Is 'QlikView' The Best Business Intelligence Software?

Know QlikView

QlikView is a software which is provided by US-based company Qlik. QlikView is a comprehensive Business Intelligence software which provides capable business analytics to a wide range of business users in organizations. This tool is also used for Data Modeling, Data Visualization, and Reporting.

Components Of QlikView

Basically, there are three main components in QlikView. 1.QlikView Desktop

2.QlikView Server 3.QlikView Publisher

1. QlikView Desktop: This is a development tool which is used to create data extraction & transformation model and Dashboard visualizations or graphical user interface
2. QlikView Server: All applications of QlikView are stored in this server and facilitates communication for clients and QlikView applications.
3. QlikView Publisher: This loads from different sources and delivers Qlikview documents to end-user

Functionalities Of QlikView In An Organization?
QlikView as an in-memory business intelligence software helps organizations whether big or small in discovering, extracting, transforming and presenting the data in richly interactive charts and graphs. Here is a sample of how QlikView handovers data visually which provide context to data in simple and rich format.

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  Guided Analytics: Its controlled and beautiful analytics enables employees in the organization discover data insights and make right decisions.
• Security: Control of analytics applications, permissions, and data management from top to down in the organizational hierarchy.
• Centralized Apps: Particulate control of dashboards, design, and layouts.
• Flexibility: There is an option to build exact tools needed for enterprises and its team.
• Customizable: QlikView Scripting enables to develop custom apps and improve developments with QlikView workbench.
• Integration: QlikView can be combined with system management software and business applications
• Global Search: Acceleration of data discovery and navigation of complex information can be done in natural search.
• Consistency: It provides one set of data and apps for organizational usage.
• Advanced Reporting: Create templates, consistent reports and distributing them across the organisation and also embed reports in Microsoft office docs with the help Qlik NPrinting.

How Is QlikView Different From Others?
There are seven reasons why Qlikview is not only different but also preferable when compared to other applications. Here the list goes:

• Associative Technology: QlikView's associative architecture delivered is world's first technology. Its in-memory associative engine stores individual tables and every data point in each and every field is linked with another data point anywhere in the layout.

• Compresses Data: This loads data in a compressed style and lessen the need to affix to the database. Reading data from QlikView Data (QVD) file is 90% faster than reading it from a traditional database.
• Extract Transform and Load(ETL) : QV has a strong scripting functionality which allows transformation of data. Using these scripts Qlikview can execute full scale ETL activities. With the help of QlikView Desktop, developers can develop different layers of data like presentation layer, extract layer and transformational layer.
• Calculations of Aggregations On the Fly: QV engine calculates aggregations on the fly depending on the user's selection.
• Lesser Development Time: Compared to other applications QlikView dashboards have a shorter development lifecycle.
• Scalable Solutions: QlikView can be put into effect with small and large organizations. But in the beginning stage a smaller solution is to be implemented and gradually as the user group and data keeps on growing a bigger solution can be implemented.
• QlikView Training: Qlik has a ton's of material and questions answers on their community website. They can also read through blogs posts, use cases and attend for QlikView Certification Training on their e-learning website.
• QlikView License: It is a licensing software and different licensing options are available in the market.

Qlikview has more features than any other applications which are available in the market in terms of features and functionalities point of view. And moreover, it is easy and fast to learn, flexible to use and has feature-rich data visualization. QlikView licensing model is not that expensive when compared to other top competitors in the race. In fact, QlikView can be a challenging software to Booming Big Data in near future.