It’s a big day here at Qlik – we officially welcome Attunity into the fold after the formal close of our acquisition. Over the past year we’ve been executing on a vision of what customers truly need from their analytics partner – an enterprise-level data management strategy that fuels enterprise-wide analytics.

April is an exciting time at Qlik as we build momentum towards Qonnections 2019 and later in the quarter, the global Qlik Analytics Tour. These great events will showcase Qlik Sense April 2019 – which is now available! This release sets us apart from the competition with significant advancements to our multi-cloud capabilities – including a new enterprise SaaS deployment option, as well as innovative advancements to our market leading AI capabilities.

Last month we brought together two data experts for a webinar discussion on best practices and approaches to implementing analytics and defining data roadmaps. The renowned Dan Vesset from IDC joined Qlik’s Michael Distler to review the current state of the data journey and how users can plan for success.

Is it the Data Scientists and Millennials, or should our minds be broadened to look for other groups in our organisations that need and want data and it’s insight?

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Center for Business Analytics Career Panel event at Villanova University where myself and other analytics professionals sat on a panel to discuss the future of analytics with the students.

Back in the 60s Bod Dylan sang “The Times They Are a-Changin” which has become a famous and lasting anthem of change. Bowie wrote ‘Changes’ in the 70s but it’s the “Winds of Change” from the Scorpions that plays in my head when I hear the phrase - Change is the only constant, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of tech.

There’s recently been an important debate taking place on LinkedIn around the topic of relational databases, joins and how that impacts a user’s experience with analytics.

Ever find yourself in your closet searching for an article of clothing or trying to squeeze one more hangers on the rack? I took the better part of the afternoon on Saturday to clean out my closet. It made me realize a few key things. I am a pack rat and this clean up exercise took way longer than I thought. I anticipated the exercise taking 30-45 minutes tops. How hard could it be? What I discovered 3 hours later is I keep too many unnecessary items.

A few years ago, Qlik ran a campaign called the Whole Story. The related video is still posted (fun fact: It was filmed in Qlik’s office near San Francisco). Our message was that you don’t know the whole story in your data if you a.) aren’t able to look at all the data while b.) understanding all the relationships between data.

I started my Qlik journey as a customer and there was a reason why I fall in love with the technology; its one-of-a-kind Associative technology that helped me ask the unknown questions by surfacing the hidden associations and connections between data values.