Qlikview Your Business: An Expert Guide To Business Discovery With Qlikview And Qlik® Sense

QlikView Your Business is written as a comprehensive resource that teaches best practices for using QlikView for effective analysis and visualization of data. It quickly covers the basics of using the tool, and then dives deep to provide expert advice on complex implementation techniques and solutions.

The core of the book focuses on the process of developing QlikView applications using the QlikView Developer tool. This will be written in three major parts, covering three common business analysis scenarios: Sales Analysis; Profitability Analysis; and Inventory Analysis. The three parts describe techniques of increasing complexity from simple to advanced.

Within each part, 4 chapters walk the reader through the four stages of developing an analytic solution in QlikView:

• Understanding the business scenario and the common components of a solution
• Defining the data model required for the analytic solution
• Developing the QlikView Load Script used to build the data model
• Developing QlikView User Interface (UI), or Visualizations, used for the visual analysis

After reading each Part and following the tutorial, the reader will have developed a complete QlikView solution.

Later chapters will expand on these skills, showing how to:

• Deploy QlikView in the enterprise
• Organize and Manage QlikView implementation projects

All examples will use QlikView 12, which is the new version of QlikView expected to release in late 2014. However, given that QlikView plans to support QlikView 11 for several more years, the book will also include chapters showing how to build similar visualizations in QlikView 11 (see Part V).

The book's companion website will include the sample data sets, scripts, and visualizations that support all of the examples in the book.

OLEG TROYANSKY is the President of Natural Synergies, the first North American BI firm that was created with the focus on QlikView solutions, services and education. He is a well-known QlikView educator and advocate, a 2014 QlikView luminary and a speaker at the Masters Summit for QlikView. TAMMY GIBSON is a Senior QlikView Consultant at Natural Synergies. She's been developing QlikView solutions since 2004. She is also the co-founder and CTO of VenueCube, a company providing business intelligence analytics to entertainment venues and convention centers. CHARLES LEICHTWEIS is a Senior Advisor of Phoenix Strategic Advisors and the head of their Sustainable Profitable Growth Practice. Charlie has led companies in a variety of "C" suite roles in a career that spans 30 plus years. He holds an MBA in Operations Management, and is a CPA and CMA.