It’s an obvious first question when looking at when purchasing QlikView, just how much QlikView consultancy am I going to need to make this investment in software a success. Unfortunately the answer is not so straight forward. […]
This is another tale in the series of stories from the coalface of QlikView consultancy. This time it’s a story of what can happen when organic growth of applications occurs unchecked. It is also a warning. […]
QlikView is a tool that is enterprise ready and able to step up to those really big BI projects. One of the pitfalls though is to miss the tactical wins you can have with it and get bogged down working towards a management information utopia. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
One of the major marketing themes with QlikView over the past year or so has been it’s mobile credentials (witness the mobile minutes video series). Users are now able to access their apps and get insight anywhere – a revolution in self service BI! […]
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 able to make an entire QlikView project work on their own. By its very nature QlikView sits in the middle of an ecosystem made up of people with very distinct needs bringing a number of different skills. […]
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 this? […]
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 what the installed user-base want and need? […]
