The world’s leading data experts, renowned Qlik customers, and partners will share their stories and best practices for getting more value from your data.
Daria Constantinov , Senior Consultant BI & Analytics, Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Daria is an experienced Qlik developer at Deloitte Czech Republic and a trainer for Qlik Sense data architecture and visual frontend. She has more than four years of experience in structured data analysis, ETLs, data mining and visual analytics. Daria has worked on numerous engagements including identification of suspicious transactions, leading the deployment of visual analytic capabilities within the Financial Services industry, optimizing reports and workflows for their updates. She was also developing reports specialized in cost improvement, saving potential, and VAT analytics.
Alexander Nagler , Manager Artificial Intelligence and Data, Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Alexander is Analytics Expert, Project Manager (GPM) and “Qlik Luminary/ Partner Ambassador” at Deloitte Germany. As a certified Qlik developer, trainer and project manager he has led various analytics implementations with Qlik and Tableau and developed a lot of applications for a wide range of areas over the past 10 years. He is especially keen to combine the proven capabilities of leading BI platforms with AI/ML functionalities or embed them into Web-apps to create analytical solutions with high ROI and extremely short time-to-value. Beyond that, Alexander loves to work in interdisciplinary teams, which combine their best to create extraordinary solutions for our customers.
Besides the fact that Qlik Sense has been on the market for almost a decade now and Qlik SaaS has become the new shiny platform going way beyond the scope of data visualization, there is still a large share of customers running QlikView installations. Since these customers are always at risk for discontinuing Qlik, the question of how to move them successfully to Qlik Sense and Qlik SaaS is of utmost importance for the medium- and long-term commercial success of Qlik. By the example of a Managed Tax Analytics solution Deloitte operates for a large international consumer goods producer and retailer, this session will provide insights on: 1) How external shock Events like Brexit or COVID create windows of opportunity for change beyond the pure necessary 2) How internal dynamics and operating modes of Qlik partners can make them agents of change or stagnation 3) The crucial relevance of the Qlik technology partners to face the massive competition from more significant BI vendors.
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Mariel Aseron , BI Analytics Administration Manager, AdventHealth
Mariel Aseron, graduated the University of Florida, obtaining both B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences and M.S. in Decision and Information Sciences. As a native of the Philippines and surrounded by strong women mainly focused in the medical field, she stepped out of tradition and studied art and technology. Mariel’s professional career began working with PwC Atlanta, under the Advisory Practice. She mainly focused on data management in the Financial and Healthcare sectors. This led to other opportunities within various healthcare systems within the Southeast Region. Mariel returned to Florida in 2014, joining AdventHealth IT Corporate Data Analytics department, and now manages the BI application infrastructure platforms utilized by the organization. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, Gator sports, and camping.
For any sizable organization, a state-of-the-art data analytics platform is no longer an option but a necessity. Healthcare data continues to evolve and exponentially grow! This includes housing sensitive information from various sources, which adds data complexity. It is imperative to have a well-designed analytics infrastructure to enable strategic payoff early on. Many components like design and architecture are key factors for successfully implementing growth and adaptability. Build for impact and success!
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Mike Ellis , Director, Customer Success, GINQO
Robin Sarkar is Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics at IronRidge, where he develops the long-term business intelligence strategy and vision for the company and oversees the development and implementation of Data Analytics and Data Science projects. Since joining the company in 2014, Robin has lead the charge on various company-wide initiatives, included the overhaul of the entire S&OP process, developing tools that support customer advocacy and partnerships. Robin holds an MBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. In his spare time Robin enjoys sports, amateur photography and spending time with his growing family.
Michael Lowe , Director DATA + Analytics, Earls
Mike Lowe, leader of the Data + Analytics department has a passion for understanding behaviour and putting data to work. He began his career at Earls Kitchen + Bar as a server and bartender while in university. In observing his guests he noticed the vast amount of data being collected through a dining experience. Mike moved to Earls HQ at graduation as an analyst and quickly grew to lead the Data + Analytics department. Mike and the team continuously pursue new ways to look at how Earls can enhance their guest's experience while maintaining a strong bottom line enhancing and leveraging their data pipelines.
COVID-19. If we have to hear that name one more time...in the hospitality business COVID hit hard. Many businesses were brought to their knees. From a revenue perspective, so was a longtime Qlik customer, Earls Restaurants, a family business and one of Canada's most respected brands. Earls was able to weather the very volatile storm and position for the future by: • Advancing store systems • Moving to the cloud (Google) • Modernizing analytics with Qlik Sense • Preparing to move to SaaS • Streamlining the data pipeline Join us to hear Manager of Business Analytics Michael Lowe show how Earls has prepared for post pandemic growth by modernizing the overall data platform and approach.
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Ida Berg , Head of Analytics, Ikano Bank
Previously worked 6 years at Qlik as Pre-Sale and Technical trainer. Worked the most recent 8 years in various roles around Data & Analytics at Ikano Bank, currently Head of Analytics.
Qlik developer for more than 10 years and now working as a Scrum Master for the Qlik development team at Ikano bank. We're currently on an exciting journey with Qlik Sense SaaS at Ikano and I'm thrilled to take part on that!
Andreas Vasilas , Ikano
I work as a Qlik Developer at Ikano Bank, where I've been working for approximately 1 year. This is my first time working with Qlik and I'm excited to be part of Ikano Banks transformation from Qlikview to Qlik Sense SaaS. Previously I have some Power BI experience which I believe provided me with good experience to easier get into the Qlik world.
With Qlik Sense SaaS, we found the right motivation for ourselves as well as the arguments for investing and taking a leap on our analytics journey. An organization wide cloud- and SaaS first strategy was in place and had paved parts of the path already. When we listen to our users and see what we can achieve today we can say with confidence that we made the right decision. We have a plan and a goal for our SaaS journey, but as we learn, and the platform evolves the path to it and the concept of what Qlik Sense will mean for us and our organization constantly evolves.
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Ross Agutter , Head of Business Intelligence, Defra
I'm a Business Intelligence and Data Analytics leader working within central UK government. I have 6+ years experience in Data Architecture and Data Engineering, developing data models based on HR/Financial reporting needs and supporting of the development of Operational Apps for arm's length bodies. I am a chartered management accountant and particularly interested in initiatives to drive digital innovation in the public Finance and Accounting professions, unlocking the potential of data to drive efficiency through better decision making.
Matias Hermida , Lenovo
Ooi Bee Hong , Maxis
Mike Potter , Chief Technology Officer, Qlik
Mike Potter is responsible for leading Qlik’s R&D and Information Technology organizations. Since joining Qlik in 2014, Mike scaled the R&D team and played a critical role in designing and building innovative products and transforming the delivery cadence, from one major product launch a year, to multiple product releases delivered throughout the year. Previously, Mike worked at Cognos for thirteen years, and was one of the originators of Cognos Business Intelligence products. After IBM’s acquisition of Cognos, he spent six years with the company leading global development organizations for Financial Performance Management and BI across the various Cognos product lines. Prior to joining Qlik, Mike was Senior Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, where he led a global development organization within the IT Infrastructure space. Mike was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents and expertise in financial analytics, financial performance management, data and business modelling, master data management, OLAP, SQL and data access. Mike holds both a BS in Computer Science and a MCS in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.
Nicole Tamms , Senior Product Marketing Manager, Qlik
Nicole Tamms is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager within the global products organization at Qlik. Drawing upon more than 20 years of software industry experience, Nicole is focused on go-to-market strategy, enablement and content creation supporting customer retention and visualization capabilities. She has been with Qlik close to four years, after spending much of her career with Quest Software, where she drove product marketing for their flagship database and data prep tools the previous 12 years. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Long Beach State University. She is a Southern California native, currently living in Long Beach, CA with her husband, two children, pit bull mix Bowen, bearded dragon Spike, and guinea pig Freedom.
Dan Williams , BI Manager, PizzaExpress
Business Intelligence Manager for PizzaExpress in the UK, which is a restaurant company with sites across UK, Ireland, Hong Kong and UAE. Been working at PizzaExpress for the last four years leading the Business Intelligence team to push forward analytics across the business, especially within restaurants. During my time at PizzaExpress, Qlik Sense has been deployed across all restaurants in UK and Ireland, with a comprehensive suite of dashboards including near-real time sales information. Always looking to do more in BI and make PizzaExpress the best in class for analytics in the hospitality industry.
Modernization not only entails the implementation of new technology, but also a cultural shift, and more than likely a cloud strategy. During this interactive QA session with Mike Potter, Qlik's Chief Technology Officer, select customers including Lenovo, PizzaExpress, Defra and Mixis will share their experiences as they transitioned from on-premises analytics to Qlik Sense SaaS. They will describe the drivers of SaaS adoption within their organization, hurdles, and critical success factors. And finally, they’ll reveal how key Qlik Sense SaaS helped lower TCO while driving actionable insights within their organizations.
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Nicolas Michel , Siemens
Key Achievements:
- Developed and implemented a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy for SI Procurement (EUR 6.5 bln. purchasing volume) from scratch in 2017 with focus of user friendliness and brand constancy. Continuous growth of users.
- Defined a Qlik Sense framework as a guideline for the development of applications
- Built a BI Ambassadors' team, resulting in improved internal cooperation
- Lead two developers in Portugal to meet the increasing BI demand
- Automated around 80% of my monthly reporting by using the BI platform Professional Career in Siemens
- Data Mart Product Manager and Data Mart Business Analyst- Procurement Business Unit Controller
- Procurement Controller [80%] & Part-Time Student
Easy accessible data, executive management reporting and a large userbase on Qlik Sense – all this is the result of years of tuning by the Procurement Controlling department of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Starting at a diverse tool environment, the efforts to create a monthly report cost the department an immense amount of precious working time. Different interfaces and passwords, not user friendly masks and lack of standardization was the battles the users had to face every month with high manual effort.
All this manual labor was transformed step by step by automatizing the data collection, integrating Qlik Sense, training the users and establishing a guided analytics dashboard with a state of the art functionality. Supported by the SI IT DataMart the data resides in a secured cloud environment powered by automatized data access and complex data models in the background. The results are solid. Siemens realizes four key criteria with their units dashboards:
• Their ease of use by standardization and a single source of truth as well as a connection of multiple sources
• High user acceptance through high quality information, trust in the app and data preparation and time saving for all users
• Efficiency through automatic updates, and single point of entry to all applications
• Cost: No time loss for adapting to different tool user interfaces, saving time to focus on operational tasks to generate business value.
All of this, the Journey and the end result will be shared in this breakout session, a guided and gripping development with the best in class use case to take away.
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