it’s all about QlikView
Posted by Gilles on 12/10/2010 under News | 
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The press release can be read here: pressrelease
The Qlikview 10 introduction site can be found here: QV10
A soon to be released post about the most important new features and functionality is coming up!
Posted by Gilles on 15/06/2010 under News, Nice Reads | Read the First Comment
There’s an excellent post by Curt Monash on the underlying technology of Qlikview. Nothing really new, but a very nice summary of how it works, with comments from (among others) TDWI’s Wayne Eckerson and Håkan Wolgé (the author of qlikview 1.0 code and still chief architect at Qliktech).
One thing really new to me was the following part and I quote: Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 04/05/2010 under News | Be the First to Comment
There’s a press release on EarthPublisher.com about a new technology partner for Qliktech. They start working together with Human Inference. Human Inference is a Dutch company and is the European market leader in data quality solutions. They focus on high quality solutions developed for large databases and critical systems. The solutions are based on natural language processing. You can read their corporate factsheet here. You can read the press release here (in Dutch).
I consider this as a little bit strange partnership. I thought Human Inference works on your source systems, like your main CRM system and would love to hear how this works in conjunction with qlikview. Any thoughts?
Posted by Gilles on 26/04/2010 under News | Be the First to Comment
We’ve been invited to the qlikview 10 beta program. Just to keep you updated, here’s a list of the major themes and new features:
User Enablement
List Box Expressions — add values, graphs to your list boxes to show data beyond simple frequency
Mekko Chart — a new native chart type that can add additional perspective to a standard bar chart
Metadata tagging — add comments and tags to the table and field you load into QlikView documents to enhance design time decisions
Container Objects — a new presentation object that allows you to create a group of related objects for review and use as a single entity.
Linked Objects — use standard object definitions within a document, allowing you to manage and maintain a consistent look and behavior for standard entities in one document
Associative Search — building on the existing QlikView search capability, review matches for strings across entities associated with the current list box
First User Experience — a streamlined, first time walk thru for any new user looking to understand key concepts of building their first QlikView from an Excel file Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 15/04/2010 under News | 13 Comments to Read
The high level timeline for releasing QlikView 10 is as follows
Our goal is to provide a significant amount of time for QlikView to be in the hands of our employees, partners, and customers prior to going GA. This will allow everyone to contribute to testing real life usage, validating new features, and learning about the new capabilities before we launch the new version. QlikView 9 had 11 weeks of beta period, QlikView 10 has 29 weeks. We will be providing lots of training materials and opportunities for everyone to provide feedback, so please take responsibility to do so.
Posted by Gilles on 13/04/2010 under News | Be the First to Comment
At the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Qliktech announced that Qlikview is immediately available for iPad.
Official press release here: Qlikview for iPad sets new standard for tablet-based, interactive business intelligence
Product story here: Qlikview for iPad
Demonstration video: Qlikview for iPad (special thanks to QVapps)
Posted by Gilles on 08/04/2010 under News | Be the First to Comment
…lately on this blog. I’m having little or no inspiration to write qlikview related blogposts. That doesn’t mean there isn’t interesting news about qlikview or qliktech. I’ll aggregate some recent news in this post. If you feel like you should be writing on this blog or if you feel like you need a how to or need an opinion on anything qlikview related please feel free to leave a comment
Qliktech registered for IPO. Official press release is here, first thoughts are here and here by the QVapps blog, and an article in the Seattle times. Qliktech is looking to raise a $100 million dollar to pay of some debts ($7 mio) and the rest is for “general corporate purposes”.
There is this announcement that qliktech will largely drop its support for their java client in version 10 that will be generally available in October 2010 (let me guess: 10-10-10?). They will focus on their AJAX client.
First beta release of version 10 is out, we are trying to get into the qv10 beta program to keep you updated!
Regards,
Gilles
Posted by Gilles on 02/02/2010 under Articles, News | 6 Comments to Read
I just received a link from William (@williamvanlith) through twitter (@gillespol) about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2010. I’ve been following Gartner’s magic quadrants on BI and datawarehousing for quite some time now and something struck me immediately. THERE ARE NO VISIONAIRIES ANYMORE!! Even Qlikview isn’t a visionary anymore. I consider that as a bad thing, it looks like nobody is really innovative anymore. This reflects some of the conclusions from Nigel Pendse in his BI Verdict. Another comment I’ve read at Jos van Dongen’s blog, is that it could mean that BI software is (finally) maturing. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 05/11/2009 under News | Be the First to Comment
Packt Publishing asked me to write a book review about their new book on Oracle Warehouse Builder. Allthough this book is not about Qlikview, you’ll often come accross oracle databases during your Qlikview projects. Since Oracle Warehouse Builder (an ETL tool) comes for free with the database it might come in handy sometimes to use OWB to create yourself an extra data layer from your source databases. This book is a beginnersguide to OWB etl and helps you from the installation of the database and your OWB software till your first deployment. You can read the review here: BOOK REVIEW: ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER 11G – GETTING STARTED
Posted by Gilles on 29/10/2009 under News | Be the First to Comment
Houten, 14 oktober 2009 – Architectuur- en integratiespecialist IT-eye introduceert Dink Intelligence: een bron van advies voor organisaties die effectief om willen gaan met informatie. Dink Intelligence ondersteunt ondernemingen bij het creëren van zowel business als competitive intelligence en zet projecten op om intelligence efficiënt te implementeren in het bedrijfsproces. Daardoor beschikken ondernemers op het juiste moment over waardevolle informatie om besluitvorming mee te ondersteunen. Read more of this article »