1. QlikView Connector for Informatica Powercenter An Introduction

2. Increase the impact of Informatica ETL with Quick, Flexible Business Discovery
Combine Informatica’s data integration capabilities with QlikView’s associative in-memory platform
Realize the full value of your data warehouse by providing agile, self-service business discovery capabilities through QlikView
Improve time-to-value by giving QlikView developers the ability to directly leverage Informatica’s ETL tools.

3. QlikView helps organizations enable Business Discovery
Develop powerful analyses, reports, and dashboards
Deploy and administer applications with anywhere accessibility
Analyze data at the speed of thought
Collaborate through shared applications and findings
Leverage integrated, flexible, and powerful security

4. Benefits of QlikView and Informatica
Deliver power and simplicity without the cost or complexity of traditional BI tools:
Unlock the value of your data warehouse: Informatica PowerCenter extracts data from multiple sources into a data warehouse. As part of the ETL process the QlikView Connector allows data to be exported in an optimized format (QVX - QlikView data exchange format)
Speed of deployment: Deploy individual analyses and reporting solutions in weeks or days using the QlikView script builder. Expedite and simplify the process of analyzing relevant data from Informatica.
Ease of use: QlikView is easy for business people to use and IT pros to manage. Most users become productive with QlikView after less than one hour of training.

5. Multiple reasons for using QlikView and Informatica
Finance
The Informatica – QlikView combination provides a common architecture for all risk analysis applications and visibility across the applications
Retail
Easily evaluate what products to retire and to determine the effectiveness of marketing campaigns
Accurate – and timely - alignment of product and sales strategies with customer needs
Telecom
Provide a single view of household through data consolidation and instant insights
Maintain stringent SLA’s and ascertain call patterns within call center infrastructures

6. How does the connector work?
Free adapter is installed within Informatica PowerCenter
‘Target Writer’ component of PowerCenter creates QlikView Data Exchange files (QVX) natively from within the Informatica PowerCenter environment
The session extension properties of the Informatica’s workflow manager tool is used to set the name and the file directory of the QVX file. “Append Timestamp” check box can be used to append a timestamp to the QVX output file.
QlikView reads the QVX files from the file directory as native QlikView data files

7. How does the Connector work?