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Annual awards honor outstanding achievement and innovation for joint customer success

May 17, 2017 - QONNECTIONS 2017, Orlando, FL – Qlik®, a leader in visual analytics, today announced the winners of its annual global and regional partner Awards. Presented at Qonnections 2017, the Company’s global customer and partner event, the awards recognize the Qlik partner community for excellence in several different categories.

It is of course an honour to have been nominated in the Trends Gazelles listing this year and we are delighted to be recognised as one of the fastest growing business intelligence companies in the country. It’s a sign, both to our customers and competitors, that we are established and here to stay.

Trends trends trends … so what?

Top 10 tech trends for 2017. Top 5 BI trends for 2017. Etc etc. It’s that time of the year when all those industry watchers, vendors, bloggers and the like come out with their lists and predictions for the new year. It’s not that much different from those ‘5 ways to get rich’ and ’10 ways to lose weight without diet or exercise’ articles. Maybe you’ll find that the latter ones are somewhat less boring than the usual technology trends articles, but the point is (after all): what’s in it for me?

The Internet is not only a network of connected computers, it connects people through Social Media, and daily objects through Internet of Things. How can we use this new information goldmine?

Our connected environment is evolving every day. The days when Analytics were reserved for a little group of data scientists are over. Every person in an organization has now the opportunity to analyze data, no matter its origin, and no matter its complexity. And the origin of the data sources is more and more shifting from internal data towards data available on the Internet.

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…

Billing in Belgian hospitals is a complex process: data coming from various systems, manual encoding, invoice lines discarded due to billing rules…  Including practitioners in the invoicing process can help avoiding a lot of frustration for all people involved in this process, including also the CFO, the head of administration or the back office. Is it really that simple? Maybe. But why frustration?

In 2014, Gartner has provided this stunning statistic:  less than 30% of business intelligence (BI) initiatives meets the business requirements and fail to align analytics with enterprise business drivers. Why is there this gap between BI project requirements and valuable analytics for the business users?

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.