Qlik Sense Desktop – Loading QVD

When using the Qlik Sense Desktop you can easily add Excel or CSV files to your new application by selecting them in the add data window. What I missed was the fact that this option also allows you to add a QVD easily as the source file.  Just select “All...

Yellowfin just makes a noob feel welcome

One of the things you often hear is people discussing how sexy or easy to use a BI tool is. I remember when I was at Oracle and for my (future) sins was trying to sell Oracle Applications up against Peoplesoft.  We constantly got our arses whipped and one of the...

We are BEAM’ing Lawrence Corr to NZ in 2015

As part of our adoption of AgileBI, we have started the journey using the BEAM* methodology, to introduce Agile in our requirements gathering and data modelling approach. We have used this approach on a couple of projects, and as Shaun has blogged, we have also done...