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What’s New in Qlik Cloud – Nov 2023
Here we give you the latest and greatest in new features added to the Qlik Cloud platform. It’s now easier than ever to migrate your Qlik Sense apps to Qlik Cloud and to navigate between the Qlik and Talend Clouds if you are an existing Talend customer. Learn more in the blog!
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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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QlikWorld lights up Vegas
Qlik World returned this month and in-person for the first time since the pandemic. Qlik obviously wanted to come back in style by choosing to host the event in Las Vegas and there was much to celebrate. Not only is it Qlik’s 30th anniversary and Mike Capone’s fifth as CEO, it’s also their 13th year being recognised as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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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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QlikWorld – providing certainty in a world of constant change
It may not be in Denver, which let’s face it is better for the planet, but QlikWorld certainly didn’t scale back on effort or quality for this year’s event. Over three days there were 85 breakout sessions to choose from, and a whole raft of keynote speakers. We have picked four breakout sessions to share with you.
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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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What does 2022 have in store for data and business intelligence?
We all hope that 2022 is a much more settled year that enables businesses and individuals to plan and grow. However, there are still huge changes ahead of us when it comes to how we use data and business intelligence. In this blog we look at what could lie ahead and the BI and data trends that you need to be aware of.
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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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Let the data lead your decisions – Summarising Big Data LDN 2021
After what has been a strange 18 months for us all, it was amazing to see so many attending Big Data LDN last week. It was the UK’s largest free to attend data and analytics exhibition at Olympia in London and it was great finally meeting up with colleagues, customers, and partners again while exploring the latest software technology and solutions.
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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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