QlikView

A business intelligence product from Qlik

QlikView is filed as reporting software and comes from Qlik. The text held for it is a description of the wider Qlik platform instead of QlikView alone, so the points below describe that platform as Qlik presents it. Anyone choosing between Qlik products should confirm with the vendor which of these abilities belong to QlikView in particular.

An associative engine at the centre

Qlik describes its analytics platform as a business intelligence and visual analytics product that supports a range of analytic uses. At its centre is what the company calls its Associative Engine, the technology that lets people explore data by selecting items and following the connections between them, rather than working through a fixed query path. The company says the platform serves a full range of users and use cases across the stages from data through to insight.

The ways people use it

• Self-service analytics, where users examine data themselves.
• Interactive dashboards that respond as people explore.
• Conversational analytics, where questions are put to the data in everyday language.
• Custom and embedded analytics, in which analysis is placed inside other software.
• Mobile analytics for use away from a desk.
• Reporting, for producing formal reports from the same data.

The breadth of that list is the main thing the sources establish: the Qlik platform aims to cover casual exploration, finished dashboards and analytics built into other applications.