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.
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