The Year in QlikView

A subtle and powerful shift happened last year.

I was building a QlikView application for financials. My client and I had discussed the idea of this application a year earlier but it was impossible then. Version 8.5 had not been released. The ability to look at dozens of simultaneous selection sets is the key to making this great idea work.

Zoom forward to 2009. Versions 8.5 and then 9.0 are released with features including Set Analysis, unlimited rows, chaining of document selections, data export from the script, and Dynamic Tables. These innovations remove the architectural limitations of QlikView that had tied my hands. A year ago I could not deliver the solution that was in my head and that my client needed. Now these limits are gone and I can build exactly what my client needs.

Build exactly what my client needs? This is the first time that this thought crossed my mind. It’s true! With the release of version 9, QlikView has entered a new phase. One that no other product can match.

QlikView is the first and ONLY tool on the market in which every business analysis that I have been asked to build can be built with confidence and an expectation of success. Dream big!

QlikView is not SPSS or JMP, and it never will be, but since I have never been asked to do anything more complex than a regression, QlikView works perfectly.

QlikView is the tool to turn to. It delivers results. Real value, right now. And you can be confident that it can achieve any business analysis you can think of. To get an idea of what QlikView can do, follow this thread on LinkedIn with over 100 unique uses for QlikView.