Posted by Gilles on 02/09/2010 under Articles, Nice Reads | 
I’ve came across an excellent post by Boris Evelson on his blog: http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/10-03-31-i_forget_whats_in_memory (thanks to @vizubi) it’s an old one, but it makes perfectly clear what are the differences between the different in memory options. Evelson makes distinction between 5 types of in memory solutions, divides the solution providers over these 5 types and gives pro’s and cons for every option. Nice read!
In the same category: compare in-memory solutions is this post by Boris Evelson as well: http://blogs.forrester.com/boris_evelson/10-09-01-not_all_in_memory_analytics_tools_are_created_equal where Boris gives advice on how to compare in-memory solutions. Nice read as well, and nice comments from two Qlikview adepts
Posted by Gilles on 29/06/2010 under Nice Reads |
There’s a nice new marketing video on qlikview.com. It’s called “The Qlikview in-memory advantage“.
There’s just one thing they always seem to forget at Qlikview: to have such a nice way of ” analysing and visualising all your data” you DO NEED a solidly build and well architectured datawarehouse!
Posted by Gilles on 15/06/2010 under News, Nice Reads |
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 28/01/2010 under Articles, Nice Reads |
There is a very interesting interview with Nigel Pendse on the blog from Rittman Mead Consulting. Nigel Pendse is a business intelligence and OLAP analyst and the editor of The BI Verdict (formerly The OLAP Report) and author of The BI Survey (previously known as The OLAP Survey). The interview is about the BI tools market in general, but with a specific paragraph containing some good comments on Qlikview, in memory analysis and powerpivot. Nigels most important conclusions: Qlikview is blazing fast, easy to use and aimed towards the business user, but less useful in large enterprise deployments. Powerpivot is, according to Nigel, just a way to push upgrading to office 2010, the all new vertipaq in memory engine is very impressive and powerpivot isn’t able to handle very complex Analysis Services cubes. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 18/12/2009 under Nice Reads |
There is a nice and promising series at QlikviewGuru’s blog. He is busting myths like the mythbusters do on TV.
His first post in the series is about Qlikview being able (or not) to handle large datasets. You can read it here: QlikView Myths – “QlikView can’t handle large data sets”. It’s an interesting post because first of all he busts the myth and second he has two very good reasons why the myth still exists. But read it for your self.
His second post in the series is about the myth that Qlikview implementations do not require any consulting. As long as QlikView is sold as simple and quick, too many customers will make the connection to “quick and dirty”…is the ending quote QlikviewGuru uses. That’s a very true conclusion. Read the post here: QlikView requires no consulting.
I’m looking forward to the following myths the QlikviewGure will be busting. I do have some suggestions: Qlikview is cheap, Qlikview doesn’t require a datawarehouse or a data integration solution, Qlikview is your enterprise wide BI solution. Any other myths need to be busted?
Posted by Gilles on 23/10/2009 under Articles, Nice Reads |
With permission of www.insideinfo.com.au where our co-blogger Juan is working I re-publish this article, that was posted earlier on their site.
QlikView software continues to lead in customer satisfaction of business intelligence products based on three independent user-survey reports this year from Business Applications Research Centre, Aberdeen Group and IDC. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 08/10/2009 under Articles, Nice Reads |
In an earlier post on IBM Cognos Express we stated that Qlikview has a new competitor in their market of in-memory BI for SMB. Now Antony Deighton reacts on Itjungle.com. You can read the reaction from Deighton here with a success story of one of his customers. IBM has a vision on the competition from Qlikview too, you can read it here on itjungle.com
IBM thinks that the one competing feature is a “write-back” functionality that Qlikview doesn’t have, but in Qlikview 9 there is write-back functionality. My two cents on what makes Qlikview really unique against the competition? simplicity!
Posted by Gilles on 14/09/2009 under Nice Reads |
There is a nice success story on David Raab’s blog. It’s about how he introduced Qlikview to his son, how easy his son learned working with Qlikview, how they love Qlikview, how they encountered their limitations of their working knowledge with Qlikview and how the Qlikview Community forum helped them out.
Conclusions:
- Qlikview is easy to learn and easy to use
- The Qlikview community is an amazing source of help
- A decent Qlikview training is needed when advanced features are necessary
Posted by Gilles on 25/08/2009 under News, Nice Reads |
I’ve come across a blog post on Qlikster where “Qliklets” are introduced. Qliklets are like widgets, but powered by Qlikview. On the Qlikster blog they show an example of a Qliklet for browsing a catalog and finaly linking to a webpage where you can order the item you selected. They also have a website that is build with qlikview that is linked to the targeted website from the widget. I think Qlikster uses the Qlikview functionality in a very nice non BI way, so i thought it was worth mentioning.
You can visit the blog post with working widget eh…Qliklet… here.
Posted by Gilles on 17/08/2009 under Articles, Nice Reads |
Funny, while Oracle is still denying the fact that Qlikview is a real competitor to the solutions offered by Oracle on BI I was very surprised by the fact that one of the blogs I’m following for a long long while and that is (in my humble opinion) an authority on Oracle BI related issues writes a little review about qlikview. Mark Rittman (an oracle ACE) and the specialist on Oracle BI, essbase, hyperion etc. writes:
“the total size of the QlikView document (including the data) was only 4MB and took about 1 minute to load and prepare, whereas the corresponding Essbase data set (as built in this OTN article) took up several gigabytes of space and took over an hour to load and prepare. Impressive stuff.”
And: Read more of this article »