QlikView’s Pragmatic Approach to Metadata

Metadata is an important element of BI software deployments. Prospective customers frequently ask us how the QlikView Business Discovery platform handles metadata and how much work is involved. This QlikView Technology White Paper describes how QlikView delivers metadata in a way that truly supports management oversight and control — yet is simple and straightforward. We created this paper for IT pros and tech-savvy business people who are evaluating QlikView for use in mid-sized and large organizations. Our aim is to show that QlikView’s metadata approach can quickly and easily lead to improvements in QlikView process governance, troubleshooting and support, application development, data change analysis, and capacity planning.

Business Discovery: The Next Generation of BI

Overview of QlikView's Business Discovery approach focusing on empowering end users to explore and exploit data without limits.

Mobility is Exploding: Are you Ready?

This paper deals with the explosion of mobility and the implications for business users. Includes use cases for how business users can bring business discovery to the front lines of the business. Written by CITO Research and sponsored by QlikView.

The Updated Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study

This report by Dresner Advisory Services explores the perceptions, intentions and realities surrounding Mobile Business Intelligence from a number of perspectives and sheds light on an emerging market dynamic.

The Associative Experience

By their nature, most query-based tools divorce data from their context, leaving gaps for those trying to make data-driven business decisions. In contrast, QlikView is flexible, fast, and maintains associations among all data elements. This QlikView Technology White Paper illuminates the inner workings of QlikView’s associative architecture and explains how it fundamentally improves the way people conduct business analysis. The intended audience includes tech-savvy business decision makers and IT pros who are evaluating QlikView.

The Analytical Business User: Boosting Performance with Self-Service BI

This Aberdeen research brief, the first in a two-part series, explores the performance improvements achievable through a strategy for self-service BI. The research shows that Best-in-Class organizations are equipping their best LOB managers with analytical capability in order to improve IT resource efficiency and achieve tangible business improvements.

The Path to Self-Service BI: Aligning Resources to Empower the Business User

This Aberdeen research brief, the second in a two-part series, investigates the organizational capabilities and technology enablers that Best-in-Class organizations exploit in order to deliver on the promises of self-service BI. The research offers a logical guideline for organizations to better align resources and make their BI strategy more pervasive within their Line-of-Business divisions.

The Death of Traditional BI: What's Next?

The “Death of Traditional BI” white paper explains how IT managers can leverage their BI platforms for business users via a new class of software, Business Discovery, that puts tools into the hands of end users. Business Discovery enables users to get their own data and answer their own questions, freeing IT to focus on strategic enterprise issues.

The Art of Business Discovery

Filed under the heading of Business Intelligence (BI), QlikView is more than that. It offers users something genuinely new: not just intelligence, but business discovery. To understand the difference, it’s important to first clear your mind of existing paradigms. QlikView’s functionality will remind you of what’s possible in BI and in spreadsheets, but if you cling too tightly to those ideas, you won’t understand how QlikView works and why it may be important to your business.

This paper provides a bottom-up explanation of QlikView’s software, the implications of business discovery, and why those who are used to the limitations of traditional BI love QlikView.

Crossing the Chasm Between IT and Business Teams with New Approaches to Business Intelligence

For over a decade, organizations have struggled with a widening gap between IT and the business owner due to shifts in perceptions of what Business Intelligence was meant to be. Delivery of BI has become so complex that IT has been forced to package BI requests into very large projects in order to justify the overhead. IT now in many instances has become undervalued; where highly skilled workers are frustrated in low level reporting and measurement roles, while the business – standing apart - can’t access and analyze information fast enough to make strategic decisions. This lack of “go-fast” BI capability has created a chasm that forces BI requestors to either wait in line (potentially for years) at the door of Big BI, or to seek speed in the static and ad-hoc deliverables of a reporting team.

How did we get here and what’s the impact for the future of Business Intelligence in today’s organizations? A new way of thinking should emerge when considering better approaches to bridge the gap. One that, in the end, will elevate IT, and have the business pulling a seat out for them at the table, to work collaboratively.

This discussion with Brad Peterman, a leading industry technologist, will elaborate how.