It will be a step-by-step tutorial that will discuss best practices. The book is structured in such a way that it can be read both from start to end or can be dipped into. If you are a developer who is looking to learn a fast and easy way to learn to develop your business intelligence apps with QlikView, then this book is for you. If you are a power-user in a QlikView environment, then you will find quicker ways of working with QlikView. You should know the basics of business intelligence before you pick up this book. This book covers QlikView Desktop Personal Edition. Deployments to QlikView Server/Publisher are out of scope for this book.
Author Biography:
Barry Harmsen is an independent Business Intelligence consultant based in the Netherlands. Originally from a background of traditional business intelligence, data warehousing and performance management, in 2008 Barry made the shift to QlikView and a more user-centric form of Business Intelligence. Since then he has completed many successful QlikView implementations in diverse industries, from Financial Services to Telecom, and from Manufacturing to Healthcare. Barry writes a QlikView blog at QlikFix.com. Miguel Garcia is a Business Intelligence consultant and QlikView Solutions Architect from Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful QlikView implementations, from inception through implementation, and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project, his experience and skills range from Pre-Sales to Applications Development and Design, Technical Architecture, System Administration, as well as Functional Analysis and overall Project Execution. He currently holds the QlikView Designer and QlikView Developer Certifications, backed by QlikTech, for versions 9, 10 and 11. Miguel is a Business Intelligence consultant and QlikView Solutions Architect from Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful QlikView implementations, from inception through implementation, and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project, his experience and skills range from pre-sales to applications development and design, technical architecture, system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution. He currently holds the QlikView Designer and QlikView Developer Certifications, backed by QlikTech, for versions 9, 10 and 11. His early-found passion for QlikView led him to create and host the iQlik's blog (http://iqlik.wordpress.com) which has been proved to help many developers, both new comers and experienced, in their everyday development challenges. You can follow his blog updates via twitter on @GarciaMMiguel and @iQlik. He works for DataIQ, a QlikView consulting firm with presence in Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay.
