It's quite common for (QlikView) customers to look for reporting facilities addition to it's core BI features. I'm looking for some advice on Reporting side of QlikView BI like scheduling and dispatching reports in various different formats. To which extend reporting is possible with QlikView BI? Please, advice.
You can distribute PDFs with QlikView Publisher and Report Distribution. These are additional extra licenses and you need QV Server. To author the report you just need QlikView desktop. (only distribution is extra)
NPRINTING and CIA Report Manager are separate products not sold via QlikTech. But they are excellent tools that use QlikView apps as a data source. These tools give you additional output formats as well as formatting flexibility for distibution ... WORD, XLS , PPT etc...
NPRINTING brings 2 major pieces that PDF Report Distribution (which requres Server and Publisher) does not.
1. Output formats
-> QlikView PDF distribution only does PDF
-> NPRINTING has XLS, PPT, DOC, CSV, XML , PDF and more
2. Report formats and Authoring
-> QlikVIew PDF distributions distributes PDFs made up of existing layout objects and visualizations. You are limited to the visualizations that are available and there are no templates.
-> NPRINTING allows you to access the QlikView expressions and not just the layout objects. So you can author new layouts in the report that aren't possible in Qlik. Particularly useful for various tabular outputs. Also you can author in Excel, Word and PPT which offer user friendly environments .
What is nice about NPRINTING is that the skills required are mostly QlikView skills and MS Office skills and there is not a lot to learn on the NPRINTING side
.png "Former Employee"){kind=icon}