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Is it the Data Scientists and Millennials, or should our minds be broadened to look for other groups in our organisations that need and want data and it’s insight?

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Center for Business Analytics Career Panel event at Villanova University where myself and other analytics professionals sat on a panel to discuss the future of analytics with the students.

Back in the 60s Bod Dylan sang “The Times They Are a-Changin” which has become a famous and lasting anthem of change. Bowie wrote ‘Changes’ in the 70s but it’s the “Winds of Change” from the Scorpions that plays in my head when I hear the phrase - Change is the only constant, and nowhere is this truer than in the world of tech.

There’s recently been an important debate taking place on LinkedIn around the topic of relational databases, joins and how that impacts a user’s experience with analytics.

Ever find yourself in your closet searching for an article of clothing or trying to squeeze one more hangers on the rack? I took the better part of the afternoon on Saturday to clean out my closet. It made me realize a few key things. I am a pack rat and this clean up exercise took way longer than I thought. I anticipated the exercise taking 30-45 minutes tops. How hard could it be? What I discovered 3 hours later is I keep too many unnecessary items.

A few years ago, Qlik ran a campaign called the Whole Story. The related video is still posted (fun fact: It was filmed in Qlik’s office near San Francisco). Our message was that you don’t know the whole story in your data if you a.) aren’t able to look at all the data while b.) understanding all the relationships between data.

I started my Qlik journey as a customer and there was a reason why I fall in love with the technology; its one-of-a-kind Associative technology that helped me ask the unknown questions by surfacing the hidden associations and connections between data values.

Today’s always a big day in the analytics world – the release of the annual Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence. Qlik continues its streak of being positioned in the leader’s quadrant, with today marking our ninth consecutive year. That is consistency in vision and execution a customer can trust. So how did we get here?

To begin, following the success of the Dashboard Bundle released back in November, we are now launching the Visualization Bundle, which includes seven of the most popular visualization extensions from our open source community. These additional chart types dramatically improve how our customers can visualize data. More to come throughout the year with new and exciting advancements via our bundled extension strategy.

Two weeks ago, we ran the annual market trends webinar. As I’m dealing with the aftermath, or “postmortem”, I’m still overwhelmed by the response to it. It clearly struck a chord (or nerve), as displayed by record attendance numbers, and the sheer interaction on and offline. There were far too many questions – over 300 – to cover off in a blog.