Anything You Would Like To Know About Your Business?

Congratulations to Craig, Joe, Liam and Jenny having just completed their annual accreditation courses on sales, and technical to secure our continued Partnership status with QlikView, the Business Intelligence specialists.  We are finding that Business Intelligence is a hot topic for many businesses across lots of industries at the moment as they try to unlock their data to make accurate, timely and informed decisions.

Many reporting tools force you to produce multiple reports and drill-down on data in a highly regimented fashion.

QlikView allows you to get straight to the point by working in a very similar way to the human mind does even allowing you to ask the last question first if that’s what you want.

Whilst at the intensive courses QlikTech took the opportunity to inform us all about their new features and enhancements that they will be delivering in version 10.  Version 10 is due for release at 10.10am on the 10/10/10.

The key enhancements include:-

Performance:- With its in-memory methodology V9 was already impressively quick; during a bench test it displayed results for 2.5 million rows in 95 seconds.  In v10 this waiting time is slashed to just 13 seconds.  Without getting too techie, QlikView achieves this using parallel loads, this means it utilises all available processing cores unlike most of the competitors who would typically only utilise a single processor.  This business intelligence tool really lets you see the full value of the money you invested in your big powerful servers, and when you think that Intel use QlikView to beta test their processors, that kind of says it all!!

Efficiency:-  If your dashboard contains several dials, graphs and charts it will load the results partially, with the fastest report being displayed first.  This means that the users can start to analyse data immediately rather than waiting for the full set of results.

Security:- Previously permissions were defined on a per report basis; the administrators can now apply these across a range of reports rather than one at a time.

Bulk cosmetic changes:- If you change your branding or wish to change your template to align with your corporate image as per the security settings mentioned above you can now do this on bulk rather than one at a time.

Reporting Analytics:- Management can review which users run which reports, when they run them and where they choose to drill down.  Reviewing this information helps you to decide what your Management team are interested in and where it is worth investing your time to get future reports developed so that decisions makers are in the best possible position to make the right choices.

Searching:- Qlikview has Google style search capabilities.  This is easier to show than describe but it is extremely powerful.  If for example you were searching your sales history and you have the capability to simple search by sales rep, before doing so, you can insert some criteria into the free text search box, such as North 2010, the clever software would recognise that you are only interested in transactions that have happened during 2010 where the customers are based in the North and on this selection would reduce the number of sales reps available in the search criteria to only those names that match your search.

If you would like to know more about Business Intelligence or QlikView V10, please email customerservice@atlasbiz.com or telephone our customer services team on 0333 666 3330.  We would be more than happy to email you some informative PDF brochures or alternatively we can organise a “Seeing Is Believing” meeting.