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QlikView for Developers

By : Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen
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QlikView for Developers

By: Miguel Angel Garcia, Barry Harmsen

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease. Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success. A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively. You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
QlikView for Developers
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

About the Reviewer

Steve Dark heads up Quick Intelligence, a business intelligence consultancy with 100 percent focus on the Qlik platform. With clients in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and finance, we cover and support the entire Qlik project lifecycle and ecosystem for our customers. Through the numerous successful implementations and challenges met for these clients, Steve has in depth expertise and a wealth of experience in QlikView and more recently Qlik Sense.

It is this experience that Steve shares through his blog at http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/qlikview-blog/ and via other channels, such as Qlik Community. This sharing of knowledge and enthusiasm for the Qlik platform has been recognized by Qlik, as they made Steve a Luminary and a Community MVP.

Steve has also been on the technical review team for QlikView 11 For Developers, QlikView 11 For Developers Cookbook, QlikView Scripting, and QlikView Server and Publisher. All of these titles are published by Packt Publishing.