Posted by William on 26/06/2009 under How To | 
What-if scenarios can be useful in many cases. The sales driven organization for example, can take advantage of understanding the impact of rising costs, decreasing quantities of sold goods, changes in selling prices and how all of this affects the margin, just in a few simple clicks. It’s quite simple to create such a what-if scenario in Qlikview. This how to gives you a step by step explanation.
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Posted by Gilles on 16/06/2009 under Articles, Nice Reads |
David Raab’s Customer Experience Matrix has some nice thoughts about Qlikview Software as a Service. You can read it here: http://customerexperiencematrix.blogspot.com/2009/06/cloud-based-qlikview-still-isnt.html
Posted by Gilles on 11/06/2009 under News |
Yesterday Qlikview 9 was officially released. You can read the official press release by Qliktech here: pressrelease. I’m very curious about the new option for Qlikview to be deployable in the cloud and the new manageability options with load balancing and support for large data sets. If you’ve got any experience with that, please feel free to share that with us in the comments!
Anthony Deighton (SVP of Products and Strategy of Qliktech) comments on this release and the actions taken by the competition here: link. The funny thing in Anthony’s blogpost is that he compares QV2.0 released in 1996 with project Gemini of Microsoft to be released in 2010 (check the UI). And even more fun I think is the Sap Explorer demo versus the same data in Qlikview. Take a look at both demo’s and compare! Also feel free to share your thoughts.
To end this post, there is again an excellent post by David Raab, which you can read here. David explains the new features that he finds most interesting for the market and I can do nothing else then agree with David! Read it!
Posted by Juan on 10/06/2009 under How To |
In my last post I shared a macro to turn on/off the property move/resize on every object in a QlikView document. Manually unselecting this checkbox for every object can be a time-consuming and frustrating task especially if we are dealing with a document with several sheets and sheet objects.
Later on I received a comment from Jonas Valleskog suggesting the use of themes to achieve the same result, so I decided to play a little bit with the feature. It turned out to be a great way of automatically setting properties across a QlikView document, thanks Jonas!. The wizard is intuitive and very powerful, although we need to understand how it works to be able to control which specific properties are changed when applying the theme.
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Posted by William on 09/06/2009 under How To |
Finally I had some time to test the Qlikview I-phone application. The first things I have to say:
• I-phone is really taking mobile telephone devices to a next level
• Getting information from your mobile device has never been this easy
Here is how it basically works:
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Posted by Gilles on 04/06/2009 under Articles |
In an earlier post I asked myself if Qlikview needed a datawarehouse or that Informatica needed a frontend. This discussion is going strong ever since and ever before. Qlikview sales and Qlikview fanatics claim that there is no need for a warehouse, Qlikview can do it all! I certainly do have my doubts about that! Ronald Damhof a Dutch Information Management Architect, who is much respected by myself as well by the BI Community in The Netherlands is strongly agitated by the message sent out by qlikview fanatics.
He came across this post here, (a very coloured and not to toughtful blog) which triggered him to react on this here , which eventually leaded to a bigger and little agitated reaction here. I strongly agree with Ronalds points in his reaction, but I’d like to add to the discussion that Qlikview can also act as an enabler for new Business Intelligence initiatives or as a quick problem solver.
In a company, where there is no formal BI program and excel sheets are created everywhere and send anywhere to support most decisions, Qlikview can be the start of a more formal BI program (as any tool could be). The strong points of Qlikview here are its rapid deployment, quick results and a quick ROI. So Qlikview with no datawarehouse could be a good option for a company with a low level of maturity on BI. The risk here is that Qlikview works so good, that it easily can replace excel for the BI needs and what you’ll see happening is Qlikview applications all over the place, with no allignment and a lot of departemental BI solutions.
When BI needs grow, requirements become more clear. That is where we, BI professionals, should help our customers on there way to maturity. With a good (architectural) development of the BI program, both business wise as technological. Not selling a mamoth when a mouse is needed, but designing a great mouse with the mamoth in mind.