What this book covers

Chapter 1, QlikView Essentials, provides the basics of QlikView. It gives an overview of the QlikView architecture. It also provides instructions on how to download QlikView. You get to know about the star schema and learn about the underlining data model used in the book.

Chapter 2, Extract, Transform, and Load, as the name suggests, dives into building a data model in QlikView by extracting, transforming, and loading data. In this chapter, readers will learn about using scripts to load data from different sources and data transformation.

Chapter 3, Optimizing Your Data Model, deals with techniques to optimize a data model. This involves different ways to join data and data aggregation.

Chapter 4, Data Modeling Challenges, helps you in understanding and resolving different data modeling challenges. You learn about loading some special table types. You will also learn about the best practices of data modeling.

Chapter 5, Creating Dashboards, gives you the opportunity to learn about different dash boarding practices and create different visualization objects.

Chapter 6, Comparative Analysis, enforces the importance of data comparison in the dashboards using Set Analysis and Alternate State. You also learn about implementing what-if analysis.

Chapter 7, Securing Your Application, teaches how to secure your dashboard application.

Chapter 8, Application Deployment, provides an overview of servers and how applications can be deployed on the server.