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What does QlikView actually do?
Although QlikView is becoming more and more popular and even being requested in job advertisements many people might wonder what QlikView actually does.
With QlikView you can analyse data in sources such as Excel Spreadsheets, Databases, or text files.
You can create charts from your data, you can search through your data very quickly, you can explore your data easily which can help you make decisions or many just confirm what you thought.
QlikView is part of a category of software called ‘Business Intelligence’. This is not to say that it cannot be used by people in their everyday lives. But instead that it is normally used for analysing Business data so that more informed decisions can be made.