Master the management of KPIs
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used by businesses to measure their performance against goals. Closely monitoring KPIs can help you gain a clearer view of where you are succeeding, and where there’s room for improvement. But in a data-heavy organizations, KPIs can become confused and lost, with duplications, redundancies and changes in logic invalidating them altogether.
See data clearly
Now you can master the management of KPIs, ensuring they are measurable, actionable, and transparent. iVIEW Library gives you the ability to track items across the Qlik landscape and Qlik Cloud environment within your organization.
It also does more than just KPI management. Let iVIEW Library handle all your master data management as a standalone web application for managing and deploying master data items and content definitions for Qlik. It gives you the opportunity to define and enrich your data and deploy it.
The iVIEW Library provides a single point of truth for Qlik content, providing one central library for all Qlik applications.
Features
- A single point of access to business rules, KPI definition and calculations
- Global search to identify all business KPIs in use
- Merge and apply master definitions across apps within real time
- Define once and sync changes everywhere
- Easy access and customizability for business users
- Data Governance made easy
- Web-based Master Data Management
- Fully Automated
- Available for Qlik Sense and Qlik Cloud environments
Benefits
Define and enrich your data
iVIEW Library helps you generate and manage content: KPI definitions, descriptions, metadata to fields, variables etc.
Deploy real content
With iVIEW Library share content and KPIs with other applications. Scale out your knowledge and deploy to any application in seconds
Try new things become literate
iVIEW Library enables you to select data models, populate an empty app with data, master items and definitions
iVIEW Library is available for Qlik Sense & Qlik Cloud
One central library for all Qlik apps
As a self-service library, iVIEW Library offers central administration and distribution of business content across all Qlik applications. No one needs to access individual Qlik applications anymore to extract data, dimensions, or calculations. Instead, users find this information structured and can use it intuitively
How it works
Discover the intuitive Features of the iVIEW Library
The functionality of the iVIEW Library platform is easy to navigate and to model content according to your needs.
Main Features
iVIEW Library Main View
The iVIEW Library serves as a central repository for Master Items:
- Measures
- Dimensions
- Variables
The user can Edit, Clone, Deploy and perform other functions dependant on their user roles and permissions.
App Management Views
Main View
This is a global view of connected Qlik Sense applications. The user has the ability to create, edit, deploy and publish apps across the Qlik environment. The advantage is that everything is managed from one central repository.
The applications are managed according to Qlik user permissions.
Detailed View
This view gives you a comprehensive list of all your items within a Qlik application. A user is able to edit items in an app/s, to clean up items and variables in app/s, remove duplicates, manage conflicts and merge content.
Subscription Management
In a split view screen, the user is able to select items in iVIEW Library and subscribe and deploy them directly into Qlik. Existing subscriptions can also be visualised, checked, reverted on and as an option items can be deleted in app/s.
App Management – Dependancies
Allows for checking dependencies within your apps in Library.
Ensures that expressions containing variables or references to Master items are detected and included in your subscriptions.
Import
Import Main Features
Import Dialog
Import Features
- Duplicated Items
- Conflicting Items
- Subscribed Items
- Rename items in applications
- Import and overwrite items in the Library
- Check for item dependencies
Import Conflicts
Galaxies
Galaxies are sub-sets or restrictive areas of content to ensure access to a defined group of users. The roles will be assigned to users or user groups (LDAP / AD), allowing for protected content.
Galaxies can be defined flexibly by each customer, according to their BI information, app or project structure.
Ad-Hoc Reporting
Allows you to create an app «on the fly» that is based on the existing Qlik data model. This function provides data needed for the end-user.
The Library will generate the app and provide all information needed about subscribed items, which are applicable for Dynamic Reporting.
Dynamic reporting is shown in Qlik and it offers a flexible selection of dimensions and measures for analysis.
Ideal for self-service analysis.
Select Dependencies
Source Apps
what's new
Item Versioning
Maintain a history of changes to items, providing a way to undo changes and revert to any previous version.
Deployment, Subscription and Status Control
Have control over the deployment process and gain real-time insights into subscription statuses
Custom Fields for Items
Define and add up to 20 custom fields for each item, tailoring the cataloging process to your organizational needs.
Use cases FoR iVIEW Library
Importing Items from Qlik Sense Apps
Deploy and Subscribe
A crucial feature in the iVIEW Library is the capability to deploy content from a central location to multiple Qlik Sense applications, even across different Qlik Sense environments including Qlik Sense and Qlik Cloud.
By serving as a single point of truth, the iVIEW Library ensures consistency and coherence.
Furthermore, the iVIEW Library offers a unique feature: the ability to “subscribe” to central content. This “subscription” establishes a direct link between an item (such as a KPI, dimension, or variable) and one or more Qlik Sense applications.
Create an Application on the Fly
The iVIEW Library provides the option to generate an app “on-the-fly”, populate it with data, and provide it with items without even having to create an app. This can be achieved without opening Qlik Sense.
In the App Management section, users can create a new app, name it, and assign an existing data model as a basis. Additionally, the user can determine on which Qlik Sense server the new app should be generated and published if necessary.
With the “Reload” function, the app is reloaded, and the developer is free to unleash their creativity from that point on.
Success Story - iVIEW LibRary
“Our goal is to work as efficiently and sustainably as possible. iViEW for CSB in conjunction with Qlik as BIFrontend gives us the necessary transparency about our value creation process in order to identify optimization potential quickly, accurately and reliably.”
„Informatec provided us with extremely flexible and customer-oriented support – especially in the area of licensing – and laid the foundation for the successful use of Qlik as a management tool in our banks with a perfectly tailored framework agreement.“
„The migration to Qlik Sense has enabled Häfele to establish a harmonized and centralized reporting structure that sets clear standards and improves the consistency and comparability of reports. As a result, we can make well-informed decisions across the company based on a unified data foundation. In addition, we benefit from a significant reduction in SAP processing times and Qlik loading cycles, which has greatly enhanced overall performance.”
„For me, the question is always whether it makes sense and is efficient to use a tool to implement my customers’ requirements. In the context of the consistency of key figures, variables and dimensions in Qlik, the threshold at which I would use a tool is 20 to 30 master items that need to be kept consistent across several Qlik apps. In my current customer project, I had the task of ensuring the consistency of 1500 master items in 16 apps across QlikView and Qlik Sense. Without iVIEW Library this would have been impossible.”
„With the Qlik-based web platform, we offer our industry partners the ability to access their sales data flexibly and according to their individual needs at any time. This modern service strengthens partner relationships and helps solidify them.”
Technical
FAQ
CAN I GUARANTEE WITH THE iVIEW LIBRARY THAT ITEM DEFINITIONS MATCH MY DATA / DATA MODELS?
For items to be successfully distributed to Qlik Sense, there must be a direct dependency between the items managed via the iVIEW Library and the underlying data models and applications.
To address this, the iVIEW Library provides for direct mapping of Qlik Sense applications to centralised content.
A list of “compatible” Qlik Sense applications can be maintained via the metadata of each item, so that the affiliation to these applications can be checked before the content is distributed by the deploy action.
WHAT TECHNOLOGY DOES THE CENTRAL REPOSITORY USE, HOW BIG IS IT AND CAN IT BE ACCESSED?
For the data storage, you can choose between an embedded database (H2) and MS SQL Server database when installing the iVIEW Library. The latter serves as a repository and as a persistence layer.
The size of the database correlates directly with the size of the Qlik Sense infrastructure and how intensively the content is centralised. Basically, only metadata is held here. Experience shows that the size is in the small to medium MB range.
The database is openly accessible for read access, so that further analyses can be carried out.
WHAT SECURITY CONCEPT IS THE IVIEW LIBRARY BASED ON?
For the Qlik content, the library follows the security concept of Qlik itself 100%, i.e. the user only sees as much as in Qlik. This includes and considers the implemented security rules as well as the “Admin Roles” that are configured in the Qlik Management Console (QMC).
The iVIEW Library implements Keycloak as an authentication and authorisation module. An LDAP connection is provided by default. However, authentication can be extended to other methods and protocols, such as SAML, OAuth2, etc.
For authorisation, the iVIEW Library relies on two basic roles: Library User and Library Admin. The model can be extended to the individual functions of the iVIEW Library. For example, roles for Deployer, App Manager and Library Owner can be easily implemented.
