Welcome to the Quick Intelligence blog - a space where I post my thoughts on all things QlikView and related topics. Steve Dark
What Makes A QlikView Project Team?
A while back I blogged on What Makes A QlikView Developer, and the large number of different skills an individual needs to excel at providing business insight using QlikView. However, even the most highly skilled individual is not going to be …read more
Perfect Your QlikView Data Model
Recently I blogged on the pitfalls of not investing sufficient effort at the start of a QlikView project to avoid problems later on (see the post Start Your QlikView Project The Right Way). In this article I advised that the …read more
Start Your QlikView Project The Right Way
As a freelance QlikView consultant I can be drafted in at any stage of a QlikView implementation. My favourite sites tend to be the ones where I come in and do the initial demo to the client (not least because …read more
QlikView Dashboard Thoughts
One of the things QlikView is great at is dashboards. In fact the word Document and Dashboard seem to have become interchangeable when talking about QlikView files – even when the content is in no way a dashboard. Why is …read more
Please Release Me – Or Not?
There have been a flurry of QlikView releases lately, with QV10 going to SR3 and QV11 appearing as a Public Beta. It is great to see that the product is actively being developed and is growing – but is it …read more
Have Something To Hide?
There are a number of functions and features in QlikView which whilst they are not revolutionary can make your life much easier. One such little known feature is HidePrefix. Often when loading data from complex data sources there are fields …read more
ApplyMap – Is It So Wrong?
Is it so wrong to have a favourite statement in a programming language? Probably. However, I am not embarrassed to admit that in QlikView mine is ApplyMap. On face value it is a humble little function, which I tend to …read more
What Makes a QlikView Developer?
Most programming languages you can go out and learn, but it occurs to me that a QlikView developer is something you have to be. By that I mean that you have to have skills in a large number of areas …read more
It’s All About Community
Today saw the unveiling of the new QlikCommunity and my first impressions of it are very positive. There are a lot more ways to interact with other users and the whole experience seems far more fluid than its predecessor. There …read more
Simplifying Analysis For Everyone?
It was a long time strap line for QlikView, and an enticing proposition, but does it actually stand true? The answer, as often is the case, is it depends. There is a long running thread on QlikCommunities with the subject …read more
