Agilos business blog 

Many organizations have implemented Business Intelligence (BI) tools in the hopes of making their operations data-driven and therefore more effective. Yet, despite the investment of millions in BI tools, the technology has under delivered on its promise. As noted by Gartner and many other analysts, user adoption of BI tools remains poor. Push Intelligence is the new approach to Business Intelligence that enables the business analyst to better support the needs of the business user. Rather than requiring business users to crawl through dashboards to find relevant changes, Push Intelligence proactively alerts users to important changes in the key performance indicators (KPI’s) that they care about.

Qlik has awarded Agilos as the nr 1 partner out of more than 1700 Qlik partners worldwide for its highest level of web traffic and Qlik Sense downloads. Our ‘Touching Is Convincing’ Series of Qlik Sense Workshops are a catalyst. If you haven’t ‘touched’ Qlik Sense yet, take a few hours of your time to attend one of our workshops. Don’t believe just our word.

BIA, a leader in equipment sales and servicing for mines, public works, recycling, handling and energy production, decided to implement SAP to offer their customers a sustainable value add. With manual processes being automatized, more data became available. Time to consider a company-wide solution for business intelligence and analytics.

Some of you might remember my blog about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2015. In the introduction, I wrote “…it's still interesting to see how each of the key players have (slightly) moved”. Well, I can’t say that this year. The 4 BIG traditional BI vendors have dropped out of the leaders quadrant, including IBM, Oracle, SAP and SAS. Bye bye. 3 vendors dominate the leaders quadrant now: Qlik, Tableau and Microsoft.

But there’s one BIG thing the report doesn’t talk about too much, and maybe even the most important one…

Source: James Fisher, Qlik VP Global Product Marketing, Qlik blog, 8 December 2015

It was back in April at Qonnections, our 10th global partner conference that we unveiled Qlik Sense 2.0 and shared our platform strategy with the world.  It was also the first time we talked in detail about our plans for QlikView 12. Today I’m delighted to be able to share the news that it’s arrived! QlikView 12 is here!

What a coincidence. About one month ago, we were brainstorming with our consultants on how to share our Qlik Sense enthusiasm and expertise with the rest of the world, and we finally came up with the idea of organizing a Qlik Sense Masterclass. A half-day hands-on workshop packed with hints and tips on how to develop the world’s best analytic application. Not for the sake of the application, but to boost the value add you can get from analyzing your internal (eventually combined with external) data, so you can make better decisions.

Brussels, 9 November 2015 – Agilos, the leading expert center for Qlik® in Belgium and Luxemburg, has signed an agreement with Metric Insights, the leader in Push Intelligence, to bring its products to the BeLux region.

Forgive me for stealing someone else’s title. Tribute to Cindi Howson. She is BI Scorecard Founder and advises clients on BI strategy and tool selection. She recently wrote an article in InformationWeek about Qlik’s move to take on Tableau in Data Visualization - with the introduction of Qlik Sense.

Each year (almost) the same?

It is this time of the year. The updates for several of the Gartner Magic Quadrants are there. Although I don't look as much forward to them as towards my yearly big vacation with the family, it's still interesting to see how each of the key players have (slightly) moved. But this year, there's one thing that really grabbed my attention.