One of the best things about my job is that I get to continually scan the industry and learn about who’s driving innovation (see my predictions for 2018 here). As a result, I see five key trends emerging in the analytics space over the next year.
Throughout 2018, we have evolved our strategy and capabilities around extensions. Qlik's open platform has always allowed developers to build new functionality that takes advantage of our engine and extends the capabilities of our analytics products. Historically, extensions were typically created by third parties and largely unsupported. This is changing.
When most people think of Business Intelligence, they think of dashboards. But despite the fact that dashboards are the default approach to BI, there are a range of business use cases today where dashboards are failing (miserably).
Times are tough – adversity is hitting our public sector and healthcare agencies from every angle. Budgets and resources are stretched beyond breaking point with many agencies facing multi-million real-term cuts. Combine this with an increase in complex demand, heightened public scrutiny and a continued expectation of improvement; something must change.
This month we released several new features in beta, including query scheduling, new BigQuery ML models and functions, and geospatial types and queries. We also released the ORC ingest format into GA. Let’s take a closer look at these features and what they might mean for you.
