QlikView, data warehousing and works through creating data models and visualizations. This book covers all the topics for the QlikView designer and developer and can be used as a reference guide in new or ongoing implementations.
Each chapter in the book follows a structure:
Each chapter will cover the essentials of the topic in the chapter.
This book covers both QlikView developer/Data model and QlikView designer/visualization topics.
Each topic is explained first and then followed by a step–by-step exercise. Readers can follow these exercises to create their own data model and dash boarding application.
This book uses the Adventure Works database; most readers will have familiarity with this database. There is tons of information available online on this database, so users will easily understand.
This book also comes with data in MS Access, Excel, and text files. It is also accompanied with QlikView solutions/qvw's that the reader can download and follow.
Chapter 1, QlikView Essentials, provides the basics of QlikView. It gives an overview of the QlikView architecture. It also provides instructions on how to download QlikView. You get to know about the star schema and learn about the underlining data model used in the book.
Chapter 2, Extract, Transform, and Load, as the name suggests, dives into building a data model in QlikView by extracting, transforming, and loading data. In this chapter, readers will learn about using scripts to load data from different sources and data transformation.
Chapter 3, Optimizing Your Data Model, deals with techniques to optimize a data model. This involves different ways to join data and data aggregation.
Chapter 4, Data Modeling Challenges, helps you in understanding and resolving different data modeling challenges. You learn about loading some special table types. You will also learn about the best practices of data modeling.
Chapter 5, Creating Dashboards, gives you the opportunity to learn about different dash boarding practices and create different visualization objects.
Chapter 6, Comparative Analysis, enforces the importance of data comparison in the dashboards using Set Analysis and Alternate State. You also learn about implementing what-if analysis.
Chapter 7, Securing Your Application, teaches how to secure your dashboard application.
Chapter 8, Application Deployment, provides an overview of servers and how applications can be deployed on the server.
To follow this book, QlikView Desktop is required. QlikView desktop can be downloaded for free from Qlik.com by following the steps in Chapter 1, QlikView Essentials. To run QlikView desktop, you will need a minimum of 2 GB RAM and 2 GB of hard disk. Windows 7 or higher is recommended. Though not compulsory, knowledge of Business Intelligence terms and SQL knowledge will be helpful.
This book covers all the essentials of QlikView application building. The book is written for novice developers who want to learn building dashboard applications using QlikView. This book will also help developers who are working on other applications but want to adopt QlikView as a next step in their career. This book covers all the aspects of QlikView from developers and designers to deployment.
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Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "After loading this statement drop %TempKeyField as it was required only for comparison."
A block of code is set as follows:
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Use Debug option from File menu to debug your script."
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