Alternate States in Qlikview Added By Shilpan On Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 at 2:11 am Most businesses need comparative analysis to identify the state of the business. Qlikvew Alternate States was introduced in version 11 to facilitate comparative analysis such as year-over-year sales comparison where users want to see how current year sales compares to the previous year or current quarter compares to the same quarter a year ago. You […] READ MORE →

Qlikview Tutorial: A How to Tip on Data Load Added By Shilpan On Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013 at 1:31 am An optimized QVD loads at a blazing speed. You can load 50 to 100 million rows in matter of minutes.  So, it always makes sense to create a common data layer with a QVD that contains common transformations that many Qlikview applications can consume. For starters, optimized QVD is the one that contains no transformations […] READ MORE →

Qlikview for Developers Cookbook Added By Shilpan On Friday, June 28th, 2013 at 4:04 am Qlikview training is an essential aspect of your success and growth as a developer. Once you get trained, you simply learn the basics to start building applications. But soon you confront business requirements that force you to expand your circle of knowledge beyond what you learned during your initial Qlikview training. It is almost as […] READ MORE →

A Qlikview QVD Function to Simplify Incremental Data Load Added By Shilpan On Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 at 4:44 am A Qlikview QVD file is a binary data file for a single table without a layout or a security. QVD is a native data format used only by Qlikview to read and write data. QVD file format typically has a small footprint and Qlikview application can read data 10 to 100 times faster from a […] READ MORE →

Top 3 Reasons to Learn Qlikview Added By Shilpan On Saturday, June 15th, 2013 at 2:27 pm “What is Qlikview?,” asked someone who knows that I am passionate about it. A great question indeed. Is it a business intelligence tool? I am not sure. We’ve spent years building pervasive BI — now we need to put some work into building persuasive BI,” — Donald Farmer, VP of Product Management at Qliktech   We […] READ MORE →