The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on the need for flexible and engaging leadership. Most of the recent leadership-themed articles focus on how to bridge the remote-only workplace relationship gap, the importance of increased engagement and empathy, and the need to provide technology that empowers and provides a more equitable work/life balance.
In recent years, organizations have been making massive investments in data analytics to transform their growing volume of data into actionable insights to inform decision-making. However, the pursuit of becoming data-driven has uncovered challenges earlier in the data pipeline that are preventing companies from reaping all the benefits from their data.
The CDO role has been rapidly evolving over the past few years – from governance leader to data science and AI expert to digital transformation guru. And, with this change, has come a shift from a back-office focus to a focus on achieving measurable results required by the C-suite.
When evaluating your approach to analytics and BI, a common comparison is Qlik vs. Tableau. Consistently, when we have that conversation, there are some sharp distinctions that come to the fore in terms of capabilities, vision and cost.
The world has gone remote. For those that can, working from home has become the new normal thanks to Covid-19. The gradual shift underway over the past number of years has accelerated, and most organizations have adapted. This mass pivot has been enabled largely by technology, specifically the move to SaaS and cloud, which allow employees to working productively from almost anywhere.
There seems to be universal acceptance that effective use of data can help maximize bottom line value. However, many businesses still aren’t successfully leveraging data to its full extent due to people, processes and technology roadblocks. Thankfully, there is a unifying approach to unlocking the immense opportunity for enterprises to more effectively leverage data to create new products, services and business models.
The FORTUNE 500 list by FORTUNE is one of those venerable institutions of the business world. Since 1955, FORTUNE has been portraying the shape of the U.S. economy through its annual top 500 companies.
The heat of summer and the smell of fresh-cut grass triggers many memories. I feel a sense of yearning from those memories, particularly as I know, during normal times, the college football season has begun. It’s been many years – too many to mention here – since I last played. The sense of anticipation persists, as it is this time of year the team would gather for camp.
With the third generation of BI upon us, analytics solutions are leveraging AI to generate insights, automate tasks, and support new types of interactions. Qlik is consistently recognized as a leader in augmented analytics, and with the September 2020 release, we’ve set the bar even higher.
The pandemic has created monumental shifts in daily life, making all of us re-evaluate almost every aspect of our work and home lives.
