QlikView Global Games

2012: Application launch

On June 20, 2012 the QlikTech company announced a release of the QlikView Global Games analytical application. Using the application based on the QlikView Business Discovery platform users could monitor the Olympic Games in London, investigate the mass of information on any period in the history of games and make own forecasts on the basis of the last years given about achievements. Thus, QlikView Global Games will become the irreplaceable assistant for all whom the summer Olympic Games interest.

The QlikView Global Games appendix is contained by a set of the facts, digits and parts for the whole decades of the Olympic Games and will be constantly updated by results of new competitions. Using the application users will be able to follow the competitions on 26 sports which will pass on 32 Olympic venues and to include 300 competitions between thousands of athletes from 205 countries in London.

Having connected to the QlikView Global Games application using the computer, iPhone, iPad or devices based on Android, users will be able:

• to timely obtain information on quantity of the won medals thanks to daily updates;
• monitor competitions in the favourite sports and achievements of favourite athletes;
• watch relevant schedules of competitions and support the commands;
• study history of the Olympic Games, since 1896;
• open for itself the curious facts about athletes and member countries.

The QlikView Global Games application allows to visualize, compare and compare the data on competitions received at any time and from any source and also to predict an outcome of competitions which will take place this year. Users will be able to compare to ease statistics and the interesting facts of the Olympic Games of 2012 with results of last years, for example:

• Average speed of athletes-sprinters of a command of Russia reaches 10.35 with on 100 m whereas the result of the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, the current world record holder in run on 100 m, is 9.58 seconds.
• The Swedish athlete Oscar Svan was the most senior participant of games. At the age of 72 years he competed in bullet firing at the Olympic Games of 1920.
• The American basketball player Tommie Berlson whose growth is the whole 2 m 24 cm was the highest prize-winner of the Olympic Games
• The biggest average age of participants – 40 years – at athletes from the United Arab Emirates
• The heaviest athletes are basketball players and baseball players – their weight averages 88.3 kg and 87 kg
• 1908 when it was a hostess of the Olympic Games became the most successful for Great Britain. Perhaps, this year good luck will accompany the British athletes again?

"History of the most important sports event — the Olympic Games — contains many decades. The huge data array which to systematize — especially manually was during this time saved up — it was hardly possible — Alexey Artemenko, the area director across Russia and the CIS, QlikTech says. — The QlikView Global Games application is advanced technologies of work with data in hands of everyone who watches closely the course of the Olympic Games. At the disposal of users — the large volume of valuable information, and using QlikTech technologies it can be managed easily. For example, the user will be able quickly to obtain any data on last Games or independently to predict results, victories and defeats. Work with data with the help of the QlikView Business Discovery platform — extremely fascinating process which will be pleasant to active fans of the summer Olympic Games".

The QlikView Global Games application is available on to the address. Use of the application requires the computer, iPhone, iPad or the device running Android.

2014: Updating of the application for games in Sochi

On January 27, 2014 in the run-up to the Olympic winter Games of 2014 in Sochi the QlikTech company, released upgraded version the Global Games application, 2012 developed earlier for the summer Olympic Games in London. This unique application created based on the QlikView Business Discovery platform gives to sporty fans from the different countries the chance to execute visualization, the analysis, comparison and comparison extensive yielded and results of competitions for all history of Games.

The idea of use of technologies of "Big Data" is not new to the analysis of sporting achievements, but the QlikView Global Games application allows fans at the global level and absolutely free of charge to predict results of the combined countries, being based on the historical data on the Olympic competitions of last years. The version of the application of QlikView Global Games is available to the Winter Olympic Games on the Internet and also from any mobile device. With its help fans will be able to receive longitudinal and cross cuts of data on the different countries, to get new more information about the favourite athletes, competitions and the Olympic disciplines, to open for themselves the interesting facts and to do forecasts for the winner countries in a medal count for 2014.

So, using QlikView Global Games the following interesting parts were detected:

For the beginning of 2014 of most of all gold awards (306) at the winter Olympic Games Norway won, and the Norwegian skier Bjoern Daly became the owner of the maximum quantity of medals (12). All countries owners of the greatest number of gold medals are located in the northern hemisphere (and all winter Olympic Games were played also in the northern hemisphere).

Elena Rybkina, the marketing director across Russia and the CIS, notes: "Developing success of our Global Games application created in 2012 for the summer Olympic Games in London we are glad to provide its latest version – now for the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Having provided to fans and fans of sport from around the world a huge number of data, we wanted to give them the chance to study both insignificant features, and the general trends of the Olympic Games in detail and also to open the facts and statistics interesting to each of them. The intuitive principle of the Business Discovery platform helps to find all necessary information on players, matches, sports, records and the countries, allowing to be thereby is closer to the events which are taking place at the Olympic Games. We invite fans to learn everything about opportunities of the QlikView Global Games application for the Winter Olympic Games and we hope that it will help them to like spirit of the Olympic Games and to fully enjoy this event".

To test the application in operation, follow the link.