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Qlik road goes past white coated smart guys

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An earlier version of this post, with a different conclusion and minor differences, appeared in late November.

Qlik CTO Anthony Deighton was drying his hands on the thick, almost cloth-like paper towels in the men’s room at the Miami Edition hotel at the recent Qlik analyst event. He heard another man in the room comparing the towels to some at a past hotel. There, the man said, the towels were thin, the man said. Deighton replied, “They were useless, like Tableau.”

Back in 2012, the T word was barely uttered at the gathering that year of industry analysts. Not long before, the bright and playful Tableau had just stung the plodding, script-laden Qlik in what felt like a surprise attack.… Read the rest “Qlik road goes past white coated smart guys”

Qlik finally set to leapfrog Tableau?

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Who’s your rival? I carelessly asked a Qlik person at the company’s annual analyst reception Monday night in Miami if she hadn’t once worked for Tableau. Her revulsion was immediate. “No! Never!,” she said.

We smiled. There was so much more to talk about. For one thing, how will private equity change things? Qlik wasn’t doing so well at the public-equity thing, you may recall, and over the last few months they went private.

Knowledgeable Qlikkers assure me with apparent sincerity that “good things” will ensue. I can think of no reason to doubt them. It must be nice to have the riffraff off your back, which one experienced business person described to me as “having ants in your pants.”… Read the rest “Qlik finally set to leapfrog Tableau?”

Scenarios for a Qlik Sense data story

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Real data storytellers know that data framed in a story is much more effective than data standing all alone by its naked self. They also know that storytelling is a giant that can lose much of its power when tied down to a vendor’s product.

We can applaud Qlik for respecting these facts. We can also applaud McKesson senior director of procurement analytics Jin Ro, who talked about storytelling last Thursday at the Qlik Virtual Forum. And let’s give an extra whistle for saving any mention of Qlik Sense for the end.

In his half hour keynote, he started with the case for stories: He recounted an experiment in which stories were shown to be far more memorable than data.… Read the rest “Scenarios for a Qlik Sense data story”