Expose Your Underlying Data
In this blog post I want to suggest that you show your users the raw data in your source systems, without modification. Not just some of it – but as much of it as your hardware can manage. […]
QlikView Themes
Often I go onto a new (or prospective) client site and have a limited amount of time to impress any number of people from a cold start. It’s days like these I am pleased to have QlikView in my kit bag! But even with the right tools you still need something to give you that edge. I often find that QlikView themes can be that something. […]
QlikView Reports
If ever I am asked about the report writer in QlikView I repeat what I was told on my initial training course – QlikView is not a report writing tool. That said – QlikView Reports can sometimes fill a need. […]
Your QlikView App Will Be Deleted
This is the first in a series of posts where I provide some ‘quick tips’ based on real life scenarios that I have encountered whilst on site delivering QlikView projects. In this first post I encourage you to delete your QlikView apps. […]
QlikView 11 For Developers
I was really pleased to see Barry Harmsen announcing on his blog last week the arrival of QlikView 11 for Developers. Not least because it is a fantastic reference for anyone who develops apps in QlikView, but also as I was lucky enough to be involved in its production, providing technical review. […]
Business Discovery London 2012
This Tuesday the QlikView Business Discovery World Tour pulled into London town. With no new QlikView version immediately available and attendees who almost universally seemed to be existing QlikView devotees there was perhaps a feeling that the event lacked purpose. But there was one big reveal. […]
Whatever .Next? Thoughts on QlikView .Next
With another iteration of the QlikView.next vision document now available and .next no doubt featuring in the upcoming UK Business Discovery event it feels like a good time to get some thoughts down regarding the platform. […]
Help! I’ve Locked Myself Out
One of the things that is perhaps most key to anything involving data is security. It is fundamental in QlikView, and Section Access is one of the core components of that security model. […]
QlikView Design
As you probably already know as your reading this; QlikView has an incredibly rich palette of design options. Your data can be surfaced and presented in all manner of ways with pizzazz – making it leap off the page and demand to be noticed. However, not all attention is good – if your latest chart creation is noticed only for its dizzying array of colours then it is likely that the insight in the numbers will have been lost. […]
What Is QlikView?
Most of the posts on this blog explore the features, functionality and usage of QlikView in some level of detail. However, in this post I would like to give more of an overview of the product for the un-initiated. […]