Hi Mike. QlikView does not do data capture (natively) it just pulls data from other sources. If you have the product data required in a source (or sources) that QlikView can get to then it can act as a PIM. We do a lot of work with manufacturers and distributors, and categorizing products based on numerous factors is often something that we do for them.
Hope that helps.

Hi Steve, this is my first question for you, even though I have followed you for over 5 year.
Can you use QlikView as a PIM -Product Information Management?

Hi Steve, thanks for your point of view and confirmation of the store statement limitation.
Pavol

Hi Pavol,
The STORE statement simply doesn’t work in Cloud. This is one of the biggest hinderances I am aware of, as it prevents incremental load. With a cloud analytics platform you are perhaps likely to be loading from cloud sources, and this will typically mean an API. The nature of these is that you don’t pull all data on each load. Without STORE this isn’t possible. The other limitations are kind of what you would expect for the (very low) price point, i.e. limited storage, less granular sharing etc.. We have a few small clients on QSC4B and for them it is absolutely spot on, and they are aware of the limitations and what they will not be able to do until they upgrade to Enterprise.
Steve

Hi Steve. Well, I have bet my mortgage on the success of Qlik, by building a company that only works with Qlik software. The last couple of years have been interesting, with Sense taking centre stage for Qlik and competing products emerging. However, I still think that the technology the Qlik have is incredible and I think the future for Qlik is a bright one. Steve.

Hi Sohail,
There are a number of limitations with the Cloud version, with Cloud For Business having significantly fewer limitations than Basic. You are unlikely to be able to access your companies Active Directory directly from Cloud, so you would need to have something on premise that extracted the directory into a database or a flat file. If you have Sense on premise (even a Desktop version) you could load from Active Directory and store to QVD. Connecting to databases is possible, provided that you open up the correct ports on your network to allow database traffic. An option in both cases is to write to QVD on premise and then put the files in a place that Cloud can get to them, such as DropBox or FTP. Hope that helps.