QlikView for Developers by Barry Harmsen

Key FeaturesDevelop your own scalable and maintainable QlikView applicationsLearn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficientA one-stop guide to developing BI applications with QlikViewBook DescriptionQlikView 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. Dont get caught in the gap between data and knowledge – find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease.Whether youre 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. Youll 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 thats most productive for you and key stakeholders.What you will learnUnderstand important changes made in QlikView 12Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via scriptsLoad data from disparate sources to build an associative Data ModelBuild robust data models and overcome common modeling challengesDesigning data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tablesLearn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objectsUtilize QlikViews built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculationsCreate Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set AnalysisCreate a consistent and interactive user interfaceEnsure your QlikView applications and data are protectedOptimize the QlikView Data ModelConstructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deploymentsLearn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficientAbout the AuthorMiguel Angel Garcia is a Business Intelligence consultant and Qlik Solutions Architect from Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful Qlik implementations, from inception through implementation, and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project, his experience and skills range from pre-sales to applications development and design, technical architecture, system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution. He currently holds the QlikView Designer, QlikView Developer and QlikView System Administrator Certifications.He also delivers advanced online Qlik training. His early-found passion for QlikView led him to create and host the iQliks blog and has been proved to help many developers, both new comers and experienced, in their everyday development challenges. You can follow his blog updates via twitter on @GarciaMMiguel and @iQlik.Barry Harmsen is a Business Intelligence Consultant based in the Netherlands. Here he runs Bitmetric, a boutique consulting firm specialized in the Qlik product suite. Originally from a background of traditional business intelligence, data warehousing, and performance management, in 2008 Barry made the shift to Qlik and a more user-centric form of Business Intelligence. Since then, he and his team have helped many clients get the most out of their investments in the Qlik platform.Barry is one of the four Qlik experts teaching at the Masters Summit for Qlik, an advanced 3 day training for experienced Qlik professionals. He also runs the Amsterdam chapter of the Qlik Dev Group, an open and informal gathering where Qlik professionals can share knowledge and experiences.For his contributions to the Qlik ecosystem, Barry has been accredited by Qlik as a Qlik Luminary since 2014.Barry and his colleagues regularly post Qlik tips, tricks and tutorials at the QlikFix blog. He can also be found on Twitter as @meneerharmsen.Table of ContentsMeet QlikViewWhat is new in QlikView 12?Seeing is BelievingData SourcesData ModelingStyling UpBuilding DashboardsScriptingData modeling best practicesBasic Data TransformationAdvanced expressionsSet analysis and point in time reportingAdvanced data transformationMore on visual design and user experienceSecurity