Nice Read: A Quik Look at QlikView

Posted by Gilles on 17/08/2009 under Articles, Nice Reads | Read the First Comment

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 »

Comparison of Qlikview and Xcelsius

Posted by Gilles on 03/02/2009 under Articles | Be the First to Comment

Today I found a really nice comparison of two Dashboarding products. In the blue corner there’s Qlikview and in the red corner is Xcelsius.

You can read the comparison here: http://myxcelsius.com/2009/02/03/comparison-of-qlikview-and-xcelsius/

The article says that Qlikview has poorer visualisations, where I consider precisely that as a strong point of qlikview, next to speed of analysis, ease of use and others.  The part that truly matters, where it comes to extracting data, scripting possibilities,  speed,  costs, that’s where qlikview wins according to the author of the article. 

Anyway, read for yourself!

Opinions about Qlikview

Posted by Gilles on 12/12/2008 under News | Be the First to Comment

Today I added the “About Qlikview”  page. It is a collection of stories and opinions, including my own on what Qlikview is and where it stands.