QlikView Your Business: An Expert Guide to Business Discovery with QlikView and Qlik Sense

Just finished reading a recently published book for QlikView developers and super users QlikView Your Business: An expert guide to Business Discovery with QlikView and Qlik Sense by Oleg Troyansky, Tammy Gibson and Charlie Leichtweis.I met Oleg Troyansky at Qlik World Conference in Orlando in 2014 and exchanged a couple emails with him before. I read his blog and learned a lot from it. I knew that Oleg contributed a lot of his time to Qlik community forum since 2005 and have been using Qlikview since 2002. Needless to say, my expectations were pretty high.Please do not be fooled by the name of the book - it might give you an impression that the book was written for business users only. It is not. It is truly an expert guide which will take your skills to the next level.The books starts easy on you, explaining basic concepts but it is important and unique in a way that these concepts are explained in the context of real business problems.Newbies will certainly appreciate step-by-step assignments, neatly formatted code that you can actually read and a lot of illustrations.Being very picky about UI and design, I enjoyed the choice of colors, fonts and the neat and clean design of the book and example dashboards.By the time you finish the book, you will master very advanced concepts (and they are not for the fainthearted!)To name a few:Concatenated tables to store multiple fact tables vs. linked fact tablesGeneric link tables"as of date" tablesAdvanced set analysis expressions built dynamically on the flyNumerous recommendations on how to optimize performance for large data setsExpressions reuse using external filesWhile I was familiar with most of these concepts, it was really helpful to see how to apply them to real business problems. Not only authors did a great job explaining these tough techniques, they suggested a lot of hints and took time to provide alternative options, not forcing readers to pick the only "right" one, but encouraging them to choose the best method given the circumstances.As experienced certified QlikView developer and after reading countless blogs, 5 QlikView books, hundreds of white papers and forum posts, I still learned a lot from this book. I can relate to everything that Oleg and his colleagues explain in the book. I appreciate that authors teach reader the best practices and explain the pitfalls and dangers of quick and dirty methods that I see a lot.Has the book met my high expectations? My answer is absolutely! Really great job, Oleg and the team! I will recommend this book now to my colleagues and I think your book will take the first place now for me. My old favorite book QlikView 11 for Developers by Miguel García and Barry Harmsen would have to take the second place!Both books are great and I think you have to have both if you are serious about QlikView development!

QlikView Your Business: An Expert Guide to Business Discovery with QlikView and Qlik Sense Heavy on Business side and Modeling, light on scripting and ETL side.Unfortunately, the book did not went through the technical editor stage:more than half of the illustrations are not readable - specifically diagrams and metadata printouts and scripts (reproduced as images).The font is a way too small to be comfortable. Examples: see pages: 203, 160, 114, 409.Many images contain text with the correct size, but are too blurry, i.e. they were magnified heavily.A number of misprints: see p.201 "Directory;" semicolon is used, should be a colon, compare with next page.Both back-end (i.e. QLV scripts) and front end (charts) are interspersed (in the same chapters).. It might be a good idea to introduce chapters devoted to script techniques only and to ETL processing alone. There are no good, substantial data extraction scripts (that would illustrate the FULL technological chain on extraction, joining, using mapping tables, cross table reference functions and finally loading into the target. However, the some typical ETL tricks are shown well with the small snippets.The book is heavy on business and modeling sides.The ETL part is covered less substantially.The Partial Load and Incremental Load are not covered at all: see absence of these items in the book index. They are fundamental for the DW loading.The Qlikview Server, Publisher, Report distribution, security, authorization, Personalized (row level filters in) reports are not covered or just touched.All in all: 4 out of 5, good reading.thank you,Alexei Akimov

I had attended a webinar by one of the authors , Oleg Troyansky and there by came to know about this book. I have a database and ETL background, so this book is exactly what I was looking for. A very thorough examples including data modeling. I was not looking for a book with only focus on visualizations and charts, but about data modeling and backend scripts. This book has been of immense help. If you are a guy with a little database background and you would like to explore Qlikview/Qliksense, this is the perfect book to start your journey with.

QlikView Your Business is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn and expand their knowledge of both QlikView and Qlik Sense. The principal author, Oleg Troyansky, is a well known and respected Qlik expert with years of experience in Qlik products.  QlikView Your Business: An Expert Guide to Business Discovery with QlikView and Qlik Sense . We provide "QlikView Your Business" to all of our Qlik Consultants at Visual Data Group and to all of our customers' business analysts and developers. Written extremely well, the book can be read from front to back as a course guide or kept by your keyboard as a ready reference book. Highly recommended! Jim Harder, Founder, Visual Data Group.

This is an excellent resource for anybody professionally serious about QlikView. The book is well organized and goes deep into subjects like data modeling, U/I optimization, and advanced functions. Where other books delve moderately, this book is unafraid. Oleg, Tammy, and Charlie make sure you understand the business context of their examples, but do not get bogged down with it. The differentiator is their complete and detailed explanations of Qlik functions and methods PLUS why and when they are best used. This is an expert level book, but is approachable for moderately experienced Qlikkies. Of the 5 Qlik books I own, this is definitely, unquestionably the best.

Best QlikView or Qlik Sense resource I have found.

This guide teaches how implement different base study cases depending on the skills level of the student. Initially, the books provides you the information to built a good Sales Analysis and, finally, gives you the information for a deeper analysis of the sabe database, on profits. Through theese and others case studies, the student could learn how to use qlikview and qlik sense or, for a middle skilled user, to deeper understand and refresh the basic knowledge

Das Buch ist eine überzeugende Mischung aus Business- und Qlikview wissen.Man erhält sehr viele Anregungen für verschiedene Bereiche in einer Firma wie man Daten analysieren kann und wie man diese in eine funktionierende QlikView Anwendung integrieren kann.In jedem Kapitel gibt es interessante Dinge, die auch erfahrenen QlikView Designer nicht immer geläufig sind.

You should get one for your book shelf - Quality content and colorful pages will hook you for sure.

Very good examples of sales and inventory analysis. Not for beginners. Lot of examples and .. .. .. .. ..

Un buen libro para comenzar. Buenos ejemplos.