I have 5+ experience in Business Objects and I recently joined one company. After one week of joining ,Company provide me the oppurtunity to apply for H1 visa with a bond period of 12 months with company.Agreement will not be applicable if it is rejected by USCIS.
It has been 4 months since the day I joined this company and my superior is telling that some Business Objects projects are in pipeline.
After this they refer my name for Qlikview Training.I have attended Qlikview training and now I am feeling that Qlikview has limited features as compared to Business Objects,Also the data source used in Qlikview is mostly excel.
The problem is if I work on Qlikview now then I will be out of Business Objects hands on including sql ,Also I cannot go to any other company before 12 months.
So I am unable to take decision that whether working in Qlikview will be good for future prospective compared to Business Objects or not
I don’t know Qlikview very well but I think it is similar to SAB BO Xcelsius : a very cool reporting tool dedicated to animated figures presentation.
As Xcelsius, I think Qlikview can only work with a few thousand of aggregated data, not huge database volum.
Then, Qlikview, like Xcelsius cover only a few part of reporting tool and process when BusinessObjects softwares cover all the line from extraction to reporting.
Then, regarding your question, I think it would be a mistake to abandon BO tools… If you have the opportunity to learn Qlikview, let’s go, it’s still good to learn other tools, but when you think you have enough knowledge and experience on Qlikview, turn back to BO tools which can provide you more professionnal opportunities…
Thanks Bernard for the reply, Here the problem is if I will be working on Qlikview then I am not aware how much time it would take for the project to finish,could be year or in months if its year or more then I will be out of hands on BO.
QlikView can handle huge volumes of data and since it’s all in-memory it’s incredibly fast.
Like Bernard said it’s great for sexy dashboards but it lacks in other areas like formatted reporting, adhoc reports, security, distribution, meta layer.
Overall BO is a lot more mature and is pretty much considered the standard BI tool for large enterprises.
At my company (a bank) we use BO for adhoc and canned reports and QV for the dashboards.
If I had the choice between a career in QV or BO, I would choose BO since it’s easier to find new contracts and probably better rates as well.
As what Bernard said I should choose QV now and when I think I gained enough experience then I will move back to BO which I like so much .
Could you also suggest me some good tips to keep brushing my skills on BO so that I would not be out of BO while working on QV that would be great help Please.!!
I think Bo is like a bike, when you have learned how to ride it, you will be ok next time. Of course, if you stop working on BO during 10 years, you will forget, but not if it is only two or three years as companies don’t migrate all the time their solution and plateform. A few weeks ago, i have visited a big company which was always using… BO 5.1.3 !
A) QlikView only runs on Windows Server the last time I looked at it.
B) It uses a proprietry proramm language/scripting to load data into memory, by far no full fledged ETL tool.
C) I am not sure what QlikView’s strategy on mobile devices it.
D) No native access to native SAP data sources (such as SAP BW or SAP R/3 ECC CRM etc.) for Qlikview I would assume.
Further to other comments here, my observations in the UK are that companies are using Qlikview to supplement other BI tools.
One of the main hitches with it is the limited security model.
I would take the opportunity to add to your current skills and see if you can also do BO project work for your company…
I do agree with bernard. As he said learn Qlikview and work on it, as you are well aware of BO, next time you will adapt is quickly or in no time. To learn new tools is part of IT and it should be taken as an opportunity to get something new. I too has same challenge 4 years back when i have worked on Qlikview for 6+months and then came back to BO now.
We are using both tools. Qlikview is used since around 2007, Business Objects since 2012. Both tools have their (dis)advantages.
Qlikview is very powerful analyzing quite huge data amounts in memory. We had Qlikview files with about 40 million datarows and 200 dimensions. Filtering and simple calculations took less than 5 seconds. The Qlikview script language is not hard to learn, but is still powerful, when you know the right functions. Anyhow Qlikview reports are usally built by report designers, who need to know what kind of reports users will need. The users themself can only use what the report designer give them. Of course you can provide a full version of Qlikview to every user - but that would need users that can handle the tool. Further we can extract data directly from SAP BW or ERP, as Qlikview provides a connector for that.
BO allows a way more standardized reporting process. Qlikview and Excelsius can’t really be compared, as Excelsius only can handle very small amounts of data. On the other hand Excelsius files can be used with having a BO license, that does not apply for Qlikview.
BO let’s you design detailed print layouts (webi/crystal reports). Qlikview’s print layout features are very very basic.
Anyhow, each stated above, each tool has its very own field of use, advantages and features.
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