“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...
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