Book description
Drive value and insight by developing business critical applications with QlikView 12
About This Book
- Develop your own scalable and maintainable QlikView applications
- Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient
- A one-stop guide to developing BI applications with QlikView
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone interested in working with QlikView or who has attended QlikView Developer training. The book caters for all QlikView developers, beginners and experts alike, and anyone who wants to improve their QlikView skills.
What You Will Learn
- Understand important changes made in QlikView 12
- Learn the techniques and best practices to transform data in QlikView via scripts
- Load data from disparate sources to build an associative Data Model
- Build robust data models and overcome common modeling challenges
- Designing data visualization objects to present performance measures with charts and tables
- Learn to use dimensions and expressions in QlikView objects
- Utilize QlikView's built-in aggregation functions to achieve complex calculations
- Create Point In Time reporting and achieving complex calculations using Set Analysis
- Create a consistent and interactive user interface
- Ensure your QlikView applications and data are protected
- Optimize the QlikView Data Model
- Constructing a data architecture that supports scalable QlikView deployments
- Learn time-saving techniques for making your QlikView development more efficient
In Detail
QlikView is one of the most flexible and powerful Business Intelligence platforms around. If you want to build data into your organization, build it around QlikView. Don't get caught in the gap between data and knowledge ? find out how QlikView can help you unlock insights and data potential with ease.
Whether you're new to QlikView or want to get up to speed with the features and functionality of QlikView, this book starts at a basic level and delves more deeply to demonstrate how to make QlikView work for you, and make it meet the needs of your organization. Using a real-world use-case to highlight the extensive impact of effective business analytics, this book might well be your silver bullet for success.
A superb hands-on guide to get you started by exploring the fundamentals of QlikView before learning how to successfully implement it, technically and strategically. You'll learn valuable tips, tricks, and insightful information on loading different types of data into QlikView, and how to model it effectively.
You will also learn how to write useful scripts for QlikView to handle potentially complex data transformations in a way that is simple and elegant. From ensuring consistency and clarity in your data models, to techniques for managing expressions using variables, this book makes sure that your QlikView projects are organized in a way that's most productive for you and key stakeholders.
Style and approach
This book will help you learn QlikView Development from a basic to a practitioner level using a step-by-step approach. It is smartly built around a practical case study ? HighCloud Airlines ? to help you gain an in-depth understanding of how to build applications for Business Intelligence using QlikView.
Table of contents
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QlikView for Developers
- Table of Contents
- QlikView for Developers
- Credits
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Meet QlikView
- 2. What's New in QlikView 12?
- 3. Seeing is Believing
- 4. Data Sources
- 5. Data Modeling
- 6. Styling Up
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7. Building Dashboards
- User types
- Applying the DAR principle to Airline Operations
- Creating the Analysis sheet
- Creating the new Dashboard sheet
- Creating the Reports sheet
- Other charts
- Summary
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8. Scripting
- The Script Editor
- Script statements
- Conditional functions
- Dealing with different data types
- Debugging script
- Standardizing and organizing script
- Re-using scripts
- Managing file locations and connection strings
- Summary
- 9. Data Modeling Best Practices
- 10. Basic Data Transformation
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11. Advanced Expressions
- Using variables
- Using the TOTAL qualifier
- The Aggr function
- Conditional functions
- A tip on copying expressions
- Summary
- 12. Set Analysis and Point In Time Reporting
- 13. Advanced Data Transformation
- 14. More on Visual Design and User Experience
- 15. Security
- Index
Product information
- Title: QlikView for Developers
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781786469847
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