QlikView In-Memory Analysis and Reporting
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.
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.
News Bites: QlikView gets a mention in FT Digital Business
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