Online analytical processing is the idea known for years. Decades of development and upgrades didn't brought up expected effects, though. Thereupon, growing popularity of in-memory OLAP is not a thing we should be surprised with. However the greatest companies still aren't familiar with the new method for analyzing, less meaningful vendors provide their customers successively with new in-memory structures. One of such vendors is QlikTech with their QlikView plaform, one of the most interesting product on the market.

QlikTech company, located in Pennsylvania, was founded in 1993 and focused on answering Business Intelligence questions.
The core of QlikTech QlikView is in-memory technology. Thank to that, the whole system can break up with disk, warehouse, and other traditional tools dependency. Once the analyzing no longer depends on standard supplies, it gets faster and more efficient. And that's why clients from all around the world turn their interest to QlikView.

The platform itself truly is user friendly. What's most important, it works well with data from different sources - Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle, SQL, MySQL Excel, CSV, XML, so on and so forth. The point is that there is no popular format which QlikView wouldn't work with. Then, all types of searching are enabled. One doesn't need to resign from his habits, though. Finally, once the data is operated, numerous visualization capabilities are ready to be used. Graphs, as well as tables, charts, 2-D and 3-D illustrations - strictly everything one could imagine.

However, these days it must be remembered that each tool's efficiency is one thing, while the way it works with other tools is another. Thereupon even the fastest tools wouldn't be able to be used commonly if they didn't work well with other things. For instance, QlikView is well prepared for being operated with an iPad or iPhone, the same well as Android or BlackBerry.
It also is not a problem to associate QlikView's system with common features like Google Maps.
Thank to well-designed scalability, QlikTech technologies are already being used by such giants as Canon, Panasonic, and Toyota.

Useful web resources

If you want to know QlikTech QlikView better, you might consider these websites useful:

• Qlikview vendor's site - here is what platform's authors praise QlikView most for. A quick summarization of its most meaningful features, including the capabilities which usual users would benefit from at most. However - like the name says - it's just an overview. Here, you can learn the basics, and if trying to know exactly the technical details and other aspects, you should try other articles. By the way, this is also a place where you can download a free demo version of platform so that you could personally experience what QlikView is about.
• http://www.prlog.org/tag/qlikview/ - The Business Intelligence market still is expanding, today's actual solutions become out of dated the next day. So is to QlikView platform being constantly developed. If you want to remain up to date with latest QlikView news, you should check this website where you can find the newest press releases about the platform.
• http://qlikviewvsolap.blogspot.com/2009/02/qlikview-vs-bo.html - Every solution that is new to the market has to struggle with the popularity of already known ones. Here you can check the comparison of QlikView and SAP Business Objects platform. Full of details, the comparison provides what truly is important to the customers hesitating to invest in a new solution.