Unleash Your Army of Analysts
Financial Services firms typically have at least one ”spreadsheet ninja” who has put all of the necessary pieces together to bring insight to management.
View ArticleMust Sales Managers Become "Data Gurus" To Succeed?
Some people seem to think that selling is easy, that it’s a skill you are born with. They think that salespeople just “get lucky” or find themselves in “the right place at the right time”. I beg to...
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: Gaining A Clear Vu
Every organization, regardless of size or industry, begins its journey with data. Some have a firm grasp on performance indicators and are able to future-proof their departments through enhanced...
View ArticleI Know It When I See It
Simply connecting to data sources such as SAS, SPSS, MATLAB and R is only one piece of the puzzle.
View ArticleBig Data? Time To Get Organized!
I recently saw a TV show about people who can’t throw things away. It featured an old lady who had kept every copy of the local newspaper since 1953, as well as pretty much everything else that had...
View Article“90% of baseball is mental, the other half is physical”
Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame catcher from the New York Yankees has written books full of Yogiisms, witty quotes that are applicable to baseball, life and business.
View ArticleIntroducing The Qlik 30 Index
Most professional fund managers don’t beat their benchmark index over any meaningful period of time, but that doesn’t stop people investing in their funds. It also doesn’t stop private investors from...
View ArticleThe Three Pillars Of Calculating Value
Nearly two decades of finance and accounting roles in the banking industry has provided me an avenue for building business models to support investment decisions.
View ArticleLooking Back, Looking Forward and Everything In-Between
The diversity of financial products offered in today’s marketplace is massive. However, there are common analytics challenges faced by any line of business, no matter what the product.
View ArticleRemarkable ROI in Sales Analytics
It’s not every day that a customer of a software vendor shares the quantifiable value they’ve achieved using the vendor’s products. After all, sharing the realized benefits can be perceived as giving...
View ArticleGolf Balls, Banking Profits and Big Data Approaches
Qlik's partnership with the Wall Street Technology Association continues to grow.
View ArticleIs the banking industry about to have its ‘Netflix’ moment?
It doesn’t seem that long ago that I would head down to ‘Blockbuster Video’ on a rainy Sunday afternoon (having put a roast in the oven) and choose a video to watch, and maybe some popcorn.
View ArticleIt Depends...
My federal tax professor (while earning my undergraduate accounting degree at Jacksonville University) taught me an important lesson that carries far beyond the complicated rules and regulations of the...
View ArticleTip #251: Don’t Talk About The Product
I have read the “The 789 tips for Bloggers in 2016” but tip #251 always drives me nuts. Explaining how our customers are using Qlik and completely changing how their business users consume (and...
View ArticleCatch Me If You Can
There’s a great scene in the 2002 movie ‘Catch Me If You Can’ where Frank Abagnale Sr. (Christopher Walken) is giving advice to his son Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio), on how best to deceive...
View ArticleSize Matters
All over the world sales managers are getting it wrong. They're looking at the wrong indicators, rewarding the wrong people, allocating the wrong number of the wrong accounts to the wrong account...
View ArticleThe Golden Opportunity
For a long time, we at Qlik have believed that there is a golden opportunity for financial services companies to take some of the great analytical insights they generate for people who work in their...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons that Sailboats in a Bottle Aren't Good for Business
I recently read an excellent article on McKinsey & Company report titled “Transforming into an analytics-driven insurance carrier” while conducting research for this blog post.
View ArticleI Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In…
My bank doesn’t have a clue when trouble walks in, let alone when trouble takes out a loan, applies for a credit card, or goes on a shopping trip.
View Article“The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease”
As the Finance leader for several Financial Services firms, I often found myself in the middle of some passionate discussions related to very difficult challenge.
View ArticleRisk Management Teams Are Reaping Benefits From Visual Analytics
Ten out of the “Top 12 Solutions in Financial Services” in some form or fashion are important to risk management teams.
View ArticleVisualize Your World 2016
Qlik's Visualize Your World tour 2017 kicked off in Silicon Valley, where CMO Rick Jackson discussed how companies need to not only be data-driven, but to shift into having a “data driven culture”.
View ArticleCustomer Spotlight: Following the Money Trail
In life you create partnerships. You choose where you want to live, you choose where you go to school, you choose which bank you use. All banks seek to create a personal relationship with you that...
View ArticleAggressively Pursue the Bottlenecks
The most important business book of my career is “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt.
View ArticleAnalytics: It's Not Just For Geeks!
For a long time, smart people have been building smart analytical solutions for other smart people.
View ArticleA Financial Services Compass
A transformation to fact-based decision making (from intuition and gut instinct) is occurring in Financial Services, we still have a long way to go though.
View ArticleCan You Claim That Your Insurance Analysis Is Providing A Premium Result
For today's blog post, I invited my colleague Qlik Director of Financial Services, Simon Kirby to give us his take on how analytics plays such a big role when it comes to insurance claims.
View ArticleFrom the Boardroom to the Front Line
Recently, I attended a panel discussion hosted by The Banker Magazine. The title of the discussion was (unsurprisingly): From the boardroom to the front line – extending business intelligence in...
View ArticlePre-Aggregation is the Enemy of Insight
Neil deGrasse Tyson was on CNBC’s Squawkbox a few days ago (fast forward to the 2:49 mark) and he argued “given our technology, and our knowledge of the fabric of the space time continuum,” we will...
View ArticleCreating a Bridge Between Fintech and FinServ
Deloitte wrote a very informative paper recently titled Fintech trends: Five insights for now and the future.
View ArticleSuccess Breeds Success
Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University is a legend in the world of corporate finance and valuation techniques. In this blog, I am taking on a...
View ArticleA Look Under the Hood
This blog will be short and sweet. The reason is because we have compiled a set of presentations from our 2018 Financial Services Analytics Summit, and I would rather you spent your valuable time...
View ArticleVisualization Alone is Insufficient
At our recent customer conference, Hannah Gzik of BizXcel (a Qlik Partner) and their client Shawn Zhang of Ontario Mutual Insurance Association (OMIA) took attendees through the compelling OMIA Qlik®...
View ArticleGive me #DataLiberty or give me death
Putting an end to the distribution of useless static reports, the risk inherent in manual spreadsheets and the false hope of inferior dataviz tools is nothing short of a Revolution
View ArticleSpot The Odd One Out
It’s said that we should learn something new every day and in the past 24 hrs I’ve done very well, I’ve learnt 4 new facts. So, which one of these “facts” do you think is not data driven?
View Article2018 – The Year in Industry Solutions
With Qlik, enterprises around the world are empowered to leverage the value of data and generate insights everyday. With analytics at the forefront, organizations are paving way to increase data...
View Article“Can I download the data to a spreadsheet?”
At Qlik, we have a saying that an angel loses its wings every time data is exported to a spreadsheet. Don’t be responsible for an angel losing its wings.
View ArticleHow To Never Lose That Document Again
As my kids would say “I’m not gonna lie” but sometimes I have to pinch myself while working for Qlik. Why’s that I hear you cry. Well readers, in my years working for Insurers, Banks and financial...
View Article“His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see”
There’s recently been an important debate taking place on LinkedIn around the topic of relational databases, joins and how that impacts a user’s experience with analytics.
View ArticleQlik’s Global Transformation Awards – Recognizing Customers Who Lead with Data
Following our first ever Global Transformation Awards at Qonnections last year, we’re thrilled to continue the tradition of recognizing customers that use Qlik as a key element in their digital...
View ArticleThe #DingerDash
Some of you may be aware that I am a baseball fan. There is a particularly interesting news item on the horizon, Albert Pujols (Los Angeles Angels) hit is 656th HR last week (9/15/19) and has 4...
View Article2019 Industry Solutions Review – Empowering the Data Revolution With Analytics
As more organizations work to harness the power of data, analytics is crucial to expanding their scope and unleashing new possibilities. From data democratization to automated insights, Qlik is shaping...
View ArticleThe Value of Options in the Data Integration and Analytics Supply Chain
Over the course of my career in Financial Services, I have struggled with how few options I really had when it came to delivering the right information, to the right people, at the right time. It...
View ArticleHas Data, AI and Bots Brought Us Closer Than Ever To Achieving The Modern Day...
As a kid, I loved the TV show “Knight Rider.” But, for me, the star of the show wasn’t David Hasselhoff, it was the intelligent automobile KITT. KITT – the Knight Industries Two Thousand – was smart,...
View ArticleA Finance Leader’s Guide to Data Modernization
In today’s tech-forward companies, CFOs are tasked with managing and overseeing an increasingly expansive domain of systems and technologies to thrive. The rise of regulatory considerations, novel...
View ArticleFrom Bricks and Mortar to Taps and Swipes, Accelerated Disruption in Banking...
In 2019, global venture capital investment in Fintech totaled at least $33.9 Billion. For years, the incumbent players had been warning the sector that when the next recession hit, or when fintech...
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