Today, more than ever, line-of-business users responsible for managing working capital need actionable insights in real-time. At the same time, IT/data teams want to accelerate projects, as well as modernize and integrate their data architectures and analytics, while managing risks and costs.

For many businesses in 2020, the increased use of cloud providers and online services has been essential to keeping the lights on in virtual environments. This has prompted companies to overcome the inertia and red tape surrounding SaaS, PaaS and other “aaS” products.

There is a lot of talk these days about the dashboard being a thing of the past. After all, simply displaying KPIs and visualizations in a dashboard is something everyone can do, right? If monitoring KPIs is all you need to do, then we would agree: The dashboard is largely dead. We can deliver those singular data points to you anywhere, monitoring what you’re interested in, alerting you to changes and triggering action.

I’ve been a Business Intelligence (BI) analyst and evangelist for over two decades now. As you can imagine I’ve worked with many different BI platforms throughout my career, especially during my time as a BI Consultant. In this role, I was product agnostic, so from Power BI to Tableau, you name it, I used it! However, Qlik Sense quickly stood out to me as the most powerful and intuitive platform on the market.