We are excited to announce the availability of QlikView November 2018, demonstrating our commitment to maintaining a relevant, dynamic, and highly-functional product for you.

To me, the best leaders are those that provide transparency in their decision-making process. Every CEO has to make tough calls, but I believe that good leaders influence decisions rather than dictate outcomes. After all, no one likes being told what to do.

As more and more businesses look to the cloud to store and manage their data, an increasing number are embracing BigQuery as their serverless, highly scalable, enterprise data warehouse.

This is the second part of my blog series on CI/CD best practices. For those of you who are new to this blog, please refer to Part 1 of the same series and for those who want to see the first 10 best practices. Also, I want to give a big thank you for all the support and feedback! In my last blog, we saw the first ten best practices when working with Continuous integration. In this blog, I want to touch on some more best practices. So, with that, let’s jump right in!

With millions of downloads, Talend Open Studio is the leading open source data integration solution. Talend makes it easy to design and deploy integration jobs quickly with graphical tools, native code generation, and hundreds of pre-built components and connectors.

The next generation of BI will heavily integrate machine intelligence and AI – and how these technologies are embedded and used will matter. The best solutions will support human-centered analysis, which takes advantage of new technology while not losing sight of value of the human perspective in decision making and analysis.

One of the best things about my job is that I get to continually scan the industry and learn about who’s driving innovation (see my predictions for 2018 here). As a result, I see five key trends emerging in the analytics space over the next year.

In this blog, I want to highlight some of the best practices that I’ve come across as I've implemented continuous integration with Talend. For those of you who are new to CI/CD please go through the part 1 and part 2 of my previous blogs on ‘Continuous Integration and workflows with Talend and Jenkins’. This blog would also introduce you to some basic guidance on how to implement and maintain a CI/CD system. These recommendations will help in improving the effectiveness of CI/CD.

Throughout 2018, we have evolved our strategy and capabilities around extensions. Qlik's open platform has always allowed developers to build new functionality that takes advantage of our engine and extends the capabilities of our analytics products. Historically, extensions were typically created by third parties and largely unsupported. This is changing.

Let’s be honest, the ‘Data Lake’ is one of the latest buzz-words everyone is talking about. Like many buzzwords, few really know how to explain what it is, what it is supposed to do, and/or how to design and build one. As pervasive as they appear to be, you may be surprised to learn that Gartner predicts that only 15% of Data Lake projects make it into production. Forrester predicts that 33% of Enterprises will take their attempted Data Lake projects off life-support.