With the announcement of the availability of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), our customers have been buzzing with excitement. While each one of you has been trying out different aspects of CDP, we do recognize that you are in various stages of maturity in terms of your current product adoption or implementation. Particularly, our Cloudera DataFlow customers are in various stages of product adoption.

When speaking with customers, I often hear that they are committed to digital transformation and being a data-driven enterprise. Those may just seem like abstract, lofty words to aspire to but the reality is much more practical. We have major banks needing to ensure that they have a complete view of their customers, and can reduce churn through personalized service and offerings. Telecommunications giants that absolutely need to maintain network health so there are no dropped calls or missed messages.

For more than a decade, government CIOs have been gearing up for and championing digital transformation. And not a moment too soon: From federal headquarters to statehouses, agencies today are expected to mirror the near-seamless user experience of today’s commercial sector, delivering agile, efficient responsiveness to constituent needs.

Today we announced the launch of Qlik Alerting (formerly Ping Alerting from RoxAI), as a value-added product for Qlik Sense. Qlik Alerting provides sophisticated, data-driven alerts directly from Qlik Sense – empowering our customers to more proactively manage by exception and respond quickly when issues arise. Like the Jedi, everyone could benefit from having a sixth sense.