News - 28 Nov: First Look At QlikView - Blogger review

In this post David Lai, does a brief review on Qlikview, a Visual analysis tool.

QlikView is a great dashboarding and analysis solution that allows analysts to easily and quickly display data in a meaningful way. I would like to give a technical introduction into some of the benefits I have come across while working with QlikView.

One thing that I like right off the bat for QlikView is that it loads very fast. After creating a dashboard, the user has the choice of creating an AJAX version of QlikView and this pretty much loads instantaneously. Setting up QlikView was quite easy and loading the data through an ODBC connection was easy as well. The manual provides clear instructions on accomplishing this.

Once you have your QlikView layout setup, the main way of making queries is through the selection of field values. When you make a selection, the program instantaneously shows all the field values in the document that are related to the selected field value.

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