Qlikview Overview
One of the keys to QlikView's success is its unique,
award-winning in-memory associative technology. In-memory analysis
and reporting means one-click access to visually rich, interactive
dashboards anyone can build quickly and modify easily. It enables
users to see and know their businesses in new ways and
interactively explore data without limits. Now, users can engage
their data with blazing speed, resulting in more informed,
proactive decisions.
QlikView has consistently demonstrated how it maximises the
efficient use of available memory in advanced 64-bit, multi-core
hardware, allowing thousands of users to access billions of data
records. QlikView continues to be featured as a premier solution at
Intel hardware launches to demonstrate the potential processing
power of their new and more advanced memory architectures. This
further confirms QlikView is an incredibly flexible and
highly-scalable BI tool - one available at a fraction of the cost
of traditional BI solutions.
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In-Memory Analysis and Reporting Drives Simplicity and
Performance
With an in-memory data model, QlikView allows data to be
analysed at both an aggregate and a detailed level without the
time-consuming and costly step of building multi-dimensional OLAP
cubes. In addition, associations between data are automatically
mapped in QlikView and respond instantly to user selections. Since
data is kept in-memory, the response time of any calculation is
lightning fast, even on extremely large data sets analysed by
multiple concurrent users.
"QlikView has provided a real insight into our business, which
we had been unable to achieve elsewhere. Its flexibility allows
users to ask questions that can be answered at the touch of a
button saving significantly on time when compared to using
traditional office software." Andy May - Virgin Trains
Single architecture for dashboards, analysis and
reporting
QlikView is all about simplicity. It provides all the features
of traditional BI tools in a single architecture. QlikView has ETL
functions to extract, transform and load data from one or several
data sources (e.g., ERP, text, Excel, and XML). Development is also
facilitated by function-rich wizards. QlikView is click-driven and
provides state-of-the-art visualization capabilities using
dashboard-style gauges, graphs and tables. With QlikView, users
quickly find information at their fingertips - literally in the
case of those using a QlikView mobile client. Users can also share
insight with colleagues through integrated emailing, reporting and
printing. Seamless integration with Microsoft Office applications
supporting those functions is also available. By incorporating all
of these BI capabilities into a single architecture,
QlikView meets the dashboard, analysis and reporting needs of every
organisational user. This approach also makes QlikView extremely
fast to deploy. Most QlikView customers are live in less than 30
days. This single solution and architecture approach also makes
QlikView easy to upgrade and maintain, providing a low total cost
of ownership. Easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, QlikView's
color-coded, point-and-click user interface makes it extremely
intuitive and easy to learn for any user. Changes to QlikView
applications are made in seconds, which makes it easy to respond
quickly to the changing BI needs of an organisation.
QlikView offers hundreds of possible chart and table types and
varieties. There are list boxes for navigating dimensions,
statistic boxes and many other UI elements. Every UI element can be
clicked on to query and explore the data. With a visually
interactive user interface, QlikView is not only easy to learn, but
also easy to use and allows the user to gain a deeper understanding
of the data.
"Very productive day yesterday with Jonathan. My head is still
spinning a bit, but I think I'll be able to apply most of what we
covered. We created reports which had previously taken months to
develop." Ben Thomas, Marketing Information and Database
Manager, Jordan's
Flexibility in analysis
QlikView allows thousands of dimensions to be represented. Any
value
of any dimension or measure can be the starting point of an
analysis. Application dimension or measure modifications can be
created in seconds, ensuring rapid response to the changing BI
needs of an organisation. Analysts can build the measures, charts,
comparisons, and trends any way they want to suit the needs of
their business. The QlikView definition of an expression can model
everything from the simplest total, to statistical and financial
trends, to comparisons of an end users' viewpoint with benchmarks
and indices particular to any given scenario. QlikView's Set
Analysis provides flexible and dynamic definitions of these
benchmarks without having to load a data model in one particular,
hardwired manner.
End users benefit from the fact that data does not have to be
aggregated. Users can analyse the entire data volume down to the
transaction level. And an end user with collaborative rights can
explore that data model to find the key attributes needed to
"complete the picture" without changes to cubes, models or queries.
So if a postal code, rainfall total, or demographic statistic gets
you to the right decision point, you can quickly add it, chart it,
trend it, and share it.
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