The QlikView Difference

QlikView provides fast, powerful and visual in-memory business analysis – without the limitations, cost or complexity of traditional BI applications. Reporting applications can be deployed in days and users trained in minutes. Designed specifically for business users, QlikView puts information at your fingertips instantly, giving you the intelligence you need to act – faster.

Financial executives benefit from bottom-line accuracy of the company’s profits, margins, receivables and payables. Sales executives track revenue targets by account, geography, rep, and product lines. Warehouse managers reduce inventory costs with alerts on new incoming orders and customer delivery dates. Every leaders in the organization will gain the business insight they require. Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can do all of this without building OLAP “cubes” or data warehouses. That means applications are easy to build and simple to change. On the fly. With instant results. The reason for QlikView is Qlear: visual reporting for better performance.

QlikView 8 truly represents the next generation of business intelligence, creating significant new opportunities for innovation and superior performance for organizations of all sizes and across all industries.

Innovation Themes for QlikView 8

Actionable Analytics Collaborative Analytics Mass User Deployment Mass Document Deployment

QlikView 8 also includes enhancements to its industry-leading visualization of data. Users can display results in more than two dozen colorful chart format styles – from “funnel” and Pareto charts to heat maps – and with multiple “gauges” for improved information management. “New layout features and reporting charts in QlikView 8 make it even easier to see results according to my preferences,” said Thomas Nilsson, IT Manager at HemoCue, a Swedish manufacturer of medical diagnostic products. “Looking at the same data in a different way gives you the same answers, of course, yet it can spark different ideas. Not only is it more interactive, it’s also more intuitive.”

Finding out more about QlikView 8 is as simple as using it – just Qlik here to download a free trial or to get more information.

Actionable Analytics

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Feature: QlikView 8 makes sophisticated analysis smarter by:

• Creating placeholder fields, which hold data in memory and can be treated just like any other data
• Allowing data to be entered/edited in placeholder fields and distributed across aggregations as necessary

"Our existing QlikView 7 applications provide a wealth of historical data, but QlikView 8 will allow users to do forward-looking analysis and compare different scenarios with a few clicks," said SteveHunt, Vice President and CIO at SI International, a leading system integrator to many US government agencies. "Our managers will be much better able to understand the future implications of today's decisions."

Benefit: Strategic business intelligence lies not only in analyzing the past, but also in better predicting the future – making calculated business decisions based on what-if scenarios, and then capturing results for future comparison. QlikView 8 simplifies specific business cases such as what-if analysis, budgeting and planning, and display of close-to-real-time data, merging interactive analysis and user input/decisions.

Collaborative Analytics

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Feature: QlikView 8 fosters collaborative business intelligence through:

• Private and shared document objects, bookmarks and reports
• QlikView Server operating as a central “hub” for managing shared objects
• “Click to mail” bookmarks
• Locally developed analysis shared on local servers
• Embedding QlikView in client applications such as Microsoft? Office?

“QlikView 8 creates a framework for true collaboration,” said Steve Stroupe, Project Manager at Colonial Supplemental Insurance, based in the US. “We do a lot of collaborative analysis – talking with our territory managers. This allows us to not only discuss the state of the business, but also to manage and report on it together at the same time.”

Benefit: Improved business performance is a team effort, one that requires users to work together to find insight from data, and then share that analysis with others. QlikView 8 simplifies collaboration and sharing of insight gained from analysis across users.

Mass User Deployment

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Feature: QlikView 8 streamlines mass deployment through:

• Automatic generation of web pages for all three object clients (AJAX Zero-Footprint, Java Objects, and QlikX Clients)
• Simplified server requirements for QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher, the module that automates data refresh and ensures appropriate access for specific users
• A web services interface to QlikView Server
• Optimized and simplified installation

Benefit: The goal of business intelligence is to deliver personalized analysis to the right users at the right time, enabling users to make better business decisions. QlikView 8 allows companies to deploy analysis to hundreds or thousands of users, inside and outside of the enterprise with no control or access to user's machines, ensuring that all have access to the latest QlikView functionality.

Mass Document Deployment

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Feature: The proliferation of QlikView both within the enterprise and to the “extended enterprise” has created a demand for tighter integration between QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher. QlikView 8 does this by:

• Integrating installation for QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher Standard Edition
• Providing direct access to QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher-managed documents within the QlikView client
• Synchronizing releases of QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher

Benefit: Simple and secure administration of large numbers of QlikViews, providing personalized analysis in the hands of the right user at the right time.

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