Oh! Session on Introduction to Qlikview

INTRODUCTION TO QLIKVIEW

AgendaItem PageQlik History Page 3How traditional BI works Page 4, 5Functionality of QlikView Page 6What users do with QlikView Page 7QlikView workflow Page 8QlikView Process flow Page 9QV Architecture Page 10QV Components Page 11QV supported output form Page 12QV definition of licenses Page 13QV type of licenses Page 14QV Mobile client Page 15QV competitors Page 16QV Demo Page 17

Introduction to Qlikview2

Qlik HistoryFounded in Lund, Sweden in 1993, originally called “QuikView” as in “Quality, Understanding, Interaction, Knowledge”

Product was designed as a way to reduce the brain works.

A key aspect was the color-coding scheme in which selected values are highlighted in green, linked values in white, and excluded values in highlighted grey

First two versions were basically written in Excel using VLOOKUPs

Håkan Wolgé was later hired as lead software engineer to re-architect/re-write QlikView from the ground up as an in-memory application

Renamed as “QlikView” in 1996

IPO’ed on Nasdaq in 2010 under symbol “QLIK” and was 7th best IPO of 2010

Now has over 24,000 customers


How Traditional BI works


How Traditional BI worksTraditional OLAP/cube technologies primarily provide the ability to drill up and down through “dimension” hierarchies, allowing the end-user to see pre-aggregated “measures”

Dimensions and measures must be know a prior any drill down activity

A data warehouse or data mart is usually required as a pre-requisite before OLAP cubes can be built

Detail record identification is very complex process

ETL is very slow to test, which in turn slows down development time

QlikView uses the word “associative” to distinguish itself from other BI vendors


Functionality of QlikView

QlikView is a business discovery platform –User driven BI supporting the creation and consumption of dynamic apps for analysing the information. It’s allow non technical users to explore visual views of information , through simple interaction such as clicks and taps and it has patented software engine dynamically calculates new views of information , instantly based on user selection

QlikView does with in-memory technology that really makes a difference.

Has an inference engine that maintains the associations in the data automatically.

Calculates aggregations on the fly, as needed, for a super-fast user experience.

Compresses data down to 10% of its original size to optimise the power of the processors

The Result - Less Maintenance and Faster Deployment


What users do with QlikViewExplore visual view of information through simple interaction

Start any where and go anywhere

Make selection any chart and objects

Evaluate result across entire apps

Search across all data

Immediate time of the response, with no restrictions on the amount of data

Fast integration of all data from various sources into a single application

common decision-making process and real-time collaboration

Access, analyze and retrieve data from mobile devices


QlikView Workflow


QlikView Process Flow

QlikView Clients

QlikView Server

Data sources

Desktop ClientIE pluginAJAX ClientMobile devices


QV Architecture


QV components Directory Service Connector : Passes authentication to specified Directory Services such as Active Directory.

QlikView Distribution Service : Reloads, distributes and reduces QlikView dashboards and emails PDFs.

QlikView Management Service : Hosts the Management console and sends settings to the other services.

QlikView Server : Hosts the QlikView files in memory and performs user requested data analysis.

QlikView Webserver: The web server for the Access Point and the AJAX pages which are presented to


QV supported output formats QlikView Graph can be exported to excel, image files, pdf

QlikView able to query and generate report from DB.

QlikView able to save query result to Excel (Word, pdf and PowerPoint)

QlikView able to drill-in/drill-out, dicing and slicing

Support real-time dashboards/reports.

You can pass QlikView result to other QlikView application


QV definition of licenses

Named CALNamed User CAL is assigned to a unique and identified user who may access as many QlikView documents as may reside on the server or server cluster to which the Named User CAL is assigned.

Document CAL A Document CAL is assigned to a unique and identified user who may access only the one QlikView document to which the Document CAL is assigned. Multiple Document CALs can be assigned to a particular user.

Session CALOne QlikView client to access as many QlikView documents as may reside on the server or server cluster to which the Session CAL is assigned for a minimum period of 15 minutes.

Usage CALUsage CAL allows any user, identified or anonymous/unidentified, to access only one QlikView document, residing on the server or server cluster to which the Usage CAL is assigned, from one client (for example, the AJAX client, QlikView Desktop, or the Internet Explorer plugin) for a time period of 60 minutes per 28-day period.


QV Type of license


QlikView Mobile client

Qlikview also have Mobile client, which can provide:

Any time access on IPhone, IPad, Android Total freedom from Desktop

Delivers- I. Dynamic interactive data analysisII. Visual dashboardIII. Associative searching ability


Qlik Competitor

Looking at competition, other vendors have greatly simplified the cube/OLAP approach, and can be considered somewhat Agile.Whereas while comparing to QlikView, they lack its patented “Associative” experience and compression abilities along with the QVP protocol (security)

Primarily below can be considered as near competitors of Qlikview:• Tableau• TIBCO SpotFire• SAP BO


Demohttp://usb.demo.qlik.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs%2FCall%20Detail%20Record%20Analysis.qvw&host=demo11


http://usb.demo.qlik.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=qvdocs%2FCall%20Detail%20Record%20Analysis.qvw&host=demo11



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