Comments on: Simplifying Analysis For Everyone?

By: Mansyno

Mansyno — Sat, 07 May 2011 22:55:15 +0000

hi,
all the point you made in your article:
connecting to the data source…
good understanding of data, maths and the business…
Understanding charts and rules for using them…
design and layout are critical…
final pitfall I want to mention briefly is performance….

are perfectly valid and true (bit over simplified maybe)
but they are true for every BI or reporting system out there.

and even so they are related to the process as a whole, where i believe that analysis is the actual use of the the data after it is presented to the user
and here is where QlikView shines. not because it has better charts or graphic controls then other spftware, its that once the data is loaded the analyst has a total freedom to play with all the elements (dimensions, measures, calculations etc’) and is only have to remember what he already knows (the business side of the data) plus to be able to see green, white and gray :)

as for your points,
with some of them, like connecting to data sources and design options
QlikView(the software not the vendor)does a good job of helping the inexperienced, with wizards at the script editor, and new features like syntax pop ups.

and for others it works just as well in QlikView as it does in other systems.

but anyway just my two cents……
like i said i agree with your points in general:)
so Thanks for Posting it.
Mansyno

By: Steve Dark

Steve Dark — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:46:27 +0000

In reply to Denard John.

Hi John,

Thanks for your comment. I’ve not tried your tool yet, but if it removes barriers to people using QlikView then it can only be a very good thing.

Good luck with it.
Steve

By: Denard John

Denard John — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:03:18 +0000

Good article, as the data generation and organisation is not such intuitive we have tried to help the customers giving them a visual design tool: QlikView Visual Script Generator.
The tool is at an early stage but already allows users to design the database schema and link tables together in order to be understood by QlikView. Some wizards are presents, connections are simple to define, and we can embedded QlikView code in reusable modules
The next step we are working on is a code designer that will allows designers to code by drag & dropping QlikView instructions on a treeview.

After that we think that QlikView will be really “Easy To Learn”

Regards, John