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 04/05/2010 under News |
There’s a press release on EarthPublisher.com about a new technology partner for Qliktech. They start working together with Human Inference. Human Inference is a Dutch company and is the European market leader in data quality solutions. They focus on high quality solutions developed for large databases and critical systems. The solutions are based on natural language processing. You can read their corporate factsheet here. You can read the press release here (in Dutch).
I consider this as a little bit strange partnership. I thought Human Inference works on your source systems, like your main CRM system and would love to hear how this works in conjunction with qlikview. Any thoughts?
Posted by Gilles on 13/04/2010 under News |
At the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit Qliktech announced that Qlikview is immediately available for iPad.
Official press release here: Qlikview for iPad sets new standard for tablet-based, interactive business intelligence
Product story here: Qlikview for iPad
Demonstration video: Qlikview for iPad (special thanks to QVapps)
Posted by Gilles on 02/02/2010 under Articles, News |
I just received a link from William (@williamvanlith) through twitter (@gillespol) about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2010. I’ve been following Gartner’s magic quadrants on BI and datawarehousing for quite some time now and something struck me immediately. THERE ARE NO VISIONAIRIES ANYMORE!! Even Qlikview isn’t a visionary anymore. I consider that as a bad thing, it looks like nobody is really innovative anymore. This reflects some of the conclusions from Nigel Pendse in his BI Verdict. Another comment I’ve read at Jos van Dongen’s blog, is that it could mean that BI software is (finally) maturing. 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 William on 04/01/2010 under How To |
The ABC-analysis (read more) is an often used method in logistics to divide the product collection in three different degrees, sorted on products with the highest revenue. This analysis gives valuable insights when removing (or adding) products from the collection. Products with low revenue could be considered for removal, cleaning up space in the warehouse for other products.
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Posted by Juan on 22/12/2009 under Articles, How To |
For a long time one of the hottest discussions in the BI arena has been the concept of Enterprise BI vs Departmental BI, Top-down approach vs Bottom-up, Pragmatism vs Idealism. In this corner we have Spreadmarts, spreading like a virus throughout the organization to provide a quick and dirty fix to the desperate need of end users for timely information out of IT databases…..and in the other corner we have multiyear, multimillion Enterprise Data Warehouse initiatives that focus first on creating infrastructure, BI governance committees, data integration, while end users keep waiting for the very much needed information.
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