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QlikView’s Ability to Connect

Multiple Data Sources

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Table of Contents

Overview Of QlikView ...................................................................................... 3

QlikView’s Connectivity Technology ................................................................ 4

QlikView’s Engine ............................................................................................ 5

List Of Data Sources........................................................................................ 6

The EOH Applications & QlikView Alliance ...................................................... 7

Contacts .......................................................................................................... 8

References ...................................................................................................... 8

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OVERVIEW OF QLIKVIEW

Effective decision-making is based on having the right information available within a few

clicks. This facility enables managers to transform their decisions into tangible actions, in a shorter

space of time than ever before. This sums up what Business Intelligence (BI) means.

QlikView has become known as the most flexible Business Intelligence platform for turning data

into knowledge. More than 24,000 organisations worldwide have enabled

their users to easily consolidate, search, and visually analyse all their data for

unprecedented business insight using QlikView’s simplicity.

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) BI Survey is the world's

largest survey of business intelligence software users. This year’s survey is

based on analysis of the experiences of over 2,000 users of 30 leading

Business Intelligence products. According to an Analyst Report: “We’re

pleased to announce that QlikTech is a top performer in all three of the Peer

Group categories reviewed: Large International Vendor, Dashboard Vendor, and Visual Analysis

and Data Discovery.”

Taking just minutes to learn, the automatic associations of QlikView create endless possibilities for

making ad hoc queries without requiring tediously defined structures and hierarchies, as is typical

in other data analysis tools. Added to this benefit is that there is no longer a need to refer to data

and reports from various information sources within the company and the different departments

within it. The common problem of silo’s within an organisation can also be eradicated with a BI tool

of this nature.

QlikView, self-service business intelligence software that helps organizations make transformative

discoveries that lead to better decisions. QlikView goes beyond what other BI software provides by

enabling users to analyze and search their data visualizations, make associations, and uncover

insight that other BI tools can't find.

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QLIKVIEW’S CONNECTIVITY TECHNOLOGY

One of the unique features of QlikView is that it enables you to connect your data from different

sources, such as databases, spreadsheets, websites, and custom data sources. You can blend

data sources from different vendors and data suppliers in the same QlikView application, to gain

insight into your data. QlikView’s connectivity technology makes this possible.

Figure 1 depicts these relationships.

FIGURE 1. QlikView extracts data from multiple, heterogeneous sources and creates a homogenous data set suitable for analysis and visualization.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

QlikView offers connectivity technology in the following ways:

▲ Files

o Use QlikView’s built-in data wizard to connect to data sources such as spreadsheets,

XML and web pages.

▲ Databases

o Pull data using the ODBC connector or native connectors from QlikTech, database

vendors, or third parties.

▲ Direct database queries

o Query databases using the DirectDiscovery connection.

▲ Custom data sources

o Build your own data source connector using QVX technology.

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QLIKVIEW’S ENGINE

The QlikView engine provides a unique associative capability to the data that has been loaded.

This means that data that is sourced from multiple systems can be treated as a single data entity

within the engine for the purpose of analytics, regardless of where the data came from. QlikView

applies associations between the data from the various systems by automatically mapping fields

that have the same name and same data type. This allows users to interrogate and make

discoveries in their data as if it were a single table of data, rather than data coming from a variety

of disparate and unconnected systems.

Once the data is loaded into the in-memory associative engine, a large variety of very powerful,

and real time, analytics capabilities are available. This is because of the rapid and highly-flexible

nature of QlikView’s in-memory technology.

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LIST OF DATA SOURCES

The list below contains the different data sources that QlikView is able to connect to, as at 1 May 2014.

A - I M - P S - Z

Actian Vectorwise MapR Sage 500

Amazon EC2 MicroStrategy Salesforce

Amazon Redshift Microsoft Access SAP

Aster Data nCluster Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) SAP HANA

Cloudera Hadoop Hive Microsoft Excel SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

Cloudera Impala Microsoft SharePoint Siebel

CSV Microsoft SQL Server Sybase ASE

DataStax MySQL SYSPRO

Epicor Scala OData SybaseIQ

EMC Greenplum ODBC Teradata

Firebird Oracle Web pages

Google BigQuery Oracle Hyperion XML

Hortonworks Hadoop Hive Oracle JD Edwards

HP Vertica Oracle Peoplesoft

IBM DB2 ParAccel

IBM Netezza ParStream

IBM (Lotus) Notes PostgreSQL

Infor Lawson Progress OpenEdge

Intuit QuickBooks

Informatica Powercenter

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THE EOH APPLICATIONS & QLIKVIEW ALLIANCE

EOH Applications, which is a Business Unit within EOH, delivers Business Intelligence as it’s

meant to be, by offering QlikView as part of its suite of products and services.

Apart from selling the software EOH Applications provides the following services in support of it:

Identify the needs of the

business

- Via Business Intelligence Workshops facilitated by our

Business Analyst

Extract data from the

various sources into

QlikView

Data Warehouse

consolidation

- SQL Data Warehouse and/or QlikView Data Warehouse

Build QlikView data extraction

models

- Finance, HR, Sales, Stock etc

Develop the formulas and analysis

views

- Formulas eg. Stock Turnover, Profit/Loss etc

- Analysis eg. Averages of Sales Figures etc

Design Dashboards

and Reports

Administration - set up of:

- QlikView Server

- Security and access requirements (network, internet and mobile devices)

- Report scheduling

Ad hoc Consulting and

Development

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CONTACTS

If you would like to view Case Studies from your industry, or see this tool in action, using your

company data, please contact Lynda Benn, as follows:

Lynda Benn Regional Director – Western Cape

EOH Applications tel: +27 (21) 525 7200 | cell: +27 (83) 658 2988 [email protected] | www.eoh.co.za | www.eohapplications.co.za Consulting | Technology | Outsourcing

REFERENCES

1. http://www.qlik.com

2. http://www.qlikview.co.za/?m=1

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