This post contains the best information I have on learning both products. Which is best is a matter of personal preference (mostly), each has things that it is slightly better at than the other. I would recommend, as you are starting from scratch, that you should focus on Sense – this is the way things are going.

Thanks, Washington.

Congrats. Regards

As you say, NPrinting coming under the Qlik umbrella made sense all round. The difference with Alteryx is that it is a product that can be used with many different platforms. For instance it is much more crucial to have it with a tool like Tableau as the amount of cleansing that can be done in the load script is much less. Qlik seem to be getting very friendly with Alteryx, and this is a good thing, but I would not expect to see an acquisition in the near future. I’ve also not had a chance to play with Expressor, but it must be reasonably good for Qlik to have taken it on.

I am happy with the QlikView’s acquisition of Nprinting as it makes perfect sense to add pixel perfect reporting capabilities to an already fantastic tool like QlikView.

Also I would like to know whether in the coming days it would be good for QlikView to acquire data blending tool like Alteryx as performing the integration and manipulation data visually through rapid and easy data integration tool will be more efficient and easy for the users to understand. QlikView already has excellent scripting component but adding a drag and drop of visual nodes (with the nodes having qlikview scripting features) onto the scripting/Data integration layout would make the application development very quick. I know there is QlikView expressor, I havent used it but I heard that its not that good from various customers who used it. What are your thoughts on this?

Best Regards,
RK

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for the tip. The mindmaps seems quite expansive, and back up what I have always said – which is that you need to be competent with a whole lot of skill sets to be a decent QlikView developer.

How to become a QV Design Expert
How to become a QV Script Expert
How to become a QV Infrastructure Expert

The blog is in German, however the mindmaps are in English and provide a good structured overview of topics of expertise. Google for “blog.heldendaten.net mindmap” to find the posts with the mindmaps.

Cheers
Andrey