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Microsoft BI vs Qlikview another perspective

November 2, 2009

There’s a nice post from Shawn Helwig of WIPFLi about the new Microsoft BI 2010 and how it compares to Qlikview.
I think it’s a nice read as it shows the perspective of somebody who’s in business with both Microsoft and QlikView.
I don’t want to spoil you the read so just see for yourself.
The Spark

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QV man is looking for name

November 2, 2009

I am not a gadget person and I particularly hate marketing gadgets. You know, the kind of stuff that everybody throws in the bin after you went to a conference/fair and you are given bags full of useless stuff. So you can imagine my reaction the first time I saw this.
I thought:”WTF is this? Somebody [...]

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Microstrategy follows QlikView example. Releases free starter package

October 23, 2009

This is a few days old, but still interesting if you missed it.
Microstrategy is releasing a free starter package (full article here) .
I have never tried Microstrategy, but I will probably give a try this time.
I am not sure of course, but this free starter package looks like a “follow” move of the QlikView 9 [...]

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Export Layout feature and bug on QlikView 9 SR1

October 22, 2009

Export Layout Feature
The other day I was ” busy” playing around with the new “Export Layout” feature of QlikView 9.
The “Export Layout” feature allows you to save in a XML format the layout configuration of your QVW documents.
This is very handy especially for version control. As the usage of QlikView grows, so does the need [...]

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FTP Download/Upload with QlikView

October 20, 2009

First of all I want to thank The Spark for the opportunity to contribute to his blog and wish him good luck!
For my first post I will present you a little QlikView application that can download qvw files from FTP servers.
During my daily job I work with remote teams and we had to find a [...]

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New author for QlikSparks. Welcome to Stefan!

October 15, 2009

Hi all,
I am extremely pleased to announce that Stefan Stoichev will join QlikSparks as an author for our blog.
Why Stefan?
If you follow us regularly you should remember that Stefan is the author of the QlikView application to post graphs on Twitter and Facebook that we covered this week.
As I mentioned in the post, I was [...]

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Screenshot capturing with Greenshot

October 13, 2009

The other day, while I was reviewing Stefan’s application, I decided I wanted to take a screenshot of the application.
I decided to have a look around and see if there was a basic open source screen capturing program and with much delight I could find one.
Greenshot is very simple and compact application (400Kb) that does [...]

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Post your QlikView graphs to Facebook and Twitter!

October 12, 2009

Steve Stoichev has just uploaded a very cool QlikView application on the Share QlikViewsportal that allows you to upload your graphs to Facebook and Twitter.
I went through the application and I have to say it’s very neat (see samples screenshot)

You can specify the server and the path where to upload the pictures. You can then [...]

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Qliklets – QlikView Powered Widgets

August 25, 2009

The guys at IndustrialCodeBox have just announced the release of QlikView powered widgets (called Qliklets in their own words).
You can read the full post here
See below the widget… oops, sorry I meant Qliklet
This is indeed very cool, my best compliments to the guys at the IndustrialCodeBox
The Spark
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Banksy vs Bristol Museum

August 13, 2009

This is not related to QlikView, but we do hope that you have other interests outside QlikView.
This is a very interesting exhibition from Banksy at the Bristol Museum. See below two videos, very cool stuff
The Spark

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