Posted by Juan on 27/09/2009 under How To | 
In this post I want to share with you a good practice in handling the various expressions that exist in a QlikView document. The most used expressions are the ones used in charts, where they hold measures such as Sum(Sales), Sum(Price*Quantity), etcetera. These are the ones more likely to be reused by other objects and in different sheets. There many other expressions including Chart Attributes, Color Expressions and Show Conditions, you can see them all by going to the menu Settings/Expression Overview. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on 24/09/2009 under News |
The first service release on the initial release for Qlikview 9 is available as of now. The build number is 7257. This SR contains a large number of fixes to QlikView, QlikView Server and clients. The release notes are attached to this post, and a .qvw of all bugfixes is included with the install.
QlikView 9.00 SR1 build 7257 Release Notes
Posted by Gilles on 15/09/2009 under Articles, News |
There is a lot of buzz around the release of IBM Cognos Express. It came across my twitter accounts here and here quite a few times and when I released a search in tweetdeck for IBM Cognos Express it appeared 65 times. You can read the press release from IBM here. IBM Cognos Express is the affordable, all-in-one BI suite which can be deployed and installed very fast targeted at small to medium business with 100-999 users.
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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 10/09/2009 under How To |
Yesterday I was at Qonnections BeNeLux. Very good seminar and very well organized. I had a lot of fun! During one of the presentations about the new features the new search object and the tree view were mentioned (also trellis and minicharts, dynamic chart backgrounds and the updated Actions, if you’d like a post about that, drop a comment). They both triggered me, the search object because in my dashboards I always dropped all relevant fields as list boxes to be able to search for what I want, the tree view is something I come across quite often when people want to drill in hierarchies like products or organisations.
First the Search Object. Read more of this article »
Posted by Gilles on under Articles, News |
There is a nice comment on TDWI’s website about the collaboration between Kalido, Netezza and Qlikview. You can read it here: link. TDWI’s Stephen Sowyer interviews Kalido CEO Bill Hewitt on the big promises Kalido makes to get things up and running in just 30 days. Some questions are raised about Netezza also offering vertical front end solutions in pharmacy and insurance. Even more questions are raised and answered. Read it for yourself.
There are also some comments from Kalido staff on my previous post about this collaboration.
Posted by Gilles on 04/09/2009 under News |
I came across this press release about the Kalido Information Appliance which you can read following this link. In an earlier post on this blog about the roadmap for Qlikview 9 we noticed a support for Kalido announcement. And now it’s there. Kalido already had support for Qlikview with the availability of QVW as an output format, but now they have a complete offering with Netezza TwinFin as the datawarehouse appliance, Qlikview for the reporting and analysis part and Kalido with their business models. Kalido now offers two different vertical solutions. One for pharmaceutical sales and marketing analysis and the other for Insurance sales and distribution analytics.
I think it’s a very powerful combination, it delivers an end to end solution with hardware, business models and analytics and reporting. There are some drawbacks with the possibility of outdated business models and the need for customization on the business models. Let’s keep an eye on this offering to see if it’s successful.