Advice for the new guy

[#1]

Hello QlikCommunity,

I just recently moved into a role where I will be using QlikView very heavily. I come from an SAP Business Objects background for what that's worth. I have spent the past week going through tutorials and reading various posts in this community. However, I want to ensure that I get off on the right start with this new tool.

• What advice would you seasoned QlikView users give to new users, such as myself?
• If anyone here has gone from using SAP Business Objects to QlikView, what advice could you give for such a transition?

Thank you for help and advice! I am looking forward to learning from the Community.

-Chris McPherson

[rustyfishbones]

Hi Chris,

My advice would be to purchase a copy of Qlikview 11 for Developers

I have a youtube channel with over 150 Qlikview Tutorial videos Alan Farrell - YouTube

but start with Qlikview 11 for Developers and you can't go wrong

Regards

Alan

[#3]

Advice 1:

KISS

[simondachstr]

Check out http://www.qlikshare.com

This is a blog of one of my colleagues containing MANY very good QlikView questions. It involves almost every relevant aspect in the use, development and deployment of QV. Go through the questions and tr look-up the answers in the manual, the forums etc.

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

Try to spend a couple of hours per week on this site answering questions. The questions people post here are often nice little puzzles that teach you a lot trying to solve them. There are also two great books available that I can recommend highly:

• Qlikview 11 for Developers
• Qlikview for Developers Cookbook

And there are some blogs that are worth following. You can find a list here: The Qlikosphere, 18 blogs you should follow

[stevedark · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

There are lots of great resources on-line, and I would agree with the other posts that Alan and Deepak's resources are among them.

I also run a QlikView blog and have written a few posts for those just coming to QlikView, you may want to look at the following posts:

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/start-your-qlikview-project-the-right-way/

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/qlikview-design/

http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/perfect-your-qlikview-data-model/

Hope you find some useful tips there!

Kind regards,

Steve

[#7]

I have been finding your blog posts to be very helpful in bringing together many of the concepts I have read about (such as how optimize the data model and .QVD loads). Thank you for the post!

[stevedark]

Hi Chris,

Glad you like the blog posts.  There will be more to follow...

- Steve

[Anonymous]

Steve

Your blog posts are great - looking forward to the next one !!!

Chris

2 books I'd recommend are:

• QliView 11 for Developers and at nigh on 500 pages it is also useful for hand to hand combat
• QlikView for Developers Cookbook.

The people mentioned in the Credits in both of them reads like a Who's Who's of QlikView and includes Steve whom you gave the Correct Answer to.

Best Regards,     Bill

[#10]

I'm quickly finding out that the fundamental difference between Business Objects and QlikView is the Associative Query Language (AQL) that QlikView uses. Very cool and innovative stuff.

It also seems that QlikView (so far at least) gives more freedom to the developer to implement custom solutions. QlikView has expression builders all throughout to let the developer implement their own solutions. I'm excited to start building!