by Ted Cuzzillo
QlikView has recently looked to me like a faded movie star who gazes fondly into the mirror. Though friends lavish compliments, and the phone still rings every day with offers, the buzz keeps slipping away to younger rivals. The proud old star won’t hear it: Never mind them, says the star, I’m still the biggest and the best.
Lucky for Qlik, there is rebirth in the software business. From what I heard at a recent two-day briefing, QlikView just might have rediscovered the magic.
by Ted Cuzzillo
If you’re out for networking in the BI industry and keeping score in sheer numbers, you still attend TDWI or Strata. But to go deep with smaller numbers, you try to get into the tiny Pacific Northwest BI Summit, held every July in remote southern Oregon. There’s room for about two dozen people, including press.
It sprang from publicity consultant Scott Humphrey’s file of clients and friends 11 years ago. Then year after year, almost all of his attendees returned. Once you have a seat, you don’t give it up. It’s turned into the BI industry’s Bohemian Grove.
by Ted Cuzzillo
What’s the future of BI? Last fall, one sharp source of mine answered, “Two words: Tableau and QlikView. You didn’t hear it here.”
Those are startling words coming from that source, a well-regarded BI consultant known for big-name clients and their big deployments.
At about the same time, a column of mine appeared in Information Management titled “Don’t call it BI” — in which I mentioned Tableau and a few smaller tools. A reader emailed, “You should also become familiar with QlikView.”
My many Tableau-using friends say QlikView is hardly worth a look. Poor visualization! Control panels! Scripting! “It’s so — yesterday,” one emails.… Read the rest “The future of BI in two words”