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QlikView 11 for Developers

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QlikView 11 for Developers

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView's disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers. This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach in a practical environment, and apply proven best practices on each topic. Throughout the book, we will build a QlikView app based on real data about Airline Operations that will help "HighCloud Airlines" make informed business decisions and analysis-guided strategies. HighCloud Airlines executives are evaluating if entering the US market is a good strategy and, if so, which line of business should they focus their investments on; they need QlikView to make the best decision. The application will be evolving chapter by chapter, along with your skills, going from a simple proof of concept to creating a Data Model, adding a custom style, building a Dashboard and handling and manipulating the source data via script. We will meet the "HighCloud Airlines" requirement by using many different data visualization objects and time-saving techniques. The whole application uses real data taken from the Bureau of Transportations statistics of the US and encompasses the operations of Airlines both domestic and international. With three years worth of data, you will help HighCloud Airlines discover where people travel the most, which are the Carriers with the most market share, what is the average load factor per airline, which aircraft is the most used to perform flights, which are the busiest airports, and a whole universe of new insights.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
QlikView 11 for Developers
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

User types


The data model within a single QlikView document can be used to serve the information needs of a wide range of users, from the executive to the operational level. As different user groups have different information needs, QlikView documents are often built using the Dashboards, Analysis, and Reports (DAR) approach. Of course, with a limited number of user types, it is inevitable that they are painted with a broad brush. Most QlikView users will fall into more than one user category. Let's take a look at each of them.

Dashboard users

Dashboards offer a quick, bird's-eye view of information. They are often used by executives and middle-management to gauge performance of a limited number of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) against predefined targets.

Data displayed in dashboards is usually aggregated at a high level. Drill-downs to more granular data, while technically not a problem in QlikView, are purposely limited. When dashboard users spot an anomaly in the data, they may...