Stephen Redmond - Mastering QlikView

Stephen Redmond is the CTO and Qlik Luminary at CapricornVentis (http://www.capventis.com)a QlikView Elite Partner. He is the author of several books, including QlikView for Developers Cookbook and QlikView Server and Publisher , both published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the popular DevLogix series for SalesLogix developers.

In 2006, after many years of working with CRM systems, reporting and analysis solutions, and data integration, Stephen started working with QlikView. Since then, CapricornVentis has become QlikView's top partner in the UK and Ireland territories, and with Stephen as the head of the team, they have implemented QlikView in a wide variety of enterprise and large-business customers across a wide range of sectors, from public sector to financial services to large retailers.

In 2014, Stephen was awarded the Luminary status by Qlik in recognition of his product advocacy. He regularly contributes to online forums, including the Qlik Community. His QlikView blog is at http://www.qliktips.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at @stephencredmond where he tweets about QlikView, BI, data visualization, technology in general, and occasionally, on marathon running.

As always, thanks to my family for their constant supportI couldn't do this without them.

Thanks to the technical reviewersthey helped me remain honest and make this a better publication.

Special thanks to Colman Walsh of UXTraining.ie for his permission to reuse his photograph that so well represents a Donald DoorI have been using it for several years in presentations and I am delighted to be able to use it here.

Ralf Becher has worked as an IT system architect and as an IT consultant since 1989 in banking, insurance, logistics, automotive, and retail sectors. He founded TIQ Solutions GmbH in 2004 with his partners. The company specializes in modern, quality-assured data management.

Since 2004, they have been helping their 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 Qlik Community. He started working with QlikView in 2006 and has contributed 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/.

Gert Jan Feick studied Informatics (language, knowledge, and interaction) at Technical University of Enschede (NL). He started his career as a project manager at a medium-sized software development company, specializing in requirements analysis and project management. From 2005 onward, he was responsible for the buildup of a company in the areas of software development, reporting and visualizations, and analysis. In 2011, he moved to Germany and became a management consultant at Infomotion GmbH, where he is responsible for the team that works on self-service and Agile BI as well as reporting and analysis.

He regularly contributes to online forums (including the Qlik Community), speaks at conventions, and writes articles. You can follow him on Twitter at @gdollen where he tweets about QlikView, Agile and self-service BI, data visualization, and other topics in general.

Miguel ngel Garca is a Business Intelligence consultant and QlikView Solutions Architect, based in Monterrey, Mexico. Having worked throughout many successful QlikView implementations, from inception through implementation, and performed across a wide variety of roles on each project; his experience and skills range from presales to applications development and design, technical architecture, system administration, as well as functional analysis and overall project execution.

He is the co-author of QlikView 11 for Developers , Packt Publishing , which was published in November 2012, and its corresponding translation into Spanish, QlikView 11 para Desarrolladores , Packt Publishing , published in December 2013. He has also worked as a technical reviewer for several other QlikView books.

He is the cofounder of Q-On Training Center (www.q-on.bi), a place where users, developers, and enthusiasts can get access to online QlikView training, with options that cover all the skill levels.

He currently holds the QlikView Designer, QlikView Developer, and QlikView System Administrator certifications issued by Qlik, for Versions 9, 10, and 11.

In 2014, he was awarded the Qlik Luminary distinction in recognition for his active participation and collaboration in the QlikView ecosystem.

Barry Harmsen is the owner of Bitmetric, a boutique consulting firm that specializes in QlikView and is based in the Netherlands. Originally from a background of traditional Business Intelligence, data warehousing, and performance management; in 2008 he made the shift to QlikView and a more user-centric form of Business Intelligence.

Since switching over to QlikView, Barry and his team have completed many successful implementations in many different industries, from financial services to telecom and from manufacturing to healthcare. His QlikView experience covers a wide variety of roles and subjects including requirements analysis, design, development, architecture, infrastructure, system administration, integration, project management, and training.