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The QlikView Platform

QlikView offers all of the capabilities that traditionally required a complex and costly suite of products, on a single unified platform. QlikView provides flexible ad-hoc analysis capabilities, powerful analytic applications, and simple printable reports. This allows organizations to deploy QlikView to everyone – highly skilled analysts doing ad-hoc detailed reporting, executives requiring a dashboard of critical business information and plant supervisors analyzing output performance. Further, QlikView allows organizations to eliminate unused paper reports, and replace them with demand-driven reporting.

QlikView Screenshots

QlikView was built with a simple architectural premise – all data should be held in memory, and all calculations should be performed when requested and not prior. QlikTech’s goal is to deliver powerful analytic and reporting solutions in a quarter of the time, at half the cost, and with twice the value of competing OLAP cube based products.

QlikView is designed so that the entire application (data model included) is held in RAM – this is what makes it uniquely efficient compared to traditional OLAP cube-based applications. It creates an in memory data model as it loads data from a data source, enabling it to access millions of cells of data and still respond to queries in less than a second. High-speed associations occur as the user clicks in the various sheet objects and the display is updated immediately.

QlikView offers three components in an integrated solution:

Fast Query Engine:
Loading the data into memory allows QlikView to query, or sub-set, the data instantly to only reveal the data which is relevant to a given user. In addition, QlikView shows users the data which is excluded by a selection.

On Demand Calculation Engine:
Charts, graphs, and tables of all types in QlikView are multidimensional analysis. That is, they show one or more measures (e.g., metrics, KPIs, expressions, etc.) across one or more dimensions (example: total sales by region). The major difference is that these calculations are performed as the user clicks and never prior.

Visually Interactive User Interface (UI):
QlikView offers hundreds of possible chart and table types and varieties; there are list boxes for navigating dimensions; statistic boxes; and many other UI elements. Every UI element can be clicked on to query.

View Qlikview demos here