What is QlikView? QlikView Overview

QlikView is the world’s first associative, in-memory Business Discovery platform which delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users by driving innovative decision-making. QlikView enables business users to assemble data from multiple sources, explore it, make discoveries, and uncover insights that enable them to solve business problems in new ways. QlikView works the way the mind works. Users conduct searches and interact with dynamic dashboards and analytics from any device. They ask and answer streams of questions on their own and in groups and teams. They forge new paths to insight and decision.

QlikView is a single product that has multiple components for use by people in various roles: business users, business analysts / BI application developers, and IT professionals.

QlikView simplifies analysis for everyone. Qlik’s patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of sophisticated analytic applications in days.

Using QlikView organizations can gain business value quickly as they develop, modify, deploy, and – most importantly – use business intelligence applications. QlikTech is changing the game in business analysis, the new rules in business analysis are:

• Fast time to value – customers are live in less than 3 months, and most in 1-2 months.
• Risk free – available as a fully-functional free trial download
• Easy to use – end users require no training.
• Flexible – unlimited dimensions and measures that can be modified in seconds.
• Integrated – fully integrated business analysis suite – power analysis, sophisticated applications, and simple reporting on a single architecture.
• Powerful – near instant response time on massive data volumes. 

The QlikView Business Discovery Platform and its components

Qlikview Features and Functionality

One of the keys to QlikView’s success is its unique, award-winning in-memory associative technology. In-memory analysis and reporting means one-click access to visually rich, interactive dashboards anyone can build quickly and modify easily. It enables users to see and know their businesses in new ways and interactively explore data without limits. Now, users can engage their data with blazing speed, resulting in more informed, proactive decisions.

QlikView has consistently demonstrated how it maximizes the efficient use of available memory in advanced 64-bit, multi-core hardware, allowing thousands of users to access billions of data records. QlikView continues to be featured as a premier solution at Intel hardware launches to demonstrate the potential processing power of theirnew and more advanced memory architectures. This further confirms QlikView is an incredibly flexible and highly-scalable BI tool – one available at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI solutions

Patented QlikView In-Memory Associative Technology

QlikView manages associations among data sets at the engine level, not the application level. QlikView stores individual tables in its in-memory associative engine. Every data point in every field is associated with every other data point any where in the entire schema. Datasets can be hundreds of tables with thousands of fields. 

QlikView's associative model versus traditional model

Query-based BI tools separate the application layer from the data layer. This leads to long deployments while expensive developers customize the application layer to manage the specific associations required to answer a particular business question. When the BI application needs to answer a slightly different business question, the application layer must be altered again. This process is time-consuming and expensive. 

QlikView does not use queries.

Benefits of QlikView Associative In-Memory Architecture

In-Memory analysis and reporting drives simplicity and performance -  With an in-memory data model, QlikView allows data to be analyzed at both an aggregate and a detailed level without the time-consuming and costly step of building multidimensional OLAP cubes. In addition, associations between data are automatically mapped in QlikView and respond instantly to user selections. Since data is kept in -memory, the response time of any calculation is lightning fast, even on extremely large data sets analyzed by multiple concurrent users. 

Single architecture for dashboards, analysis and reporting -  QlikView is all about simplicity. It provides all t he features of traditional BI tools in a single architecture. QlikView has ETL functions to extract , transform and load data from one or several data sources (e.g., ERP, text, Excel, and XML). Development is also facilitated by function-rich wizards. QlikView is click-driven and provides state-of-the-art visualization capabilities using dashboard-style gauges, graphs and tables. With QlikView, users quickly find information at their fingertips. 

Visually Interactive User Interface

QlikView is quicker to deploy. - By incorporating all of these BI capabilities into a single architecture, QlikView meets the dashboard, analysis and reporting needs of every organizational user. This approach also makes QlikView extremely fast to deploy. This single solution and architecture approach also makes QlikView easy to upgrade and maintain, providing a low total cost of ownership.

Easy-to-learn, easy-to-use - QlikView’s color-coded, point-and click user interface makes it extremely intuitive and easy-to-learn for any user. Changes to QlikView applications are made in seconds, which makes it easy to respond quickly to the changing BI needs of an organization. 

QlikView Mobile Business Intelligence - Deploy once access anywhere (One QlikView many devices)

QlikView offers a true business discovery in a cross-platform, browser based interface. This means that applications can be built once and accessed on any device, whether it’s a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. By taking a ‘build once deploy anywhere’ approach, companies can reduce the burden associated with maintaining multiple versions of applications required by native clients for specific platforms. And users benefit from having a single, consistent QlikView experience across devices. 

QlikView on Mobile benefits from QlikView’s enterprise-proven server architecture. It gives organizations a unique combination of control at the center and flexibility at the edges. Because management and security are server capabilities in QlikView, the same access to applications and data entitlements apply regardless of the device used to access applications. And with a browser-based solution, there’s no dependency on third-party app stores or approval processes, reducing risk and keeping activity inside the firewall.

Benefits of QlikView’s Mobile Architecture

No additional cost - QlikView on Mobile is provided free as part of QlikView server, supporting the iPad, iPad 2 and other mobile devices with HTML 5-capable browsers.

Deploy once access anywhere - QlikView Delivers the same QlikView experience across desktop, laptop and mobile platforms. QlikView recognizes mobile browsers and enables touch functionality as needed. It offers access to a complete set of live data from multiple sources 

Secure and manageable -  QlikView on Mobile provides the security and manageability of QlikView server architecture