QlikView Overview
Scott Smith
Practice Director
WIT, Inc.
September 13, 2012
About WIT
• Offices in Troy, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio
• Founded in 1996
• More than 200 Clients
• QlikView Elite Reseller Partner Since 2009
• QlikView-Certified Implementation Partner
• Other Technology Partners:
– SAP Business Objects
– Microsoft
– iDashboards
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikTech – A New Kind of Software Company
• U.S.-based company,
founded 1993 in Sweden
Broad Base of 25,000 Customers
• 25,000 customers in
100 countries
• 1,400 global partners
• 1,100+ employees across
28 offices in 23 countries
• NASDAQ: QLIK
• Change Their World Grant
and Philanthropic Programs
Dated May 1, 2012.
Michigan Customers
Dated May 1, 2012.
Growing Customer Base
Customer Growth
25,000
18,000
13,024
10,585
7,306
5,436
1,500
2,239
*Historical results not indicative of future results.
Dated May 1, 2012.
Innovations Are Remaking Markets
Search
Mobile Devices
CRM
PageRank
Search
iPhone/iPad
SAAS-based
CRM
SIMPLICITY
SIMPLICITY
SIMPLICITY
BI
Business
Discovery
SIMPLICITY
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikTech Hits Top 3
in Forbes Fast Tech 25
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView: Gartner 2012 BI
Magic Quadrant Leader
• Data Discovery momentum
continues to accelerate
• QlikTech only Data
Discovery vendor in leader
quadrant
• Customers report strong
delivery of business
benefits
• #1 in ease of use
• Increased global and
enterprise adoption
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms:
February 2012
Dated May 1, 2012.
Business Discovery:
Business User-Driven BI
App Model
Remixability
and Reassembly
Social and
Collaborative
Insight
Everywhere
Mobility
IT
Finance
Production
HR
Marketing
Sales
Dated May 1, 2012.
The Evolving BI Landscape
REPORT-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE
(IT-driven, tightly controlled)
END USER
• Pre-calculated
dashboards
STACK
VENDOR BI
• Managed
reporting
IT DEPARTMENT
IT ROLE
• Data preparation
and governance
+
• Responsible for
building all the
analyses
OPERATIONAL DATA SOURCES
Dated May 1, 2012.
The Evolving BI Landscape and IT’s Changing Role
REPORT-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE
(IT-driven, tightly controlled)
END USER
• Pre-calculated
dashboards
STACK
VENDOR BI
• Managed
reporting
BUSINESS DISCOVERY ARCHITECTURE
(Business user-driven, self-service)
BUSINESS USER
IT DEPARTMENT
QLIKVIEW
IT ROLE
• Data preparation
and governance
+
• Responsible for
building all the
analyses
IT ROLE
• Data preparation
and governance
• Dynamic
dashboards
+
• Any device
• Enable business
users to create
their own
analyses
• Search live data
• Self-service
analysis
• Create analysis
relevant to specific
business problems
• Change analysis
on the fly
OPERATIONAL DATA SOURCES
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView Business Discovery Platform
Marketing
Application
Presentation
Finance
Windows IIS
QLIKVIEW
WEBSERVER
BUSINESS DISCOVERY APPS
BUSINESS USERS
Data / Business
Analysts Developers
IT Admins
QLIKVIEW
SERVER
QLIKVIEW
MANAGEMENT
CONSOLE
Data Access
Operations
Sales
Windows
Based
File Share
(Optional)
QVW; QVD files
QLIKVIEW
DEVELOPER
QLIKVIEW
PUBLISHER
Custom connectors; ODBC;
OLEDB; QVX; XML
Third-Party
Integration:
• Informatica
• Dell
• Boomi
• Sybase
• and many more…
EXCEL
ORACLE
SQL
SAP
SALESFORCE
DATA
WAREHOUSE
ERP
INFORMATICA
OPERATIONAL DATA SOURCES
Security
Integration:
• Windows Server
• Tivoli Software
• IBM
QlikView on Mobile:
The HTML5 Advantage
• Delivers the same QlikView
experience across
mobile devices
• The same analytic apps
work on all devices
• Reduces IT’s support burden
• Secure: Data is stored on
the server, not the device
Dated May 1, 2012.
Global Enterprise Deployments
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikCommunity: Strength In Numbers
• Self-service BI requires
self-service support
• Leverages the expertise of
81,000+ users
• Vibrant, thriving online global forum
at community.qlikview.com
• Most-visited and active user
community in the BI industry
• Free apps and best practices
• Significant QlikTech employee
participation
QlikCommunity
Membership
Through April 2012
81,000
Dated May 1, 2012.
What Makes QlikView Unique
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView’s Associative Experience Puts Users in Control
Traditional
Associative
Region
Region
State
Sales
Person
State
Product
Sales
Person
IT Driven
• Linear, pre-defined thinking
• Insights missed in hidden data
• Months to change
• Data-centric
Product
User Driven
• User decides where to start
• All data, always visible
• Minutes to change
• Insight driven
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView Shows You
What’s Associated — and Not
Associated: white
Selections: green
Unassociated: gray
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView’s Core Technology: The Basics
1. Easily consolidates multiple data sources
2. Loads all data into memory (millions of rows)
3. Massive (10-to-1) data compression
4. Enables real-time associative search and analysis
5. Connectors to applications like SAP and
Salesforce.com
Dated May 1, 2012.
QlikView’s Core Technology:
The Secret Sauce
• Maintains associations in the data automatically
• Calculates aggregations on the fly as needed
Dated May 1, 2012.
Thank you!