Preface

QlikView is a business intelligence (BI) platform that enables the creation of dynamic applications for the analysis of financial data. QlikView is based on an in-memory data store, which means that BI applications can refresh data in real time. This book will lead the finance professional through the use of Qlikview for data analysis and visualization in finance, where it is used extensively. It therefore assumes that the reader has a good knowledge of finance.

This book illustrates the QlikView financial key performance indicators and discusses planning and analysis, expense management, inventory tracking, and the do's and don'ts of information display. After reading this book, you will be able to create your own financial key performance indicators and analyze how demonstration KPIs, charts, and tables are created in the existing QlikView example applications.