QlikView for Developers Cookbook: Discover the Strategies Needed to Tackle the Most Challenging Tasks Facing the Qlickview Developer - Softcover

Redmond, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782179739 ISBN 13: 9781782179733

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Take your QlikView training to the next level with this brilliant book that's packed with recipes which progress from intermediate to advanced. The step-by step-approach makes learning easy and enjoyable.

Overview

• Learn beyond QlikView training
• Discover QlikView Advanced GUI development, advanced scripting, complex data modelling issues, and much more
• Accelerate the growth of your QlikView developer ability
• Based on over 7 years’ experience of QlikView development
• Written in a handy Cookbook style with each recipe as a self-contained learning module

In Detail

QlikView has been around since 1993, but has only really taken off in recent years as a leader in the in-memory BI space and, more recently, in the data discovery area. QlikView features the ability to consolidate relevant data from multiple sources into a single application, as well as an associative data model to allow you to explore the data to a way your brain works, state-of-the-art visualizations, dashboard, analysis and reports, and mobile data access.

QlikView for Developers Cookbook builds on your initial training and experiences with QlikView to help you become a better developer. This book features plenty of hands-on examples of many challenging functions.

Assuming a basic understanding of QlikView development, this book provides a range of step-by-step exercises to teach you different subjects to help build your QlikView developer expertise.

From advanced charting and layout to set analysis; from advanced aggregations through to scripting, performance, and security, this book will cover all the areas that you need to know about.

The recipes in this book will give you a lot of the information that you need to become an excellent QlikView developer.

What you will learn from this book

• Use QlikView charts to create more advanced visualizations
• Layout your screen and use different color schemes
• Get to grips with set analysis
• Use Total and AGGR for advanced aggregations
• Use macros to perform advanced tasks
• Overcome data modelling challenges
• Use some of the most useful functions in QlikView
• Write great script
• Improve the performance of your application
• Secure your application

Approach

The recipes in this Cookbook provide a concise yet practical guide on how to become an excellent QlikView developer. The book begins with intermediate level recipes and then moves on to more complex recipes in an incremental manner.

Who this book is written for

This book is for anyone who has either attended QlikView Developer training or has taught themselves QlikView from books or online sources. You might be working for a QlikView customer, partner, or even QlikView themselves (or want to!) and want to improve your QlikView skills.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Redmond

Stephen Redmond is CTO of CapricornVentis Limited (http://www.capventis.com), a QlikView Elite Partner. He is the author of several books, including the very popular DevLogix series for SalesLogix developers.

In 2006, after working for many years with CRM systems, reporting and analysis solutions, and data integration, Stephen started working with QlikView. Since then, CapricornVentis have become QlikView's top partner in the UK and the Ireland territory and, with Stephen at the head of the team, have implemented QlikView in a wide variety of enterprises and large business customers across a wide range of sectors from public sector to financial services to large retailers.

Stephen regularly contributes to online forums, including the Qlik Community. His QlikView blog is at http://qliktips.blogspot.com, and you can follow him on Twitter (@stephencredmond), where he tweets about QlikView, BI, data visualization, and technology in general.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782179739
• ISBN 13: 9781782179733
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272