Foreword
When Oleg Troyansky told me he was writing a QlikView book, I joked, “Are people writing books anymore?” In our largely digital world, filled with developer forums, blogs, YouTube videos, and Tweets, it seems like our attention span for information is shrinking, leaving little space left for full-size books. Now that I’m holding the manuscript in my hands, I know that QlikView Your Business will certainly find its place in the Qlik ecosystem. Now my only question to Oleg is, “What took you so long?”
I remember Oleg as one of the early adopters of QlikView in the United States. He quickly became one of the product’s most vocal advocates. When we opened our Qlik Community forum, Oleg was among the first few active experts who happily shared their knowledge with new developers. Eventually he became one of the first official moderators of the forum. With all of his knowledge and passion for Qlik, it was no surprise when Oleg made the transition from a QlikView customer to a full-time QlikView developer, partner, and co-founder of a reputable BI firm, Natural Synergies. If anyone should write the book on QlikView, Oleg is certainly the right man for the job.
QlikView Your Business takes an unconventional approach. Unlike traditional technology books that rarely talk about business or business books that fail to teach readers how to develop complex analytic applications, this book takes a unique approach by combining the two. In a way it’s very similar to the way we do business ...