Matt Floyd - QlikView Scripting

Matt Floyd has worked in the software industry since 2000, and has held career titles ranging from Project Manager to Technical Writer to Business Intelligence analyst. His career has spanned many industries, including environmental, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and insurance.

Matt's hands-on experience with QlikView started in 2008 with documenting an OEM-healthcare-related QlikView application for several years. Since then, he has been a technical writer, implementation engineer, consultant, and developer on QlikView projects. His passion for QlikView stems from his fascination of discovery through data, and the art, science, and power of data visualization. He is the founder of the Atlanta QlikView User Group and lives with his family in metropolitan Atlanta. Matt can be followed on his blog where he covers mostly QlikView-related Business Intelligence topics at floydmatt.com.

Thank you and much love to my wife, Beth, and daughters Audrey and Hope for their understanding and support during the writing process. And thank you to Dan Daube for his creative and technical work on the cover photo, and to my family and friends, who encouraged and cheered me on.

Much gratitude goes out as well to the entire Packt Publishing team, who have been so professional and helpful; thank you all for your kindness, suggestions, and patience. I'm honored to have super QlikView leaders as expert reviewers on this book: Ralf Becher, Steve Dark, Anthony Perozzo, and Deepak Vadithala. Your reviews were superb and sharpened my ideas and clarified the text to a high degree. Thank you to you all and to all the QlikView experts and my wonderful colleagues who are always ready to share insightful business intelligence tips and tricks. I hope this book adds a little bit to the ongoing QlikView discussion. Thank you so much for reading.

Ralf Becher has worked as an IT systems architect and IT consultant since 1989 in the areas of banking, insurance, logistics, automotive, and retail. He and his partners founded TIQ Solutions in 2004.

The Leipzig-based company specializes in modern, quality-assured data management. Since 2004, it has been helping its customers process, evaluate, and maintain the quality of company data, helping them introduce, implement, and improve complex solutions in the fields of data architecture, data integration, data migration, master data management, metadata management, data warehousing, and business intelligence.

Ralf is an internationally recognized QlikView expert with a strong position in the QlikCommunity. He started working with QlikView in 2006 and has worked on QlikView add-on solutions for data quality and data integration, especially for connectivity in the Java and Big Data realms. He runs his QlikView data integration blog at http://tiqview.tumblr.com/.

Steve Dark was an SQL Server / MS ASP developer who built web-based reporting solutions for 10 years until he was shown a demo of QlikView. Soon after this revelation, Steve left his previous employer to set up Quick Intelligence, a consultancy focusing entirely on QlikView and delivering business intelligence solutions. Preferring to stay at the coalface, Steve spends the majority of his time with clients, building QlikView applications, managing QlikView deployments, and running projects.

He will never tire of showing QlikView to new users and seeing that "jaw-drop moment".

Steve stays active on QlikCommunity and other social media sites by sharing his enthusiasm for QlikView and assisting other users. Through his blog he shares tutorials, examples, and insights on QlikView (read them at http://www.quickintelligence.co.uk/qlikview-blog/).

Steve has also been a technical reviewer on QlikView 11 for Developers , by Barry Harmsen and Miguel Garcia , and QlikView 11 for Developers Cookbook , by Stephen Redmond . Both of these titles were published by Packt Publishing.

Getting your scripting right is always three quarters of the effort required on producing a top-class QlikView solution. I would like to thank Matt for writing this book so that this side of QlikView development also has the reference it deserves.

Anthony Perozzo is a software developer residing in the south of Belgium. He has been interested in IT sciences from a young age and has been working with many programming languages such as Java, .NET, PHP, HTML/JS, and Objective-C.

Anthony has worked in various areas. He worked for more than eight years in the domain of healthcare IT as a Clinical Software Director (mainly for infectious diseases, such as HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis) and has travelled to many developing countries for his work. During his missions, he made various web applications for the medical community and collaborated with NGOs, medical specialists, and well-known organizations on Business Intelligence and reporting tools (both in-house and QlikView).

Currently he is facing completely new challenges as he is working on in-house financial solutions (using SAP tools and Java) as a Project Manager with a worldwide leading company.

During his spare time, Anthony likes travelling around the world and making mobile apps for iPhone and iPad (Gilthonwe Apps). He also likes flying his various drones.

Deepak Vadithala is a BI consultant and database developer who has been building BI/reporting applications since 2005. He has worked through many successful QlikView and SQL Server implementations, right from their inception through implementation; his experience and skills range from application development, UI design, to database/system administration. Deepak has experience working in the investment banking, retail, media, advertising, and research sectors.