Chapter 1. QlikView Fundamentals
If you are reading this book, then you are already familiar with the power of QlikView. You are on your way to utilize the in-memory and associative power of QlikView to build better insights for your organization. Business intelligence applications developed in QlikView are helping organizations worldwide in transforming their raw data into useful information.
Before jumping into creating data transformations and visualization in QlikView, we will cover the basics of this book. This book will cover all the essentials of QlikView designer and developer concepts. It will start with basics of QlikView, and then dive into loading data, performing transformations, creating visualizations, and deployment of the application. In each chapter, you will understand the key concepts and follow step-by-step exercises.
The first chapter will cover the development life cycle of QlikView, an introduction to a fictitious company Adventure works Inc., and an introduction to the adventure works data model.
In this chapter, we will learn about:
- QlikView components and installation
- QlikView basics
- Problem definition of a fictitious company
- Understanding existing data model and tables
- Development environment setup
