During the last few days a couple of nice reads came by in my rss-feed. I’d like to share them with you!
The first one (not chronologicaly): Qlikview: Check It Out! A nice ‘n’ short read about why qlikview is so good according to the author. I think this is a blog to follow because his future posts look promising.
A couple of months ago I saw this notable Qlikview movie for the first time. I showed it to some collegeaus, we laughed about it and agreed that it was far over the top. That’s why it could not be an official Qlikview movie…. so far so good, funny amateur movie.
This morning however, I was reading an updated post at http://www.qliksparks.com/ . Seems to be we were totally wrong:
“UPDATE: this is the official new QV image movie handed out on DVD at Qonnections 2009 in Barcelona (Thanks to Ralf Becher)”
Qlikview keeps suprising me. Personally I don’t like this movie but one thing is sure, they don’t lack self-confidence! Please share your thoughts on this one.. I’m very curious about the public opinion! Do you like it or not and why is is it you like it or not?
There’s a nice interview on www.chiefexecutive.net with Lars Bjork, the CEO of Qlikview. In this interview he tells about Qliktech from his start in 2000 as CFO with 35 employees and 2 million revenue untill now with 500.000 users, 1500 customers, and 120 million dollar revenue in 2008. You can read the interview here
We are very pleased to announce that the www.quickqlearqool.nl blog has, as you might have noticed, two new guest writers. The first one is Peter from Sweden, you can read his first post here and his introduction on the about the authors page here. Peter works for a mid-sized company in Sweden and is responsible for a Qlikview driven BI system
The second one is Juan from Australia. His introduction might come a little later, due to time differences and the fact that this is very fresh. Anyway you can read his first post here. Juan works for InsideInfo Australia, a master reseller of Qlikview.
If you think that you are able to contribute to this blog on a semi regular basis, feel free to drop us a line in the comments or send an email to Gilles or William. We are looking for guest writers to make this blog more and more a blog for and by the qlikview community. So if you have an opinion about qlikview, have some great tips to share, have a critical view on a specific component, have written a great article, have the urge to tell the world what you feel (about Qlikview), have found something we, or even better you, should post or you have a huge question regarding qlikview, feel free to ask us, or join our team of bloggers.
Ad-hoc queries: we all have to deal with them on a daily basis, either from the business side or from the IT side. Business users are always asking new questions about different aspects of the business, and IT has to provide support to those questions, either providing a platform for self service or actually committing resources to execute the queries to provide the answers.
For the most common and frequent questions we’ve got reports. Reports support day to day operations such as monitoring exceptions or following up on the status of order delivery. They help to answer the question ‘what happened’. Read more of this article »
After having celebrated eastern I began to look forward to yet another work week. As Qlikview- and business intelligence responsible at my company I knew I would have a lot to do this week, due to the major upgrade of our SAP system during the holidays. Testing all the connections and all the file-transfers as well as making sure that the content of the files were still the same after the upgrade would probably take a couple of days and although it would be boring, it would be necessary.
But my week didn’t start as planned. Apparently, a power supply to the Qlikview server crashed this weekend so here I am doing nothing, except waiting for the hardware technicians to come and fix the problem. Well, I am doing one more thing. I am hoping that the server isn’t damaged in any other way and that no data or application code is lost. Of course we have backups, but it would still be a major problem if the server were severely damaged and it would probably take at least 3-5 days to get a new server up and running.
You can add a user identification to your reports with the following statements: =OSUser() or =QVUser(), for the refresh time of your Qlikview documents use =ReloadTime(). You can add them to the header or footer of every dashboard by editing the Report Settings. (reports, edit reports, report settings and then the tab header/footer)
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