QlikView for Enterprises: A Handbook of QlikView for the practicing CIOs, Architects, BI Consultants
Qlikview is fast becoming a popular BI platform, with over 20000 customers across the globe. There are continuing questions about the suitability of QlikView as an enterprise platform. This book integrates many experiences in a single place, to help get answers for three key questions: Why QlikView? How does it work under the hood? How can it be put to best use in Enterprises? The book also includes many ready-to-use lists and methodology outlines to deploy QlikView in an Enterprise. The key focus of the book is to provide the necessary information to the Enterprise Architect, to the CIO, to the Security Professionals and also to the Business Analysts, to understand how QlikView can fit into the enterprise from each of their perspectives. The book collates a wide spectrum of knowledge about the product and its enterprise capabilities in one place, removing the need to visit multiple web sites / pages / forums to get the necessary know how. This book sets a good base about the product and its usefulness. QlikView is growing to be a powerful platform for BI across the world, with Fortune 500 companies using it as an enterprise platform. The book lays a broad template for understanding how it will fit into the enterprise. Addressing the integration aspects as five different layers, the related information for each layer is presented in an integrated fashion, making it easy for the enterprise team to quickly set the road map for integration and walk through it. The book does not focus on how to write scripts and develop front-ends. It just focuses on architecture and conceptual aspects required to make the enterprise choices.