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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By : Abhishek Agarwal
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Hands-On Dashboard Development with QlikView

By: Abhishek Agarwal

Overview of this book

QlikView is one of the market leaders when it comes to building effective Business Intelligence solutions. This book will show how you can leverage its power to build your own dashboards to tell your own data story. The book starts with showing you how to connect your data to QlikView and create your own QlikView application. You will learn how to add data from multiple sources, create a data model by joining data, and then review it on the front end. You will work with QlikView components such as charts, list boxes, input boxes, and text objects to create stunning visualizations that help give actionable business insights. You will also learn how to perform analysis on your data in QlikView and master the various types of security measures to be taken in QlikView. By the end of this book, you will have all the essential knowledge required for insightful data storytelling and creating useful BI dashboards using QlikView.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

This marks the end of the first chapter. In this chapter, we looked at QlikView and learned what it is, how it works, and where it can be used. We learned how to install and configure it for use in our system. After that, we explored the various functions in QlikView by looking at one of the examples provided in the application. Finally, we looked at the various terminologies in QlikView and how they affect our work.

In the next chapter, we will look at getting data in QlikView, and creating our first app.