QlikView for Developers: Design and build scalable and maintainable BI solutions (English Edition)

Drive value and insight by developing business critical applications with QlikView 12

Key Features



Develop your own scalable and maintainable QlikView applications



Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient



A one-stop guide to developing BI applications with QlikView











Book Description



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.



What you will learn





Understand important changes made in QlikView 12



Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via scripts



Load data from disparate sources to build an associative Data Model



Build robust data models and overcome common modeling challenges



Designing data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tables



Learn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objects



Utilize QlikView's built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculations



Create Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set Analysis



Create a consistent and interactive user interface



Ensure your QlikView applications and data are protected



Optimize the QlikView Data Model



Constructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deployments



Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient











Who this book is for



This book is for anyone interested in working with QlikView or who has attended QlikView Developer training. The book caters for all QlikView developers, beginners and experts alike, and anyone who wants to improve their QlikView skills.