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• 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.

• Learn to build applications for Business Intelligence while following a practical case -- HighCloud Airlines. Each chapter develops parts of the application and it evolves throughout the book along with your own QlikView skills.
• The code bundle for each chapter can be accessed on your local machine without having to purchase a QlikView license.
• The hands-on approach allows you to build a QlikView application that integrates real data from several different sources and presents it in dashboards, analyses and reports.

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via script
• Loading data from disparate sources to build an associative Data Model
• Building robust data models and overcoming common modeling challenges
• Designing data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tables
• Learn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objects
• Utilise QlikView's built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculations
• Creating Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set Analysis
• Creating a consistent and interactive user interface
• Ensuring your QlikView applications and data are protected
• Constructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deployments
• Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient