Add innovative reporting and business intelligence to PowerBuilder apps
1. Add innovative reporting and business intelligence features to your
PowerBuilder applications for free.
I created a small PowerBuilder application using the EASDemo SqlAnywhere database
and data exported from a Datawindow to an Excel file to perform data analysis using the
QlikSense Desktop edition.
QlikSense from QlikTech is a revolutionary BI tool based on the 'associative data model'
(see company website for a complete product
description https://www.qlik.com/us/products/qlik-sense), QlikSense Desktop Edition is the
free version that can be downloaded from Qliktech after a registration.
Using the "on the fly" app creation capability of QlikSense we can show Powerbuilder data
within an html page using controls like: bar chart, pivot table, pie chart, kpi, gauge, linear
table and browse data using advanced QlikSense functions to search, filter, pivoting and
analyze data.
You can choose to use browser navigation using Microsoft Ole Web control inside
PowerBuilder window object or run external browser using ShellExecute windows api.
PowerBuilder application wizard:
Datawindow control populated with EASDemo sales orders data:
2. Pivot and Linear Table configuration: dimensions and measures obtained parsing
Datawindow columns
Qlik Sense Extension attributes
3. Qlik Sense Web Application result:
Kpi, Gauge and Pie objects
Treemap Chart object
Pivot Table object
4. Pivot Table object layout changed moving dimensions, measures and exploring
data:
Linear Table