Rebirth of the Associative Model

Qlik’s unique associative model was praised again. The green, white and grey has been one of the clear differentiators and still is. We heard some “home coming” stories from people coming back to Qlik as they could not get the required functionality nor the cost savings using other tools.

SaaS

Qlik is adding functionality and removing limitations in Qlik SaaS with a high speed. The data integration is becoming smoother with higher capacity and the alerting functionality is a must, preferably combined with self-service reporting. At this point in time, most of the use cases are still hybrid solutions; SaaS combined with private cloud or on-prem.

Not Just Passive Front End KPI Watching

Nope, we are on the move towards active intelligence. Qlik Data Integration has been upgraded to Qlik Analytics Data Pipeline loading data into web apps, BI solutions and streaming analytics. The BI solutions can be generated automatically using Insight Advisor or by you getting data from Data Catalog and building your own application using the self-service functionality in Sense. And you can boost your apps using the excellent added-value products from Vizlib. Last but not least, you get a top-notch guided analytics application perfectly aligned with your user group needs by your consultancy. Make sure to choose one that can use all the power that Qlik offers.

One more dimension is that Qlik is using the newly acquired blendr.io technology to trigger events in other systems using API when a KPI reaches a threshold (Qlik Automation). This and more active intelligence can also be achieved using the Vizlib writeback functionality.

And The Real Thing Is Real Time

Even though many of the classical BI solutions, for instance finance, are suitable for nightly updates there are even more use cases requiring immediate update of an analytical solution. This is now possible and you can also see information about when and what has been updated.

Want to know more?

Visit Qlik’s Roadmap to see everything Qlik has in store.

Next Year

There is a challenge with the online events, as there is always too much other stuff to do. So even if it’s now possible to attend all breakout sessions, the result is actually that I am watching less than at a physical event.