QlikTech registers for IPO. Wants to raise 100$ million.

April 2, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Unless it’s an April’s fool, QlikTech has filed a registration statement with SEC for Initial Public Offering (IPO). You can read the full statement on the QlikView site here, but you can also read the below extract: Qlik Technologies Inc. (“QlikTech”), a provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has [...]

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QlikView Autozoom Macro

March 10, 2010

One of the challenges that you will come across when developing a QlikView application is the size on the screen of your objects. I like to work on high resolution screens (I am currently on 1920×1200)  as I like to have as much information as possible available.  Many people find that irritating as they think [...]

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QlikView Apps – Find cool datasets on Infochimps.org

March 8, 2010

Have you ever tried looking for data sets on the web? Things like a zip code database or a country list? If you have, you certainly know how hard it is to find reliable and clear sources. Luckily the guys at Infochimps.org are here. In their own words this is what Infochimps is about: Infochimps [...]

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QlikView Memory Limits

March 4, 2010

I stumbled on this nice post from Alexandru Toth entitled: QlikView Memory Limits Alexandru shares his experience on limits relating to QlikView memory and he gives us a nice script for killing via Powershell processes that seem to consume too much memory powershell -command “& {get-process qv | Where-Object {$_.PeakVirtualMemorySize64 -gt 50000000000 } | Stop-Process [...]

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The Data Deluge

March 1, 2010

In case you have missed it, there’s a nice special report on the Economist this week about Managing Information. Unfortunately QlikView is not mentioned as one of the BI tools, but I am sure you will find this report interesting. Happy reading! QVApps The Economist – Data Deluge Special

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QlikSparks moves to blog.qvapps.com

February 19, 2010

Hi all, as the title already says, this is a quick post to notify you of the change. As you probably noticed, the QlikSparks blog is now redirecting to its new location: http://blog.qvapps.com We have a lot of interesting developments coming for QVApps in the near future. There’s been a short delay as we had [...]

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Nested if-statements tool

January 11, 2010

Stefan Walther , the author behind qlikblog.at, has switched his blog to english. That’s great news for all of us non-german speakers! Stefan just published a very interesting article and a nice tool he created to ease the pain around nested if-statements in QlikView. You can check it out here Well done Stefan, and thanks [...]

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QlikView Myths – “QlikView requires no consulting”

December 18, 2009

In case you missed it QlikViewGuru has started a nice series of posts about some QlikView Myths (I wonder how many he has in the pipe . The first post was dedicated to the myth of  “QlikView can’t handle large data sets” while the second one is dedicated to “QlikView requires no consulting”. I particularly [...]

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QlikView and Google Docs

November 16, 2009

Qlikster the author of QlikView Excel Connector created another very nice and useful QlikView application – Loading Data Into QlikView from Google Spreadsheet API Using ClientLogin Authentication The idea of application is to load data into QlikView from  excel spreadsheets hosted on Google Docs (GD) service. After spreadsheet is uploaded (or created) in GD he [...]

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QlikView 9.0 SR2 (build 7314) is now available

November 5, 2009

As per title QlikView 9.0 SR2 (build 7314) is now available: http://bit.ly/DEVen The Spark

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