QlikView Business Discovery Platform components

Components of the QlikView Business Discovery Platform

The QlikView Business Discovery platform consists of 3 major components – QlikView
Server, QlikView Publisher and QlikView Desktop, each playing an important part in
designing, developing and implementing almost every QlikView deployment (see Figure 3).
Each component is used primarily by either an IT professional, a business analyst/developer,
or a business user.


QLIKVIEW DESKTOP

The QlikView Desktop is a Windows-based desktop tool that is used by business analysts
and developers to create a data model and to lay out the graphical user interface (GUI or
presentation layer) for QlikView apps. It is within this environment where a developer will use
a SQL-like scripting environment (augmented by ‘wizards’) to create the linkages (connection
strings) to the source data and to transform the data (e.g. rename fields, apply expressions)
so that it can be analyzed and used within the UI, as well as re-used by other QlikView files.
The QlikView Desktop is also the environment where all user interface design and user
experience is developed in a drag-and-drop paradigm: everything from graphs and tables
containing slices of data to multi-tab architectures to application of color scheme templates
and company logos is done here.