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Understanding Power BI’s Data Connection Methods
As data analytics continues to evolve, Power BI offers multiple methods to connect and interact with data: Import, Direct Query, and the newly introduced Direct Lake mode. This post explores the differences, advantages, and ideal use cases for each of these data connection methods in Power BI.
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Qlik Connect Orlando 2024 – A Legend’s Take
We’re bringing you the latest insights and highlights from the Qlik Connect event in Orlando. AI was certainly the hot topic at Qlik Connect this year, including announcements on the latest products Qlik Answers and Qlik Talend Cloud.
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Accelerate your migration to SAP S/4 Hana with Qlik Gold Client
In this blog we will cover off the two main use cases in which Climber can assist with either managing test data in your SAP ERP environments or making your SAP data available for reporting from a single Data Warehouse or Data Lake platform.
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Qlik & Talend now Leaders in three Gartner Magic Quadrants
When Qlik acquired Talend, they reached the unique position of being represented as Leaders in several Gartner Magic Quadrants in the data space. With the latest MQ report for Data Integration Tools, they are the only company named four times as Leaders by Gartner in three different quadrants. How is that even possible? Read how in this blog written by our own Qlik Partner Ambassador, Olof Malmström.
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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.
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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’s 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 UK
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.
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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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