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.

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.

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.

Times are tough – adversity is hitting our public sector and healthcare agencies from every angle. Budgets and resources are stretched beyond breaking point with many agencies facing multi-million real-term cuts. Combine this with an increase in complex demand, heightened public scrutiny and a continued expectation of improvement; something must change.

For part two of this blog I’m seated in a café in Sydney Harbour in the shadow of the Opera House and in full view of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Why’s that significant? Well it’s not really, other than this is the 2nd stop on our Data Revolution Tour where the keynote I delivered was essentially on this very topic. Let me explain.

I’m seated here on the balcony of our rented apartment in Chamonix looking up at Mont Blanc. It’s an incredible view but its beauty is deceiving and as anyone who has climbed knows, all too often the summit is not the one you can see. In the case of Mont Blanc, the perspective is such that the Dôme du Goûter seen in the foreground often looks bigger. I can assure you it’s not.

Every now and then you can't beat a bit of Meat Loaf, the singer not the food, as I've not had the pleasure to taste it. I recently found myself recalling a cult classic "Standing on the outside" not because of any failed break up but thinking about the abundance of data available externally that can be used in combination with your internal data. Unfortunately, many are still leaving this data standing on the outside.

Radnor, PA – September 18, 2018 – As organizations look to expand the value of analytics, developers are playing a key role in creating new and innovative answers to big data and IoT challenges through advanced custom analytics. Qlik® is committed to helping developers take on any business need they can imagine more easily through analytics in all its forms.

New York – Strata Data Conference – Qlik® continues to execute on its mission to supply enterprise customers with end-to-end data management and analytics solutions with two new big data offerings - the latest version of the Podium Data® product and the initial release of Qlik’s Associative Big Data Index available this month. Enterprises need to unlock data’s full value to help users accelerate action and outcomes.

This quote from Niccolò Machiavelli – an Italian politician, historian, and philosopher from the Renaissance period, has profound relevance to emerging technologies.