Creation of dashboards in the tool QlikView

This diploma thesis deals with performance dashboards and QlikView tool which serves for creation of these dashboards. The work is divided into seven parts. The first and the second part together focus on defining the theoretical foundations of Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management, which create basis for performance dashboards. The focus of the third part lies in definition of term performance dashboard and clarifying its major advantages and benefits for a company. An important part is also the description of performance dashboard composition in terms of their usability, layered structure and division into various types. The forth part analyses existing criteria for evaluating of tools dedicated for creation of dashboards. Its goal is, according to the forgone analysis, to make the own list of criteria for evaluating these tools. The aim of the fifth part of this work is to describe QlikView platform. It provides a brief overview of the platform in terms of its most important components and their purpose and also provides an insight into basic architecture of this platform and compares it with traditional BI solutions. The sixth part describes basic principles of work in QlikView. Its goal is to demonstrate the basic procedure of dashboards creation in this environment on sample examples, which should also serve as a simple guide for beginner users of this tool. The last seventh part deals with evaluation of QlikView solution. Its main purpose is to review possibilities and capabilities of this tool for dashboard creation according to the predetermined criteria which are applied to the tool during its evaluation