With COVID-19 now part of our daily lives, normal business operations and practices have been abandoned or curtailed and reinvented to sustain our businesses. Indeed, each department, division and team has had its own dynamics changed in this time of lockdown, and coping with process and workplace setting changes can present unique challenges.
We are now living in a truly hyper-connected environment where vast amounts of data are being transferred, gathered, and consumed daily. There are 3.9 billion internet users globally – a number that is still growing. Just think about the last time you were waiting for a Zoom conference call to start.
Today we announced the launch of Qlik Alerting (formerly Ping Alerting from RoxAI), as a value-added product for Qlik Sense. Qlik Alerting provides sophisticated, data-driven alerts directly from Qlik Sense – empowering our customers to more proactively manage by exception and respond quickly when issues arise. Like the Jedi, everyone could benefit from having a sixth sense.
The year was 1993. The place, a little town in Sweden. A serial killer was on the loose. He randomly shot at people standing at bus stops or sitting in their cars, killing one and wounding many others. The residents of Malmö lived in fear. Window blinds were shut, playgrounds were deserted. The police didn’t know where to start.
We are proud to announce that TrustRadius has recognized Qlik with two 2020 Top Rated Awards. The awards highlight Qlik Sense and QlikView in the Business Intelligence and Data Discovery and Visualization categories.
Leaders know that making good, fast decisions is challenging under the best of circumstances. But, the trickiest decisions are those we call “big bets” – unfamiliar and high-stakes decisions. When you have a crisis of uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which arrived at overwhelming speed and enormous scale, organizations face a potentially paralyzing volume of these big-bet decisions.
It’s hard to believe that we are now over 30 years into data warehousing. In that time, we have seen major changes in tools to help user report on and analyse data. In the last twenty years, we have seen the evolution from reporting, ad hoc analysis and advanced analytics. Today, BI/Analytics is a mature market with self-service BI and visual analysis standards in most organisations with self-service data preparation also widely deployed.
The Qlik April 2020 product release accelerates the path to success for our customers, delivering significant improvements across the Qlik product portfolio. This release is our first synchronized release across the Data Integration and Data Analytics product platforms.
Back in 1985, Simple Minds sang “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” the soundtrack to – what is IMHO – one of the greatest movies of the ‘80s: “The Breakfast Club.” The song famously asks us not to forget, and – if any of the wedding parties I’ve attended are anything to go by – we certainly haven’t. However, when it comes to our sensitive data, that’s not always the case.
As a kid, I loved the TV show “Knight Rider.” But, for me, the star of the show wasn’t David Hasselhoff, it was the intelligent automobile KITT. KITT – the Knight Industries Two Thousand – was smart, funny and sarcastic, which is always well received by us Brits.
