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What’s New in Qlik Cloud – Oct 2023
In this blog, Roger Gray and Mark James deep dive into Qlik’s integration with AI technology that can help with the creation of Qlik application expressions and extend data interpretation. Read more about the latest updates added in Qlik Cloud in October.
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What’s New in Qlik Cloud – Sep 2023
The latest updates focus on enhancing efficiency, scalability, and governance in data tasks, making Qlik Cloud an ever more powerful tool for organisations to manage their data operations. Let’s dive into the key features and advancements introduced recently.
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Qlik Data Integration and Talend
Qlik have acquired Talend, an industry leading Data Management Platform. With Talend, Qlik brings a new approach, offering a full range of best-in-class capabilities, helping customers eliminate technical debt and cost while increasing enterprise confidence that trusted data is available for decision making when it matters most.
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Driving results in retail with Qlik – Key insights from our latest webinar
Brexit, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine are all affecting retailers by changing shopping habits, hampering supply chains and impacting stock levels. Retailers must deal with the consequences of these challenges every day. That’s why we held our ‘Driving results in retail’ webinar to focus on how Qlik can deliver insights that inform decision-making and help to keep stock on the shelves.
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Effective measurement: Knowing your KPIs from your OKRs
Measurement is a vital part of business intelligence. How do you know you are receiving accurate insights if you’re not measuring the right things in the right way? Clients often ask us how they should approach their measurement metrics and whether they should be focusing on KPIs – Key Performance Indicators, or OKRs – Objectives and Key Results. Find out here!
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Protecting data sovereignty with Qlik Forts
Sovereignty is a word we’re hearing a lot in the news at the moment, as well as the importance of complete power of governance. Read Climber BI’s Senior BI Consultant Roger Gray’s thoughts on the use cases with Qlik Forts – a solution for businesses that wish to benefit from cloud-based analytics and adhere to local country data regulations.
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Should you opt for Agile or Waterfall?
When embarking on a new BI project, we often get asked which project management model is the best? Agile has certainly changed the way many companies do business, but our project managers are trained in both agile and waterfall methodologies because we believe there are pros and cons to both. So, here we give you a taster of both methodologies to help you decide which approach is best for your business.
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Qlik expands its capabilities within Predictive Analytics
Qlik has announced the acquisition of Big Squid, a machine learning platform provider offering no-code automated Machine Learning. Read Climber BI Manager Daniel Häggroth’s reflections about the acquisition and the future for AI and Predictive Analytics.
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7 reasons BI projects fail – and how to stop yours doing the same
During the coronavirus pandemic business intelligence and data analytics has shown its worth, as the businesses that have responded best to the immense challenges have had accurate data to rely on. Before your business rushes into implementing your own BI solution, take a look at some of the reasons BI projects fail, so you can be sure that yours doesn’t do the same.
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The New Normal for Climber BI
Last week I brought the UK team together to meet face-to-face for the first time since the pandemic began. After a year of speaking on Microsoft Teams it was great to be together in person and reflect on what we have all achieved. Like many businesses we’ve been looking at what the ‘New Normal’ will look like for us post-pandemic. One of the first decisions we have made is to move our office out of London to Basingstoke in Hampshire.
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Exploring the Collaboration and Writeback functionality in Vizlib
The final webinar in our series with Vizlib took place on 15th April. This time we took a closer look at the Collaboration and Writeback Vizlib products for Qlik Sense.
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Taking a closer look at the Self-Service and Finance Vizlib extensions
The second in our webinar series with Vizlib took place on 25th March. This time we looked at the benefits that the Self-Service and Finance Vizlib extensions can bring to your Qlik Sense applications.
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Turning Insights to Action with Vizlib extensions
We’re big fans of Vizlib extensions because they add immediate value to Qlik Sense with advanced capabilities, functionality and new chart types. Everything is customisable as you can control every setting and integrate it with your brand or interface with no coding required. If you didn’t catch the first webinar if our series exploring Vizlib value-added extensions, here’s a run-down of what you missed.
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Maximise BI value and increase data literacy with the Qlik Usage Monitoring Application
Only 51 % use their Qlik solution on a daily basis, even though 63 % believe that it’s a business critical solution. Providing data is obviously not enough to get your employees on board, and no guarantee that people will actually use BI. So, how do you increase employee engagement?
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Data visualization: choose the right visualization with the help of Qlik
Companies collect a lot of data. Just think of all the information you gather through your website, customer data, geo data, sales data, and so on. In this world of “data madness” we all want to gain important insights in no time. More and more companies are therefore using data visualization in business intelligence tools such as Qlik.
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