Oh! Session on Introduction to Qlikview

1. INTRODUCTION TO QLIKVIEW

2. Agenda
Item Page
Qlik History Page 3
How traditional BI works Page 4, 5
Functionality of QlikView Page 6
What users do with QlikView Page 7
QlikView workflow Page 8
QlikView Process flow Page 9
QV Architecture Page 10
QV Components Page 11
QV supported output form Page 12
QV definition of licenses Page 13
QV type of licenses Page 14
QV Mobile client Page 15
QV competitors Page 16
QV Demo Page 17
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3. Qlik History
Founded in Lund, Sweden in 1993, originally called “QuikView” as in “Quality, Understanding, Interaction, Knowledge”
Product was designed as a way to reduce the brain works.
A key aspect was the color-coding scheme in which selected values are highlighted in green, linked values in white, and excluded values in
highlighted grey
First two versions were basically written in Excel using VLOOKUPs
Håkan Wolgé was later hired as lead software engineer to re-architect/re-write QlikView from the ground up as an in-memory application
Renamed as “QlikView” in 1996
IPO’ed on Nasdaq in 2010 under symbol “QLIK” and was 7th best IPO of 2010
Now has over 24,000 customers
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4. How Traditional BI works
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5. How Traditional BI works
Traditional OLAP/cube technologies primarily provide the ability to drill up and down through “dimension” hierarchies, allowing the end-
user to see pre-aggregated “measures”
Dimensions and measures must be know a prior any drill down activity
A data warehouse or data mart is usually required as a pre-requisite before OLAP cubes can be built
Detail record identification is very complex process
ETL is very slow to test, which in turn slows down development time
QlikView uses the word “associative” to distinguish itself from other BI vendors
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6. Functionality of QlikView
QlikView is a business discovery platform –User driven BI supporting the creation and consumption of dynamic apps
for analysing the information. It’s allow non technical users to explore visual views of information , through simple
interaction such as clicks and taps and it has patented software engine dynamically calculates new views of information
, instantly based on user selection
 QlikView does with in-memory technology that really makes a difference.
 Has an inference engine that maintains the associations in the data automatically.
 Calculates aggregations on the fly, as needed, for a super-fast user experience.
 Compresses data down to 10% of its original size to optimise the power of the processors
 The Result - Less Maintenance and Faster Deployment
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7. What users do with QlikView
Explore visual view of information through simple interaction
Start any where and go anywhere
 Make selection any chart and objects
 Evaluate result across entire apps
 Search across all data
 Immediate time of the response, with no restrictions on the amount of data
 Fast integration of all data from various sources into a single application
 common decision-making process and real-time collaboration
 Access, analyze and retrieve data from mobile devices
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8. QlikView Workflow
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9. QlikView Process Flow
QlikView Clients
QlikView Server
Data sources
Desktop Client
IE plugin
AJAX Client
Mobile devices
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10. QV Architecture
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11. QV components
 Directory Service Connector :
Passes authentication to specified Directory Services such as Active Directory.
 QlikView Distribution Service :
Reloads, distributes and reduces QlikView dashboards and emails PDFs.
 QlikView Management Service :
Hosts the Management console and sends settings to the other services.
 QlikView Server :
Hosts the QlikView files in memory and performs user requested data analysis.
 QlikView Webserver:
The web server for the Access Point and the AJAX pages which are presented to
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12. QV supported output formats
 QlikView Graph can be exported to excel, image files, pdf
 QlikView able to query and generate report from DB.
 QlikView able to save query result to Excel (Word, pdf and PowerPoint)
 QlikView able to drill-in/drill-out, dicing and slicing
 Support real-time dashboards/reports.
 You can pass QlikView result to other QlikView application
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13. QV definition of licenses
Named CAL
Named User CAL is assigned to a unique and identified user who may access as many QlikView
documents as may reside on the server or server cluster to which the Named User CAL is assigned.
Document CAL
A Document CAL is assigned to a unique and identified user who may access only the one QlikView
document to which the Document CAL is assigned. Multiple Document CALs can be assigned to a
particular user.
Session CAL
One QlikView client to access as many QlikView documents as may reside on the server or server
cluster to which the Session CAL is assigned for a minimum period of 15 minutes.
Usage CAL
Usage CAL allows any user, identified or anonymous/unidentified, to access only one QlikView
document, residing on the server or server cluster to which the Usage CAL is assigned, from one
client (for example, the AJAX client, QlikView Desktop, or the Internet Explorer plugin) for a time
period of 60 minutes per 28-day period.
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14. QV Type of license
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15. QlikView Mobile client
Qlikview also have Mobile client, which can provide:
 Any time access on IPhone, IPad, Android
 Total freedom from Desktop
Delivers-
I. Dynamic interactive data analysis
II. Visual dashboard
III. Associative searching ability
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16. Qlik Competitor
Looking at competition, other vendors have greatly simplified the cube/OLAP approach, and can
be considered somewhat Agile.
Whereas while comparing to QlikView, they lack its patented “Associative” experience and
compression abilities along with the QVP protocol (security)
Primarily below can be considered as near competitors of Qlikview:
• Tableau
• TIBCO SpotFire
• SAP BO
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17. Demo
http://usb.demo.qlik.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs%2FCall%20Detail%2
0Record%20Analysis.qvw&host=demo11
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