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Industry accolades are always nice, and validate the hard work and effort of vast teams behind bringing a world-class product like Qlik Sense to market. But for me, when real-world users raise their voice in unison, that’s when you know you’ve really delivered.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has not halted despite the global pandemic. If anything, COVID-19 has only accelerated the adoption of Industry 4.0, leading businesses across industries to use Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Big Data in a more sophisticated manner.

Many companies do them, and you will see them scattered everywhere. Our ambition around trends is different though. We want to contextualize and embed trends into a broader theme, capturing the zeitgeist. That way the strands become interwoven into a fabric, showing a structural pattern and hopefully also indicating where we are heading.

Incredibly excited about today’s news that Qlik has acquired Blendr.io. Blendr.io’s easy-to-use, scalable and secure embedded integration and automation platform (iPaaS) will expand our ability to deliver on our vision of Active Intelligence, where real-time, up-to-date data triggers immediate action to accelerate business value across the entire data and analytics supply chain.

It’s time, again, to look at a chart that you might not be using, but that you definitively should consider using when doing data visualization. The waterfall chart is great at visualizing the cumulative effect from positive and negative changes, as, for example, you would see in a Profit and Loss (P&L) report.

We live in a Fourth Industrial Revolution, where data is the lifeblood of business. Those of us who harness the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning and augmented analytics to uncover insights from data are the ones who will be able to find better ways of driving efficiency, productivity and superior business outcomes.

The data age has been marked by numerous “hype cycles.” First, we heard how Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning (ML) and Advanced Analytics would have the honor to be the technologies that would cure cancer, end world hunger and solve the world’s biggest challenges. Then came third-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and soon Quantum Computing, with each one seeking that honor.

Every professional has used Microsoft products in their work life. The ubiquity of Microsoft Office in the enterprise is one of the main reasons many analytics users are familiar with Power BI, given how the company bundles its business intelligence software with other licenses in the same way Excel and PowerPoint comes with Office.