Agilos business blog 

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.

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.

Agilos’ Innovative Business Intelligence focus awarded by Qlik Benelux

ORLANDO, Florida, US, 4 May 2016 – Agilos, the leading expert center for Qlik in Belgium and Luxemburg, has been rewarded by Qlik for its stellar contribution to the success of Qlik in the Benelux. This award was given during Qonnections 2016, Qlik’s worldwide partner and customer summit, which was organized this year in Orlando, Florida.

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.

Do you observe a decline in Qlik platform performance? Do you have turnover in technical staff or changes in business structure or BI environment, and troubles dealing with it? Or do you think you might get more benefits from your QlikView or Qlik Sense investment? Then a Health Check is something you should look at!

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.

Agile BI has proven its benefits in today’s fast changing economy. A traditional BI approach is not capable coping with today’s fast changing requirements. Agile BI on the other hand provides the speed and flexibility to quickly adapt to internal changes but also allows to respond to external events such as competitive pressure in a timely manner.

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…

Today when you need to prepare company information for decision making, you may well end up with a Data Warehouse project. Two things will come to mind: Always late. Always more expensive than planned. But there’s a new kid on the block that might make a Data Warehouse look old fashioned…