I intend to recommend Qlikview for an enterprise looking to adopt a BI solution, so I need your help to find out if it can collaborate with data ware houses. In addition, I need to know if it fulfils the following requirements:
General Requirements
- Ability to perform “What-if” analysis
- Ability to perform Slice and Dice on data
- Ability to provide drilling capabilities whichincludes drill down, drill up, drill across, drill through
- Ability to save queries and also share queriesbetween users
- Support for exception highlighting e.g. deviationfrom budget >10%
- Ability to handle large historical data
- Ability to empower business users with roll-upcapabilities
- Support for robust data mining capabilities forknowledge discovery
Should be able to extract transactional data from the following applications:
- Flexcube Retail
- Flexcube Corporate
- Kastle
- Accius
- Xceed
- Sales Planning Tool
- TradeTracker
- Future data sources
Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) Requirements
- Support APIs for direct integration with Third-Party tools (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, etc.)
- Support for bulk loading to targets
- Support for flexible metadata repository platforms (Oracle, SQL Server, Access etc)
- Support for the following platform for running the ETL engine:
- HP-UX
- Windows Server
Others
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
